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  Modern Warfare 3 ‘Hardened Edition’ Details Leak, Includes Year-long Elite Membership

  The “Hardened Edition” of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 appears to have had its contents outed earlier than officially planned, contents that include a one year membership to Activision’s Call of Duty Elite service and other virtual goods. Wired reports that it received a photo of an advertisement for Modern Warfare 3‘s “Hardened Edition”…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 31, 2011
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  This Soup-Style Gaming TV Show Will Not Be Appearing on Comedy Central

  The Nerdist podcast co-host Jonah Ray wanted to create a Comedy Central show that was like The Soup, only for video games. Comedy Central said no, and now Jonah’s failure is complete, so he decided to share it with us. Poor Jonah. The concept is sound, and the formula has been proven time and time…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 31, 2011
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  Tetris Plus Tower Defense Yet Again, But Better This Time.

  In game designer Eitan Glinert’s mind peanut butter must be tower defense and jelly must be Tetris, because for the second game in a row, the young creator has smushed the two great gaming styles together. He’s just done it radically different this time, as if switching from making PB&J sandwiches to—I don’t know—PB&J tacos.…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2011
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  Assassin’s Creed Fans and Game Writers Team Up To Build An Encyclopedia

  Assassin’s Creed has never been a game series short on backstory. But now Ubisoft is taking all that backstory and putting it in one glorious place. The encyclopedia grew from what was supposed to be an art book, but the project easily grew far beyond that. Ubisoft brought in writers from the Assassin’s Creed community…

  By Jen Schiller Published August 31, 2011
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  Hey Kids, Don’t Eat Your Xbox 360; Eat Tim Schafer’s Instead

  This promotional video for Double Fine’s Once Upon a Monster teaches children several important lessons. For instance, look how well cookies fit inside the Xbox 360 DVD drive. Bet they hadn’t thought of that. Not only is the Xbox 360 a handy place to store snacks, it also acts as a snack itself, it’s circuit…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 31, 2011
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  Deus Ex: Human Revolution: The Kotaku Review

  I opened the box, and within it discovered a sheaf of love letters. There I was, hunched in the corner of my attic storage space, the afternoon light taking on a voluminous, golden quality as it cast rays through ten years’ worth of dust. The box had been pushed into a back corner, and it…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published August 31, 2011
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  So That’s What a Persona Fighting Game Looks Like… Wow

  A Persona fighting game? It’s really happening, thanks to the people at Atlus and BlazBlue creators Arc System Works. This is what it looks like—lovely!—and this is who will be beating each other up in Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena The Persona fighting game, coming first to arcades later this year, then to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 31, 2011
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  Playdead Used The Limbo Profits to Buy Itself From Investors

  Denmark-based indie developer Playdead was created with one goal—to produce Xbox Arcade game Limbo. Since the game premiered in 2010, it has been also been developed for the PlayStation Network, and for the PC on Steam In order to complete and expand Limbo, Playdead founders Arnt Jensen and Dino Patty called on the Danish government.…

  By Jen Schiller Published August 31, 2011
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  The Joe Danger Sequel Is a Movie Game that’s Not Based on a Movie

  Back when I thought my time at the Penny Arcade Expo was going to be shortened due to a hurricane, I rushed to the area of the show where Hello Games was showing Joe Danger: The Movie I’d heard the game was looking great. It was, and I shot this video to prove it. We’re…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2011
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  Spoiler: This Game Begins at the End and is Played in Reverse. With a Guitar.

  Matt Gilgenbach is the kind of forward thinker who makes a video game to propose to his girlfriend, fakes his way onto an MTV reality show (or so he told me), and creates a video game like Retro/Grade that is played entirely in reverse. Gilgenbach’s game has come a long way since I tried it…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2011
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  Radiant Silvergun Flies onto Xbox Live

  In Japan, Venerated shooter Radiant Silvergun is coming to the Xbox 360 on September 14 for 1,200 Microsoft Points. [Treasure]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 31, 2011
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  A Guide to the Likely Hits and Probable Stinkers of DC Comics’ 52 New Super-Hero Comics

  DC Comics, the outfit that puts out Superman, Batman and so many other super-hero comics is re-starting its line today. They’re not exactly calling it a re-boot, but when you cancel almost all of your super-hero comics and start rolling out 52 new series over the course of a month, you might as well call…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2011
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  Madden NFL 12 Covers Game Reviewers’ Spread

  If the assembled video game reviewers were a lazier bunch, they’d simply release a short blurb with each new Madden game calling it the best official NFL console game of the year. Luckily for fans of the Frankenreview, those game reviewers are made of sterner, more critical stuff. Instead of noting that Madden NFL 12…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 31, 2011
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  More Obscure Japanese Games Come to Steam

  Complementing the work of indie localisers Carpe Fulgur, who have brought some random Japanese games to Steam, developers Rockin’ Android will now be doing likewise with the Gundemonium series of shooters. Already available on the PSN, the Gundemonium games are indie shoot-em-ups from Japan that are so sweet your teeth will hurt. Provided you can…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 31, 2011
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  I Found a Video Game that Combines Sonic with Super Mario Galaxy (with Guns)

  Armillo was one of the games I stopped to see at the Penny Arcade Expo just to be polite. I’d never heard of the studio behind the game, Fuzzy Wuzzy Games. I wasn’t in the mood for a cute, colorful platformer. But…they roped me in. The guy handing out promo postcards for the game did…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 31, 2011
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  A Biofeedback-Driven Video Game to Battle Anxiety and Stress

  While gamers have been using video games to combat stress and anxiety for decades, mental health professionals are only just beginning to see the benefits (and potential drawbacks) of interactive entertainment on our physiological well-being. The world is getting more and more stressful every day, especially for the college student. With the rising cost of…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 31, 2011
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  How Silicon Knights Guided X-Men’s Destiny

  In this behind the scenes video for X-Men Destiny, Denis Dyack and the team at Silicon Knights explain how they went about crafting a new chapter in the tale of Marvel’s mighty mutants. There’s a trick to crafting a tale of super-powered comic book characters. On the one hand, you have to capture the breathtaking…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 31, 2011
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  A Bone-Chilling Run Through The Deadliest Road in Colorado

  Despite living in Colorado for ten years I never drove through Independence Pass. Not in bad weather. Certainly not with snow on the mountain pass. Climbing to 12,095 feet as it winds its way through the Rocky Mountains from the town of Granite to Glenwood Springs, passing right through the heart of Aspen, state highway…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 31, 2011
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  Final Fantasy Versus XIII Versus Not at TGS

  In early August, I asked where the hell Final Fantasy Versus XIII was. This could change, but it’s apparently not at this year’s Tokyo Game Show! Final Fantasy XIII-2, among other FF games, will be there too. [TGS2011]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 31, 2011
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  The Pizza of Fortune Will Be the Key to Burnout Crash‘s Success

  When I first saw the top-down arcade game Criterion Games is trying to pass off as a Burnout title, like many fans I was somewhat upset, but how can I stay angry at a game that features the Pizza of Fortune? Between some promising previews and these latest screens, I think I’m finally ready to…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 31, 2011