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The Wizard of Oz: Beyond The Yellow Brick Road – A Second Look
Not too long ago, Stephen Totilo got his hands on D3 Publisher/Media.Vision’s The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road for the DS. The week I got my own look at the game – mostly for curiosity’s sake, since I read the books as a child and adore the glorified fanfiction that is Wicked…
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Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga Preview: Making The Jump To Home Consoles
The Valhalla Knights games (all two of them) have been confined to the PSP since 2006, but now they’re finally making the jump to home consoles. The big plus here is the larger screen size. Back when I reviewed Valhalla Knights 2 for PSP and one of my biggest complaints (no pun intended) was that…
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Ju-on: The Grudge Preview: Hide All But One Of Your Wiimotes
Technically, Ju-on isn’t an on rails shooter – because you’re excruciating slow instead of on rails and instead of a gun, you get a flashlight. Even so, there’s a bit of the nostalgia to Ju-on that you sometimes get form on rails shooters. The Japanese horror movie craze in America seems to have died off…
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The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces Preview: Guileless, But Not Innocent
Everyone loves the Ace Combat games for their action-y flight simulation and normally fabulous graphics – both of which are selling points for The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces. The other selling point for Sky Crawlers is its tie-in with a Japanese novel series of the same name. In this alternate-reality world where it’s permanently World…
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Joystick Junkies Teams Up With E4 For Gamer Geek Chic Search
Street fashion designer Joystick Junkies is partnering with British TV channel E4 to find “the ultimate geek chic face of 2010” to appear in their Spring/Summer photo shoot. Those of us on this side of the pond too poor to afford Joystick Junkies‘ shirts and jackets might know the label’s work from their Saints Row…
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Fairytale Fights Heads to PAX
Well, that “Kill 1,000 Children” Achievement might be gone, but the M-rated gore-fest that is Playlogic’s Fairytale Fights will still be in blood red attendance at the Penny Arcade Expo. The game isn’t out ’til October 27 and we’re still waiting for word on an official demo — but if you happen to be in…
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Wow, there really IS an Arkham Care Website
I know, I know — just one more thing about Batman: Arkham Asylum and I swear I’ll shut up. But there’s actually an Arkham Care website setup for the game. Warden Quincy Sharp welcomes you to the site and there’s an “Inside Arkham” video clip show that reminds me of the Kaiser Permanente health care…
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Turbine Rolls For Damages In Atari Lawsuit
Turbine slapped Atari with a $30 million lawsuit two weeks ahead of the launch date for Turbine’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online game, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited. The suit, filed August 24 in the state of New York’s Supreme Court, alleges among other things that that Atari breached its contract with the developer to…
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Here’s Your Batman: Arkham Asylum Launch Trailer
Well, if our review wasn’t enough to convince you, maybe this fancy trailer with other outlets’ review quote and scores will do the trick. Also featured are more of the slow-mos from the combat system, Detective Mode at work and the glorious voice of Mark Hamill as The Joker. Go, watch, enjoy. And then pick…
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Reviews
Batman: Arkham Asylum Review: The Dark Knight Is A Bright Light
Batman is a smart comic book hero. He doesn’t need superpowers – just give him a gadget, a cape and a face to punch and he’s a regular Einstein. With a cape and iron fists. Gadgetry and ass-kicking are a big part of what makes Batman unique among other comic book heroes. While other mutated…
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Elemental: War of Magic Impressions: There’s More To Might Than Magic
Elemental: War of Magic is a PC turn-based strategy game with a sweet map and a marriage alliance system that sounds like something from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. That’s no accident because developer Stardock’s CEO & President, Brad Wardell is way into A Song of Ice and Fire –…
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Stardock Updating Impulse, Rolling Out Ready-to-Play
Even if you’re a Steam loyalist, PC gamers, you’ve got to admit it’s nice to have options. But Stardock’s digital distribution service, Impulse, and its latest update aim to provide more than just competition. Phase IV of Impulse rolls out a new service called Ready-to-Play that functions as a sort of Facebook for PC gamers.…
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Battleswarm: Field of Honor Preview: Choose Your Genre
Battleswarm: Field of Honor is a Chinese-developed war game that blends both real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres. The catch is you have to pick which genre you can win with. Another catch to Battleswarm is its pay-to-play system called MetaTix – the latest endeavor of former Atari headman Nolan Bushnell, plus Mark Hood and…
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MoeSequencers and Virtual Bonsai — What Else Can I Do On The iPhone?
I happened to be hanging out near a fellow games journalist’s desk the other day when I heard the most alarming thing. I gave him a hairy eye and he said, “Hey — it’s for work!” He wasn’t lying. GamesRadar’s Tyler Nagata had the dubious honor of putting together a list of iPhone apps for…
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New Bayonetta Screens — Snakes, Why’d It Have To Be Snakes?
Here are some Bayonetta screens fresh off of Sega’s blog. We’ve got snakes with baby-faced heads with yet more snakes coming out of their mouths and a bipedal-looking baddie with quite a lot of height on our shape-shifting witch. Check ’em out: New Bayonetta Screens from GamesCom! [Sega America Blog]
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Akihiro Hino Talks Puzzle Boot Camp And Obese Rodents
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is right around the corner and we were lucky enough to ask some questions of developer Level-5’s President & CEO, Akihiro Hino. At 2009’s Game Developers Conference, Hino talked about his marketing strategy for the Layton series and let slip the fact that Diabolical Box was heading to the…
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More Fairytale Fights Screens
We’ve told you all we can about Fairytale Fights for the time being — but don’t let that stop you from ogling these blood-splattered screens. Based on how smooth these screens look, I can only surmise they were taken from a later build of the game than the one I saw. On display is that…
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Fairytale Fights Preview: The Brothers Grimm Never Looked So Gory
Not since that Matt Damon/Heath Ledger flick have I seen such an abusive interpretation of classic fairytales. And I mean that in a good way. Fairytale Fights takes the “let’s make charming children’s stories bloody” approach to Brothers Grimm characters and runs with it in a direction that’s violent, gory and totally hilarious all at…
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Aion Version 1.5 Impressions – What NCSoft Learned In A Year
It’s been one year since I first saw Aion: Tower of Eternity and those wings I admired are about ready to take flight in the US. Developer NCSoft has learned a lot since the massively multiplayer online game went live in Korea last year and they’ve integrated as much as they could into version 1.5,…
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PSP Go Owners Rejoice — If You Like Gran Turismo And Live In Europe
Sony announced today at its GamesCom press event that PSP Go owners in Europe and PAL territories can score Gran Turismo PSP for free if they register between October 1 and 10. Gran Turismo PSP is also a freebie for gamers who pre-order Gran Turismo 5 on PlayStation 3. You might remember first hearing about…
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