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New Riddick Trailer Part Of This Complete Space Epic
The latest trailer for Starbreeze’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena contains everything anyone could ever want in a Vin Diesel-fueled space epic, including mech suits! And yes, the mech suits look lovely, but they aren’t really Riddick, now are they? Riddick is about skulking, stabbing, and interacting with little children, each of…
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Quake Live Open Beta Next Week
ID Software‘s browser-based competitive version of the classic first-person shooter Quake is nearly ready for the public, with the Quake Live open beta kicking off next week. Statistics are being wiped and inactive players from the closed beta culled as Id prepares for the launch of open beta testing on Tuesday, February 24th. Announced in…
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Xbox Live Hacker Attacks On The Rise
Are Xbox Live users taking out contracts against their opponents? Microsoft is investigating a rash of attacks on Xbox Live users by hackers using data flooding tools to kick them offline. It’s the same sort of attack that’s been targeting PC users for years. Hackers get a hold of the IP address players use to…
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DiRT 2 Displays High Level Of Polish
New screens show off just how pretty a little mud can be in Codemasters’ DiRT 2, the sequel to 2007’s acclaimed off-road racer. DiRT 2 shows up the original DiRT in several different ways, featuring more cars, more real-world locations, and enhanced graphics courtesy of an enhanced version of the EGO game engine, as seen…
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Namco Puzzles DSiWare With Mr. Driller and Katamari
In this week’s edition of weekly Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Namco Bandai reveals two new games with familiar faces coming to Nintendo’s DSiWare: Mr. Driller and Korogashi Puzzle Katamari Damacy. The DSiWare version of Mr. Driller is a new version of Namco’s popular drilling actio puzzler, with three game modes and seventeen different stages to…
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Aion Aims For Fall Launch
A letter to fans posted on the official website for the eagerly anticipated massively-multiplayer game Aion: The Tower of Eternity reveals plans for a fall 2009 release in North America and Europe. New Aion U.S. community manager Lani “Liv” Blazier answered some of the biggest questions North American and European fans had regarding the release…
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Disney Sends Spectrobes Wii-ward
Spectrobes makes the leap from two small screens to one large one, as Disney Interactive Studios takes their original science fiction adventure series to the Nintendo Wii with Spectrobes: Origins. Planetary patrol officer Rallen returns the in the next evolution of the Spectrobes franchise, continuing his adventures from the first two titles on the DS…
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New Resident Evil 5 Trailer Builds Character
The latest trailer for Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 goes much deeper into the story and characters in the game then ever before, ending on a note of mysterious mystery. This is more exposition on the story of Resident Evil 5 than I’ve received in a year of watching trailers, playing demos, or writing about the…
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Bonfire Rises From The Ashes Of Ensemble
Robot Entertainment isn’t the only development house rising from the ruins of Halo Wars developer Ensemble Studios, as 35 ex-Ensemble employees join together as Bonfire Studios, already hard at work on an original title. Days after Ensemble co-founder Tony Goodman announced the formation of Robot Entertainment, former management team members of Ensemble announce Bonfire Studios,…
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Bonk Energy Drink, Now With Scout Achievements
The latest daily update to Valve’s special Scout class update page contains a list of the 35 new Scout achievements being introduced to the game, sponsored by Bonk Energy Drink. From the text on the page I am assuming that Bonk Energy Drink is a power-up item for scouts that temporarily makes them even faster…
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Fallout 3: Welcome To The Pitt
Bethesda formally welcomes you to post-apocalyptic Pittsburgh, PA, with three new screenshots from the upcoming Fallout 3 add-on The Pitt. Did somebody say auto-axe? The Pitt content opens with the players responding to a desperate radio message. Someone in The Pitt has created a cure for mutations, and the player must travel there and retrieve…
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NASA Goes Massively Multiplayer With Astronaut
NASA wanted a massively multiplayer online game, and now they’re getting one, signing three separate development studios to work on Astronaut: Moon, Mars, and Beyond. While video game players have long dreamed of traveling into the stars and meeting exotic alien species, real outer space is relatively boring. Now NASA seeks to change all of…
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Operation Flashpoint 2 Strokes Its Ego
Here’s a new developer diary-style clip from Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising developer Codemasters, proving that their EGO game engine can handle more than racing games. Until now, Codemasters has limited their utilization of the EGO game engine to their racing titles, such as the stunning Colin McRae: DiRT and Race Driver: GRID games. Now…
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Reviews
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Review: Scary Made Simple
After two unofficial expansions from TimeGate Studios, developer Monolith Productions returns to the series they made famous with F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. F.E.A.R. 2 ignores the two TimeGate expansions, instead picking up more or less exactly where F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon left off, with the creepy psychic entity known as Alma understandably angry after…
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The Ships Of Galactrix
Following up on last week’s exploration of the various factions in the upcoming puzzle role-playing game Galactrix, this week we take a look at the ships you can collect and customize in the game. Puzzle Quest: Galactrix doesn’t simply stick you in one ship and send you off against the universe. The game allows you…
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Nyko’s Wii Wand Gets Rumble Nunchuck
Nyko shows off exactly what their Trans-Port technology can do with the introduction of a vibrating nunchuck attachment and gun controller for their Nintendo remote alternative, the Wand. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, Nyko’s Wand is a replacement for the standard Wii remote that uses electronic triggers instead of mechanical ones…
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Half-Naked Woman Launches UK X-Blades
With last week’s North American release of anime-inspired action title X-Blades going largely unnoticed, SouthPeak falls back on that old marketing standard to help liven up the UK launch – bare model bottom. The hack and slash action of SouthPeak’s X-Blades hits PAL territories tomorrow, so they’ve hired young model Jodie Dart, dressed her up…
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Mirror’s Edge Time Trials Arrive In Timely Fashion
Faith takes to the skies today as DICE releases the slightly delayed Time Trial map pack for Mirror’s Edge across three platforms, with a special free bonus map already available to PlayStation 3 owners. The Time Trial map for Mirror’s Edge is all about the race. There’s no police, no guns, and no city to…
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Burnout Paradise Toy Cars, Boost Specials Drop Early
Xbox Live Marketplace accidentally received extra Burnout Paradise downloadable content this morning, revealing details on the upcoming Toy Car and Boost Specials packs that Criterion didn’t want you to know yet. Both packs appeared and then disappeared early this morning, not allowing gamers to purchase them but definitely allowing us to read about them, listing…
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The Most Innovative Companies In Gaming
Business magazine Fast Company has released a list of the 10 most innovative companies in the gaming industry. Where do Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony rank? Well we can pretty much guess where Nintendo ranks on the list, can’t we? While Fast Company does note the fact that Nintendo hasn’t done well by the hardcore, it…
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