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  Uncharted 3‘s Beta Wanders Out of the Desert Next Month

  Beginning on June 28, certain PlayStation 3 owners will be given access to a multiplayer beta for the upcoming Uncharted 3 Those certain users are those who picked up a preorder voucher from inFamous 2 or are PlayStation Plus subscribers. Sadly, for everyone else, the beta won’t kick off until a week later, on July…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2011
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  Remembering Capcom’s Great Nintendo Promise / Betrayal

  Capcom and Nintendo have always had a rather close relationship. In 2002, though, the pair became blood brothers. Or so people thought. That was the year the infamous “Capcom Five” were announced by the Osaka-based publisher, a range of titles seemingly designed to give Nintendo’s fledgling GameCube a shot in the arm, and which ended…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2011
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  The PlayStation Network Should be Fully Armed and Operational by the End of the Week

  Sony just announced that the PSN, down since April in the wake of an attack by hackers, will be fully restored (for most regions) by the end of the week. The only regions where it won’t be 100% back will be Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. For everyone else, that means the following suite…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011
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  Learn a Little About Call Of Duty’s Online Subscription Plans

  Call of Duty, as has long been predicted/expected, is set to introduce a monthly subscription fee for its multiplayer users. Launching as an online service, rather than a standalone product, Call of Duty Elite will be part of Modern Warfare 3 (and future titles) when its released in November, and will include the option of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011
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  Will Sony’s Welcome Back Campaign Hurt or Help?

  Developer Housemarque was supposed to release multiplatform title Outland on the PSN in late April, but the network was hacked. The game’s release was pushed back. Outland is a unique digital title that’s been getting rave reviews. In the wake of the PSN hack, the game might be getting something else: lost in the shuffle.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011
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  Here, Have Some Download Insurance

  In case you forget, GameStop adds it to your shopping cart. The US$3.95 download insurance is a back up copy for future digital game download. That future is a short one, because the insurance expires after 18 months. Know the best download insurance? Steam What is this crap Gamestop? [Reddit via Boing Boing]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011
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  Which Limited Edition PS3 Do You Fancy?

  Japan is getting a new custom PS3, a limited Tales of Xillia one. This isn’t the first limited PS3 for Japan. There have been others. For example, Metal Gear Solid 4 got a “Gun Metal” PS3, while Yakuza got a yakuza-y one. Final Fantasy XIII got a white and pink job, and Gran Turismo 5…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011
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  Report: Mark Wahlberg Won’t Be in Uncharted Flick

  Director David O. Russell dropped out of Uncharted. He’s taking his goofy-sounding script and Mark Wahlberg with him. Wahlberg was slated to star in Russell’s cinematic take on Uncharted, which was about “a crime family that metes out justice in the world of art and antiquities” and which didn’t sound like Uncharted According to the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011
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  You May be Suffering From WASD Syndrome. Or Xbox Hypertrophy!

  Or not, since these aren’t real conditions. But the Game Arthritis series of kind of makes us wish they were real. After all, scars tell a story, and it’s about time video gaming gave us more impressive ones than just a calloused thumb. Game Arthritis is a gallery by Matteo Bittanti and IOCOSE. There’s some…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011
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  Jedis Are Such Assholes

  Some Jedi are unnervingly good. Others are evil to their very core. And others, well, they’re just bros, hangin’ out, bein’ assholes. If the humour and special effects seem a little better than your standard YouTube fare, this is another Facerocker joint. In this case, a sequel to last year’s just as awesome Jedi A-Holes

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011
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  2011’s Best Looking Japanese Game Still has a Stupid Title

  Dragon’s Dogma sounds rotten. It doesn’t roll off the tongue, and it’s ridiculous. It sounds like a title created by someone who just got a Thesaurus. If these screenshots are anything to go by, though, the game looks stunning. The game, a role-playing title, is from the Devil May Cry team. Read Kotaku‘s eyes-on impressions…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011
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  Hold Your Horses on PlayStation 4 Chatter!

  Late last week, Sony chief financial officer Masaru Kato said, “For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life, but this is a platform business, so for the future platform—when we’ll be introducing what product I cannot discuss that—but our development work is already under way, so the costs are incurred there.” That…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011
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  The Fretlight Guitar Sets a Shining Example for Hopeful Guitar Heroes

  With Guitar Hero on extended leave and no new Rock Band title coming out this year, now is the perfect time to trade in our toy guitars for something a bit more substantial. Going from five colorful plastic buttons for six strings with 22 frets each is a daunting task however, especially when music games…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 30, 2011
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  These Were Their E3 Promises, This is What Came True

  For each of the last two years I’ve checked the E3 promises of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. Sure, they make June/July tradition of telling us exciting things that will surely, definitely happen with the PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, 3DS, PSP and Wii. But do their E3 promises of one year turn out to…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 30, 2011
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  Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Is A Dead RPG Revived With the Spirit of Tekken and Call of Duty

  “Combat!” That’s the thing that differentiates 38 Studios and Big Huge Games’ Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning from your typical role-playing game fare, says the game’s lead designer. It’s the primal stuff extracted from games like God of War, Tekken and Call of Duty and injected into this high fantasy world. “We’ve failed if we haven’t…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 30, 2011
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  I’m In Awe of FIFA 12’s Precision Dribbling

  Our dive into all things FIFA 12 last week at Electronic Arts started out with a blistering critique of everything wrong with FIFA 11 by one of the people involved in both games. The team wanted to deliver more of a revolution than an evolution with the coming of FIFA 12, we were told, but…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 30, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Yawn. Carried off on the arms of a Monday holiday (kinda like today’s TAYpic—thanks Prof.Gast). And for those of you working retail jobs and other unkind professions, I say: let today’s gaming discussion be in honor of you! Would some of you like to spend your Memorial Day creating TAYpics? Be our guest: #TAYpics (Read…

  By Drew Cohen Published May 30, 2011
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  The Heist is a Great Brain Robbery

  The Heist is bookended by two spoiler-riffic features I simply can’t give up, but they help bundle a series of logic puzzles into a package that is brilliantly and uniquely executed on the iPhone. Suffice to say, The Heist‘s heist is not entirely metaphorical. Yes, you’re trying to break a vault by completing a series…

  By Owen Good Published May 30, 2011
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  Sarah Palin on a Hog

  I’m with Leather | ARLINGTON, VA: Former candidate Sarah Palin checks out the Rolling Thunder Rally over the weekend. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla | Getty) Link is Dreaming of Some Creepy-Ass Pokémon Cosplay can be great when a piece is a painstaking recreation of the original. There is, however, nothing stopping it from being great when…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011
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  Crysis 2’s Engine Will be Training American Soldiers

  Crytek’s CryEngine 3 technology, which we’ve seen most recently in the company’s own Crysis 2, is the driving force behind a $57 million project from the US Army aimed at teaching its soldiers how to fight. While virtual battlefields have long been a staple of military training, the new Dismounted Soldier Training System (DSTS) looks…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011