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Behold the Power of Green Lantern’s Light in D.C. Universe Online
From the beginning, in every panel on the game, in its every appearance here at Comic-Con, there has been one question facing D.C. Universe Online “When are you going to do light powers,” Mark Anderson, the game’s director, recalled on the Comic-Con floor. “‘When am I gonna be a Lantern?” Well, that time will come…
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Street Fighter X Tekken Shows Its Character in Ten More Screens
As noted earlier, Street Fighter veteran Dhalsim has been confirmed for Street Fighter X Tekken alongside Poison, and Yoshimitsu and Steve Fox from Tekken. Capcom today released these ten new screens showing them in action. Scarf ’em up! There is undoubtedly more to come.
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Risk Meets Resistance in Insomniac’s Global Resistance
Insomniac Games has launched the beta for a web-based strategy game called Global Resistance, described as a “massive strategy game,” featuring all players battling on the same global map in a game offering crossover features with the upcoming console title. In a trailer shown at Resistance‘s Comic-Con 2011 panel, the conflict between humans and Chimera…
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X-Men: Destiny Takes a Voice of Protest to the City by the Bay
San Francisco is a city long associated with rights movements, idealism, and rallies for peace, making it a useful backdrop for X-Men: Destiny. But Silicon Knights isn’t planning on a Summer of Love when the game arrives this fall. Shown off at a preview event Wednesday at Comic-Con, Destiny will present three different stories for…
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Poison Highlights the Latest Character Reveal for Street Fighter X Tekken
Poison, the dominatrix hotty from Final Fight headlined another four-character reveal for Street Fighter X Tekken at Comic-Con 2011. She will be joined by Dhalsim and, from Tekken, Steve Fox and Yoshimitsu. During a panel defined by teases, in more ways than one, the audience briefly believed Darkstalkers characters would be confirmed for the game.…
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Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition Arrives Aug. 23
At Comic-Con 2011, Capcom revealed the launch dates for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition. The game comes to PlayStation Network on Aug. 23, and to Xbox Live Arcade on Aug. 24. Price is $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points. Producer Yoshinori Ono introduced the game with a trailer promising three different visual modes: classic,…
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NBA 2K12 Cover Adds Magic and Bird to Michael Jordan
When your last game cover features your sport’s greatest player ever, what do you do for an encore? If you’re 2K Sports, you get three of the greatest players ever. Michael Jordan will return as the cover star for NBA 2K12, and will be joined by Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. All three will receive…
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Pulling Action Figures Into a 3DS with Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure
Here is how you take a three-inch high plastic figurine and pull him into your 3DS, without wires, memory cards, or the device’s camera. Just set your character from Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure on that portal, and aim the 3DS at him, and wait for the beam of light. When I did it, I swear I…
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Prototype 2 Makes It a Date: April 24, 2012
Prototype 2 will release for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on April 24, 2012, Activision said today at San Diego Comic-Con. A new CG trailer, the first of in a series of three, went up at the game’s official website. Shape-shifting superhero Alex Mercer and blade-armed badass Sgt. James Heller will also throw down at…
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Madden Demo Details Coming Tuesday
With Madden NFL 12 moving its release date to Aug. 30 to be closer to the league’s opening day (assuming that happens), the game’s demo likewise skips forward a couple of weeks. Tuesday, EA Sports will reveal the demo release date, the teams it will feature, and any other details about the demo. If it…
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Reviews
NCAA Football 12: The Kotaku Review
A century’s worth of traditions spread over 100 teams makes college football one of the top subjects when sports fans start gumming How It Really Oughta Be: Who gets into what bowl, what rivalry should be rescheduled, what schools should be in which conference if everyone wasn’t so fixated on starting their own TV network.…
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EA Sports Shows Everyone How You Lobby a Texas Governor
When it comes to negotiations , EA Sports doesn’t mess around. They they know what matters most, and in Texas, that means football. In lobbying Gov. Rick Perry for inclusion in the incentives program under the state’s film commission, EA put together this video of Perry as a 99-rated quarterback for his alma mater, Texas…
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EA Sports to Open New Texas Studio
Electronic Arts today said it will expand its EA Sports operations to Texas, and bring in more than 150 new jobs in a move the state government will back with financial incentives. EA Sports isn’t yet naming what specific titles will be built at the new Texas operation, which will be joined by 150 jobs…
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CurveBot is a Cutting-Edge Qix
With just about every classic arcade concept getting a fresh coat of paint, especially in mobile game marketplaces, I’m a little surprised I haven’t noticed a Qix update until now. Elpixo’s CurveBot, for all iOS devices, takes Taito’s territory-marking game and brings it into a third-person view. The product is, surprisingly, more playable than one…
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Japan’s Cup Runneth Over
Japan’s Cup Runneth Over | Homare Sawa celebrates her equalizer in extra time of a final won—with tremendous resilience and courage—by Japan. Congratulations! (Photo by Friedemann Vogel | Getty) Activision Seeks to Sieze Nettlesome ModernWarfare3.com Domain It appears that Activision is fed up with the owner of ModernWarfare3.com. The publisher filed a complaint with a…
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Here’s What the ESRB has to Say About Dead Island
It’s no surprise that Deep Silver’s zombie title is getting an M-rating. The certificate just handed to it by the ESRB is still a little interesting for the bits of details it gives up from the game, from dialogue to gameplay features. From the listing, we get these details: • Bats, knives, axes, shotguns, rifles…
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Culture
No Country for Old Men
This week Techland’s western series Call of Juarez makes a run for the present-day border. Other releases include the latest Fallout: New Vegas expansion, a Captain America movie tie-in, and the early release of some Left 4 Dead 2 DLC. Tuesday Call of Juarez: The Cartel (PS3, 360) — A drug war in Mexico forms…
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Microsoft-Sony.com a “Defensive Domain Hold” Says Microsoft
The discovery this week that “microsoft-sony.com” is a domain owned by Microsoft set off all sorts of speculation as to what a potential collaboration could mean. Microsoft’s Frank X. Shaw, the company’s top spokesman, tweeted on Friday that “Sony = great MS partner. No scoop here, this was just a defensive domain hold.” [h/t ThisLife17]
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Guilty Pleasures
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Seven Games You’d Better Keep to Yourselves [The Pause Button] A good roundup of guilty pleasures, rated on a scale of “forgot to clear my…
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A New Look at Mass Effect 3‘s New Character, James Vega
Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson dropped this rendering of new team member James Vega, as a community reward celebrating his 10,000th Twitter follower. Whoever’s No. 10,000, thank you for that. Vega debuts in ME3 and is meant to represent the perspective of a new player coming to the story. As a character, he…
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