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Impressions: Wildstorm’s Resident Evil Comic Book
The first issue of DC imprint Wildstorm’s new Resident Evil comic book mini-series hits comic book stores tomorrow, and we’ve taken a sneak peek to see if it’s worth your bathroom reading time. The Bioterrorism Security Assignment Alliance is a great deal busier than the Resident Evil video game series would have us believe, at…
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Lara Croft Now Available Without The Flaws
The Tomb Raider Underworld: Lara’s Shadow downloadable content is now available on Xbox Live, giving players a chance to play as Lara Croft’s harder, better, faster, and stronger doppleganger. In an interesting twist on Underworld’s main story, Lara’s Shadow gives us a chance to see what Miss Croft’s cleverly crafted copy would do if she…
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FigurePrints Making World Of Warcraft Statues For Europe
European World of Warcraft players can now order their own custom character statues, as FigurePrints announces the international expansion of their innovative service. Launched in 2007 by, The FigurePrints service, which takes game data from World of Warcraft and creates a 3D statue of a player’s character, has proven wildly popular with North American World…
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The Extremely Limited Edition UK RE5 Watch
The creators of the limited-edition Metal Gear Solid 4 watch that UK fans went crazy over last year are back, with a Gamestation-exclusive limited-edition Resident Evil 5 timepiece. The designer of the watch himself, Adi Wells, sends us the scoop on the Resident Evil 5 watch, which will be available for pre-order through UK retailer…
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Sony Ponders Suing Over UK Early Death Ad
The UK’s Change4Life campaign, which links playing video games with obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, could draw legal fire from Sony for using a PlayStation-like controller in their print ad. The magazine ad in question features a young boy obviously not enjoying himself while holding a dual analog wireless controller, similar to that used…
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Warhammer Online Offers Prizes For Your Friends’ Lives
Warhammer Online is turning up the heat on their refer-a-friend program, offering free in game pets and items to players who pull their friends into the conflict. Warhammer has had a pretty standard refer-a-friend program up until now. Simply drag a pal into the game, and get 30 days free game time. Now they up…
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Starbreeze Talks The Evolution Of Dark Athena
The Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze explains how they went from polishing an old title to creating an entirely new game in this first developer diary for Assault on Dark Athena. Swedish developer Starbreeze obviously loves the Riddick property, and not just because the first game, Escape from Butcher Bay, put them on the map.…
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Burn Zombie Burn! Ignites PSN This Month
The undead burst into flames this month, as Doublesix announces a March 26th release date for their PlayStation Network exclusive shooter, Burn Zombie Burn! Rack them up and knock them down. That’s the core strategy behind Burn Zombie Burn! – gather together as many zombies as possible, killing them en mass, amassing the highest score…
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Burnout Paradise Boost Specials Drop This Week
Burnout Paradise gets a boost this week with the release of the Boost Specials Collection, featuring two “ultra-performance boosting machines” to add to your collection. Two cars make up the Boost Specials Collection. The first, pictured here, is the Carson Extreme Hotrod, which Criterion calls the fastest car in Paradise City. It features a new…
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Ninja Blade Doesn’t Skimp On The Blur
From Software has released a new batch of screenshots for Ninja Blade, demonstrating how blur effects can make getting punched by a guy in a business suit look exciting. That has got to be the strongest business man ever, punching that ninja so hard that his ninja powers are erupting from his stomach in a…
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SouthPeak Joins The ESA
At a time when other companies are reconsidering their membership, fast-growing video game publisher SouthPeak Interactive becomes the first new member of the Entertainment Software Association for 2009. The ESA may have increased their fees to ridiculous levels over the past few years, but that hasn’t stopped SouthPeak Interactive from signing on with the industry…
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Live Arcade This Week: Peggle, The Maw, And Crystal Defenders
It’s a triple play this week on Xbox Live Arcade, the addictive gameplay of Peggle, the strategic defense of Crystal Defenders, and new downloadable content for Twisted Pixel’s The Maw. Peggle is the tremendously addictive ball-bouncing game for the PC, ported to Xbox Live Arcade with 55 levels, 75 challenges, and multiplayer support via Xbox…
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Resident Evil 5 – Chris Has Another Flashback
Resident Evil 5 has completely screwed up Chris Redfield for life, as the latest live-action viral proves there’s always something there to remind him. Capcom really should have invested a little money in securing the rights to Naked Eyes “There’s Always Something There To Remind Me” for their series of viral live-action videos for Resident…
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It’s Tyson Vs. Ali On The Fight Night 4 Cover
The Mohammad Ali versus Mike Tyson battle ends in a draw, with both legendary fighters chosen as cover athletes for EA’s Fight Night Round 4. One floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee; the other bites your damned ear right off. Seems fans voting at AliorTyson.com couldn’t decide, so EA decided to use…
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Weeky Wii Update: New Gradius, Old Kidd
Two old favorites return in this week’s Wii Update, with the rebirth of Konami’s classic shooter, Gradius, and the re-release of Sega’s Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars. Gradius ReBirth (1,000 Wii points) is a remix of Konami’s classic shoot em up series. Players get five levels worth of frantic shooter action, which can be played…
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EVE Online: Apocrypha Launches This Week
Here’s the official trailer for the EVE Online: Apocrypha, forever changing the face of CCP’s star-spanning space epic later this week. Tuesday marks the official launch of EVE Online’s Apocrypha expansion, and it will indeed change the way both new and old players survive in the online game. New players are being treated to epic…
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That Prince of Persia Is One Sexy Beast
New photos have surfaced from the set of the upcoming Prince of Persia movie, with more than enough shirtless, slightly hairy Jake Gyllenhaal for everybody. There’s not much I can say about these two new shots of Jake as Prince Dastan without getting me in trouble with one or more different factions of our readership,…
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Aksys Brings BlazBlue To America
A bevy of BlazBlue screenshots accompany the announcement that Aksys game is bringing the spiritual successor to Guilty Gear to the states this summer. Recently announced for Japan in the pages of Famitsu, Aksys is picking up the ball and running it to North America with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the…
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When Do You Pack Up Your Games?
It’s 4PM on a Saturday, I’m up to my ass in moving boxes, and though I am moving in three days, Star Ocean is calling to me. When do you pack away your games? It’s a serious question, really. This is my second apartment move in two years, and I could have sworn things went…
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The Only Game With Techno-Dancing Joseph Stalin
We’re quite confident that this trailer for PC real-time strategy Stalin vs. Martians is the only game trailer ever to feature a techno-dancing Joseph Stalin. We’ve spoken about Stalin vs. Martians in the past. Subtitled “The Unknown Pages of the Second World War”, it delivers just what it promises…the Russian army facing off against Martians,…
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