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The Nintendo Download: That Nobunaga’s Really Going Places
It’s an ambitious week for The Nintendo Download, with the feudal warlords of Nobunaga’s Ambition marching into battle against paper planes, card games, and a platforming devil. Nobunaga’s Ambition for the Super Nintendo (800 points) leads the Nintendo Download charge this week, delivering deep strategy game play that none of the newer games in the…
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Xbox Originals Brings The Payne
Rockstar injects the Xbox 360 with a double dose of gritty film noir and slow-motion gunfire with the release of the first two Max Payne games as Xbox Originals. As foretold by the ESRB last month, both Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne are now available for purchase and play…
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Square Enix Lets Eidos Be Eidos
Following the successful completion of its £84 million acquisition last week, Square Enix has announced that UK publisher Eidos shall remain UK publisher Eidos. Eidos has spent nearly two decades developing their brand identity, and that brand identity will remain intact. The company will continue on as an independent organization and wholly-owned subsidiary of Square…
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It’s Been A Year Already?
To: Ashcraft From: Faheycraft Re: Who Said Packing Was Fun? You? How Dare You…craft. I’ve been reminded three times in the past week that I have a birthday a week from today, and each time I’ve managed to forget the fact completely moments after. Didn’t birthdays used to be fun? Remember back when you were…
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Busey On The Women Of Saint’s Row 2 DLC
After a slight delay, the first batch of Saint’s Row 2 downloadable content is now available, with THQ digging up Gary Busey to talk about the lovely ladies of Ultor Exposed. Uncle Gary’s power is simply amazing. The man can take something as wonderful as attractive, scantily-clad women running around with guns and transform it…
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Ease In The Weekend With The Braid Soundtrack
Ease your way out of work and into weekend mode with the lovely soundtrack from Jonathan Blow’s Braid, now available for free online play and purchase. As innovative as Braid’s gameplay is, one of the best aspects of that game is it’s music. Jonathan Blow licensed tracks from Magnatune artists Cheryl Ann Fulton, Shira Kammen…
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inFamous Shocks Us With Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Beta
The switch on Sony’s “electrifying announcement” may have just been flipped, as a Best Buy pre-order box for inFamous reveals the existence of a multiplayer beta test for Uncharted 2. Yesterday Sony began teasing “an electrifying announcement” to take place on April 27th regarding both Sucker Punch’s inFamous and Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.…
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Steam’s Weekend Orange Box Deal Is Insane
Steam’s weekend deal should take care of any leftover PC gamers who’ve yet to experience the glory of The Orange Box, with the whole shebang available now for 66% off. Unless you don’t have $10 to spare, there is officially no reason why you shouldn’t at least own The Orange Box by the end of…
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City Of Heroes Celebrates Five Years Of Heroism
NCsoft’s superhero simulation City of Heroes celebrates its five-year anniversary next week, with contests and events planned to keep the game’s super-powered denizens partying Paragon City into the ground. The festivities start on Wednesday, April 28th, continuing through to Sunday, May 3rd. Kicking things off will be an in-game event running from 11am Eastern to…
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It’s Good To Be The Saboteur
The latest batch of art and screens for Pandemic’s The Saboteur display some of the more tangible benefits of being an Irish racing mechanic liberating France from Nazi oppression. It’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen anything new from Pandemic’s free-roaming World War II adventure game, which is quite obviously looking rather lovely, and I’m…
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Burnout Paradise Cops & Robbers Go For The Gold
After teasing us for weeks with videos and pictures of Burnout Paradise’s Cops & Robbers update, Criterion finally delivers the first actual gameplay footage, along with some rather disturbing cosplay. While I probably could have done without the random dressing up, the team at Criterion look like they’re having a great deal of fun playing…
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UK Change4Life Campaign Changes Its Tune
Criticized in March for ads that equated playing video games with an early death, a new commercial for the UK government’s Change4Life campaign promotes healthy gaming. The colorful new ad is a big change from the campaign’s previous efforts, which depicted a sickly-looking young boy sitting on a couch holding a game controller underneath a…
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Ghostbusters: The Opening Cinematic
.html The opening cinematic for Atari’s Ghostbusters game isn’t all that much different from any other video game opening – until the music kicks in. If there was ever any doubt that Ray Parker Jr. is every bit a part of the Ghostbusters cast as the franchise’s four main characters, this trailer completely reinforces that…
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Nothing’s Shocking In Next Week’s Rock Band Update
The Harmonix crowd gets another full album release next week, as Jane Addiction’s best album, Nothing’s Shocking, hits the Rock Band Music Store. With the album’s :Mountain Song” already appearing in Rock Band 2, next week’s release of Nothing’s Shocking contains the remaining ten songs from the band’s controversial but critically acclaimed 1998 album. The ten…
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Champions Online Heroically Dated
Strategy Informer reports on an event taking place over in the UK today, where Cryptic Executive Producer Bill Roper delivered a July released date for Champions Online in the U.S. and Europe. In what feels like the fastest massively-multiplayer online role-playing game development turnaround in the history of the genre, Roper told Strategy Informer that…
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Star Trek Online Screens Explore Strange New Worlds
Following the official announcement of Paramount’s Star Trek D-A-C yesterday, Cryptic sent us a trio of exclusive Star Trek Online screens to remind fans that there’s much more than a top-down shooter in the works. Out of the three images that Cryptic passed along, the top one here is the one that truly spoke to…
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Madden 10 Cover Athletes Revealed
The battle of the long-haired football players commences, as Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu score joint custody of the cover for EA’s Madden NFL 10, a first in the franchise’s 21-year history. EA can’t seem to commit to one cover athlete this year, with multiple sports stars sharing the covers for Fight Night: Round 4,…
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I Cannot Stop Playing Pet Society
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey RE: The Biggest Non-Gaming News In Japan Today Involves A Naked Man While you’ve got your hands full with naked Japanese men over there, I’m busy trying to shake my addiction to Pet Society, a Facebook game from a company called Playfish, in which you create a pet and take care…
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Epic Boss Responds To Exploitative Working Condition Claims
Epic Games president Michael Capps speaks extensively with Joystiq regarding accusations of employee exploitation that have recently been causing a bit of a stir. The uproar began when industry critic Greg Costikyan called out Capps for comments made during an Independent Game Developers Association panel last year. During the talk he indicated that working 60…
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PAX 2009 Programming Details Emerge
The 2009 Penny Arcade Expo slowly begins to coalesce into an actual event, as organizers deliver details on some of the exhibitors and musical talent attending this year’s show. While many of us would attend the Penny Arcade Expo 2009 even if it were one guy in an auditorium playing Metroid music on a harmonica,…
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