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Nintendo Ponders Kindle-Style 3G DS
Could a future version of the Nintendo DS hardware use 3G for digital downloads? Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says the company could take a cue from Amazon’s Kindle business model. Unlike today’s smart phones and mobile 3G cards, which require monthly fees to access the network, Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader figures in the price of…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
iPhone Red Alert Goes Live With Paid DLC
Command and Conquer: Red Alert for the iPhone is now available in the iTunes App Store, with an optional skirmish map pack and more paid DLC on the horizon. Red Alert for the iPhone is a new handheld version of the classic real-time strategy game. It’s trimmed down quite a bit, but it uses the…
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Star Trek And Transformers Get Elite Bundles [UPDATE]
MCV reports that Gem and Paramount Pictures are putting together two Xbox 360 Elite bundles to trumpet the DVD releases of Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in the United Kingdom. UPDATE: These bundles are both UK-only Paramount says. Each bundle comes with an Elite console and an extra controller. What it doesn’t…
By AJ Glasser - Uncategorized
Who’s Got Halloween Costumes To Share?
A few of you sent in choice pictures of video game-themed Halloween costumes you were brave enough to wear. Lucky for you, we’re brave enough to post them. If anybody else has got gamer-themed costumes they want to share, throw ’em in the comments field. I would say email ’em to me — but given…
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Tekken 6 Ships (Not Sells) 2.5 Million Copies
While a bird in the hand is worth more than 2.5 million copies shipped worldwide, Tekken 6 is nothing to sneer at. Wait, that came out wrong… See, just because Tekken 6 shipped 2.5 million copies doesn’t mean its sold 2.5 million copies all over the world. Hence the whole bird-in-the-hand/bush analogy that I messed…
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Bayonetta PS3 Outsells Bayonetta 360 — No Surprise There
Unofficial day-one sales are in for Bayonetta and boy does Japan love its PlayStation 3s. Ninety-three thousand copies sold for Sony’s home console compared to the 45,000 sold on Xbox 360. But that’s nothing new for the market. Compare Bayonetta’s sales to these other games to see just how much day-one sales favor PS3 over…
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Spring Back
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Tristan Vs. Zombies Time was, forgetting to adjust your clock back to standard time was like finding an old $20 bill the first time you put on your winter coat in November. You’d wake up, something wouldn’t feel right, and remember you had an extra hour of the most blissful…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Alan Wake Devs Might Withhold Ending from Preview Copies
Alan Wake‘s developers are concerned enough about spoilers getting out that they’ll talk with Microsoft about keeping the game’s ending out of copies sent to the press in advance of its release. G4TV quotes the Remedy Entertainment managing director Matias Myllrinne as saying the studio is “insanely careful” about how much of the story it’ll…
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And Here are the Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Perks
Well, fresh on the heels of the killstreak list, we’ve got another claim to the multiplayer perk set. You know the drill, rumor, not official, spoiler alert. This comes from the site MW2blog.com, which though it might look official (it even cites “Copyright Modern Warfare 2”), is registered through GoDaddy to someone in the U.K.…
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NBA Live Micro-Review: More than Pick-Up Hoops
EA Sports continues its full-court press into the mobile games space with NBA Live. Madden and FIFA delivered enjoyable football and soccer experiences, can the iPhone and iPod Touch hope to contain five-on-five basketball? Loved Under control: Honestly thought I’d hate the controls, considering this is five-on-five basketball with not a joystick in sight. But…
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Fake Gabe Newell — Show Yourself!
Some of you might have noticed my “zombiedogs” snafu earlier today. “Gabe Newell” did. Well, the guy masquerading on Twitter as the Valve boss, anyway. That’s when I knew for sure there were no zombiedogs in Left 4 Dead 2. Quick recap: We got sent a screengrab of some files in the Left 4 Dead…
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EA Warns Against Bogus Bad Company 2 Beta Signups
Apparently there are some phishing emails going around – for what other purpose would someone fake an invitation to a sign-up for a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta? EA says no such thing exists. Says the Battlefield producer Gordon Van Dyke on the Battlefield Blog: As of today there is no official Battlefield Bad Company…
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Modern Warfare 2 Killstreak Rewards Revealed?
The early PC Xbox 360 leak of Modern Warfare 2 continues to churn spoilers. Yesterday we saw the video of what you get for an eyepopping kill streak of 25. Someone’s posted a list of rewards for all the others. The site Gamepex has posted, without attribution, the full list. Take it with a heaping…
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Week in Games: Harvest Season
More than 60 qualities drop this week as the release season begins its death march toward Black Friday. Dragon Age: Origins is the marquee release, with two DLC expansions releasing for Xbox 360 on Day One. Lego Rock Band and Band Hero provide the competing casual rhythm game experience. Star Wars: Battlefront hits the handhelds,…
By Owen Good
