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  What Are You Playing This Weekend?

  Am I in Tokyo? Or am I in London? Have I traveled to the future? Perhaps playing the time-bending Professor Layton and the Unwound Future while crossing the international date line, messing with my internal clock wasn’t wise. But play my very first Professor Layton game I will this weekend. I’ll play it while on…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 10, 2010
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  A Tron Take On Wii Sports

  Me to the lady showing the new Tron game for Wii this past weekend: “Don’t you think a reporter would have a more favorable impression if you let him win?” Lady to me: “This makes it more memorable.” Who knew that Tron was made for trash-talking? Tron Evolution: Battle Grids, the Tron game for Wii…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2010
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  Check Out The Bottle Caps On This Princess Peach

  What drives a man to create a pointillism portrait of Princess Peach using 1,080 plastic bottle caps? It’s all about love. Find out how to do it yourself at Instructables. Thanks Andrew!

  By Mike Fahey Published September 10, 2010
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  Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Review: Broken Mirrors

  What could be better than a video game featuring the amazing Spider-Man? How about a video game featuring four amazing Spider-Men? The Tablet of Order and Chaos has been shattered, and the Spider-Men from four different dimensions must act together to retrieve it before reality completely unravels. Rather than the free-roaming sandbox Spider-Man games of…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 10, 2010
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  Rock Band 3 DS: It’s Like Rock Band Meets Tapper

  The latest version of Rock Band to come to the DS doesn’t just deliver a stripped down, button-tapping version of the popular console game, it also seems to find some inspiration from a classic 80s arcade game. I loved Tapper when it hit arcades in the early 80s. In the game you had to move…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 10, 2010
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  Box Art From The Past For A Video Game From The Future

  If the impressions and video we ran of Retro City Rampage yesterday didn’t send the message that the upcoming downloadable console game is a love letter to gaming past, then perhaps these official promotional boxes will?

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2010
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  Gimli And Samwise Talk Lord Of The Rings: Aragorn’s Quest

  “My name is John-Rhys Davies and I play the role of Gimli in this splendid game, Aragorn’s Quest.” I don’t know about you guys, but I’m sold. I love John-Rhys Davies’ voice. I’ve loved it since I first saw him in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and while the actor himself might not have the…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 10, 2010
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  How To Beat Three People At Civilization V Multiplayer

  Strangely-detailed hypothetical situation: You are a video game reporter, you have an early build of Civilzation V and you have a couple of hours to play the game against three people. You’re playing as the Arabs, at Prince difficulty. You will start slowly. But you will win. You will begin the match late. It’s your…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2010
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  Vehicular Combat Plus Zombies Equals Blood Drive

  Armed and armored vehicles do battle in a post-apocalyptic wasteland while laying waste to hordes of zombie strippers in Blood Drive, coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this November from Activision Publishing. To be fair, it’s not just zombie strippers. There’s also undead frat boy, cops, and “bachelorette partiers” roaming the streets as…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 10, 2010
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  Nine Minutes With Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One

  Insomniac Games’ North Carolina studio director Chad Dezern walks us through nine minutes of gameplay footage from the upcoming four-player co-op Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, showing us creative ways to hurt our friends. We can pretend that Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, introduced at GamesCom last month, is all about cooperation. It…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 10, 2010
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  The Flower Fields and UFOs of Kirby’s Epic Yarn

  I couldn’t stop thinking about it. From the second I picked up the Wii Remote and turned it sideways to start playing through the Flower Fields level of Kirby’s Epic Yarn, there was something familiar about the look of the game. Mr. Rogers? I asked tentatively of the Nintendo rep working his way through the…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 10, 2010
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  Here Is Halo Reach: Briefcase Edition

  We got Halo Reach in a silver briefcase today. I took it to the roof for an unbriefcasing video, guest-starring the distant Empire State Building and a blimp. This is really just the standard edition plus doodads plus briefcase. You can’t buy the briefcase edition, because it’s just a mailing method for press, to get…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2010
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  Building Robots And Stages In Mega Man Universe

  It’s a little less Dr. Light and a little more Dr. Frankenstein in Mega Man Universe, where you’ll choose from a wide variety of pre-made parts to create your own personal Something-Man. Players will build their own robots using a selection of colorful parts that look like they’ve been salvaged from the remains of dead…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 10, 2010
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  Donkey Kong Country Returns Wants To Make a Monkey Out of You

  Donkey Kong Country Returns isn’t just shaping up to be a great single player game, it looks like it could be one of the better two-player cooperative games to hit the Wii this year. Yes, that means that making your way through Retro Studios’ Donkey and Diddy Kong game with a friend seems to be…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 10, 2010
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  What Makes Rift Different From The Other MMOs

  Blur your eyes as you look at a new fantasy massively multiplayer game, and you won’t know whether you’re looking at World of Warcraft or not. But there are differences. There always are. Take Rift Planes of Telara, for example. The people at Trion Worlds were showing their MMO, Rift, at Penny Arcade Expo last…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  It’s time to talk about games and to marvel at another excellent reader image submission. Good job, Yossarian! Let’s see your images for Talk Amongst Yourselves. Submit them at #TAYpics

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2010
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  The Leather Couches, Surround Sound and Big Screens of Nintendo’s Airstream

  It’s hard to miss, but just because you recognize the colorful mascots decorating this slick custom Airstream doesn’t mean that you can actually go inside. Just ask the guardians of the silver trailer. They don’t even let kids in this thing. No, press only and you, via this video. Why don’t they sleep in it?…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 10, 2010
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  All Systems Gooooooooooo

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Busy Little Bee Had some loose ends to tie-up here today, looking forward to a weekend with the family and then off to Tokyo for TGS. It seems to be shaping up to be a good show — honestly, better than I thought it would be. So, that’s good! The…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 10, 2010
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  Great At Gaming, Bad At Driving

  Justin Wong is a world class fighting game player. The guy will kick your ass. He is also a world class terrible driver. Don’t believe me? Here is a clip from reality program WCG Ultimate Gamer in which Wong makes a mess of a race track. He says he doesn’t have real life driving experience…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 10, 2010
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  Here Are Some Dead Or Alive Nintendo 3DS Screens

  Tecmo Koei is bringing its Dead or Alive fighting series to the Nintendo 3DS. Hello, three dimensional jiggly fighting! The game, which has been known only as “Dead or Alive 3D” until now, will be called “Dead or Alive Dimensions”. This is the first fighting game entry in the Dead or Alive series since Dead…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 10, 2010