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All The Bionic Commando Screens You Can Eat
Capcom released a bionic handful of new screenshots for Bionic Commando today, just in case you’d forgotten what the game looks like right before it launches. It’s been a long strange trip for Bionic Commando since we first heard news of the remake so many moons ago. Now the release is a mere two weeks…
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Paragon Comes Down Hard On City Of Heroes Cheaters
City of Heroes players who exploit the new Mission Architect in order to power level their characters will soon find that crime doesn’t pay in Paragon City, even if you play a villain. In a post on the game’s official forums, Matt “Positron” Miller addressed the issue of “meow farms”, which are missions where enemies…
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World At War Map Pack 1 Sells Two Million
The popularity of Nazi zombies is cemented forever in video game sales history, as Activision announces more than two million downloads of the Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1. Released in March, the first map pack for Call of Duty: World at war contained three multiplayer maps players could care less about…
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Crytek Helps Free Radical Realize Their Dreams
How did Crytek get picked to purchase Free Radical over the various other companies vying for a piece of the floundering studio? By harnessing the power of dreams. Crytek purchased the TimeSplitters developer in February, following a period of reorganizing that resulted in the layoff of 140 employees. In an interview with Develop, CEO Cevat…
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The People Of Risen
The latest trailer for Piranha Bytes latest role-playing adventure takes a look at the people and places of Risen. First they set the mood with the more wild areas of the volcanic island on which Risen takes place, and now the developers take us into the more populated areas. Children play and adults go about…
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Dragon Age Goes Pen And Paper
BioWare is giving players a whole new old way to experience Dragon Age: Origins, announcing a pen and paper role-playing game based in the Dragon Age universe. Following in the footsteps of games like EverQuest and Street Fighter, Dragon Age is making the leap from video game to pen and paper role-playing game. Green Ronin…
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Sacred 2 Looks Fine On The PlayStation 3
We’re a week away from the console release for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, and Ascaron has released a lovely set of PlayStation 3 screens just in case anyone doubted that version existed. Sacred 2 media has skewed heavily towards the Xbox 360 up until now, so it’s nice to see some images from the PlayStation…
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Battleforge Receives Strategic Price Reduction
EA has announced that their card-based real time strategy game BattleForge is getting a new “competitive pricing strategy”, with the retail price dropping to $29.99. I love the term “competitive pricing strategy”. It’s a lovely way to say that not enough people were buying the game, so we lowered the price. The new price makes…
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PC Broken Steel Error Is A Games For Windows Live Problem
The Broken Steel update for the PC version of Fallout 3 has been taken down for repair. Bethesda explains why. As we reported previously, PC users who downloaded the Broken Steel downloadable content via Games for Windows Live this morning were treated to a “cryptographic message is not formatted correctly” error. We contacted Bethesda’s Pete…
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Nintendo World Store Hosts Punch-Out!! Challenge
Punch-Out!! fans in the New York City can visit the Nintendo World Store on May 16th for a chance to take part in the Punch-Out!! Challenge and pick up an early copy of the game. On Saturday, May 16th from 1pm to 4pm at the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Plaza, Nintendo will be celebrating…
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The Beatles: Rock Band Gets The Beatles Guitars
Harmonix and MTV today announce two new Beatles-themed guitar controllers going on sale when The Beatles: Rock Band hits stores in September – the Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet. The Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet are a pair of full-bodied, classic guitars used extensively by John Lennon and George Harrison throughout their careers.…
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Don’t Cross The Streams While Using Wolfenstein’s Particle Cannon
As true during World War II as it was in the 1980’s – if your weapon fires a particle beam, never, ever cross the streams. Hell, for all we know crossing the streams might be just fine, but from the look of the effect that the particle cannon is having on the enemies in Wolfenstein,…
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Is Monster Hunter Tri Heading Westward?
A listing on the Capcom press sight shows Monster Hunter Tri as an upcoming release with a to be determined release date? Is this confirmation that the game is coming stateside? Not necessarily. While the assets posted at the press site and the listing itself is causing a stir about the internets, a closer look…
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Game Controllers That Clean Your Filthy Hands
You know those shaped soaps at your mother’s house that no one is allowed to actually use? Here’s our version, courtesy of Etsy seller Digitalsoaps. Digitalsoaps offers our favorite video game weapons, lovingly recreated in the form of scented soap products. Take the green Xbox 360 controller above. Scented with Mountain Dew, it’s the most…
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Demigod Network Issues Should Clear Up This Week
Stardock President and CEO Brad Wardell assures the Demigod community that networking issues should be clearing up this week, and everyone who bought the game is getting a coupon for another copy half-off. Demigod has had less than and healthy start so far, with GameStop selling the game early, piracy running rampant, and of course,…
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Reviews
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Review: A Pretty Good Start
There’s a new Wolverine movie in theaters, which means it’s time for another developer to take a stab at Marvel’s stabbiest super-hero with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Developer Raven Software isn’t altogether unfamiliar with Wolverine, having played about with him in both the X-Men Legends series and Marvel Ultimate Alliance; but this is the first time…
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More Wheelman Now Available
Even more back of Vin Diesel’s head action is coming our way as Ubisoft, Midway, and Tigon Studios announce both free and premium content for Wheelman. Available today on the Xbox 360 and May 7th for the PlayStation 3, the new downloadable content for Wheelman consists of the Free Street Showdown Pack and Premium Street…
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Free Realms Cards Dealt To Stores This Week
Sony Online Entertainment’s new free-to-play online game Free Realms launched last week, and now it’s time for the pay-to-play collectible card game. A collaboration between SOE and trading card company Topps, the Free Realms collectible card game mirrors the one built-in to the PC game. A point’s based creature-dueling title, the first physical release features…
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Fallout 3 Broken Steel Trailer – War Changes A Little
We’re only a day away from the release of the Fallout 3 Broken Steel downloadable content, and this launch trailer shows how much of a liar Ron Perlman is. War seems to have changed quite a bit between Fallout 3’s original ending and this new content. There’re more giant robots, for instance. The orbital strike…
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Wii Tiger Woods And Grand Slam Tennis Scootch Up A Week
EA has announced that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Grand Slam Tennis will be released a week earlier than scheduled in order to hit shelves the same time as the Wii MotionPlus. There’s no point in releasing a shiny new piece of Nintendo plastic if there’s no games to support it, so EA is…
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