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G.I. Joe DS Screens From The Top Down
Few publishers are brave enough to send us DS screenshots as large as the ones we received for EA’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. As Crecente reported last month, the Nintendo DS version of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a top-down action game with role-playing elements in which the player takes one…
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Rock Band Picks Up Styx, REO Speedwagon
Two classic rock groups collide next week in Rock Band, with three songs each from Styx and REO Speedwagon, and one song by Styx and REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon and Styx are getting together for a Can’t Stop Rocking tour that kicks off this May, and with Rock Band as one of the sponsors it…
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Burnout Paradise Has A Date With The Police
The long arm of the law finally reaches into Paradise City later this month, as Criterion Games announces the release date for Burnout Paradise‘s Cops and Robbers pack. The next batch of paid downloadable content for Burnout Paradise drops on April 30th, with the Cops and Robbers pack adding an all-new freeburn mode to the…
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MadWorld Sells 66K In The U.S., Sega Seems Pleased
NPD sales numbers procured by Gamasutra reveal that Sega’s M-rated tongue-in-cheek blood bath MadWorld sold 66,000 copies in the U.S. following its March launch, and the publisher feels encouraged. Despite a respectable Metacritic score of 82 percent, the M-rated MadWorld didn’t exactly explode off of the shelves when Sega released it last month. The stylishly…
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Trine Looks Even Better With A Friend
A new trailer for Frozenbyte’s PlayStation Network and PC fantasy action platformer Trine shows how much the game can change in co-operative mode. Trine is an action platformer that allows the player to switch between three different roles – thief, wizard, and warrior – creating objects or destroying them in order to traverse beautiful fantasy…
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Infernal Makes Hellish Trip To The 360
Playlogic’s 2007 PC shooter Infernal is getting an Xbox 360 makeover in the newly announced Infernal: Hell’s Vengeance. The original Infernal, released as a PC title in 2007, told the story of fallen angel Ryan Lennox, recruited by Hell to take on the forces of Heaven’s secret service, Etherlight. Etherlight has taken out most of…
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F.E.A.R. 2 Toy Soldiers Map Pack Immortalized In Song
I can think of no better way to announce the release of the free Toy Soldier Map Pack for F.E.A.R. 2 than a bitching 80’s metal music video. Monolith delivers. There really isn’t much to say here. I feel slightly embarrassed and slightly amused at the same time. What’s worse is the fact that “Miniature…
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Is The Beatles Bundle Worth $250?
Now that we know what comes in the Limited Edition Premium Bundle for The Beatles: Rock Band, it’s time to ask the question – is it worth $250? We first explored this topic last month, asking “What Could Make The Beatles: Rock Band Worth $250”. We know now that the bundles will indeed include a…
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SOCOM Fireteam Bravo Infiltrating PSP A Third Time
The PSP gets a third helping of multiplayer tactical gaming this winter in SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 3. Fireteam Bravo’s third mission on the PSP will see players embark on a mission to capture and interrogate former KGB agent Alexander Gozorov, believed to be in possession of information regarding a planned attack using…
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Borderlands Concept Art Style Rather Fetching
As part of their ongoing effort to distance their new game from the term cel-shading, Gearbox has released a full screenshot of Borderlands, demonstrating its rather appealing new look. Call it cel-shading if you want; Borderlands’ new look is definitely unlike any cel-shaded game I’ve ever seen. Gearbox calls it Concept Art Style, and while…
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Sony: 2009 Best PSP Software Year Ever
With a handful of big name titles announced and more on the way, Sony is confident that 2009 is going to be the PlayStation Portable’s best software year ever. It’s hard to imagine that last year was the biggest year for Sony in terms of PSP software sales, with hardly any big game releases outside…
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Square Enix Finally Gets A World War II Game
Square Enix joins forces with real-time strategy specialists Wargaming.net to publish Order of War, a strategy title that takes place during everyone’s favorite international conflict, World War II. Order of War is real-time strategy on a massive scale, with players taking control of entire armies as they play out scenarios in across two campaigns –…
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World Of Warcraft Switches Chinese Operators
Blizzard is switching up operators in China for World of Warcraft, losing long-time operator The9 in favor of NetEase, already the operator of nearly every other Blizzard game in the country. Last summer Blizzard announced a partnership with NetEase to operate StarCraft II, Warcraft III, and Battle.net in mainland China, so it really comes as…
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The Beatles: Rock Band Priced For Europe
The official announcement of the contents of the Limited Edition Premium Bundle for The Beatles: Rock Band also comes with European pricing info for the $249.99 box set. As reported previously, the Premium Bundle for the game comes with the game itself; a Hofner Bass controller; a set of Ludwig-branded drums complete with pearl accents…
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Wrestling Video Game Blamed For Child’s Parachuting Death
Friends of 9-year-old Damori Miles of Brooklyn, New York, claim the boy was imitating moves from WWE SmackDown vs Raw when he jumped off of his apartment rooftop to his death wearing a makeshift parachute. The boy’s was found on the ground outside his apartment building at 7pm on Tuesday night, wrapped in the string…
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Target Pays You To Reserve Games
Target wants you to pre-order popular video games from their stores so badly, they’re willing to pay you $5. Here’s how the new Target reservation program works. First, you pay $1 to receive a collectible reservation card, featuring the logo of the game you wish to reserve. Upon the game’s release, you bring in your…
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The Darker Side Of Aion
The latest batch of Aion: The Tower of Eternity screenshots focus on some of the more twisted, darker places in NCsoft’s upcoming massively multiplayer role-playing game. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows in Aion, and this latest batch of teasing screenshots features some rather dismal-looking places and twisted creatures. Of course they still deliver more…
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Bane Goes Wild In Arkham Asylum
Once again one of Batman’s most intelligent villains is reduced to a ravening juggernaut of destruction, as Bane makes a smashing appearance in Batman: Arkham Asylum. He looks good and all, but I’m a bit tired of video game developers and Joel Schumacher using Bane as a mindless powerhouse enemy. He is a powerful guy,…
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Frankenreview: The Godfather II
EA takes another stab, several gunshots, and possibly a severe clubbing at Francis Ford Coppola’s classic film trilogy, with The Godfather II. All of the hard work that the player did in The Godfather: The Game is undone in its sequel. The first game’s main character, Aldo Trapani, is dead, and players assume the role…
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The Conduit Multiplayer In Action
The latest trailer for High Voltage Software’s Wii shooter The Conduit gives a glimpse at the game’s robust online multiplayer gameplay. Of course robust online multiplayer is all relative when we’re talking the Nintendo Wii, but High Voltage is packing as much as they possible can into The Conduit. The originally promised 16-players online had…
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