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E3 Trailer Blurs the Line for Tekken 6
Tekken 6 has not suffered from any shortage of trailers lately. Here’s another one anyway, the cut for E3 2009. It shows of some two-player cooperative missions, and the motion blur feature, which you’ll want to leave off for all those upskirt shots. Tekken 6 E3 2009 Trailer [IGN, thanks SPECIALciaNAPKIN]
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Guitar Hero Full List of Bands Released
All 84 bands in Guitar Hero 5 are up on the Guitar Hero 5 web site. Some magazine in Britain pretended it had gotten the list secretly, when Activision’s been feeding them out slowly through various channels. The full announcement is this week. Sorry for the mixup. Here’s the list. Band Of Horses Bush Darkest…
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I Breathe Fire and I VOTE
Bowser recently went into town to speak his mind about the dangers of unchecked power in the executive branch. Funny that a monarch would feel that way, but it’s a free country, brah. More pics on the jump. We got the link to this Flickr set, uploaded yesterday, but no explanation other than the location…
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ESRB Confirms Final Fantasy VII for PS3, PSP
Released last month on PlayStation Network in Japan, Final Fantasy Vee-Eye-Eye is on the way to North America’s PSN soon, as this ESRB rating now confirms. You can play it on PS3 or PSP. FFVII came out 12 long years ago for the original PlayStation, and was the first of the series to feature 3D…
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Interview Confirms Smuggler Class for SW:TOR
The latest issue of Edge Magazine (don’t sue! don’t sue!) features an interview with James Ohlem, Bioware’s director for The Old Republic. In it he reveals another class: Smuggler (pictured), which will likely be announced next week. Says Ohlem: “Ord Mantell is a war-torn world and it’s where the Smuggler starts off, when his ship…
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Rumor: Next Halo Game is “Halo: Reach”?
Yesterday we got dropped that image of a Bungie forums search menu, which tipped something called “Halo: Reach.” Such things are easily faked, and I couldn’t run it down. Well, now someone’s found a cache of since-deleted Bungie forum posts on this subject. As you can see, for a brief time there was a forum…
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New Study Delivers Old Figure: 8 Percent are Game-Addicted
Look about six people to your left. Now five down to the right. OK, one of you is addicted to video games, says a study out of Australasia that ratifies a finding in one out of Iowa State University. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Congress says that eight percent of those…
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IndieCade E3 Booth Gives Sneak Peek at Festival Entries
IndieCade, this year, is Oct. 1 to Oct. 4, but 25 games out of the hundreds submitted so far will be previewed at the festival’s E3 booth. This will be the first U.S. preview of games for IndieCade, whose inaugural festival was last year. Stephanie Barish, the IndieCade president, touted the entries by noting last…
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At $400, Metal Gear Coat is Liquid Gold
If you got four hundred bones (Canadian) and a healthy respect for archbaddie Liquid Snake, AbbyShot Clothiers has the perfect inclement weather garment for you. The FOXHOUND Coat replicates the look of the antagonists from Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, notably Liquid Snake. I agree that they’ve done a beautiful job with this (especially…
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How Wolfenstein Updated its Nazi Cheesecake Ladies
“Early on there was a small faction within the team that wanted the new Elite Guards to be less ‘sexy’ and more utilitarian in their look,” writes Raven’s Kevin Long. Yeah, that didn’t last long. “There was also a slightly larger faction that wanted them to be sexy and wearing skin-tight leather outfits,” Long says.…
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Weekend Coupons: Radio Killed the Video Card
Some super-low prices on GeForce video cards highlight the hardware; GameStop wants you to come in and clear off some of their used stock. Let’s cut to the chase with the Weekend Coupons. Hardware • Hardly glamorous now, being an older model on the day the PSP Go video leaks. But you can grab a…
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Comparison Says PS3 Slim Box Maybe Kinda Realish
The rumored pictures of the PS3 slim immediately brought, like a chorus of boos at Question Time, denunciations of fakery. They sure got us in trouble with a lawyer-mans. But someone thinks the retail box, at least, is real. PlayStation Lifestyle took a look at the Slim Box, compared to the PSP Go Box, and…
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Sieve-Like Ubi Site Leaking Splinter Cell, Assassin’s Creed Vids
Astute tipsters discovered some unprotected directories on Ubisoft’s site, and we now have 20-second clips of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin’s Creed 2. AC2 is up thar; SCC is down thar. These don’t feature gameplay, QT events only. We’re assuming these are meant to be played sometime at E3. Thanks to chillchillin and Byvar for…
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Qore Lets Slip the First Look at PSP Go
GamersConsoleNetwork scored a big scoop this morning, pulling the first images of the PSP Go (running LittleBigPlanet) out of the latest edition of Qore, which apparently went live early. On top of that, someone managed to film the video and place it on YouTube. That’s below (with bad audio). The video reveals Sony’s plans for…
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Trademark Troll Gets Mobigames’ EDGE Taken Down
This story really sets my teeth on edge. Whoops. Sorry, I forgot to ask Mr. Game Developin’ Industry Founder Dude Tim Langdell (left) for permission to use that word. You may recall EDGE, Mobigames’ outstanding and award-winning title for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It has been removed from the U.S. and U.K. Apple Store…
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Search Is On for Darjeeling’s “Arcade Boy”
If someone can pull off the needle-in-a-haystack search for a kid who managed a game parlor in the Indian Himalayas 10 years ago, a “mysterious benefactor” will send the arcade a Dreamcast. Remarkably, the writer of last week’s piece on “the highest arcade in the world,” (7,000 feet above sea level) is having some luck…
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Kotaku Originals: Esto es un Robo
Manos arriba, who loves robots? We sure did this week. Other highlights included the return (of sorts) of Atari, and Hideo Kojima giving us all lessons in redacting sensitive documents. Also, because a game about fuckin’ WALKING was too exciting, Nintendo had to make it include DOG WALKING, and Crecente put his pissed-off chihuahua up…
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