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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Review: It Takes Two, Baby
Marvel’s mightiest heroes converge once again in Activsion’s Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to face a foe far deadlier than any they’ve encountered thus far: themselves. Okay, so Marvel characters tend to fight each other on a regular basis, generally before teaming-up to take out a mutual enemy, but never quite on the scale of Marvel’s…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Operation Flashpoint Trailer: Watch Stuff Get Blown Up
Everybody loves a good explosion. And text flashing on blank screens is nice, too. Actually, the explosions in Dragon Rising might not be what you’re expecting, based on past war video game experiences. The developers behind the game did research, you see, and concluded that explosions are more about smoke and oily fumes than about…
By AJ Glasser - Uncategorized
Five New Champions Enter The League Of Legends
Riot Games today adds five new characters to the ever-expanding roster of champions in League of Legends, the upcoming multiplayer online battle arena. Champions are the characters that your Summoner summons to represent them on the field of battle, and Riot is going out of its way to make sure there’s a large selection available…
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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Multiplayer Preview: War Is Hell. And Mostly Colorless.
Sion Lenton, Executive Producer on Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, says the game isn’t competing with Modern Warfare 2. It’s just trying to get out the message that war is scary. There are several ways games can communicate the horrors of war. Watching your squad die or witnessing a nuclear explosion, for example, could make quite…
By AJ Glasser - Uncategorized
PSPgo Has ESRB Ratings Packed Right In
The only way parents could possibly miss the ESRB Video Game Ratings Guide loaded onto the new PSPgo is if they never actually touch the system themselves, and what are the chances of that? ESRB president Patricia Vance discusses the PSPgo’s built-in ESRB ratings guide over at the PlayStation Blog, praising it as a “straight-forward…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Sony Pre-Emptively Blasts BBC Report on PS3 Failures
Tonight, the BBC will broadcast a report claiming the PS3 suffers from systemic hardware failure and Sony’s repair service is inadequate. GamesIndustry.biz has a six-page salvo from SCEUK to the BBC, ripping the report and implying legal action could follow. The program, Watchdog, said it received 155 complaints from viewers regarding the so-called “Yellow Light…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Frankenreview: Scribblenauts
Your vocabulary is your power in Scribblenauts, 5th Cell’s innovative new puzzle game for the Nintendo DS in which write makes might. We’ve been enthralled by the concept of Scribblenauts since we first received word of the game in December of last year. Your goal is simple: help Maxwell collect the Starite in each level…
By Mike Fahey -
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Ubisoft’s Guillemot Is The 2009 ESA Champion
The ESA Foundation’s annual Nite to Unite for Kids charity event takes place next month, with Ubisoft chairman and CEO Yves Guillemot receiving top honors as a video game industry visionary. The Nite to Unite for Kids is an annual event presented by the Entertainment Software Association and hosted by the ESA Foundation that raises…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Powerful New Weapons Plague Liberty City
Sticky bombs, advanced sniper rifles, automatic shotguns, exploding bullets, and a rocket-equipped military grade helicopter known only as “The Buzzard”, all in this special news report from Liberty City’s Weazel News. These new weapons are coming to Grant Theft Auto IV by way of the Ballad of Gay Tony and the Episodes from Liberty City…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Target Circular Adds Fuel To The Wii Price Drop Fire
An anonymous tipster sends us this picture of an alleged Target circular for the week of September 27th, joining Wal-Mart and Toys R Us on the $199.99 Wii price drop bandwagon. Sure it’s blurry and only a partial picture of the full page, but the information in this picture coincides with the information we’ve seen…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
NCsoft: Aion Is The “Biggest MMO Launch Of The Year”
The latest figures for Aion have NCsoft declaring it the “biggest MMO launch of the year,” with nearly 400,000 preorder customers waiting to become winged warriors upon next week’s launch. For an Eastern import, Aion has been making quite a lot of noise among MMO circles, taking the beauty of a Korean game and marrying…
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Brutal Legend Early Access Demo Is Go
Gamers eager enough to preorder Brutal Legend from GameStop are rewarded today with early access to the demo on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The rest of you can wait your turn. Starting today, preorder customers can play through Brutal Legend’s entire opening chapter, from the stage accident that renders Eddie Riggs unconscious as…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Halo ODST: Breaking The Mold
Explore Halo 3: ODST‘s journey from DLC to full game, or in the words of cinematics director CJ Cowan, "Here’s an engine, here’s a story, you got a year. Go." Cowan’s quick and dirty summary of the project might be accurate, but it downplays the sheer amount of work that Bungie has put into Halo…
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Naruto Clash 3 Preorder Has A Nice Ring To It
If you recognize this thumb ring, then you should probably preorder Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 from your local GameStop. The Sasori Akatsuki thumb ring is one of two separate exclusives that GameStop is featuring for the November release of Clash of Ninja Revolution 3, available to anyone who preorders the regular $39.99…
By Mike Fahey
