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All The Ranks Of Reach
Slowly but surely the Halo: Reach community has been filling in the ranks and credit requirements in the game’s single- and multiplayer progessions. They’ve all been uncovered now. Forum member DtownGamer has been supplying the ranks and screenshot confirmations of them; Halopedia just added the full roster to its page, where you may also see…
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UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Shows A Mission Of No Mercy
Follow along an entire stealth mission in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood with this developer video Ubisoft just released. It gives a glimpse of some of Ezio’s new means of dispatching foes, and hints at other items you’ll unlock elsewhere in the game. Also, an email Ubisoft sent to fans this morning revealed a new playable character…
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LittleBigPlanet 2 To Include 10-Level Move Demo
LittleBigPlanet 2 will have a multilevel PlayStation Move enabled demo, but full support won’t be added until after the game arrives in January, Eurogamer reports. James Spafford, the community manager for the game’s studio, Media Molecule, said an extra game – “possibly on another disc, maybe on the same disc” – will be included with…
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Elite’s Meltdown May Get More Into A Jam — But Not On The Wii
Coming back from E3 in June, I decided I’d seen my excuse to go get a Wii. NBA Jam, which we’d given a best-of nomination, and which was absolutely thronged inside Electronic Arts’ booth, open to close. “Why?” Plunkett chided me. “You know they’re going to bring it to the PS3 and 360. It’s inevitable.”…
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UncategorizedWait A Sec, Is That Jace Hall Kicking Tay Zonday’s Ass?
Jace Hall, who earlier this year brought us “I Play WoW,” returns with this love song to Street Fighter, featuring booty-shaking ring girls and cosplayers dressed like the game’s major characters. This is pretty loud, so earbuds might be advisable.
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Box Scores: Clemson, Interrupted
How awesome is it that Clemson’s game against Miami today had to wait 15 minutes on ESPN2 for a buncha dang foreigners to finish runnin’ around in a soccer game that ended with no goals. ESPN2’s new coverage of the English Premier League meant football trumped handegg as Sunderland and Manchester United played to a…
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Rock Band 3’s Keyboard Bundle, For PS3, Won’t Be Sold In North America
Folks noticed that Rock Band 3’s PS3 keyboard bundle had disappeared from U.S. retail sites, and asked Harmonix why. It seems contract terms in the region prohibit its sale. And now they must wangle a fix for those who preordered. “Unfortunately, this SKU will not be available in the U.S. (including Canada and Mexico) due…
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The Moneysaver: A Few Good Deals
You don’t want the truth because deep down, you want me on those deals, you need me on those deals. We use words like value, coupon code and free shipping. You use them at checkout. Hardware A 10 percent off coupon through Dell yields a number of hardware values. • Xbox 360 Halo: Reach console…
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The Week In Review: Opposing Forces
In sports, they say it’s not how you lose but when you lose. In that case, NBA Elite picked a great time, because its indefinite delay was blotted out by two doozies at week’s end. The revamp of EA Sports’ basketball title was postponed on Monday, a week before it was due on shelves. On…
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UncategorizedR.I.P. Stephen J. Cannell, 1941-2010
Jan. 30, 1983 is one of the most important dates of my childhood. That day, the only man from my hometown to make the NFL won the Super Bowl with the Washington Redskins. Following the game, The A-Team came on. Though The A-Team actually premiered a week earlier (with a different guy playing Face), few…
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Someone Claims To Have A Retail Disc Of NBA Elite 11
NBA Elite 11 was indefinitely postponed on Monday, a week before its commercial release. I didn’t receive any disc pre-release (for review), but conceivably they might exist somewhere in the wild. One allegedly just sold on eBay for $255. eBayer tgarreth is not a fly-by-nighter. He’s a top-rated seller on the online auction service (an…
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Get In The (R/C) Warthog!
Reader Dan S. noticed that the MacFarlane Toys’ Halo: Reach Warthog perfectly matched the chassis of one of his R/C vehicles. “The wheels started turning in my head,” Dan says, “pardon the pun.” “So I acquired said Warthog toy and promptly Frankensteined the two items together,” he told Kotaku, “added some hi-intensity LEDs and came…
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The Sound Of The Fury Of NBA 2K11
This four-minute compilation of audio highlights withink NBA 2K11 doesn’t skimp on the video, either. You can catch Michael Jordan in action versus Dominique Wilkins – with signature dunk styles for both. Don’t overlook the contextualized commentary either – both for the Association mode and in NBA Today, where Kevin Harlan, Clark Kellogg and Doris…
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