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Deadly Creatures, Locked In Mortal Combat
It’s a developer diary! It’s a nature documentary! It’s both! The developers of the upcoming Wii exclusive action adventure title Deadly Creatures talk up the combat abilities of the game’s two unique protagonists. From this installment of the Deadly Creatures development diaries, we learn that while the scorpion is a powerful brawler, the tarantula is…
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2K’s Prizefighter Gets A New Name For Nintendo Platforms
2K Sports have just announced that they’ll be bringing the legendary hair of boxing manager Don King to Nintendo platforms this March with the release of Don King Boxing, complete with Balance Board Support. Developed by 2K China, Don King Boxing is the Nintendo version of Don King Presents: Prizefighter, renamed for the Wii and…
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Star Ocean: Second Evolution Review: Calm Seas Ahead
Square Enix continues its seemingly unrelenting stream of RPG remakes with the release of Star Ocean: Second Evolution for the PSP, an update to the classic PlayStation title Star Ocean: The Second Story. Second Evolution picks up the Star Ocean story 20 years after the first game, following the adventures of Claude C. Kenni, the…
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Mythic’s Four-Month Plan to Drip Feed You New Ways to Play
As Mythic readies the first major content update to their massively online game Warhammer Online, we spoke with Executive Producer Jeff Hickman about the upcoming free new content, new classes, and new dungeons in Call to Arms. Unlike a traditional MMO expansion, A Call to Arms is being delivered over the course of several months,…
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Blood Bowl: Skaven Versus Lizardmen
The Blood Bowl battle continues, as Cyanide brings us yet another video for the fantasy football board game adaptation, this time featuring the reptillian Lizardmen and the ratty Skaven. Rats and lizards, living together, playing football. The giant, tough-as-nails Lizardmen might have the strength advantage, but no one can out-manuever the wily Skaven. Each new…
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Nolan Bushnell To Be Awarded BAFTA Fellowship
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will bestow their highest honor at this years GAME British Academy Video Games Awards to the gather of Atari and pioneer of Pong, Nolan Bushnell. Nolan Bushnell will be inducted into the BAFTA Fellowship at the 2009 award ceremony on March 10th in London, England. The Fellowship…
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Sega Rolls Out More Stormrise Units
Sega has revealed six more units that will be taking the field of battle in Creative Assembly’s post-apocalyptic real-time strategy console title, Stormrise. While Monday’s Stormrise unit reveal focused mainly on the ground troups, today’s update gives us a look at how the war will be faught in the air, along with some of the…
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Blizzard: We Probably Over-Nerfed Hunters
For once, hunters actually have a reason to whine! In a blue post in the official World of Warcraft forums, Blizzard poster GhostCrawler admitted that they “probably” over-nerfed the Beast Mastery specialization. It takes a big company to admit they might have been wrong, and Blizzard isn’t exactly famous for doing so, but here we…
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Gold Farming Website Sells For $10 Million
The number three MMORPG gold-seller on the internet, MyMMOShop.com, has just made the ultimate transaction, with the website purchased by a private equity company for $10 million. The website MyMMOShop.com, which specializes in the farming and selling of in-game money from massively-multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI, and Everquest II, has…
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SOE Brings PopCap Titles To The PlayStation Network
The PlayStation 3 just got a bit more casual, as Sony Online Entertainment announces a deal to bring five PopCap titles to the PlayStation Network, beginning with Bejeweled 2, available now. Perhaps this is what Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley meant when he said that half of the company’s business would eventually be on the…
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Warhammer Online Issuing A Call To Arms With First Live Expansion
Mythic is getting ready to change the face of Warhammer Online with the first live expansion, A Call To Arms, featuring a new land to conquer and two new, brutal character classes. A Call To Arms isn’t your normal expansion pack, but a “Live Expansion”, which will be deployed over a series of months on…
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Cheating Second Life Husband: The Movie
The Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary on cheating spouses in Second Life has aired, featuring a look at the women in the life of Dutch, the Second Life cheating husband we’ve come to love. This clip from the full documentary, which can be viewed at the link below, shows the woman Dutch is now married to,…
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Legacy Of Ys: Books I & II Delayed, But No One Cares
Today Atlus has announced that every copy of Legacy of Ys: Books I & II will come boxed with a soundtrack disc, while vaguely muttering something about the game being delayed two weeks. Sure the Nintendo DS game is being pushed back to February 24th, but it’s for a good cause. The soundtrack pack in…
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Blood Bowl: Chaos Versus Humanity
Following up yesterday’s clip of the Goblin team in action, today we get to see the forces of humanity square off against the legions of Chaos in Cyanide’s Blood Bowl. Blood Bowl is the second adaptation of the classic Games Workshop fantasy football board game, pitting the creatures of myth and legend against each other…
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Your Xbox 360 Massages You Gently
The XNA Community Games program continues to be a wealth of innovation on the Xbox 360, as a new program available for download turns your 360 controller into a “portable massager”. Rumble Massage is a new XNA game now available for download in either demo form or the full version, which will set you back…
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Frankenreview: Afro Samurai
Namco Bandai Games christens their new western games division Surge with the release of Afro Samurai for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, based on the Spike TV anime starring Mr. Samuel L. Jackson. Afro Samurai combines a hip hop vibe and music with a futuristic take on feudal Japan, creating an atmosphere that is…
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Rockstar’s Dan Houser Favors Creative Freedom Over Respect
Rockstar creative VP and lead GTA IV writer Dan Houser would rather have the creative freedom of writing for video games remain intact than be treated with respect. When an interviewer for the UK Telegraph asks Houser if it will be long before video game writers are afforded the same respect as TV and film…
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The 12th Annual AIAS Awards Will Be Televised, Eventually
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and the Independent Film Channel today announce a partnership to bring the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards to a television screen near you. The 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards will be taking place on Thursday, February 19th at the Red Rock in Las Vegas, Nevada, but you won’t…
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Today On Xbox Live Arcade: Funtown Mahjong
Xbox Live Arcade gets a healthy does of everyone’s favorite traditional Chinese tile game with the release of FunTown Mahjong, which gets a headstart on DLC right out of the gate. FunTown Mahjong combines the fun and addictiveness of the ancient Chinese tile game with all the modern bells and whistles, including Xbox Live online…
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BattleForge Storms Stores In March, Preorder Bonuses Tapped
EA’s Phenomic studio has set a date for their upcoming real-time strategy meets card battles title BattleForge, with special cards and extra levels for those willing to put their preorder money down. BattleForge will be available for purchase for both the PC on March 24th, but players keen on making a go of it might…
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