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  The Xbox Was As Close As We Got To A Dreamcast 2

  The Xbox is ten years old this week. For those who have enjoyed playing games on either the original console or its successor the Xbox 360, it’s a time for heartfelt congratulations. For Sega fans, it’s a time for warm, if slightly tragic, reflection. By the time the Xbox was released in November 2001, Sega’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2011
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  Gaming Made Me: Ultima VII

  I was only young when I played Ultima VII but I had already ventured to the depths of dungeons that dripped with dread, partaken in interstellar war and defended my home planet from invaders. Like Roy Batty and all people who grew up with games, I had seen and done so much. Between adventures in…

  Adam Smith | Rock Paper Shotgun Published November 15, 2011
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  Red Dead Redemption and Jurassic Park New This Week on the PlayStation Store

  This week, Sony’s online store has added the usual grab-bag of new digital content, headed up by the availability of both Red Dead Redemption and its spooky Halloween expansion Undead Nightmare, as well as Telltale’s new Jurassic Park adventure game. There’s a ton of new downloadable add-on content this week as well, with extras for…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 15, 2011
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  Saints Row: The Third‘s Best New Musical Feature

  Yesterday, I showed you a video of how I begin my day in Saints Row: The Third. I said it was emblematic of the game—one sequence that sums up the total experience. Saints Row: The Third is full of such moments. Many of them involve skydiving, or tigers. Today’s video is more low-key, but it…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 15, 2011
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  The Fascinating Tale of PixelVixen 707, The Internet’s Most Famous Imaginary Female Video Game Critic

  This is so cool. I’m not sure how many of you are aware of PixelVixen707—she was a video game blogger named Rachael Webster who was smart, opinionated, and quickly rose to a good amount of visibility back in 2008. She was also a complete fabrication. It was a huge mystery, and a great story—a while…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 15, 2011
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  Should You Buy Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3? Yes.

  Didn’t we just buy this game back in February? No sir and / or ma’am, this is Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, a re-release of the recent release packed with a dozen new fighters from both sides of the battle and enough gameplay tweaks and extras to keep fans fighting until Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2011
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  Happy Holidays From a LEGO Wampa

  Ring In the New Year | The first video game holiday well-wishes arrived at my house today. It came in a giant white LEGO piece wrapped in a bow. Inside, this lovely greeting from LucasArts and an honest to goodness LEGO Wampa. Nintendo’s Skyward Sword Push Includes Penny Arcade Zelda Comic, Early Sales This Saturday…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 15, 2011
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  Frank West is the World’s Shittiest Cosplayer

  With an entire shopping plaza / casino / amusement park at his disposal, one would think Dead Rising 2 Off the Record‘s Frank West could come up with something better than a cardboard helmet. That’s exactly what he’s come up with in today’s Cosplay Warrior Skills DLC for the semi-sequel to Capcom’s sequel to Dead…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2011
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  Elite Update: Blah, Blah, Blah, It’s Still Broken

  A week after the tremendously successful release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, a game that more than 6.5 million people picked up on the first day, the massive community-driven, stat-tracking element of the game remains unstable at best. Call of Duty: Elite was meant to herald a new era for the annual Activision…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 15, 2011
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  The Most Beautiful Place in My Skyrim

  While it only takes a half hour to run from one end to another, Bethesda has packed an extraordinary world inside Skyrim‘s tiny space, filled with visuals sure to strike a chord in anyone that’s ever contemplated the majesty of nature. Here’s my favorite spot. What’s yours? I was wandering about aimlessly in an attempt…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2011
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  Should You Buy Kinect Disneyland Adventures? Yes.

  Despite the fact that they released high-profile games like Pure, Split/Second and Epic Mickey, The House of Mouse’s console output’s dwindled significantly. That makes their partnership with Microsoft an important one, because Xbox 360s sit in millions of living rooms across the world. To make the joint venture that is Kinect Disneyland Adventures work, they’ve…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 15, 2011
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  From One End of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations to the Other, by Any Means Necessary

  I went to the nothern edge of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations‘s version of 16th-century Constantinople. I made sure our hero Ezio Auditore was wearing his best armor. (Find out how to get it in these Starter Tips I wrote for the game.) Then I ran. And climbed. And flew. And swam. I hustled to a certain…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 15, 2011
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  Watch Me Demolish Those Who Dare Challenge Galactus in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

  In the great fight-game tradition of being able to play as final boss characters, you’ll be able to throw down as Galactus in the freshly released Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. I wrote a bit about how to access it before and now, here’s a few minutes of Marvel’s giant cosmic entity being controlled by…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 15, 2011
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  True Tales of Skyrim Adventure: A Dragon Raid and Gauntlets Unmade

  Our week-long celebration of the stories The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hatches in our heads continues today with a bawdy tale of blacksmithing and berserker rage, courtesy of commenter Isangrim. Stay awhile and listen! “Thrice damn this bastard Orcish steel!!” I cursed as the hot sweat dripped down from my brow to sting my eyes…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2011
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  This Assassin’s Creed Revelations Parody Video Takes You “Higher”

  How excited are you about the new Assassin’s Creed? Does the hookblade make you want to break out into song? The parody tune spoofs Creed’s “Higher,” an appropriate if cringeworthy choice. Maybe just celebrate with any musical tributes, mkay? Assassin’s “Creed” Revelations Music Video Parody [YouTube] You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 15, 2011
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  Mobile Gaming’s Diablo Gets a Threequel with Dungeon Hunter III

  While PC and potentially console gamers wait patiently for the biggest name in hack-and-slash dungeon crawlers to deliver its number three, Gameloft announces the third installment of one of the smallest: Dungeon Hunter III Some of my fondest gaming moments on the iPhone have been spent with Gameloft’s Dungeon Hunter series, and now that my…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2011
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  The Assassins’ Order has Not Yet Mastered Alphabetical Order

  As seen in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. What possible order were these Mediterranean cities supposed to be in? It wasn’t fixed in the first title update on the PlayStation 3. Will it be for the second? You can contact Stephen Totilo, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 15, 2011
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  Multiplayer DLC Coming for Assassin’s Creed Revelations, PC Version Coming Nov. 29th

  Just as Ezio’s last adventure sneaks its way into Constantinople (and the real world) today, Ubisoft’s announced that the first piece of DLC will be coming on December 13th. The Ancestors Character Pack will bundle four new multiplayer personas for players to take online. The Privateer, Corsair, Gladiator and Brigand will all come with unique…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 15, 2011
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  Xbox Almost as Old as the Assholes on Xbox Live

  Happy birthday, Xbox! You turn 10 today. Microsoft is celebrating your birthday by selling people a much prettier version of Halo: Combat Evolved They did not get you a bicycle. Honestly, they barely talk about you anymore. They prefer your younger brother, though I think they’re even more proud of that alien-looking thing that plugs…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 15, 2011
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  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: The Kotaku Review

  Liquid fast, meticulously polished, wickedly consuming: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t deliver stories or engender emotion in its players, but rather deals in raw adrenaline. A match of Modern Warfare 3 is punctuated by the rush of a well-placed shot, the anger at a surprise, unjust death. Infinity Ward’s latest iteration on the…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 15, 2011