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The Bigger The Gundam The Harder They Fall
The Psycho Gundam from the upcoming Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 might look intimidating, but as long as you aim for the glowing purple parts you’ll be okay. The Psycho Gundam is certainly larger than anything I recall fighting in the original Dynast Warriors: Gundam, but this clip takes a whole lot of the intimidation factor…
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PixelJunk Eden Gives Encore This Week
Loads of new stuff comes to Q-Games’ garden this week, with the release of the PixelJunk Eden Encore expansion pack. New games, new stages, and new music are just the tip of iceberg in the PixelJunk Eden Encore expansion, available on April 16th for $5.99 at a PlayStation Store near your PlayStation 3. Smart bombs,…
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Infamous Gets Pushed Up With Pre-Order Goodies
The PlayStation 3 free-roaming superhero game inFamous has been pushed up a month to May, with some impressive pre-order bonuses in store for those willing to put their money down. Originally scheduled for a release sometime in the month of June, developer Sucker Punch has apparently been working so hard on the game that Sony…
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Movie Spyro Looking Rather Impressive
Spyro the Dragon is looking a bit more powerful than we remember him in the upcoming animated feature The Legend of Spyro 3D. A Spyro fansite (believe it or not) unearthed the teaser poster for the film at the official website of film sales company Velvet Octopus, showing a large, confident-looking version of everyone’s favorite…
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Atlus Does Downloadable With Droplitz
Atlus USA is getting set to make their Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and iPhone debut with Droplitz, a fluid puzzle game from Blitz Arcade. Droplitz, also being released for the PC, is a puzzle game involving getting water from one end of a set of pipes to the other. The pipes are set into…
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This Week On Live Arcade: OutRun Online Arcade
Get your motor running, head out on the highway, and possibly find a little adventure along with way in this week’s Xbox Live Arcade release, OutRun Online Arcade. Part of the Days of Arcade program, OutRun Online Arcade is the classic racer reborn in high definition for Xbox Live Arcade. Featuring 15 different courses and…
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Mariners Nintendo Fan Network Gets Upgraded
Nintendo and ESPN give Seattle Mariners fan DS owners an upgrade this year, adding sports news to the list of special features available on the handheld during home games. The Nintendo Fan Network kicked off in 2007, giving DS-holding visitors to Seattle’s Safeco field access to game stats, video, and remote food ordering during the…
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Catch Microsoft Points With The Deadliest Catch
Microsoft has teamed up with Discovery to deliver 2 million Microsoft points via the Deadliest Catch Text to Win Sweepstakes. Microsoft is doing up Discovery’s crap-fishing television series big across all of its various networks, including MSN, MSN Mobile, Hotmail, and of course, Xbox Live. The promotion, which started on April 10th and ends tomorrow…
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2K Play Brings The Greatest Show On Earth Home
2K Play is about to make running away to join the circus much easier, announcing a partnership with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey to create circus games for the Wii and DS. During a recent performance, Ringling Bros. high wire artist Jonathan Caro walked 25 feet through the air, using only a Wii remote…
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Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers Joins The Love Train
Eleven new videos have popped up on the official Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers website since we last checked in. Get ready to climb aboard the love train! All of the new clips are relatively short glimpses of gameplay moments, much like this one, which shows men being chased through the streets by enamored…
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Amazon Covers All Consoles With Deals
Rather than focus on any one console for their video game Gold Box deals today, Amazon.com keeps things fair with deals across all three consoles and both handhelds, with Shaun White tying them all together. Ubisoft’s Shaun White Snowboard was released on every console and the PC, so it serves as the Gold Box Deal…
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The Nintendo Download: A Bad Week For Pop-Up Pirates
This week’s Nintendo Download features two new downloadable titles for your DSi, a Pitfall adventure on the Virtual Console, and the most unfortunately timed pirate game release ever. It’s week two of the DSiWare invasion, with two new titles dropping for Nintendo’s slight step up. We’ve already told you about Mixed Messages from Activision (500…
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Raven Software Gushes Over Wolverine
While the second behind-the-scenes clips for X-Men Origins: Wolverine does include some nifty bits about sound design and camera work, for the most part it’s just the team at Raven using complimentary adjectives. According to Raven, Wolverine will be fast, furious, unleashed, and the game that everyone is pining for. It’s like no Wolverine game…
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From Flash To Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Cash
The Rockstar Social Club is teasing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars with Mr. Wong’s Laundromat, a new flash game that will let players earn cash for their DS game playing Flash games on their PC. At first Mr. Wong’s Laundromat was a mystery, but the gaming detectives over at MTV Multiplayer soon cracked the case,…
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Reviews
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena Review: Fumbling In The Dark
Darkness falls on Richard B. Riddick once again in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Originally planned as a simple current-generation remake of 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, developer Starbreeze changed course during development, creating a whole new chapter in the story of Vin Diesel’s Riddick character. Upon escaping…
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Sailor Shot Dead During Video Game
A gaming session ended in death on Wednesday, as Clinton Echols allegedly pointed a gun at his fellow sailor and fired it while playing an unspecified military video game. Authorities say that 25-year-old Echols was playing a war video game with fellow sailor Louis Urbana on Wednesday afternoon at a San Carlos, California apartment. Police…
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iPhone Owners Buy The Most Games
Low price points and ease of accessibility could be factors in the discovery that iPhone owners buy more games than owners of any other gaming platform. The findings of a survey conducted in February by E-Poll Research, indicate that iPhone and iPod Touch owners purchased an average of 4.57 games over the past 12 months,…
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Here’s What Borderlands Looks Like Now
Gearbox Software passed us the copy of the cover of the June issue of PC Gamer Magazine to show us exactly what they mean by “Borderlands is not cel-shaded“. According to Gearbox Software’s Steve Gibson, the cover art for the June issue of PC Gamer is an actual in-game screenshot, bereft of any post processing.…
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Bionic Commando Lab Report #1
The first in a series of "lab reports" Capcom’s Bionic Commando focuses on Nathan Spencer’s constant companion and best friend: his left arm. What would you do if you had a left arm strong enough to crush steel with the ability to shoot its hand out as a grappling hook? Would you swing, leap, grapple,…
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Rabbids Ditch Rayman, Go Home
Rayman’s no more, the Raving Rabbids are flying solo in the newly announced Rabbids Go Home, coming this holiday season to the Nintendo Wii. Hilarity surely ensues as the Rabbids cause havok in the human world as the desperately try to make it back to their Rabbid home world in Rabbids Go Home. The Rabbids…
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