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Backbreaker Gets A Makeover With Enormous Patch Due Soon
New plays, better AI, a suite of replay cameras and new “focus modes” are among features coming to the football title Backbreaker, possibly as soon as Wednesday, through one of the largest patches I’ve ever seen for a sports game. That’s the good news; the bad news is sort of that they were needed in…
By Owen Good - Reviews
Castlevania Puzzle: Encore Of The Night Review: Alucard’s Puzzle Quest
Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night takes the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and transforms it into a puzzle role-playing game. Can they do that? I consider Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to be one of the greatest 2D action role-playing games ever created. It has everything: Responsive controls, an engaging storyline, Metroid-style item-based…
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Xfire Sold Off, Development Team Leaving [Update]
Two communications today from Xfire, the social networking tool for PC gamers, indicate that the service has been sold off and most of its development team will be leaving as a result. Update: Titan Gaming has acquired Xfire. At about 3:15 p.m. Pacific Time, Xfire members received the following message: Xfire was bought by new…
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Kevin Butler Gets a Gift Basket of Sorry from New Zealand
The New Zealand TV network that ripped off a PS3 ad and was called on it by fake executive Kevin Butler sent the PlayStation “vice president of everything,” a large gift basket as a gesture of goodwill. Butler, noticing that New Zealand’s TV3 straight-up copied the PS3’s “Montage” ad from earlier this year, didn’t send…
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Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game Looks Wonderfully Complex
From the creators of the World of Warcraft and StarCraft board games comes Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game, the second board game inspired by the addictive turn-based strategy game. Sid Meier borrowed concept for the original Civilization video game from an Avalon Hill board game of the same name, so it seems a no-brainer…
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Frankenreview: StarCraft II: Wings Of Liberty
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted a good old-fashioned Frankenreview, so we’re bringing it back with a game that hasn’t seen a sequel in over a decade – StarCraft II. StarCraft II is the sequel to what many consider the greatest real-time strategy game of all time. It continues the epic tale of interstellar conflict…
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Choose Your Own Fable III Villager
Get a head-start on populating the world of Fable III with the Fable III Villager Maker, an easy way to add a new non-player character to your game without having to be a virtual slut. If you played Fable II like I did, by the time the game was over, 80% of the non-player characters…
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BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Gets Two Special Editions In Europe
Are you a North American BlazBlue fan that’s upset that Aksys didn’t offer a collector’s edition for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift? If so, then these UK/European exclusive special editions will really piss you off. Like many North Americans, I was slightly disappointed that I didn’t have the option to pick up a collector’s edition of BlazBlue:…
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Afterlife’s Chris Redfield Needed A Resident Evil Montage
The actor behind Resident Evil: Afterlife’s Chris Redfield isn’t a gamer, so how did Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller prepare to play this iconic character? With a montage – a Chris Redfield montage. MoviesOnline.ca caught up with Wentworth during the San Diego Comic-Con earlier this month, where the actor admitted he’s never been much of a…
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