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Here’s Your Resident Evil 5 Pre-Order Gift
Multiple anonymous tipsters have sent us word, and picture, of Game Crazy’s Resident Evil 5 preorder gift, which is to be announced by Capcom on Tuesday. It’s a snow sand globe of Chris and Sheva. That’s the best pic we got of the globe. Below is a cell pic of a screen showing it was…
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Rumor: Syphon Filter 5 in Development?
Alert reader ____ (yes, that’s really his handle) put two and two together, and the answer sounds like Sony Bend is cooking up a Syphon Filter 5. Here’s the reasoning. On Feb. 4, Sony’s Bend, Ore. studio posted this job, seeking a game tools programmer. They’re looking for someone with experience on the PS3 and…
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World of Goo Arrives on Linux
Linux gamers do in fact exist and, as promised by 2D Boy, they can now start playing acclaimed indie puzzler World of Goo. The developers have also talked about the challenge of Linux porting. The game is $20, DRM-free and supports 64-bit systems. A demo version featuring the game’s first chapter is available if you…
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A Collection of Killer Gaming Wallpapers
Yesterday our sister site Lifehacker posted a collection of eye-popping desktop wallpapers they found, and it is too good not to share over here. I’ve had the same picture of the Pyramid Peaks in Colorado on my desktop since 2003. If your background’s getting a little stale, too, certainly one of these will do the…
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DW-PSP Not (Yet) Outlawed in Honolulu
Remember the PSP-playing bus driver in Honolulu? The one who wasn’t fired? Now six months later, the mayor has vetoed a city bill that would have outlawed playing games while driving. Saying it is too specific and almost impossible to enforce, Mayor Mufi Hannemann struck down the measure that made it illegal to send text…
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Video Games’ Five Most Romantic Couples
It’s Valentine’s Day, the one day in the western world U.S. (sorry, forgot about you, Amsterdam) where it’s legal to pay for sex. So here’s a very NSFW video of gaming’s top five couples. Naturally, Mario and Peach (despite that affair with Sonic) are No. 1 – even if CitizenGame completely blew it by confusing…
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Guild Wars 2 Coming in 2010-2011
NCsoft saw increased sales but a 40 percent drop in profit this past year. Fallout from that includes the company’s announcement that Guild Wars 2 won’t arrive until 2010-2011. Gamasutra reported that while NCsoft’s sales were up 5 percent year-over-year, including a strong December quarter-over-quarter profit increase of 60 percent. But overall, the delayed launch…
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Kotaku Originals: You Take That Back Brian Crecente
The boss-mans learned a important lesson about other people’s feelings when he called Wii Fit a wee fad. Indignant Wii Fitters ultrabombed his inbox to say not everyone who “plays” it looks like this. That’s right, many of them were in much worse shape when they first stepped on the balance board. But now they’re…
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The Mod Squad Arrives … and Departs
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Reportage I’ve been trying to sell my old TV, which is a nice HD screen but it’s big and heavy and about four years old. Friday I got a call from a guy up in Sacramento, which is more than five hours round trip, wanting to look at it. He…
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W.E.E.K. in G.A.M.E.S.
F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin is your headliner this week. Other notables include House of the Dead: Overkill and Deadly Creatures on the Wii, Flower via PSN, LocoRoco 2 on PSP and X-Blades on PC. I know I’ll P.E.R.S.O.N.A.L.L.Y. be G.L.A.D. when this F.A.D. for putting P.E.R.I.O.D.S. at the E.N.D. of every L.E.T.T.E.R. in a game’s…
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Red Dead Appreciation, and Hopes for Redemption
I’ve loved Red Dead Revolver like no other console game. It’s the only one I have 100 percented and finished on all difficulty levels. And I’m going back to play it after this post. So when Rockstar finally confirmed this week that Red Dead Redemption – the sequel rumored off and on for two years…
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Cosplay Game Boy Works; Tetris Player Fails
I can only guess this player isn’t rotating the pieces because he’s afraid he might touch the cosplayer’s nipple. Or that he’d like it. GoNintendo found this vid, shot last week at Ohayocon, an Ohio cosplay/gaming convention. I’m guessing the working N-Gage cosplayer was too wide to get through the door. Working Game Boy Cosplay…
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Old Republic Webcomic Debuts This Month
LucasArts, BioWare and Dark Horse comics are collaborating on a prequel-ish webcomic, debuting this month, to stir up more frenzy for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The comic is titled “The Threat of Peace.” The webcomic covers “the three decades from the pivotal signing of the Treaty of Coruscant to critical events at the beginning…
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Headbang Hero: Rock Out with Your Locks Out
"For the first time in history," writes the creators of Headbang Hero, "a wireless motion-sensing wig is used as a game controller." God, I was wondering if I’d ever live to see that day. We just got sent this in tips by Tiago Martins, who created Headbang Hero along with Andreas Zingerle and Ricardo Nascimento.…
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Epic Considers Remaking Gears 2 Ranking Structure
The complicated and not-always-transparent TrueSkill level in Gears of War 2 isn’t a player favorite, Epic’s Rod Fergusson acknowledges. They’re considering an overhaul that would make levelling more experience-based, once the third update releases. Under TrueScore “It’s not always clear how your rank will be affected by a particular match and your rank is based…
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EA Considered Booting Favre from Madden Cover
Seems only the fawning sports press has love for Brett Favre anymore. He’s worn out his welcome in New York, and now comes word Electronic Arts considered pulling him from the Madden 09 cover. In testimony during the class-action lawsuit against the National Football League Players Association, over royalties owed to retired players whose likenesses…
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Sunday Coupons: GameStop Gives Us Credit
You can still find 13-month Xbox Live cards for $30, or 3-month subs with the Lost & Damned DLC. Plus, GameStop is opening up store credit like a subprime lender from 2004. • Last week, Best Buy offered the 13 month XBL card for $29.99. It’s back to full price there, but Toys R Us…
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SFIV’s Opening Cinematic, for Japanese Versions
.html Here’s your three-minute opening cinematic for Street Fighter IV (Japan release). The heavily stylized rendering spills huge amounts of blood – or ink, depending on your point of view. Any franchise with a stable of well known characters going back 20 years – especially one that’s made everyone wait this long for a true…
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Far Cry 2 Goes Hardcore
The next set of patches for for Far Cry 2 will deliver a “hardcore mode” begged for by players in Ubisoft’s forums. It will deliver “a more realistic experience” in multiplayer. Ubi community manager Atmon spread the word on Friday. Hardcore mode delivers a new damage model (meaning, increased damage) and rebalanced weapons. Also: •…
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