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Get In The Cities XL Beta
Cities XL is a lot like SimCity, but with a persistent online environment for players to take their God-complexes online. Beta sign-up starts today and we’ve got your bonus code right here. Go to the sign up site and type in: KOTCXLBR. It won’t guarantee you a beta slot, but it will increase your chances…
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The Conduit Preview: Calling Do-Overs
Last night’s The Conduit multiplayer event was plagued by major server issues, leaving developer High Voltage Software no choice but to call do-overs. “We know it’s a letdown to you,” High Voltage Chief Creative Officer Eric Nofsinger told crestfallen journalists. “It’s definitely a letdown to us.” So, with little else to do with 10 completely…
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Double Feature
Activision’s double preview feature of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen showcased two approaches to movie-game making that we ought to see more of. The first, used for Wolverine, is the “if you can’t beat ‘em, rip ‘em off” method of movie-game making. The second, seen in Transformers, is “if you need…
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Site Is Shia Free
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen isn’t due in theaters for another two months or so, but Activision endeavors to tide you over with this movie-game website. Revenge of the Fallen will be on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and PSP in various gameplay formats. I’m sure they would have put…
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Konami Gamers Night Round-Up
Konami’s annual “Gamers Night” press event is known among video game journalists as being one of the longest nights of the year. Between scads of game demos to play, a mandatory social hour and the opening speeches, it almost feels like a mini Game Developers Conference. Only, it’s all Konami all the time. This year’s…
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Ant Nation DS Preview: Baby’s First Strategy Game
Konami’s Nintendo DS game Ant Nation raises some serious questions about ethics, aliens and why you’d want to craft a strategy game around pests. UPDATE: Konami has gotten in touch to clear up some misconceptions about Ant Nation that I got from my twenty minutes of hands on time: 1) The “alien ants” as well…
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Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment Preview: Fails To Spark Interest
It’s been over four years since we’ve heard anything about Konami’s remake of PlayStation strategy role-playing game Vandal Hearts for the Nintendo DS -– and lo and behold it’s not a remake or on the DS. Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment is actually a prequel to the original Vandal Hearts, coming to Xbox Live Arcade…
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories – A Makeover, Not A Remake
Forgive the girly metaphor but a good makeover is what every game ported, remade or otherwise “re-imagined” on the Wii should be; and with any luck, it’s what Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will be. A good makeover doesn’t slap a layer of polish on an already finished product; it doesn’t cram a bunch of new…
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MySims Racing Preview: It’s What Mario Kart Wii Should Be
The MySims franchise generates more spinoffs than the Law & Order series, but Racing seems to be one of the good ones. The game features many recurring characters from the original cutesy life simulation on the Wii, such as Dr. F and Chef Gino. Like MySims and MySims Kingdom, Racing is organized around Sim towns…
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Saw Preview: Condemned or Dragon’s Lair?
There’s something terribly familiar about wandering around a dilapidated insane asylum with crazy people ahead of you and instant-death traps all around you. And I’m not just saying that because the Saw video game is based on the Saw movie franchise. Many of the major elements in the game – the setting, hunting down and…
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Insurgents Contributed To Development Of Six Days In Fallujah
Controversial video game, Six Days in Fallujah isn’t just trying to tackle the events of a very real battle less than two years after it happened, it’s trying to do so from all sides involved. The game was made with contributions from the insurgents that fought Marines during the second battle of Fallujah (otherwise known…
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New Dead Space Extraction Screens Show Old Enemies
The Lurker, the Slasher and the Leaper all make appearances in these new Dead Space: Extraction screens. Previously, we’ve seen the Infector (gigantic manta-ray bats) Necromorph and not much else besides Slashers. Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis has promised that there will be new enemies for the Wii exclusive prequel to EA’s flagship horror title —…
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Dead Space Extraction Shakes Things Up
The first question everyone has about Dead Space: Extraction is: What does “guided first person experience” mean? To executive producer Steve Papoutsis, it means that gameplay in the Dead Space prequel is not a straight line through an alien-infested ship. Players will have the opportunity to choose diverging paths and pan the camera under certain…
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Oh, Captain, My Captain – New Spore Screens
Spore: Galactic Adventures is introducing a lot of new stuff – planet editor, new segment of space exploration, etc. – but a nifty new thing we haven’t seen a lot is the effects tool. The effects tool lets you customize your adventure by adding things like strings of Christmas lights or glowing floor panels. These…
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Preview: Spore Galactic Adventures – The Cake Is a Portal
Spore’s first expansion pack focuses almost entirely on the space exploration segment of the game, adding a layer of adventure gaming to spice space up. Once space exploration is unlocked, players can choose the Galactic Adventure tab from the main menu and get down to some real exploring – like where you get out of…
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Preview: Claws of War
X-Men Origins: Wolverine isn’t a movie game – it’s a God of War clone. Surprised? So was I. After the boss’s brief look at the game, I was hopeful that Wolverine would be an amazing character-driven action game. It’s made by the Marvel Ultimate Alliance team; and even if it’s not relying on the movie…
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Prototype Preview: My Type of Game
The last thing Prototype is trying to be is a modern day version of Assassin’s Creed set in Liberty City, so stop making those comparisons right now. Oh fine, there’s parkour and it’s set in New York City. But the game has more in common with its cousin The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction than it…
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Patch This Game: Far Cry 2
It’s been almost seven months since Far Cry 2 hit the shelves, scoring all kinds of crazy-good reviews, but according to GamesRadar, the game is still crazy-broken. The four page article “Warning” Far Cry 2 is still a broken game” details the chronology of the game’s issues from the first reports of crashes to the…
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Spice Up Your Rock Band Skills With A NES Emulator
If you’re not digging SpongeBob Squarepants and Nirvana updates, this nifty NES emulator program might be just the fix for Rock Band/Guitar Hero fatigue. 8BITar Hero takes audio generated from a NES game run on an emulator and runs it into a “Rock-Band game” with up to four separate music tracks. If that isn’t straightforward…
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“Young” Velvet Assassin Trailer Feels Old, Sounds Awful
If you watch the new extended trailer for Velvet Assassin and feel a strange sense of deja-vu, there’s a reason for that. Sadly, that reason doesn’t make the trailer any better. This three-minute, 28-second extended version of the last Velvet Assassin trailer we saw skips the Winston Churchill-ish speech and focuses on the music —…
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