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Cross Edge Crosses The Sexy Line
Cross Edge is the ultimate fan service game where characters from Capcom, Gust, Namco Bandai, Idea Factory and Nippon Ichi all collide in an epic turn-based role-playing game. This means we get all kinds of characters from the cute to the scary and the fugly to the sexy. Pictured here is Morrigan from Capcom’s Darkstalkers…
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Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! Preview: Badman Does Good Things
Aside from having the wackiest titles ever, Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman does interesting things with the strategy game genre on the PlayStation Portable. The plot of the game is about you – the disembodied God of Destruction – protecting an evil overlord character from marauding hero characters by digging him a vast underground dungeon.…
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Witch’s Tale Back With A Cute Vengeance (And Screens)
A Witch’s Tale – NIS’ cutesy Halloween-themed role-playing game for the DS – is back after a year’s absence with more tantalizing Goth-tinged images. The game features a totally stylus-controlled interface where players both move the character in the world map and control attacks and magic in the turn-based RPG combat. The press release says…
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Plants vs. Zombies Music Video Causes Cute Overload
PopCap Games’ Plants vs. Zombies sounds weird, plays well and looks so cute in this music video, it makes me want to dance and puke at the same time. The game itself is tower defense strategy. Only instead of a tower, you’ve got a lawn to seed with plants that shoot, plants that explode and…
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College Football Players Joining EA Madden Lawsuit Mob
A class action lawsuit filed against EA Tuesday alleges that National Collegiate Athletic Association allowed the company to use unpaid college athletes likenesses in Madden games unlawfully. A similar lawsuit went down not long ago where retired NFL players had their likenesses unlawfully used in Madden NFL games. The plaintiffs in that case won their…
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Mommy Dearest: The Best and Worst Mothers in Video Games
Mothers have it tough in video games – they get killed off, turned evil, or their children leave the nest to save the world. And their kids probably don’t call home often enough. In honor of Mother’s Day, we celebrate moms in gaming – from the bit parts to the big players. Some are examples…
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EA Spring Break Event Round-Up
The embargoes for the EA Spring Break Event were spaced out throughout the month of April and into early May, but now that they’ve all expired, we can put them in one convenient post. The only games missing from this list that were at the event are Spore Hero, Battlefield Heroes and Need for Speed:…
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The Sims 3 iPhone Screens May Touch You
It’s been a while since we’ve seen or heard of EA Mobile’s The Sims 3 for the iPhone, but these new screens say it all. They just say it in Simlish. Based on the images, we can see character customization as well as open-world neighborhood and potential inter-Sim interaction. What we’re not seeing is the…
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The GDC Text Adventure Gives Me Flashbacks
The folks over at GameSetWatch—the blog owned by the same company that run the Game Developers Conference—posted a text adventure/”interactive experiment” version of the conference today, put together by game creator Jim Munroe. Munroe is a Canadian Sci-Fi author who designs video games in his spare time. I’m not familiar with him, but anybody who…
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Namco Bandai Editors Day Round-Up
Namco Bandai Editors Day kicked off with the announcement of both Soulcalibur and Tekken games for the PSP – and it was all pretty much gravy from there. It was kind of a bummer not to see any Tales games whatsoever – not even screens of Vesperia for the PS3. But last year, Tales games…
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Food Network Gets In On Nintendo Cooking Sim Craze
The only thing shocking about Namco Bandai announcing a partnership with the Food Network for new game, Cook or Be Cooked, is that it didn’t happen sooner. Cooking Mama, What’s Cooking with Jamie Oliver and Personal Trainer: Cooking all got a good head start on an official Food Network video game. But with each new…
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We Cheer 2 Preview: Now with 40% More Male
I didn’t disdain of the first We Cheer because it was a cheerleading game, or even because it required so much shameless Wii-flailing. I sneered at it for being sexist. Men can be cheerleaders, too, you know! George W. Bush, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Douglas, Trent Lott, Aaron Spelling, Jimmy Stewart, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Steve…
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Here Are Your Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny Screens
What these Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny screens lack in size and boob, they make up for in color and Tira. So far there isn’t much else to say about the game that hasn’t already been said. But I’m going to go ahead and add “Thank God I can still use my PSP for something.” It’s been…
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Klonoa Wii-make Challenge Preview: Yep, It’s Challenging
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a classic PlayStation adventure game remade for the Wii that’s entirely true to the original in content, color and even voice actors. The only new things in the game are bonus stages and challenge levels to extend gameplay for hardcore fans that have likely outgrown the difficulty level of the…
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The Munchables Preview: Eat It!
It’s tough trying to trick kids into eating vegetables. Namco Bandai helps out—and cashes in on the Wii’s target audience—with The Munchables, a game where you eat what’s bad to do good. At the start of the game, Don Onion and his brigade of space pirates take over a planet on which live two of…
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Brütal Legend: The Auteur’s Art
If art is about the personal vision of the artist or an exclusionary experience that separates those who get it from those who don’t, Brütal Legend is a game that gets to be art. Set in a fantasy world that has nothing to do with Tolkien and everything to do with heavy metal bands and…
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Dead to Rights: Retribution “Embraces The M” Rating
Dead To Rights wasn’t for the faint of heart even when it was on the GameCube. But for its current-gen outing on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Retribution is really bringing the hurt. The first glimpse I got of Dead to Rights: Retribution was of Jack Slate stuffing the business end of a shotgun in…
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Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao Preview: An Eyes-on Experience
There’s nothing especially remarkable about a side-scrolling kung-fu fighting game – unless it’s in stereoscopic 3D. Invincible Tiger is going for a more immersive gaming experience by including various 3D formats as gameplay options along with the traditional 2D mode. The plot of the game and the basic combat action are a throwback to the…
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Katamari Forever Now In 1080p… Forever
This is the year of “all things weird and wonderful” for Namco Bandai, according to Todd Thorson, Director of Marketing and Public Relations – and Katamari Forever on the PlayStation 3 proves it. To reintroduce gamers to the wacky puzzle/action/adventure/weird thing Japan created to ensnare gamers in mindless fun, Namco Bandai has given the original…
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Namco Bandai Bringing Magna Carta II Stateside
Sequel to the PlayStation 2 role-playing game—and not related to the historical document created in 1215—Magna Carta II is an Xbox 360 exclusive that seems to have much in common with Lost Odyssey. The game features a new-ish storyline about an amnesiac boy and two warring countries and is built with the Unreal 3 engine.…
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