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New Batch Of DSiWare Contains Cards, Clocks, And Chotto Games
While the rest of the world awaits the opportunity to upgrade hardware we were perfectly satisfied with in the first place, Nintendo readies the second wave of downloadable titles for DSiWare. If you thought the first batch of DSiWare was impressive, then your delusional mind will absolutely reel at the latest list. Have you ever…
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HanbitSoft To Continue Hellgate: London – No Really
Despite news to the contrary back in November, Korean publisher and developer HanbitSoft still plans to maintain Hellgate: London as a free-to-play title on a global scale after Namco Bandai’s January 31st server shutdown. HanbitSoft first announced plans to relaunch the game back in early November of last year, after Namco Bandai announced that servers…
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360 Resident Evil 5 Demo Claws Its Way Onto The Marketplace
A reminder to Xbox 360 owners everywhere – the playable demo for Resident Evil 5, the latest episode in Capcom’s popular survival horror series, is now available for download in all regions. As mentioned previously, the demo contains two levels from the full game, suitable for play in both single-player and co-op multiplayer modes. Those…
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Nolan Bushnell Bets On GameWager
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell is back in the gaming business once again, as a press release heralds his “third coming” as part of the gaming sweepstakes website GameWager. GameWager is a service founded in 2007 and in public beta since July 2008, that rewards players who sign up with tokens for completing certain objectives in…
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Prince Of Persia Movie Poster Hidden In Chick Flick
Fans eager to get a look at the poster art for Jerry Bruckheimer’s upcoming movie adaptation of the Prince of Persia series need look no further than his latest release, Confessions of a Shopaholic. The MTV Movie Blog reveals that the upcoming film adaptation of the novel Confessions of a Shopaholic will feature the debut…
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Church’s Chicken Hypes Afro Samurai
Church’s Chicken, home of quite possibly the best fast-food fried chicken on the planet, has teamed up with Namco Bandai’s Surge label to promote the release of Afro Samurai. The famed fried chicken franchise will be plastering stores, radios, and televisions with advertisement’s promoting the video game, which is based off of an animated cartoon…
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Weekly Nintendo Update: Rock Out With Wonder Boy
It’s something old and something new this week in Wii downloadables, as Nintendo releases one rockin’ classic virtual console title and one rollin’ WiiWare game to their line-up. First up this week, Bplus brings Niki – Rock ‘n’ Ball to WiiWare for 500 points, a throwback to the arcade games of old in which all…
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House of the Dead Overkill – Terror, Horror, Flesh, And Ice Cream
Sega’s House of the Dead: Overkill isn’t just another House of the Dead game. It’s a House of the Dead game with one hell of a nice trailer. Can’t say the visuals in the trailer do much for me, and I’ve never really been a big fan of the House of the Dead series outside…
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Halo Wars The Video Documentary: Part 1
For those of you who’d rather not fill your Xbox 360 with a nice-sized chunk of video, here’s the first in a series of video documentaries for the real-time strategy game Halo Wars. It almost serves as an introduction to the real-time strategy genre for those fans of the series who are used to the…
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Get Beaten By Mortal Kombat Creators On PS3 Tonight
Want to pummel the creators of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe senseless? Franchise co-creator Ed Boon and members of the development team will be on the PlayStation Network tonight, taking on all comers. Tonight from 10PM Eastern to midnight, Ed Boon and a crack team of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe developers and testers will…
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LittleBigPlanet Dominates Interactive Achievement Award Nominations
The 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Award nominations have been revealed, with Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet dominating the competition with 10 nominations, including Overall Game of the Year. The 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards will be presented by The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) at next month’s D.I.C.E. Summit, and sackboy might want to pull…
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Rockstar Says “Hell No!” To New Niko Dialog In Lost And Damned
The folks at Rockstar don’t seem to keen on the return of Niki Bellic’s voice actor Michael Hollick, answering “Hell no!” to MTV Multiplayer’s query about new lines for everyone’s favorite Slavic bastard. Grand Theft Auto IV voice actor Michael Hollick made waves last year when he complained to the New York Post about not…
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Halo Wars Is Golden, Demo Drops February 5th
Ensemble Studios’ real-time strategy take on the Halo universe is heading to the printer, with a single player demo of Halo Wars ready to strike Xbox Live Marketplace on February 5th. The Halo Wars gold master is on its way to manufacturing, well in time for its late February / early March release dates. While…
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Resistance 2 Patch Details – The Return Of Your Stats
In a post on the official PlayStation blog, Insomniac Community Manager Bryan Intihar detail the changes coming to Resistance 2 when patch 1.40 is deployed on January 26th. Most importantly, patch 1.40 for Resistance 2 will see the return of levels to players who have had there level reset back to 1. Players who had…
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New Star Wars: The Old Republic Screens Spread Jedi Love
While Bioware’s MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic was already 20 times better than Star Wars Galaxies for the simple reason that it isn’t SWG, these new screenshots certainly don’t hurt. Of course massively multiplayer online roleplaying game screenshots always look a great deal better than the actual game winds up looking, because unless you…
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Free February Burnout Update Detailed – Restart!
Coinciding with the early February release of the Burnout Party Pack, Criterion is readying a free content update that changes the way you race – and restart races – in Burnout Paradise. In a free update that hits on February 6th, Criterion adds several new features to the ever-evolving Burnout Paradise. Some are merely tweaks,…
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Pittsburgh Steelers Win Super Bowl XLIII
The Arizona Cardinals may have gotten lucky last weekend against my beloved Eagles, but now comes vindication as the Pittsburgh Steelers with Super Bowl XLIII…in Madden NFL 09. Upgraded with each team’s current roster and the latest stats, the two teams took the virtual field and fought bravely for the coveted Super Bowl ring, but…
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SMB Coming To WiiWare – Super Meat Boy
Edmund McMillen, co-creator of the popular independent PC game Gish, dropped us a line to let us know that he was making the jump to WiiWare with his latest, Super Meat Boy. Super Meat Boy is a classic platformer based on the the flash game Meat Boy, which you can still play over at Newgrounds.…
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Ether Saga Online Closed Beta Cutely Approaches
Perfect World Entertainment have announced the closed beta of their latest anime-flavored MMORPG Ether Saga Online is just around the corner, and loaded for with bears. Ether Saga Online is based on the Chinese literary classic, Journey to the West, which means absolutely nothing to a man not well-versed in Chinese literary classics. What does…
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Mega Man Changes Things Up In Star Force 3
Mega Man returns two times to the Nintendo DS this summer, as Capcom announces two new titles in the Star Force Series – Black Ace and Red Joker. Mega Man Star Force 3 continues the Star Force saga, combining the tried and true blend of action and RPG with an all new “Noise Changes” mechanic.…
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