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Aussie Genesis Collection Preorder Bonus Is Amazing
Australians who preorder the enormous Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection from select stores will be able to snag a rare treat, in the form of a blue vinyl record containing classic Sega tunes. The Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (Genesis Ultimate Collection in the states) collects more than 40 classic Sega titles on one disc…
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PlayStation 3 Glows With amBX
The real-world sensory technology of amBX could soon be coming to a PlayStation 3 near you, as the company announces a Tools and Middleware agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment. amBX is a technology originally developed for the PC by Phillips Research that incorporates lighting, rumble, and even air-flow peripherals to help deliver real-world sensory experiences…
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Warhammer Online Celebrates Love With Murder
While other massively-multiplayer online games are busy celebrating Valentine’s Day, Mythic takes Warhammer Online down a decidedly darker path with the launch of their Night of Murder live event. Nothing says loving like a knife in the back, and that’s what you’re likely to get if you participate in Warhammer Online’s Night of Murder event,…
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Time Crisis Strikes iPhone
Namco Networks turns your finger into a deadly weapon with the release of Time Crisis Strike, a new entry in the light gun shooter franchise built specifically for the Apple iPhone. Classic light gun shooter Time Crisis is resurrected on the iPhone and iPod Touch in Time Crisis Strike. Players tap the screen in order…
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Wizards, Pirates, and Aliens Unite in Lego Battles
TT Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have teamed up once again to deliver an all-new Lego experience to the Nintendo DS, this time simply focusing on the toys themselves with Lego Battles. Lego Battles is a game for the Nintendo DS that combines three popular Lego toy lines – Lego Castle, Lego Pirates and…
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The Sims 3 Given New, Later Release Date
Virtual residents of the last version of EA’s popular life simulation get a stay of execution today, as the company officially pushes the release of The Sims 3 to June. The rumblings from last month prove true as Electronic Arts stamps a release date of June 2nd of the eagerly anticipated PC title The Sims…
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Master Chief Is The Batman Of The Future
The latest video documentary for the real-time strategy game Halo Wars takes a look at the individual units appearing in the game, from hordes of Spartans to swarms of Locusts. Seeing the units in Halo Wars up close and personal like this, even a moderate Halo fan like myself can’t help but get a little…
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Runes Of Magic Really Launches In March
With the open beta attracting more than 450,000 players to the world of Taborea, Frogster Interactive has nailed down a March release date for their upcoming massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game Runes of Magic. While the servers are all up, the item store functions properly, and all character progression from here on out carries over, Runes…
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PC Puzzle Quest Galactrix Goes Retail
PC Puzzle Quest fans who’d rather have a disc on hand for the upcoming space-aged sequel, Puzzle Quest Galactrix, are in luck, as D3publishers teams with Aspyr Media to bring the game to retail. Apr Media may specialize in porting PC games over to the Mac, but they’ve been making a name for themselves lately…
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Former Eidos VP Heads Up Paramount’s Games Division
Paramount Digital Entertainment today announces the appointment of former Eidos vice president of product development John Kavanagh to the position of Senior Vice President of video games. Kavanagh joins Paramount from developer Kuju after spearheading their expansion into North America with Kuju America. Before that he served as the VP of product development at Eidos,…
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New Demigod Screens Remind Of Us Demigod
Since we haven’t heard much about Gas Powered Games‘ upcoming roleplaying real-time strategy title Demigod lately, publisher Stardock sends us a fresh batch of screenshots in order to remind us the game still exists. I still maintain a fair amount of excitement for Demigod, and these screenshots once again punctuate the reason why – scale.…
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Ubisoft Acquires Action Pants
Ubisoft moves into Western Canada today with the acquisition of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based development studio, Action Pants, with a new Wii title already in the works. The Vancouver based Action Pants Inc., which currently employs more that 110 game developers, is now part of the Ubisoft game developing empire. The studio is currently working…
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Warrior Epic Heroically Opens Closed Beta Signups
True Games Interactive have launched the official website for their upcoming massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game Warrior Epic, celebrating with the release of new wallpapers and the opening of closed beta signups. The official Warrior Epic website is now live, giving prospective players a deeper look at the world of the game, with new artwork, updated…
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The “Secret Language” of World of Warcraft
There are certain subjects the mainstream media should leave to the professionals, and this news report on the secret language of World of Warcraft players demonstrates every reason why. “Many gamers are part of a secret society,” begins the lead in to NBC Bay Area’s correspondent Nicole Riley on the secret language of World of…
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Sega Begins Messing Up Iron Man 2
After pretty much completely screwing up the game based on the first Iron Man movie, Sega has announced their plans to potentially ruin the game based on the 2010 sequel, Iron Man 2. Sega continues its existing partnership with Marvel Entertainment with the announcement of Iron Man 2, due out in 2010 alongside the sequel…
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Atlus Launching Online Gaming Portal Atlus Online
Atlus fans around the world will soon have a lovely new place to play online games and chat with other like-minded individuals, as Atlus readies their new community portal, Atlus Online. Atlus isn’t just creating an online community portal dedicated to Atlus and anime fans. They’ve launched a new online division, dedicated to doing so.…
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Amazon Casually Launches Digital Game Downloads
Amazon.com has officially launched the beta version of their Game Downloads section this morning, offering more than 600 casual titles for digital download, each under $10. Kotaku spoke to Greg Hart, Vice President of Video Games and Software for Amazon.com about the new service, who explained that offering casual games for purchase and download via…
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Reviews
Puzzle Quest: The Battle Of Grulkar Micro-Review: A Piece Of The Puzzle
D3publisher takes the award-winning combination of roleplaying game and gem-based puzzler and brings it to the iPhone with Puzzle Quest: The Battle of Grulkar. Rather than release the entire game in one large chunk, D3 and TransGaming instead decided to split the original Puzzle Quest and its expansion, Bane of the Plague Lord, into three…
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This Week On Live Arcade: R-Type Dimensions
This Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade, shoot-em up fans get a healthy dose of redone retro goodness with R-Type Dimensions, repackaging and repolishing the first two games in the R-Type series. R-Type and R-Type II return this Wednesday in R-Type Dimensions, which takes the classic gameplay of the original shooters and updates them with all…
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Here’s What Snowboard Riot Looks Like
Here’s the launch trailer for Hudson’s Snowboard Riot, for those of you sitting there staring back and forth between your Wii Points card and your television, frozen with indecision. It might not be the highest quality snowboarding game out there, but then I’ve disliked most snowboard titles since the heyday of SSX. As far as…
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