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UncategorizedBioWare’s Next Game is Command & Conquer: Generals 2
Just announced at the Spike Video Game Awards, BioWare’s next project is a Command & Conquer sequel entitled Command & Conquer: Generals 2 The original Command & Conquer: Generals was released in 2003 for the PC and MacOS. That game depicted the U.S. and China as allies in the near future, fighting against the terrorist…
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UncategorizedUncharted‘s Studio is in Charge of The Last of Us
The PS3 exclusive title The Last of Us is being developed by Naughty Dog, the studio that brought us the Uncharted Trilogy. The game’s introductory trailer showed a young girl and an older man, presumably her father or some relative, fending off an invasion of deranged mutants infected by whatever pandemic that forms the game’s…
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Road Reggie Winners
We got the ‘Shop Contest back on the track last week thanks to Nintendo of America honcho Reggie Fils-Aime and a life-size Luigi bumble-bee kart. Cygnus_Mal chucked the spiny shell at 19 other contestants, so he finishes first! The usual gallery of lunacy awaits inside! aardvarkattack (2)catches Reggie stuck in morning traffic on I-5. lemonmanlemonman…
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No TV? Watch the Spike Video Game Awards Here, Live
If you’re somewhere without a cable television or, worse, no television at all, you can still follow the action from tonight’s 2011 Spike Video Game Awards live, right here. Courtesy of Spike and MTV Networks, we’re glad to bring you live streaming video of the broadcast. A half-hour pre-show begins at 7:30 pm, which you…
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A ‘Big 64’ of College Football Sounds Like a Nice Idea, Until You Try It in a Video Game
For the past two years, Stick Jockey has, at the end of the season, used EA Sports’ NCAA Football to supply an alternate-reality simulation of a postseason involving a true college football playoff, one that invites every conference champion. I’ve become resigned to the utter fantasy of this idea ever happening in my lifetime. What…
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Indie Developers Unhappy with their Placement in the New Xbox Dashboard
If you count the directions keyed on the D-pad (or the left stick) it takes 17 button presses to reach the Indie Games section of the Xbox Live Marketplace under the new Xbox dashboard, which released this week. It takes only eight buttons to get to the Xbox Live Arcade and Games on Demand catalogs.…
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UncategorizedNext Year’s Games and This Year’s Winners, Live on Both Coasts, at the Spike VGAs Tonight
Oh man. Heisman Trophy? or Spike Video Game Awards? Heisman Effing Trophy? Or Spike Effing Video Game Awards? We have this problem every year. Actually, I’m going Spike, because the Heisman, unlike the VGAs, doesn’t tell you what next year’s big games will be. Ostensibly an awards gala, the VGAs’ biggest news value is in…
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Club Nintendo Coins Will Soon Buy Virtual Console Games
Nintendo Coins, the virtual currency Club Nintendo members receive for doing things like registering their game and hardware purchases and answering surveys, will soon be able to buy Virtual Console games, according to an announcement that was briefly live on the Club Nintendo site. NeoGAF user Spike took that screenshot before the news was taken…
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Buy Bulk and Save
If you’re shopping for yourself or more than one gamer this holiday season, this is the weekend to go. Major retailers continue to offer combination deals for buying two or more titles. The Moneysaver has more than 50 bargains on hardware, software, and digital downloads. Check them out now! Software • GameStop offers Buy 2,…
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Xbox Live is Free This Weekend in Europe [Corrected]
On the heels of the new dashboard rollout this week, Xbox Live’s Gold level services are free to all this weekend. In addition to multiplayer gaming, features like Video Kinect are also available to Silver (free) subscribers. The weekend includes free previews and discounts on downloadable films (like The Hangover) as well. Enjoy. [Correction] I…
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Oh, Good. More Duke Nukem DLC Coming Next Week
Can’t get enough Duke Nukem? (That’s—I say, that’s a rhetorical question, son, you’re not supposed to answer it.) Well, good. Gearbox done whomped up even more DLC for the game. Give the devils their due, despite a withering, almost universal critical rejection of Duke Nukem, Gearbox Software and 2K are earnest in their post-release support,…
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The Rookies Arrive This Weekend in NBA 2K12
With the NBA set to get back to work on Christmas, NBA 2K12 can start bringing in rookies who were drafted in June but went unsigned throughout the league’s lockout. Series producer Erick Boenisch told Kotaku last week that the game will drop in signings, trades and free agent moves as they happen, rather than…
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