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Atlus Trots Out Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament
Atlus brings more Steambot to the PSP this summer, announcing a North American release for Irem’s Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament. Released in Japan as Steambot Chronicles: Vehicle Battle Tournament, the new PSP title places players behind the controls of a Trotmobile mech, as a young gladiator looking to make a name for himself. Pick your…
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Play Puzzle Quest: Galactrix With The Devs
It’s payback time for all that leap gate hacking, as the developers of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix take on all comers tonight on Xbox Live Arcade. Infinite Interactive is deploying a crack team of developers to Xbox Live this evening to show players how multiplayer combat is done in the puzzling science fiction epic. Everyone from…
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Meet Assassin’s Creed II’s New Assassin
Meet Ezio, the new white-clad contract killer taking over for Altair in Assassin’s Creed II. Issue 103 of Game Informer magazine should be hitting store shelves next week, featuring the world exclusive reveal of Assassin’s Creed II, with Ezio dramatically posing on the front cover. Ezio is a young noble who lost his family to…
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New Bayonetta Trailer Is Completely Insane
Bayonetta enjoys a lollipop, fights atop a flying airplane, and shows off her kitty in this “First Climax” trailer for Platinum Games’ over the top action game. Oh, and there’s a little plot too. Insane action is nice, but it’s always good to have a little plot thrown in to keep it all glued together.…
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Even Goth Girls Enjoy Pangya: Fantasy Golf
The latest screens for the PSP version of Pangya: Fantasy Golf demonstrates how golf is a game for everyone, from goth girls to dragons to giant pandas. Pangya: Fantasy Golf is one of those cutesy golf games that adds the adorable characters and dress-up opportunities sorely lacking in the real game of golf. Unless something…
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Midnight Club: Los Angeles Rolling Out New Vehicles
Rockstar keeps Midnight Club: Los Angeles rolling this month, with two vehicle packs bringing seven new rides to the mean streets of L.A. The first of the two new vehicle packs drops on April 16th, so players won’t be waiting long to cruise the streets of the recently released South Central map expansion in style.…
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DJ Max Fever’s Extremely Limited, Ultra-Expensive Edition
Fans of Pentavision’s DJ Max series are a fiercely loyal bunch, but are they fiercely loyal enough to shell out $130 for the ultra-limited the crew edition of DJ Max Fever for the PSP? The series might be a bit obscure – I was the only person who pre-ordered a copy of DJ Max Fever…
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Frankenreview: Nintendo DSi
The third iteration of the Nintendo DS is upon us, adding new functionality, more power, and an extra vowel. In 2004 Nintendo released the little dual-screen handheld that could, the Nintendo DS. Two years later they trimmed down the fat with the sleeker, shinier DS Lite. Now the third version of the handheld has made…
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Company Of Heroes Expands With Tales Of Valor
One of the highest-rated real-time strategy games of all-time gets a standalone expansion this week in Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor. Relic Entertainment’s real-time strategy World War II masterpiece gets a healthy dose of new content with the Men of Valor standalone expansion, now available at retail, on Steam, and any number of digital…
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Strong Bad Sales Double With Wii SD Card Support
Nintendo’s addition of SD memory card play to the Nintendo Wii has done amazing things for WiiWare developers, with Telltale announcing that sales of their Strong Bad series have doubled since the GDC announcement. Those looking for proof that a solution to Wii storage limits was sorely needed by both developers and customers need look…
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Blood Bowl Gets A Website, Beta Signups Begin
Cyanide Studios‘ video game version of the classic tabletop fantasy football game Blood Bowl has a brand new website chock full of game information, along with a sign-up page for the multiplayer PC beta test. Of course when I say fantasy football, I am talking real fantasy football based in the Warhammer universe, with dwarves,…
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City Of Heroes Explodes With Player Created Content
City of Heroes becomes the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to allow player created content, with the release Issue 14: Architect. This launch video for Issue 14 is an overview of the mission creation system, which we’ve gone over rather exhaustively in the past. Now that the system is live, it’s all up to…
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Eidos: Batman Is “As Close To Perfect As We’ve Ever Come”
Eidos kicks the hype engine for Batman: Arkham Asylum into overdrive, preparing a massive marketing campaign for what they are predicting will be one of the stand-out titles of the year. Eidos’ head of UK marketing Jon Brooke doesn’t mince words. Speaking to MCV, Brooke extolled Batman’s many virtues in a bombastic fashion sure to…
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Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Deployed
Halo 3 fans now have three new places to kill each other, as the long-awaited Mythic Map Pack makes its way onto the Xbox Live Marketplace. The Xbox Live Marketplace flavor text is simply exquisite this time around, really evoking the atmosphere of these three new maps for Halo 3. If the flavor text doesn’t…
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D&D Co-Creator Dead At 61
Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and one of the founding fathers of the role-playing genre, Dave Arneson has passed away at the age of 61. While the late Gary Gygax, who passed on a little more than a year ago, added fantasy elements to war gaming to create the basis for Dungeons & Dragons, it…
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Grand Slam Tennis Cover Features Tennis Star Triple Play
Instead of focusing on just one athlete for the cover of Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii, EA plasters three of the biggest names in tennis across the front of the box. In one fell swoop, EA has taken my cumulative knowledge of tennis and condensed it neatly into a game cover. John McEnroe, Roger…
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The Godfather II Gambles On PlayStation Home
EA joins the ranks of companies with a PlayStation Home presence a bit earlier than anticipated with The Godfather II space, complete with Texas Hold’Em table. EA’s PlayStation Home space for The Godfather II arrives tomorrow, well before the highly anticipated EA Sports Complex launches later this spring. Where there are mobsters there’s bound to…
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The 2009 Pokémon Video Game Championships
Do you want to be the very best, like no one ever was? Now is your chance, as Pokémon USA delivers the details on the 2009 Pokémon Video Game Championships. An excellent way to sell their newest title, the U.S. leg of the 2009 Pokémon Championships requires that players participate using the newly-released Pokémon Platinum.…
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Snowbound Mini Ninja Screens
A ninja is at home in any environment, as evidenced by these frosty screens for Eidos’ Mini Ninjas for the Nintendo Wii, DS, and Xbox 360. The screens truly show the full range of Mini Ninjas, both graphically and size-wise. Mini Ninja Hiro and his companions, the giant Futo and the musical female ninjette Suzume,…
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Black Prophecy, The Other Online Space Shooter
For your viewing pleasure, here’s seven minutes of gameplay footage from Black Prophecy, Reakktor Media‘s answer to the massively multiplayer online space shooter. Black Prophecy is a 3D real-time combat space MMO that takes place in a dark universe crafted by German science fiction author Michael Marrak. The game premiered during the 2007 Game Convention…
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