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Champions Online Swings Into Action
Witness an exciting new travel power that developer Cryptic is including in their massively multiplayer online superhero game Champions Online. One of the big problems with City of Heroes has always been the inability to make a convincing Spider-Man clone. Hulk and Wolverine were not a problem, but without web-swinging, there really couldn’t be a…
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Dreamcast New In Box $99 At ThinkGeek
Retire that poor, battered Dreamcast desperately clinging to life in your entertainment center with a shiny new one from ThinkGeek, where they’re offering the console new in box for $99. I don’t know where they got them, or how many they have. I just know that geek superstore ThinkGeek.com is now selling new Dreamcast consoles…
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There’s A Mystery To Solve In MySims Agents
EA takes their tiny blocked-headed MySims and thrusts them deep into the heart of a sinister plot that could determine the fate of an entire city in MySims Agents for the Nintendo Wii and DS. The MySims are everywhere now. They’re partying, racing, defending fantasy kingdoms, and now taking on the role of secret agents…
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Lifetime PAL Console Sales Figures Get
The latest financial presentation from European video game retailer Game comes complete with lifetime European sales numbers for the current crop of consoles and handhelds. Let’s take a look! The information is presented in the form of a hardware install base chart, with data provided by GfK Chart Track and Game’s own internal data, tallying…
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Cats Are Jerks
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey RE: Stay Away From The Bugs Yes, it’s me again. Not sure what’s up with Crecente. Last I heard he had taken some drugs and was going to sleep. I assume he meant cold medicine, but feel free to speculate wildly. Sorry to hear about your bug issue, but look at…
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Be A DJ On Your DS
In case the two other DJ games currently under development for consoles weren’t enough for you, French developer Game Life has just announced DJ Star, coming later this year for the Nintendo DS. Published by Deep Silver in Europe and Australia, DJ Star is a game where players start off as a lowly hobby DJ,…
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The Munchables Continues Relentless March Of Cuteness
Namco Bandai‘s The Munchables for the Nintendo Wii continues to dish out impossible levels of quirk and cuteness, nearly reaching critical mass with the latest trailers and screenshots. The Munchables has managed to escape my radar up until now, having missed McWhertor’s trailer post last month, as well as the first batch of screens. How…
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Konami Readies A New Karaoke Revolution
Despite the ridiculously sad performance of Rock Revolution, Konami soldiers on, announcing the rebirth of Karaoke Revolution on all three consoles, two of which already have dedicated karaoke games. Flying in the face of games like Microsoft’s Lips and Sony’s SingStar, the new Karaoke Revolution for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii seeks…
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Is Capcom Counting Down To Marvel vs Capcom 2?
Our old friend the countdown clock rears its ugly head once more, with Tu4ar.com possibly counting down to an announcement of the re-release of Marvel vs Capcom 2 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The ESRB has rated it; official arcade sticks have been solicited and then removed; and potential achievements have been unearthed.…
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Killzone 2’s Steel & Titanium Pack Priced
Sony has delivered pricing details on Killzone 2‘s first downloadable map pack, Steel & Titanium, along with a trailer featuring the two new maps in varying degrees of motion. While we knew it was coming out on April 30th, up until now we had no price tag for the two maps included in the first…
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Stephen Confirms Return For LittleBigPlanet PSP
British actor, comedian, and Dr. House’s better half Stephen Fry has confirmed that he is indeed providing voiceovers for the PlayStation Portable version of LittleBigPlanet. Fry teased earlier today via Twitter that he was doing voiceovers today for the “2nd version of a video game”. After checking with his handlers, Fry returned to Twitter to…
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Purchase Videos From PSN On Earth Day, Save The Planet
Tomorrow is Earth Day, and what better way to show your appreciation for our planet’s environment than staying in and buying a bunch of movies from the PlayStation Store? The first 10,000 movie and television show purchases made from the PlayStation Store tomorrow will generate $1 a pop for Conservation International, a non-profit organization dedicated…
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Mega64 Beats Sony To A Shadow Of The Colossus Movie
Sony Pictures might as well pull the plug on their big screen adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus. Mega64’s got it covered. A true video game movie needs to distill the essence of the game into a live action setting, and well – it doesn’t get much more distilled than this. You’ve got your hero,…
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GameFly Tests Your Game Knowledge With GameAnswers.com
GameFly has just launched GameAnswers.com, a website that allows gamers to share their knowledge of the industry and judge by their peers. GameAnswers is essentially the video game version of Yahoo! Answers. After a quick and painless sign up process, users can ask questions or answer questions to their hearts’ content, climbing the ranks as…
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EA Sports Games Bundled With Wii MotionPlus
EA addresses the issue of Nintendo not having a first-party game ready for their Wii MotionPlus controller add-on by bundling their own games with the device. EA has announced that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 and EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii would be bundled with Nintendo’s Wii remote fixing device upon launch…
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Halo Wars DLC Presents Strategic Options
Three new multiplayer modes are making their way to Halo Wars courtesy of the Strategic Options Game Add-On Pack. Available “in the coming weeks”, the Strategic Options pack adds several new ways to experience Halo from a top down perspective online against your friends. In Keepaway Mode, players struggle to capture a free-roaming Forerunner Sentinel…
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Super Robot Taisen – The Power Is In Your Chest
The official trailer for Banpresto’s Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier for the Nintendo DS proves once and for all that you’re more powerful when you’re nearly naked, even if you’re Kos-Mos. Xenosaga might have been a much shorter series if KOS-MOS had only learned her hidden power earlier. I myself never realized that…
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L.A. Court Finds In Favor Of Scratch DJ
A California judge has ruled in favor of Scratch DJ Game LLC, granting a temporary restraining order against Activision Publishing, ordering all Scratch intellectual property returned immediately. Despite assurances on Thursday by Activision that the L.A. Superior Court saw no evidence of wrongdoing on their part, a judge today granted Genius Products and Numark Industries…
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite Getting A Demo
Monster Hunter Freedom Unit is hitting the states this June, and Capcom is preparing a tiny demo taste of the game to help players gauge their interest in really big game hunting. The demo for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite will be hitting the PlayStation Store in early June, a bit before the actual game hits…
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Singstar Has Trophies Now
Remember when we told you SingStar was being patched last week? We lied. It’s patched now though, with trophy support, voice control, and a newly redesigned SingStore eagerly awaiting your dulcet tones. It seemed rather silly to release a trophy patch one week and a functionality patch the next. Perhaps that’s why the new global…
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