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Square Enix Continues To Slowly Devour Eidos
Square Enix has scooped up another large chunk of Eidos Interactive stock as shareholder support continues to build for the proposed buyout of the Tomb Raider publisher. Square Enix publicly revealed their offer to Eidos earlier this month, and since then stockholders have been tripping over themselves to show their support for the deal. Warner…
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New Star Trek Online Screens Beam Down
Cryptic has released four new screenshots for Star Trek Online, a couple of which actually show off some of the more intimate locations you’ll be able to explore. Most of the screenshots I’ve seen so far for Star Trek Online focus on various vessels in outer space, and while they are lovely, there’s only so…
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Galactrix Launch Trailer Perhaps A Bit Too Epic
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix ships today for the Nintendo DS and PC, with the Xbox Live Arcade version dropping tomorrow, and D3 Publisher releases a trailer a bit too epic for a puzzle game. It’s not so much the visuals in the Galactrix launch trailer that get to me, as they seem to have taken their…
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PlayStation Gets Its Own Skin Disorder
Just when you think things are beginning to look up for Sony, the PlayStation goes and gets its very own skin disorder: PlayStation palmar hidradenitis. The new skin condition springs from the case of a 12-year-old girl, treated in a Swiss hospital for intensely painful sores on the palms of her hands. The doctors examining…
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Making Of Killzone 2 Could Be More Exciting Than Killzone 2
What could be more fun that shooting your way across an alien planet in Killzone 2? How about standing in front of a green screen talking about making Killzone 2? Check out the team from Guerrilla Games as they talk us through the creation of Killzone 2, telling us something about dynamics and artificial intelligence…
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Ghostbusters Wii And DS – How The Other Half Look
Far from the “realistic”Ghostbusters game Terminal Reality is creating for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, let’s take a look at what Nintendo Wii and DS players have to look forward to. I kind of like what developer Red Fly Studio has done for the Ghostbusters games for the Wii and PlayStation 2. Rather than…
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So How Do You Curve Bullets In Wanted?
A sequel to last year’s hit film, Wanted: Weapons of Fate allows players to curve bullets around objects in order to take their targets by surprise. So how’s that going to work? Developer GRIN had their work cut out for them in created Weapons of Fate. They had to recreate the action of curving your…
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DSi Creator Talks DSi Creation At GDC
In another newly-revealed event scheduled for the 2009 Game Developers Conference next month, Nintendo DSi hardware group project leader Masato Kuwahara discusses the genesis of the next-generation DS. In a 60 minute lecture titled, “The Inspiration Behind Nintendo DSi Development”, Kuwahara will discuss how the company came to design the DSi, how it evolved from…
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Microsoft: Windows 7 Great For Games
Do not fear Windows 7. Sure, the tests might show that Windows XP performs better, but Microsoft assures us all that the next version of their operation system will be “great for games”. So says Microsoft’s VP of the Interactive Entertainment Business for the EMEA region, Chris Lewis, speaking to GamesIndustry.biz about the future of…
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This Chinatown Wars Van Begs To Be Stolen
Rockstar Games has their Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars van making the rounds to promote the upcoming Nintendo DS game, and while we would never encourage stealing, isn’t it just begging for it? I can’t help but smile imagining the Rockstar representatives, on their way out of the Massachusetts GameStop where they were demoing the…
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Weekly Wii Update: The Commodore 64 Returns
It’s a banner day for fans of old computer games, as Nintendo introduces three classic Commodore 64 titles to a new generation of North American gamers. Yes, the clues in last week’s Wii Update led us to one inevitable conclusion: Commodore 64 games were coming to North America. We just didn’t realize it would be…
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PSP Go!Messenger No Longer Going Come April
After only a year in service, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is pulling the plug on its Go!Messenger service, which brought video and voice chat to PSP owners throughout Europe. The Go!Messenger service was a joint effort between SCEE and wireless network operator BT to bring instant messaging, voice calls, and video conferencing to the PSP…
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Atlus Online Does Steampunk With Neo Steam
Atlus Online has revealed the first game to be offered on the new online community, JoyImpact’s massively multiplayer online steampunk game Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent. Announced earlier this month, Atlus Online is a community portal for fans of Atlus games and anime, which will feature a wide variety of online games for the community…
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Funcom Loses Big, Chief Financial Officer Bails
The Age of Conan has been rather rough on Funcom, whose fourth quarter financials reveal an operating loss of $23.3 million, possibly prompting the departure of chief financial officer Olav Sandnes. Funcom’s latest massively multiplayer online game Age of Conan is to blame for the company’s huge deficit, with $22.8 million depreciating in the face…
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Riddick Assaults Dark Athena In April
The next chapter in the Riddick saga is ready to unfold, as Atari announces an April release for Assault on Dark Athena, with playable demos hitting the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next month. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena features an all-new story for actor Vin Diesel’s bad ass antihero Riddick, who…
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ICO Creator Speaks At Game Developers Conference
With ICO and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda speaking at this year’s Games Developers Conference, could the show play host to the reveal of his next game? Fumito Ueda will be on hand at the 2009 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next month to speak on a panel on evolving game design,…
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Tour Aion’s Lovely Altgard Zone
NCsoft West takes us on a video tour of the expansive Altgard zone from their upcoming massively multiplayer online game Aion: The Tower of Eternity. Watching the video I can begin to see why fans have latched onto the game with such utter devotion. The damn game looks absolutely gorgeous…definitely a step or two above…
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Reviews
Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
Hip-hop sensibilities and anime style clash in Afro Samurai, a hack and slash brawler based on the cult-hit animated television series. Afro Samurai follows the story of Afro, a samurai on a life-long quest to avenge his father’s death, set against the backdrop of a futuristic feudal Japan, where traditional Japanese sensibilities mingle with hip-hop…
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Dragon Rising Screens Rise To The Occasion
Codemasters has released the box art and news screens for their upcoming sandbox shooter Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, due out this summer for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. Codemasters seems to have stripped out the number 2 from the follow-up the 2001’s Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis from developer Bohemia Interactive, perhaps in…
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Frankenreview: Street Fighter IV
Twenty-two years after the first installment of the game hit arcades, Capcom releases the latest and possibly greatest version of the fighting game that kick-started the genre with Street Fighter IV. Capcom isn’t one to pull out a new number without meaning it, and they definitely mean it with Street Fighter IV. The game is…
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