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Rock Band Gets A Kick In The Shins
Harmonix is padding next week’s Rock Band Toby Keith release with music from The Shins, Black Tide, and Bullet for my Valentine in order to please the few of you who don’t appreciate country music. I know it’s hard to comprehend that any gamer out there wouldn’t be overjoyed with the Toby Keith Six Pack…
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Red Faction: Guerrilla Gives Us The Bird
From April Fool’s prank to reality, Volition announces that the fabled Ostrich Hammer will indeed be available as an unlockable in Red Faction: Guerrilla. In what some are calling the winning video game ‘prank’ of April Fool’s Day 2009, Volition released a hilarious video on Wednesday revealing the Ostrich Hammer, a brilliant response to NeoGAF…
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Bear McCreary Wants To Make Dark Void Players Uncomfortable
See Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary discussing his unique strategy for creating the musical score for Capcom’s Dark Void. Bear is quite obviously a gamer as well as a composer, so he knows game music and how it generally works. In order to keep his music from fading into the background, he’s splitting his music…
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Even League Of Legends Needs A Snow Level
In case you needed further proof that Riot Games‘ League of Legends: Clash of Fates was a real game, we give you…the snow level. I wouldn’t go as far as saying a game requires a snow level in order to be considered a real game, but it certainly helps. As it stood, I was pretty…
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Funcom “Opens The Floodgates” With Conan Free Trial
Funcom really, really wants new players to come try out Age of Conan, releasing a persuasive video and a free trial offer to try and make that happen. Age of Conan has gotten off to a bit of a slow start. Well, that’s not entirely true. More like it got off to a quick start,…
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Reviews
BattleForge Review: Collectible Card-Time Strategy
What happens when you mix together real-time strategy gameplay with collectible card game sensibilities? BattleForge happens. Developed by EA’s Phenomic, BattleForge is an intriguing mix of real-time strategy and collectible card game on a massively multiplayer online level. Where a standard real-time strategy game has units with various powers and abilities, BattleForge has a set…
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Wolverine Behind-The-Scenes Is Best There is At What It Does
Activision unleashes the first behind-the-scenes video for X-Men Origins: Wolverine is definitely the best at what it does: proving that the developers at Raven are a bunch of drooling Wolverine fanboys. Activision seems to have a knack for passing their Marvel properties on to developers in love with the characters, though as was the case…
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Runes Of Magic Channels Mario Kart
Frogster continues to throw all the gameplay they can possibly find into Runes of Magic, introducing a suspiciously kart-like horse racing mini-game, complete with mystery power-ups. The Wind-Runner Race is an 8-person horse race that players sign up for in the city of Varanas in the game world. Once the race card is full the…
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Atlus Delays Steal Princess Until People Know About It
Atlus has officially delayed their DS puzzle platformer hybrid Steal Princess until May, in order to make sure more people are aware that Steal Princess exists. Atlus is mastering the art of the delay lately, having pushed back the DS title Class of Heroes to June just a few short days ago. Now it’s Steal…
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Battlestar Galactica Composer Scores Dark Void
Capcom has scored Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary to provide musical accompaniment for their upcoming parallel universe shooter, Dark Void. Battlestar Galactica may be gone, but perhaps a bit of its music can live on in Dark Void’s McCreary-created score. Bear was the sole composer for Battlestar after the miniseries, and is currently employed doing…
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Jumpgate Evolution: When Darkness Falls
The latest trailer and screens for Net Devil‘s massively mutiplayer online space combat extravaganza Jumpgate Evolution wants to know which side you’ll be on when darkness falls. Is that some special, dramatic way of asking who I am going to shoot? I only ask because both the trailer and the accompanying screen shots only serve…
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Crytek: The Internet Isn’t Ready For Streaming Game Services
Crysis developer Crytek reveals that they have done research into providing streaming game services like the ones Onlive is promising, only to conclude that the internet wouldn’t be ready for them until at least 2013. According to Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli, the company began research the potential of a service that allowed games played on…
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The Top-Selling PS1 Games In The PlayStation Store
Since the launch of the PlayStation 3, Sony has published nearly 30 original PlayStation Classics on the North American PlayStation Store. Which have sold the best? Gamasutra procured a list of the top ten most popular PSone Classics in the PlayStation Store for North America, and the results really aren’t that surprising, especially the top…
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Around The World In 80 Sackboys
Sony Computer Entertainment has launched the official LittleBigPlanet YouTube page, and are celebrating with a contest that could send one lucky UK resident around the world. The official UK LittleBigPlanet YouTube page is a celebration of user created content, with a section for favorites and featured users, where particularly inventive folks will have their creations…
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Live Arcade Galactrix Next Week, PlayStation Network This Spring
The Xbox Live Arcade version of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix sees the light of day next week, with the PlayStation Network version coming later this spring. D3 Publisher has officially announced an April 8th release date for the Xbox Live Arcade version of Puzzle Quest Galactrix, their space-age sequel to the original Puzzle Quest. The Xbox…
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Take-Two Trademarks Irrational Boston
Could Take-Two be giving 2K Boston back their unique identity? A trademark application for Irrational Boston seems to point in that direction. Irrational Games was purchased by Take-Two back in early 2006, and then were “rewarded” with a name change to 2K Boston and 2K Australia in November of 2007, following the success of the…
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LittleBigPlanet Community Nearly 2 Million Strong
Sony dropped some impressive numbers regarding LittleBigPlanet today, the game that has “marked the coming of age of gaming as it moves into a new realm defined by creativity and community”. Words are nice, but numbers speak volumes. Nearly 2 million users have joined the LittleBigPlanet community since the game was launched back in November…
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PlayStation Home Xi ARG Mingles With Reality
The alternate reality game Xi, which has made PlayStation Home a much more interesting place over the past week and a half is now leaking into the real world. So far clues to the Xi puzzle have either appeared in PlayStation Home or on select websites, but now clues are starting to appear on billboards…
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Tales Of Vesperia PS3-Bound, More Tales Spun
The latest weekly issue of Japan’s Jump Magazine contains a veritable flood of Tales of news from Namco Bandai, announcing Tales of VS, Tales of Graces, and Tales of Vesperia for the PlayStation 3. The big news here for PlayStation 3 fans is the announcement of the previously Xbox 360 exclusive Tales of Vesperia for…
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Syberia 3 Links PC And PS3
Benoît Sokal’s award-winning adventure game series Syberia continues next year with Syberia 3, with PlayStation 3 and PC versions encouraging players to pool resources between them. The Syberia series kicked off in 2002 and then continued with a sequel in 2004, both following the adventures of American lawyer Kate Walker on her surreal adventures across…
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