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Silent Hill Also Getting HD Collection; NGP Silent Hill Announced
At its pre-E3 event today, Konami revealed that Silent Hill 2 and 3 also would be getting the HD collection treatment, and a new entry in the series is being built for Sony’s NGP handheld. Silent Hill: Book of Memories is the NGP title; a disclaimer shown with the game’s logo noted that the concept…
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Clearing Up—Sort Of—Where Colonial Marines Fits in Aliens Canon
When Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ official game announcement billed it as a “true sequel to James Camerson’s classic Aliens,” diehard fans of the film trilogy took that to mean the game would undo the events of the controversial Alien 3, harshly criticized by Aliens director James Cameron and some of its principal cast. Not so, says…
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Capcom: ‘We Got it Wrong’ on PC Super Street Fighter DRM
Capcom will remove the “limited offline” restrictions DRM places on the PC versions of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, saying its community convinced it that such measures meant legitimate users would have a worse experience than the pirates the DRM means to thwart. “We’ve heard you loud and clear and here’s what we’re going…
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The First Mad Catz-Published Flight Sim is Pretty Much What You’d Expect
They said they were getting into the flight sim business, and here we are. Controller and random accessory creator Mad Catz proudly presents War Wings: Hell Catz, the first in a series of flight combat titles exploring important points in the history of aviation. While Mad Catz’s own ThunderHawk Studios gets ready to start pumping…
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UncategorizedSony Gives Us a Little Taste of the NGP in Action
Sony uploaded a few videos today showing off some of the games from the newly detailed NGP lineup. In addition to three game-centric videos, there’s also a featurette about Sony’s history creating augmented reality games, which ends with a brief overview of the AR features for the NGP. As you may have guessed, this first…
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The Witcher 2 Fighting Its Way to the Xbox 360 By Year’s End
Speaking via live broadcast from the CDP Summer Days event, CD Projekt has confirmed the appearance of The Witcher 2 on the Xbox 360 this year, with “no quality compromise” made for Geralt’s first journey to console land. We knew it was coming. The ESRB told us it was coming. Now the developers confirm that…
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From Hairless Hitmen to Heiress Heroines, This is Square Enix’s E3 2011 Lineup
Square Enix’s booth at E3 is going to be a total sequel fest this year, with new franchise entries for Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Dungeon Siege and Deus Ex. Are they bringing any games that aren’t sequels, prequels, or reboots? Squeenix sure picked a fine time to grab Eidos, didn’t they? Of the major games…
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UncategorizedThe Darkness II Displays Some Vibrant, Comic-Book Color in Debut Gameplay Trailer
2K Games has released an initial, stand-alone gameplay trailer for The Darkness II, sequel to 2007’s under-appreciated gem The Darkness. The title will pick up where the last left off, with mafioso protagonist Jackie Estacado wielding an assortment of grotesque powers, including the ability to summon impish “Darklings” and to pilot yucky, stretchy tentacles and…
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