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This Is What “Toned-Down” Looks Like In Dead To Rights
When I first got a look at Dead to Rights: Retribution, I had to ditch a whole plate of food lest I upchuck in front of the producer at a Namco Bandai event. If the level of violence I witnessed back then has been “toned down” in this developer diary hosted by Character Art Manager…
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Black Friday In Photos
Black Friday still has a few hours left to go, but here’s a look at how it’s going in several California GameStop and Best Buy locations. You’ll notice a lack of insanity and mobbing in the check-out lines. We’ll wait ’til the numbers come in before declaring it a tame Black Friday, though, and maybe…
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A Couple Of Games In The Giving Spirit
Reality Gap‘s got two games in the giving spirit on this Thanksgiving holiday. Log into either massively multiplayer role-playing game, Monato Esprit, or real time strategy/first person shooter hodgepodge, Battleswarm to get your goodies. In proper MMORPG form, Monato Esprit offers up clothes to today’s Turkey Day players. Users that log in before midnight on…
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Who Likes Glowy Eyes? We Like Glowy Eyes!
The life of a dragon slayer sounds pretty rough what with the slaying of dragons and all. But with glowing eyes and mind reading as side effect, it sounds like it could also be pretty nifty. Divinity II: Ego Draconis is a fantasy role-playing game where users start out in the shoes of a novice…
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Crackdown 2 Dev Wants Your Graffiti
Developer Ruffian Games is calling for user-made “awesome” graffiti to include in their upcoming game, Crackdown 2, because they’re too lazy to make it themselves. Ten years have passed in Pacific City since the end of the last game, and so things are supposed to look a lot sketchier than they did back when everything…
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Why I Play World of Warcraft
Oh, not me specifically. I don’t play World of Warcraft. But I am powerful curious as to why millions and millions of people sink money into the Blizzard moneymaker year after year for a game that you can never win. Truth be told, I did actually take a stab at WoW a few years back…
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Doctor Moreau Has Nothing On Borderlands’ Dr. Ned
The more zombie media I consume, the more curious I am to know where all these "doctors" are getting their medical degrees. My parents certainly didn’t learn the art of gene splicing at Baylor College of Medicine. Maybe gene-splicing (or zombie-making) is an elective? Or an online-only course? Anyway, about the actual video… The Zombie…
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The Life and Times of Luigi
If you ever wanted to know why Luigi is thinner than Mario or how he bears living in the shadow of his older brother, this exhaustively researched article over on GamesRadar’s got you covered. “Luigi: A life in the shadows” cover the other brother’s origins from palette swap to star of his own (two) video…
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Snow Temple Preview: Ditching Zelda
Two of the major selling points for The Legend of Zelda: Spirits Tracks have been the train and the addition of Zelda to Link as a companion character. But what can you expect from the rest of the game? I sat down at Nintendo’s Redwood City office to get a good look at the single-player…
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Multiplayer Preview: Spreading The Phantom
It seems like nobody noticed (except of course the developers) that Link’s newest adventure has a multiplayer mode. Too busy paying attention to trains and a ghostly Zelda along with Link for the ride, I guess. But anyway, Spirit Tracks has multiplayer. Boy does it ever have multiplayer, and boy did we ever play it.…
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GameStop Throwing “World’s Largest” Mordern Warfare 2 Tourney
You remember when “tournament” used to mean knights in armor and jousting and stuff? Of course you don’t. Everyone knows “tournament” means “chess” or “video games” now. GameStop announced today that it would hold the “world’s largest” Modern Warfare 2 tournament kicking off Nov. 20 both online and at 2,900+ US GameStop locations that might…
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Command & Conquer Producer Says His Audience is Unbalanced
Speaking to Edge Magazine in an interview about his upcoming game, Command & Conquer 4, Producer Raj Joshi laments that real time strategy gamers get their kicks “entirely … from smashing another human in a videogame.” The full Joshi quote as pulled by Gamerzines reads: “RTS players are great people but some of them have…
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Nintendo Takes Over Malls Across America
As if the mall couldn’t be any scarier this holiday season, Nintendo is setting a Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience for shoppers to try out mid-mad dash. The Mall Experience is intended to make “it easier than ever for holiday consumers to sample the year’s most sought-after games” for the Wii and DS/DSi. Demo stations will…
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British Government Agency To Run Xbox Live Recruitment Ads
This morning, British publication The Guardian reports that Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is going run ads in Xbox Live “including Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed, to attract quick-thinking 18- to 34-year-olds to its ranks.” The Guardian goes on to report that the campaign will run for six weeks, using games like Modern Warfare 2,…
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Here’s What Monster Hunter Tri Looks Like
Supposedly, the graphics of Wii exclusive Monster Hunter Tri are sexy. Sadly, I can’t make that call having played the game on a Wii that was hooked up to a computer monitor that mangled whatever the game had to offer. So instead, I give you these screen shots Capcom provided so you can make the…
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Monster Hunter Tri Preview: Army of Four
Monster Hunter is all about the multiplayer, which is why I think it never really took off on PSP in the US the way that it did in Japan – American PSP owners are just too selfish for the buddy system. Monster Hunter Tri, however, is going for a different audience with its exclusive Wii…
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Capcom Gets A- For Sticking To Theme
I go to a lot of preview events every year and not many of them have the wherewithal to establish a theme, let alone stick to one so well as Capcom did last night at Monster Hunter Tri University. Not only were there an obscene amount of chalkboards, pennants and people in school kid uniforms…
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Phoenix Wright WiiWare Preview: Throwing Out Objections
Phoenix Wright is the most badass attorney next to Law & Order’s Jack McCoy. He’s so awesome that he even has his own musical, where he’s portrayed by a woman in drag. But that’s just hearsay from an overzealous witness violating spousal privilege*. Here’s the real testimony regarding Ace Attorney’s transition to WiiWare. *Yes, I…
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