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Eat Cake For The Fat Princess Beta
Fat Princess developer Titan has developed a rather novel process for selecting 250 beta testers for the PlayStation Network exclusive title – let them eat cake. Titan is looking for 250 real beta testers for Fat Princess, meaning folks actually willing to provide them feedback on the title, and all you have to do to…
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Metal Gear Solid 2 Novel Due In November
The official novelization of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is due out in November, raising the question of how many different ways there are to say “hiding his crotch with his hands”. Perhaps author Raymond Benson will offer us some keen insight into Raiden’s mindset as he snuck naked through a heavily fortified…
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Lineage II Scores A Whole New Continent
Lineage II is nearly five years old in North America, and NCsoft is celebrating with details on Gracia Final, the upcoming free expansion that adds a whole new continent with a lovely aerial view. Players take to the skies in the Gracia Final expansion for Lineage II, using the aerial transformation skills Aurabird Falcon, Aurabird…
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Virtual Reality: The Year Twenty-O-Nine In Video Game History
It is the year 2009. Killer robots rampage through the streets, aliens rain down destruction from the sky, and a two-millennium old prophecy which could determine the fate of the world is coming to fruition. The most unpopular President in America’s history has taken the White House, leading to heretofore unseen levels of civil unrest.…
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SingStar Trophy Patch Tomorrow, Voice Control On The Way
SingStar fans will have even more reason to sing tomorrow, as SingStar patch 3.01 brings more than 30 trophies to Sony’s karaoke title, which they’ll soon be able to earn using only their voice. Tomorrow sees the release of the 3.01 patch for SingStar, an automatic free update to the title that adds PlayStation 3…
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Two Weeks Til Banjo-Tooie Live Arcade
Now that Microsoft’s Days of Arcade promotion is just about over, Rare can finally get around to releasing Banjo-Tooie on Xbox Live Arcade at the end of the month. The super-sized sequel to the original Banjo-Kazooie on the Nintendo 64 finally joins its predecessor on Xbox Live Arcade on April 29th, bringing with it a…
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Zen Plays Pinball On The PlayStation Network
The PlayStation 3 finally gets some downloadable 3D pinball goodness, as Zen Studios readies Zen Pinball for a spring release on the PlayStation Network. Zen Studios is the developer behind Xbox Live Arcade’s Pinball FX, which has proven to be one of the best 3D pinball games on any platform, as well as one damn…
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Burnout Paradise Police Finally Catching On
After more than a year of ignorance, police in Burnout Paradise‘s Paradise City have finally caught on to the fact that the city is filled with dangerously irresponsible drivers. This is a teaser trailer for the new Cops and Robbers mode, the latest in a long string of attempts by Criterion Games to slowly turn…
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We’re Slightly Afraid Of Amazon’s Ghostbusters Slimer Edition
The most frightening thing about Amazon.com’s exclusive Slimer Edition pack for Atari’s Ghostbusters game is definitely the price tag. Amazon is offering a limited edition pack that contains Ghostbusters the Video Game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Wii, packed with enough exclusive goodies to satisfy even the most rabid fan, provided they have…
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Crash Tops The iTunes All-Time Top Paid Apps List
As part of the countdown to the one billionth download from the iTunes App Store, Apple has released lists of the all-time top paid and unpaid apps, with Crash Bandicoot riding high. Video games represent 14 out of the 20 all-time top paid applications in the iTunes store, and it really isn’t a surprise to…
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Game Teaches Kentucky Children About Online Predators
$300,000 worth of federal funding in Kentucky is being spent on an interactive computer program designed to warn parents and children of the dangers of online predators. The game, titled Missing, follows the adventures of a teen named Zachary Taylor who finds himself in an inappropriate online relationship with someone named Fantasma. Soon Zachary goes…
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Ghostbusters Rule Number Three
The latest trailer for Atari’s Ghostbusters imparts a pearl of wisdom as poignant today as it was back when the movie was first released: splitting up is always a good idea. I think we’ve missed a rule somewhere. We’ve seen rule number two, don’t look directly into the trap, and now rule number three, which…
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Konami Bringing Fallujah To 360, PS3, and PC
In all of the commotion surrounding Konami’s upcoming documentary-style combat game Six Days In Fallujah, we hadn’t actually learned what platforms the game was coming to. Now we know. Konami officially announced the development of the already controversial game today, revealing that the title is in development for the usual current-generation suspects – the PlayStation…
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Get Even More Familiar With Steal Princess
Atlus wants players to be more familiar with their DS puzzle platformer Steal Princess before it sees release, and nothing says familiarity like enough screenshots to play the game flipbook style. The sun is shining; the grass so green. A perfect day to thumb through 38 new screenshots from Steal Princess. The screens come courtesy…
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Sony: The PlayStation 3 Pushes More Blockbusters
Sony contends that the PlayStation 3 maintains a higher attach rate for blockbuster games than the Xbox 360, and has the numbers to back up the claim. Information delivered to Gamasutra in preparation for an interview with Sony’s Peter Dille included several examples of the how blockbuster titles sell nearly as many or more copies…
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Taking Damnation To The Next Level
Building the vertical-oriented worlds found in Blue Omega‘s Damnation takes a great deal more effort than simply plotting out points on graph paper. Damnation’s lead game designer Jacob Minkoff walks us through the process of creating the expansive, realistic spaces found in the Western steampunk shooter Damnation. They use a completely different method for mapping…
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City Of Heroes Team Becomes Paragon Studios
NCsoft cements their commitment to the City of Heroes franchise today, officially changing the name of development team NCsoft NorCal to Paragon Studios. Paragon Studios gets its name from Paragon City, the central location in NCsoft’s massively multiplayer online superhero game. NCsoft NorCal was formed in Mountain View, California in 2007, when NCsoft took over…
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How To Experience The Red Faction: Guerilla Demo
While North American gamers still have to pre-order Red Faction: Guerrilla through GameStop to gain early access to the demo, lucky Europeans need look no further than their web browsers. GameStops across North America are reporting the arrival of demo codes for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Red Faction: Guerrilla, handed over…
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World Of Warcraft Patch 3.1 Reveals The Secrets Of Ulduar
New dungeons, dual talent specializations, user interface improvements, and much more arrive today with The Secrets of Ulduar, patch 3.1 for World of Warcraft. Though it snags top billing, the massive dungeon of Ulduar is just the tip of the iceberg in patch 3.1. The patch sees the implementation of a relatively expensive but extremely…
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GameStop Breaks Demigod Street Date, Ruins Stardock’s Easter
A street date broken by GameStop late last week had Demigod publisher Stardock scrambling to get enough multiplayer matchmaking servers up to handle the sudden rush of players. GameStop was selling the real-time strategy PC game from Gas Powered Games as early as last Friday, days ahead of the planned April 15th street date. Those…
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