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Dragon Age: Origins – PlayStation 3 Versus PC
On Tuesday we posted my review of Dragon Age: Origins for the PlayStation 3. Now I’ve moved on to the PC version of the game, and the difference is night and day. I have a relatively modest gaming computer, all things considered. It’s got one of the first AMD Phenom processors in it from a…
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Blizzard Starts Selling In-Game World Of Warcraft Pets
It was only a matter of time. Blizzard has just put up a pair of in-game pets for World of Warcraft for sale on the Blizzard Store. Would you pay $10 for a Pandaren Monk or a baby Kel’Thuzad? The two new non-combat pets now available for purchase at the Blizzard Store represent the first…
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PETA Doesn’t Want You To Buy The Ringling Bros. Game
PETA doesn’t want you rushing to the store to pick up the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus game for the Wii on November 10th without considering elephant abuse. I know you all had your heart set on purchasing Take-Two’s Ringling Bros. circus game for the Wii next week, and the People for the…
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The Second Left 4 Dead 2 TV Spot
Valve’s $25 million Left 4 Dead 2 ad campaign isn’t just good for trucks, as seen in the second TV spot here, featuring the song “Electric Worry” by the band Clutch. I preferred the footage in this TV spot back when it had story and context to it, but the original version was far too…
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Major Nelson Weighs In On 360 Console Bans
Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb discusses the recent string of Xbox Live piracy console bannings, delivering an important caveat to those purchasing used machines in the process. Last week Microsoft launched a string of Xbox Live console bans on Xbox 360s that had been modified to play pirated software, which naturally cause an uproar among…
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Ubisoft’s First Half Sales Drop More Than 50%
Ubisoft announced its sales figures for the first half of the 2009-2010 fiscal year today, indicating a sales decline of more than 50% over the same period last year. Ubisoft’s combined sales for the first two quarters of 2008-2009 were €344 million ($510 million). A year later, and that figure drops by 52%, down to…
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Braid Finally Makes It To The PlayStation Network
After charming the pants off of players on Xbox Live Arcade and the PC, Jonathan Blow‘s Braid is finally heading for the PlayStation Network later this month. The time-twisting adventures of Tim will be taking the trip to the North American PlayStation Network on November 12th courtesy of Hothead Games, with a European release coming…
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Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes
The iTunes App Store is officially crowded as hell, as Apple announces more than 100,000 applications now available for you to weed through in order to find anything good. With over 2 billion applications downloaded across 20 categories in 77 countries, Apple is probably right when they call The App Store the “world’s most popular…
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New 30 Seconds To Mars Single Debuts In Dragon Age
30 Seconds to Mars‘ new album, “This Is War,” doesn’t hit stores until December 8th, but you can get a sneak peak at the title track in Dragon Age: Origins. It seems a rather bizarre place to debut a new song, but there you have it. The Jared Leto-fronted band’s “This Is War” is on…
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BlazBlue Getting The PSP Treatment
Arc System Works‘ deliciously different 2D fighter BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger gets considerably smaller in February, when BlazBlue Portable hits the Japanese PSP. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger confused and delighted fighting fans when it was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, being a fighting game that you couldn’t simply pick up, perform Street Fighter-like moves…
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