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The Encyclopedia Gigantica: Everything You Need To Know About Monster Hunter
Interested in Capcom’s upcoming release of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite but don;t know the first thing about monster hunting? The Encyclopedia Gigantica is here to help. Capcom is compiling all the pertinent information a player needs to get started in the wild world of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. While it’s a bit light on content…
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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Bot Lineup Revealed
Find out what bots and cons you’ll be controlling in Activision’s video game adaptation of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The battle lines have been drawn and sides have been chosen. Representing the Autobots in Revenge of the Fallen’s story mode will be Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, and newcomer Breakaway. The Decepticon team has…
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Console Sacred 2 Could Use A Little Fixing
CDV Software is quickly readying patches for the console versions of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, fixing the online multiplayer of the PlayStation 3 version while making sure Xbox 360 customers get their pre-order bonuses. If it seemed like the oft-delayed console version of Ascaron’s action role-playing game was still a bit rushed, that’s only because…
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Battlefield 1943’s Iwo Jima Is A Little Early
We can probably forgive DICE for including the 1945 battle of Iwo Jima in their downloadable multiplayer combat game Battlefield 1943 when it looks this good. Iwo Jima is just one of three battlefields coming out with the downloadable installment of the Battlefield series next month on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Along…
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Activision Introduces Science Papa, No Relation
What company would have the gall to release a series of science experiment mini-games for the Nintendo DS and Wii and call it Science Papa? Oh yeah, that company. I’d use this space to explain that Science Papa casts the player in the role of newest member of Science Papa’s research team, aiming at becoming…
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Tropico 3 Coming To America
PC gamers can return to the islands this fall, as Kalypso Media announces Tropico 3 for North American release this September. The third title in the popular Tropico series of island management sims once again places players in the role of “El Presidente”, the ruler of an island in the Caribbean during the Cold War…
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Runes Of Magic Scores A Million Registered Player Points
Less than two months after the game officially launched, Frogster’s massively derivative online role-playing game Runes of Magic now boasts more than a million registered users. Free-to-play massively multiplayer online games generally attract huge numbers, and with Runes of Magic’s strong resemblance to World of Warcraft it comes as no surprise that their player base…
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Warrior Epic Poised For Release
Last month’s closed beta test the massively multiplayer online game Warrior Epic must have gone rather well, as True Games has announced that the game goes live on May 19th. It seems like only fourteen days ago that the game, developed by Austin-based developer Possibility Space, had entered closed beta. After a quick bout of…
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Factor 5 Officially Shuttered
There were layoffs and rumors of studio closings, but now it’s finally confirmed. According to the company website, the San Rafael-based Factor 5 studio has officially closed its doors. Rumors of the Lair developers closure surfaced in December of last year, following rumors that half of the staff had been let go. The rumors pointed…
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Killing Floor Preview: Holy Co-Op Survival Horror
On the second floor of a non-descript church in Roswell, Georgia, the small team at Tripwire Interactive have been quietly creating Steam’s next big co-op survival horror game, Killing Floor. I actually passed by their building twice before pulling in, thinking that the white brick church building couldn’t possibly house a game development company, but…
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Naughty Dog Co-Founders Become Monkey Gods
Naughty Dog co-founders Jason Rubin and Andrew Gavin have teamed up with fellow Flektor founder Jason Kay to create Monkey Gods, a new social gaming development studio. Monkey Gods is a studio focusing on the development and distribution of games for social networks, the iPhone, and video game consoles. CEO Jason Rubin provides the creative…
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The Bigs 2 Is Chock Full Of Mini-Games
2K Sports upcoming sequel to their over-the-top baseball game The Bigs includes almost more mini-games than you can shake a stick at. Of course the sport of baseball is one of the most stick-shaking intensive pastime in the world, so the mini-games still feature liberal amounts of batting, along with what looks like climbing and…
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Pacific Rift Vehicles Score An Eight Part Makeover
Sony is giving Motorstorm: Pacific Rift vehicles a brand new look, kicking off eight weeks of free downloadable content with tomorrow’s PlayStation Store update. The artists at Sony’s Evolution Studios have come up with 24 new vehicle liveries for Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, with dynamic new looks in the pipeline for each vehicle class in the…
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Burnout Paradise Cops And Robbers Micro-Review
Criterion Games continues to change the face of Burnout Paradise with the release of the Cops and Robbers downloadable content add-on for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Hearkening back to Burnout titles of old, the Cops and Robbers add-on pits two teams of players against each other, both vying for control of a load…
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Might & Magic Becomes DS Puzzle RPG
Ubisoft does Puzzle Quest with Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, a manga-styled puzzle role-playing game hybrid coming to the Nintendo DS this August. Developed by Capybara, the developers behind the recently revealed PSN rainbow puking game Critter Crunch, Clash of Heroes is a role-playing game set in the Might & Magic universe that replaces…
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Ghostbusters Multiplayer Promotes Stream Crossing
There’s a great deal of stream crossing going on in this multiplayer trailer for Atari’s upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game. And it isn’t just proton streams being crossed either. The developers have lined up a bevy of backpack-centric weapons for the Ghostbusting team to bust out in multiplayer, including a thin green ray and a…blue…
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Bungie Betas Render-To-Video Feature For Halo 3
Frustrated by the fact that you can’t share your in-game Halo 3 movies without a video capture setup? Bungie is beta-testing a service that will set your clips free, for a price. When you record a video in Halo 3, it doesn’t take up much hard drive space. This is because the video is encoded…
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LinkedIn Profile Refers To Call Of Duty 7
A surprise to absolutely no one, the LinkedIn profile for a senior animator at Treyarch lists Call of Duty 7 as currently in production. With Activision currently focusing on the next Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game from developer Infinity Ward, we aren’t expecting any sort of official announcement on the next Treyarch version of…
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Become The Next Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem Forever might be no more, but the Duke can live on through you, as Apogee and Deep Silver take the search for the next live-action Duke Nukem online. Following the closure of Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms last week, Apogee’s Chief Operating Officer Terry Nagy teased an impending Duke announcement via Twitter,…
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Blizzard’s Next Online Game Is Completely Original
Dreams of World of StarCraft are dashed as a blue poster in the World of Warcraft forums confirms that Blizzard’s next massively multiplayer online game is part of a brand new franchise. Responding to a forum post suggesting that there was no new online game coming from Blizzard because they hadn’t begun advertising it yet,…
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