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Team Fortress 2 Scout Update Just Around The Corner
A post on the sporadically updated official Team Fortress 2 blog reveals that the gameplay update for the Scout class is only a few short patches away from hitting the servers. Valve’s Robin Walker explains that the coding team has already moved on to the next class update, with only the final art needed to…
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The Guns, Beauty and Cities Of Final Fantasy XIII
Here are a collection of still shots from the newly released Final Fantasy XIII trailer, giving you a closer look at some of the characters and enemies featured in the video. You’d easily miss some of the more gorgeous moments in the action-packed trailer, so we’re capturing still shots faster than you can say pause…
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Nexon Shutters Vancouver Development Studio
Thanks to numerous tips, Kotaku has now confirmed with staff at Nexon America that the company’s Vancouver-based development studio has shuttered its doors today, leaving upwards of 90 employees looking for jobs. We’ve just gotten off the phone with the helpful, friendly receptionist at the Vancouver Nexon America development studio, who informed us that all…
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The Official Far Cry 2 Map Editing Guide, Written By Gamers
Ubisoft and Charles River Media are keen on having gamers school each other, announcing The Official Far Cry 2 Map Editing Guide, one of the first game design books written by gamers. All three versions of Far Cry 2 contain a robust set of level design tools, but there is a big difference between tossing…
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Resident Evil 5 Viral Part Two: The Date
Capcom’s second live-action viral ad for Resident Evil 5 explores how killing thousands of zombies over the course of his career has effected the love life of Chris Redfield. This follow-up to the first Resident Evil live-action viral ad, Ceremony, sees the ever-scruffy Chris Redfield on a date with a lovely lady. Everything is going…
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Russell Grant’s Astrology Brings Star Power To The DS
For centuries, people have looked to the stars to find meaning. Soon they’ll be able to just open up their Nintendo DS, as Deep Silver announces Russell Grant’s Astrology for Europe. Hitting the UK in the 2nd quarter of 2009, Russell Grant’s Astrology is more than just your daily horoscope. It’s your key to living…
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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Shines On The 360
With the PC version out of the way, CDV delivers some new screenshots for the console version of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, due out in March on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Having played and reviewed the PC version of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, I find myself both eagerly anticipating and dreading the console…
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New York Comic Con Now Gamier Than Ever
As if responding to Crecente’s Day Note yesterday, the New York Comic Con issued a press release today announcing that the gaming presence at this year’s show will be 50% larger than last year. Major exhibitors from all parts of the gaming industry will be heading to New York on February 6th to participate in…
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Banjo-Tooie Coming In April With Stop ‘N’ Swop
Rare just dropped us a line to let us know that the second game in their bear and bird buddy game Banjo-Tooie will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade in April, with added ties to Banjo-Kazooie. Not only with the Xbox Live Arcade version of Banjo-Tooie be a faithful recreation of the original Nintendo 64 title,…
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Halo Wars DLC A Definite Possibility
At a preview event for UK journalists, the lead producer behind Ensemble Studio’s real-time strategy take on the Halo universe suggested that downloadable content for the game could be in the works. UK tech news site Electricpig spoke with Halo Wars producer Jason Pace at the preview event for the game, who indicated that while…
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Blood Bowl: The Goblin Team
The second video game adaptation of Game’s Workshop classic fantasy football board game Blood Bowl is coming soon, and developer Cyanide slowly introduces us to the game’s teams, starting with the Goblins. When I say fantasy football, I don’t mean drafting real players to your dream team with the guys at the office. I mean…
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Amazon’s Deal Of The Day Is 80GB PS3
Today’s video game deal of the day on Amazon.com takes a substantial chunk of change off of the 80GB PlayStation 3, marking an excellent time to pick one up for those so inclined. While supplies last, Amazon.com is selling the 80GB version of Sony’s PlayStation 3 console for only $349.98, shaving $50 off of the…
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World Tour’s February DLC Gives You Wings
Activision has dropped details on their February lineup of downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour, with a selection of slightly newer tunes followed by some decidedly older favorites. Incubus, The Shins, and Ryan Adams kick the month off on February 12th with an acoustic track pack featuring “Drive”, “New Slang”, and Ryans’ version of…
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C&C Red Alert 3: Uprising Cast Has A Certain Flair
EA has announced the live-action cast of the Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising expansion, adding in a little ultra-violence, a bit of unfortunate anime adaptation, and a whole lot of Flair. Ric Flair, that is. The 16-time world heavyweight wrestling champion joins an all-star lineup of new additions to the Red Alert 3…
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GameStop Employees In Fat Suits And The Ballad Of Ralph
The only thing better than being a low-paid retail employee, is being a low-paid retail employee coerced into wearing a fat suit in order to help promote fitness games at Los Angeles GameStops. As part of their ongoing campaign to promote physical fitness and Nintendo products, GameStop employees in Los Angeles were forced to don…
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Stormrise Units On Parade
With only a few more months to wait for Creative Assembly’s post-apocalyptic real-time strategy title Stormrise, the company drops details on some of the units we’ll be controlling after the world ends. It’s a matter of blue versus brown in Stromrise, apparently, with the tribal Sai units sporting earth tones and the technologically advanced Echelon…
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Custom Crocheted Sackboys Defy Logic
Not only has video game scripter and user interface artist Maggie Wang created her own custom LittleBigPlanet sackboys based on characters like Spock and Hellboy, she’s also willing to make yours as well. Maggie started off just wanting to make her own basic brown sackboy, but soon found herself branching out, creating sackboys that channel…
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Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Trailer
In case you were still on the fence about picking up n a copy of Burnout Paradise, here’s the official trailer for the Ultimate Box version of the game coming next month. With all of the updates Criterion has delivered since the game initially launched, Burnout Paradise has slowly morphed from a nice game that…
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Ubisoft Celebrates 25 Years Of Turtle Power WIth New TMNT Game
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ubisoft unveils a brand-new video game based on the turtles, with no movie, TV show, or comic strings attached. The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game is being developed by Game Arts of Super Smash Bros. Brawl fame, with a release…
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