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Cabbage Patching Through Ten Years Of Everquest
Sony Online Entertainment‘s pioneering massively multiplayer online game Everquest turned 10 yesterday, and while celebrating with an unattractive woman popping out of a cake is nice, nothing beats a worldwide dance party. While Amanda is far too young to remember, I was there for the launch of the original Everquest. I wrote about the beta…
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The Millionth Stardock Impulse User Wins A Gaming PC
Nearly a million users have signed up for Stardock’s Impulse digital download program, and they’re celebrating by giving out a $4,000 gaming PC to some fresh off the internet newcomer. Stardock’s Impulse is essentially their answer to Steam, featuring games from Atari, THQ, 2k, Capcom, Epic, and more, along with applications and utilities to help…
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OutRun Online Arcade Gallery Races By
Sega’s OutRun series races onto Xbox Live Arcade next week, and if you blink your eyes really fast, gameplay might look exactly like this latest set of screenshots. The North American version of OutRun Online Arcade is an Xbox 360 exclusive, for reasons we can only guess, which saddens me, seeing as it is beautiful,…
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Target Confirms New PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits Bundle
Kotaku has confirmed with several Target locations that a new 80GB PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits bundle will be available on March 29th, with Motorstorm and Resistance thrown in for free. Target stores across the country are currently receiving, sitting on, or awaiting stock of a new 80GB PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits Bundle, which comes complete…
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Console Sacred 2 Faces May Delay
Console owners wishing to travel the lands of Ancaria will have to delay their vacation plans, as the release date for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 slips to May. Released last November for the PC, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is an expansive isometric action role-playing game with multiple character…
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Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force is warning parents that Animal Crossing could be a haven for sexual predators, with ABC 17 News warning that Mayor Tortimer may want to see your child naked. Is Mayor Tortimer actually a man in California that asks for naked images from Missouri children? That’s what Missouri’s ABC 17…
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Orc Choppas And Dwarf Slayers Invade Warhammer Online
Two new combatants join the war between Order and Destruction today, as Mythic unleashes the Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer classes for Warhammer Online. The two new berserker classes join Warhammer Online as part of the Call to Arms live expansion, which leads up to the opening of the expansive Land of the Dead dungeon…
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InstantAction Brings Tribes To Your Web Browser
The original jetpack shooter returns, as InstantAction gets ready to debut their web-based version of Starsiege: Tribes at the Game Developers Conference next week. When browser-based gaming destination first announced GarageGames’ Fallen Empires: Legions, people immediately started calling it a browser-based Tribes. InstantAction would rather we call it the spiritual successor, especially now that they’ve…
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Analyst: GameStop Has Nothing To Fear From Amazon
Electronic Entertainment Design And Research compares used game trade-in values between GameStop and Amazon.com and finds that brick and mortar is still the way to go. While direct comparisons between trade-in values at Amazon, who recently entered the used game trade-in business, and retailer GameStop might make it look like a close race, EEDAR’s Jesse…
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Pac-Man And Dig Dug With A Facebook Twist
Namco Networks and J2Play announce the launch of Namco All-Stars Pac-Man and Dig Dug, two classic games for your PC with built-in hooks to the Facebook community. So how are these versions of the two classic arcade titles different from every other version? Once downloaded and launched, the games will ask for your Facebook login…
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Square Enix Snags Gamebryo Engine For Something
Square Enix continues to give other company’s game engines a chance, licensing Emergent Technology’s Gamebryo for an unannounced project. Square has licensed the Gamebryo engine, which has powered games like Fallout 3, Dark Age of Camelot, and Playboy: The Mansion, for use in a game that shall remain secret until they deem us worthy. Why…
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The Final Resident Evil 5 Viral – Chris Kills A Television
Resident Evil 5 is finally upon us, signaling the end of live-action Chris Redfield‘s flashbacks and the beginning of his vendetta against appliances. A word to the wise: be careful using your television remote around live-action Chris Redfield. You might want to quietly warn him first, lest the sudden powering up of the entertainment device…
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Metal Gear Online SCENE’s Charming New Skills
The Metal Gear Online SCENE expansion comes out tomorrow, bringing with it some charming new skills and fishy emblems for players to strive for. Three new skills drop with tomorrow’s expansion. Close Quarters Combat EX automatically counters any CQC attack on your character, while Toughness allows you to endure knockback moves, lessening your recovery time.…
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Valykyria Chronicles Getting Triple Deployment Of DLC
Sega’s PlayStation 3 exclusive tactical role-playing game Valkyria Chronicles is calling in reinforcements soon, with three separate packs of downloadble content soon bolstering the ranks. Two entirely new missions and a Hard EX mode add new life one of the most under appreciated titles on the PlayStation 3. Edy’s Mission “Enter The Edy Detachment” follows…
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Reviews
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix PC Review: Lost In Space
Infinite Interactive takes its innovative mix of role-playing and puzzle games to the stars with Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. The follow up to 2007’s smash hit Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Galactrix takes the blend of role-playing mechanics and puzzle game to a whole new frontier, replacing the fantasy role-playing adventure of the first title…
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Polishing The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena
In this second developer diary for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, developer Starbreeze talks about what goes into making the most polished game they’ve ever created. Starbreeze is big on polish, a fact they’ve readily demonstrated in their two previous outings, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Darkness.…
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Plant Your Seeds In Gardening Mama This Month
Be prepared to plant your seed, sow the fields, and work that hoe, as Majesco announces a late-March release date for Gardening Mama on the Nintendo DS. Yes, the handling of meat and icing the cake of the Majesco’s Cooking Mama series gives way to an all new set of sexual euphemisms come March 31st,…
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Epic Unveiling New Unreal Engine 3 Goodies At GDC
Epic is making it even easier for everyone and their grandmother to develop video games, showing off a slew of new features for their wildly popular Unreal Engine 3 at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Now that they’ve managed to license their engine to just about everyone in the gaming industry, Epic is ready to…
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Get Guitar Hero World Tour On The Cheap
If you’ve been toying with the idea of purchasing Guitar Hero World Tour, yet worried about spending nearly $200 on another band game, Amazon’s video game Deal of the Day is here to help. Today and today only, Amazon has discounted Guitar Hero World Tour across all platforms as part of their video game Deal…
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The ESA Harvests Natsume
The Entertainment Software Association continues to regrow after last year’s exodus, with Harvest Moon publisher Natsume casting their lot with the industry trade organization. Natsume is the second publisher to sign with the ESA this year, after SouthPeak signed up earlier this month. This follows a string of companies leaving the organization last year, perhaps…
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