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Twisted Metal Hopes to Avoid the Online Pass Treatment
Twisted Metal‘s creator is hoping the PS3 game can get out of implementing an online pass, but told Eurogamer that it’s ultimately not his call. Still, David Jaffe thinks that keeping one out of the car-combat game could be a goodwill gesture that grows its installation base. “I know that we have been asked to…
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Early Access for The Old Republic Starts Earlier
Those who preordered Star Wars: The Old Republic get early access to the game. That early access will begin on Tuesday, two days earlier than first announced. Anyone who has redeemed a preorder code for early access can pre-load the game now, says BioWare. It will begin unlocking on Dec. 13 at 6 a.m. CST,…
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Sonic‘s Casino Night Pinball Comes to PC on Dec. 26
The “Casino Night Pinball” minigame that console gamers got for preordering the game will be available to PC gamers via Steam on Dec. 26. It’ll only run you $1.59 in the U.S. (Overseas, it’s £0.99, €1.59, $2.99 in Australia). In the minigame, you play as either classic Sonic or modern Sonic, and he’s the pinball.…
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EA Sports Invites Some Old Pals to Play Golf in Tiger Woods 13
I had high hopes when EA Sports hinted a couple months ago that “figures recognizable to the sports world” would be playable golfers in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, due in March. That kind of longhand comment, as opposed to just saying “former sports stars” had me thinking the game might include some kind of…
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Here are the First Two Screens of The Last of Us
As promised by the teaser website that went up this weekend, the new PS3 exclusive The Last of Us dropped some new content today. Specifically, two screenshots whose composition loudly tout the game’s photorealistic chops. That first one’s a nice nature shot and presumably an in-game render. The second provides a little more backstory to…
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French Court Declares Namco Bandai the European Distributor of Xbox Witcher 2
Earlier this year Polish developer CD Projekt Red got into a legal scuffle with Namco Bandai over the distribution rights to the Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Now a French court has made it quite clear: THQ is out, and Namco Bandai is in. Despite having had Namco Bandai handle…
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The Adventures of Tintin and the Poor to Passable Review Scores
One of the most popular comic strips in Europe is now a major motion picture, and where there is a major motion picture based on a comic strip, there is a video game tie-in. Generally they aren’t very good. Can Tintin save the day? The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn tells the…
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UncategorizedThe Plagues of Egypt Make An Encore Appearance in The Secret World
With all of Earth’s conspiracy, mythology, and theology at their fingertips Funcom has a broad spectrum of horrible things to visit upon the players on modern day MMO The Secret World. In the Scorched Desert of Egypt, things get biblical. If those are the locusts, I don’t want to see the frogs. Rather than leaning…
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