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Wolverine Behind-The-Scenes Teases Secrets
The latest developer diary video for X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a dirty, no-good secret snikt-tease. Developer Raven hasn’t so much created levels for the game as they have crafted environments for players to romp about it. Forest environments; jungle environments; snowy forest environments – they’re all represented here. It’s all very interesting, until they get…
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Play As The Joker In Arkham Asylum PS3
A new advertisement appearing earlier than expected in Sony’s PlayStation Home reveals the ability to play as The Joker in PlayStation 3 exclusive challenge levels for Batman: Arkham Asylum. Several readers sent us in blurry photos of the new sign, which has appeared in various spots throughout the Home service today, featuring a grinning Joker…
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Star Trek D-A-C Boldly Goes Official
Paramount Digital Entertainment officially announced Star Trek D-A-C for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and PC today, delivering new screenshots of the movie-themed space shooter to the masses. The official announcement for Star Trek D-A-C doesn’t really offer anything new in the way of game information. From McWhertor’s report at GDC we learned that…
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Fable II Adds 250 Achievement Points In The Future
The upcoming See the Future downloadable content for Fable II could add up to 250 gamerpoints to your Xbox 360 gamerscore, if you get lucky. I say if you get lucky, because one of the thirteen new achievements requires that the player “make love” twenty-five times, which for some of us represents many more times…
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EA Sports Complex Races Onto PlayStation Home
EA has launched the first phase of their EA Sports Complex in PlayStation Home, delivering new things to see and do in Sony’s virtual world. The EA Sports Complex is a massive new area to explore in PlayStation Home, with trailers to watch, teasers to view, and a couple of mini-games to whet your appetite…
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The Chronicles Of Spellborn Is Now Open For Business
Acclaim Games officially launches their massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Chronicles of Spellborn in North America today, with free two-week subscriptions on offer for all newly registered players. The Chronicles of Spellborn is an online role-playing game that takes place in a unique, otherworldly post-apocalyptic setting. It features a very interesting action-based combat system,…
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Fuel Tells Players Where To Go
Magical floating sky arrows replace the standard GPS system in the post-apocalyptic world of Codemasters’ Fuel. I’m not exactly sure what Codemasters’ marketing folks were thinking when they decided to create a trailer that compared modern-day car navigation systems with red arrows flying through the sky in the direction you are supposed to be heading.…
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TimeGate And Paramount Reach Section 8 Agreement
TimeGate Studios once again successfully defends the name of their game, reaching an agreement with Paramount in the lawsuit over the name Section 8. TimeGate filed the lawsuit earlier this month, after Paramount sent out a press release announcing an interactive web series called Section 8, days after cancelling a meeting with TimeGate regarding their…
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Battlefield 1943 Drops In June
DICE advances World War II by a year in June, announcing the release month and pricing details for their downloadable online multiplayer shooter Battlefield 1943. A small slice of World War II is coming to the PlayStation network and Xbox Live Arcade in June in DICE’s Frostbyte-driven update to Battlefield 1942. It’s the US Marines…
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Red Faction: Guerrilla Demo Now Available For Everyone
The dark days of pre-order exclusivity have passed, and the demo for Red: Faction Guerrilla is now available to all that would venture onto Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network to find it. In a show of supreme confidence in their game, THQ releases the single player demo for the next game in the Red…
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How To Gift New Neighbors In My Neighborhood
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey RE: Nice To Meet You, Here Is Some Detergent, Be Nice To Me What a quaint little custom, and your assumption that we have a similar custom is entirely correct, at least here in my Atlanta suburb. It’s almost exactly the same thing, only we call it “Be quiet moving in…
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Banjo-Tooie Trailer Brings Back Memories
In case you’ve completely forgotten everything you remember about Rare’s bear and bird sequel Banjo-Tooie, the new trailer and screens for the Xbox Live Arcade version should jog your memory nicely. Isn’t it amazing how your mind flavors your recollection of older games? Thinking back to my time playing Banjo-Tooie on the Nintendo 64, the…
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Punch-Out!! Multiplayer Has You Seeing Double
It’s Little Mac versus differently-colored Little Mac in these multiplayer screenshots from Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Wii. It boggles the mind that in a game with such a great cast of characters, multiplayer is limited to a split-screen battle with Little Mac versus another Little Mac. Nintendo tries to mix things up by making one…
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Reviews
Demigod Review: Aspiring To Godhood
Supreme Commander developer Gas Powered Games seeks to take online PC strategy games to a higher plane with the release of Demigod. Demigod is an action real-time strategy game with role-playing game elements that obviously takes a great deal of inspiration from the popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. Instead of commanding armies…
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Supreme Court On Jack Thompson Appeal: No Thanks
Jack Thompson‘s appeal of his enhanced disbarment from the Florida Bar hit a bit of a snag on Monday, as the Supreme Court refused to hear his case. The court’s decision not to grant Thompson a writ of Certiorari was pretty much a given, considering such a grant is reserved for only the most important…
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Atlus Online Now Open For Business
Atlus has completed phase one in the deployment of their internet community and online gaming portal Atlus Online, with mascot Jack Frost running rampant all over the page. Announced to the world back in February, Atlus Online is an online community for fans of Atlus games, role-playing, and anime, three passions that generally coincide quite…
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How Not To Play Rock Band
Never, ever be this guy. Grant Lokey sent us a link to this video, which supposedly shows him secretly filming his brother behaving like a complete and utter dickhead while playing Rock Band. It’s hilarious, embarrassing, and completely over the top. Considering it was posted to YouTube under the name ChickenFriedComedy, it’s also most likely…
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Half A Billion EA Sports Games Played Online In A Year
EA Sports marches the big numbers out onto the field, announcing that as of this week, more than 500 million online sports games have been played since the ’09 line launched last June. EA Sports titles have gone crazy online this year, with the 500 million plus games being played representing a jump of 175%…
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NCsoft Builds Up Steam
Massively multiplayer online game publisher NCsoft is doing the digital distribution thing, with all of its online titles available today for purchase and play via Valve’s Steam service. All current NCsoft titles should be available via the Steam service today, from the recently released City of Heroes Architect Edition to the Guild Wars series. This…
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Check Out The Package On Devil Summoner 2
The premium bundle for Atlus’ PlayStation 2 role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon is almost too pretty to open. It’s the kind of box set you’d place on your mantle with your other video gaming trophies, rather than simply ripping open the package and leaving it on the…
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