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900,000 Castle Crashers And Counting
As of this weekend more than 900,000 players have crashed castles in The Behemoth‘s Xbox Live Arcade title Castle Crashers. Can you guess when they’ll hit the one million mark? That’s what the developer is asking fans in the latest blog posting over at The Behemoth Blog, where they’ve been keeping an eye on the…
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The King Of Fighters XII Website Is Go
SNK Playmore and Ignition Entertainment have crafted one hell of an official website for The King of Fighters XII, complete with a comprehensive timeline of the series and a fan art contest worth $1,000. The King of Fighters series has always had its own distinct style, and the official website for the latest entry in…
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White Knight Chronicles Given English Movie Trailer Treatment
This trailer for the North American version of Level 5‘s White Knight Chronicles is as close to a blockbuster movie trailer as you can get without resurrecting Don LaFontaine. Since the Don “The Movie Voice Guy” LaFontaine passed on last year, Sony had to go with “In the land…” instead of “In a world…”, but…
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GameStop Teeming With Overlord Minion Figures
GameStop is being overrun by multi-colored Overlord minions, so the retailer is giving them away to folks who pre-order any of the three Overlord titles due out next month. Fans that put $5 down on Overlord II for the Xbox 360, PlayStation3, and PC, Overlord Minions for the Nintendo DS or Overlord: Dark Legend for…
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Hasbro Family Game Night 2: Game Harder
EA is delivering a second round of Hasbro board and puzzle game goodness to the Nintendo Wii this fall with Hasbro Family Game Night 2. Building on the success of their first game night outing, Hasbro and EA are bringing five new old games to the Wii in Family Game Night 2. Headlining or perhaps…
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Spore Hero Emerges From The Murky Depths
EA has dropped a new trailer, new screens, and new information on the Spore universe’s expansion onto Nintendo systems, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena. Rather than allow us to play music on a plastic facsimile of a Spore creature as I had hoped, both Spore Hero for the Nintendo Wii and Spore Hero Arena…
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Win A Fable II 360 Signed By Peter Molyneux
The See the Future downloadable content for Fable II is now available for purchase, and Lionhead is celebrating by giving away a unique Fable II Xbox 360 signed by the man himself, Peter Molyneux. Lionhead’s own Sam Van Tilburgh directed us to the contest, which can be entered by anyone with a free Lionhead website…
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Zen Pinball Launching With Free PSN Demo
Zen’s PlayStation Network pinball title is getting a try before you buy option, with a playable demo of Zen Pinball available alongside the full game this Thursday. The demo version of Zen Pinball comes complete with Eldorado, one of the four pinball tables launching with the full version of the game. The board is heavy…
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Target Brings Delicious Snacks To E3
Retailer Target continues to punctuate their dedication to the video game market by delivering delicious snacks to the attendees of E3 2009 via the Target Bullseye Lounge. Over the past year, Target has instituted a new pre-order program and negotiated several exclusive video game premiums, including an entire mountain in Ubisoft’s Shaun White Snowboarding. Now…
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Nintendo Celebrates A Year Of WiiWare
Nintendo celebrates the first year of WiiWare titles, highlighting some of the platforms big releases while looking forward to even greater games to come. Nintendo says that WiiWare removes the economic barriers from console game development, and the past year in WiiWare releases certainly holds true to their claim. Of the 81 WiiWare titles currently…
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Rock Band Goes Country At Retail
Rock Band gets a little bit more country this July, as Harmonix, MTV, and EA announce the standalone Rock Band Country Track Pack for the Xbox 360, PlayStations 2 & 3, and Nintendo Wii. We’ll make this short and sweet so you guys can get busy commenting on how it’s called Rock Band and not…
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BlizzCon Exclusive WoW Pet Is A Space Marine, Sort Of
Meet Grunty the Murloc Marine, the StarCraft-flavored exclusive World of Warcraft pet that should be available for ridiculous amounts of money on eBay following this year’s BlizzCon. He’s cute. He’s cuddly. He’s got a gauss rifle. Grunty the Murloc Marine is the premium pet for this year’s BlizzCon event, available to those who attend the…
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GameStop Gives Away Movie Tickets With Movie Games
Beginning now through June 30th, purchasing select movie tie-in games at GameStop scores you a free movie ticket to help curb the buyer’s remorse that sets in soon after said purchase. All you have to do is purchase one game that GameStop considers a movie game between now and June 30th in order to receive…
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Terminator Salvation Rains Death From Above
The only thing worse than unstoppable mechanical creatures hell-bent on humanity’s extinction? Flying unstoppable mechanical creatures hell-bent on humanity’s extinction. After reading Crecente’s preview of the game and seeing this and other trailers of the title in action, I lack the will to even come up with a satisfyingly witty “Gears of ____* remark. This…
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Sega Vintage Collection 2 Brings GunStar Heroes To XBLA, PSN
Sega delivers the official details on the Sega Vintage Collection 2, which brings seven classic Sega games to Xbox Live Arcade and a great deal less to the PlayStation Network this summer. In fact, the only game in Vintage Collection 2 coming to the PlayStation 3 is GunStar Heroes, which hardly qualifies it as a…
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Wolverine iPhone App Features Intriguing Innovation
While the free X-Men Origins: Wolverine Feral Senses application for the iPhone is little more than a marketing tool for the console game, its image recognition feature definitely has potential. The free application, now available via iTunes, has users unlock various bits of exclusive game content by using their iPhone camera to photograph icons that…
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Blizzard Trumps Nintendo In Develop 100
Develop has released their yearly guide to the 100 most bankable game development studios in the world, with Blizzard Entertainment jumping 46 spots from last year to take Nintendo down a notch. While last year’s top developer Nintendo still performed admirable, Blizzard Entertainment pulled ahead this year to score the top spot in the Develop…
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Wii Rock Band Scores 25 Songs This Week
This week’s update to the Wii Rock Band Music Store is truly massive, with 25 new tracks covering everything from Duran Duran to Siouxsie & The Banshees. Along with the nine tracks announced last week for Rock Band across all platforms, which included tunes by Steely Dan, Social Distortion, and The Replacements, the Wii gets…
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Tour Aion’s Lovely Eltnen Zone
The latest zone tour video for NCsoft’s Aion: The Tower of Eternity showcases the slowly dying Eltnen zone, where gods battle to restore Elysea’s breadbasket. Once again I find myself impressed by the sheer variety found in each zone NCsoft has revealed for the eagerly anticipated massively multiplayer game, though in Eltnen’s case, I’m even…
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Binary Tweed Launches Politically-Charged Clover
Binary Tweed Launches Politically-Charged Clover Independent developer Binary Tweed has finally released the politically-pointed watercolor platforming adventure Clover via the Xbox Live Community Games Program. Clover may look like a game painted by the hand of a child, but underneath its simplistic look lies a game riddled with political and historical references inspired by the…
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