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Llamasoft Lets Gridrunner Revolution Fly
Jeff Minter unleashes another psychedelic shooting experience upon the unsuspecting PC gaming public with the release of Gridrunner Revolutions, with the original 1982 Commodore games available as unlockable extras. Gridrunner Revolutions is exactly what you’d expect from Jeff Minter. There are swirling colors, things to shoot at, and sheep that you must collect to advance.…
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PixelJunk Monsters Storm The PSP This Week
This Thursday sees the release of PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe for the PSP, a faithful port of the PSN original with a new island, new enemies, and the ability to be a PixelJunk voyeur. Q-Games makes the pixels a little smaller on Thursday with the release of PixelJunk Monsters for the PSP and PSPgo. A slightly…
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The Changing Face Of Games Journalism
In this final season two episode of Players Only with Scott Steinberg, Crecente and Totilo join Oddworld’s Lorne Lanning, Cliff Bleszinski, and many more as they discuss the evolution of games journalism. It seems that the vast majority of the industry professionals in the video agree. Games journalism has definitely changed drastically over the past…
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4Kids Grabs Mini Ninjas
It looks like we’ll be seeing a lot more of Eidos’ Mini Ninjas in the future, as film and television production company 4Kids Entertainment becomes the property’s global licensing agent. The company that owns the North American licenses for both Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh now has a lot more adorable video game characters up its sleeve.…
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The Nintendo Download: Altered Arkanoid Dragon Quest Wars
Between Altered Beast, Arkanoid Plus!, and Dragon Quest Wars, all three Nintendo download outlets are getting games that might be worth checking out this week. Yes, it’s a fine week across the board downloadable titles. Even DSiWare is getting an interesting game that doesn’t have the words Art Style in the title. That game is…
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UncategorizedThe Epic Final Fantasy XIII TGS Trailer
Thrilling combat, transforming hot rods, and enough drama to fill your average American high school, all in this Tokyo Game Show trailer for Final Fantasy XIII. After the unwelcome real-time turn that Final Fantasy XII took and the fact that Final Fantasy XI completely doesn’t count, I am more than ready for a return to…
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Are These Super Street Fighter IV Screens?
A French gaming website claims to have the first screenshots of Super Street Fighter IV, the update to the latest game in Capcom’s fighting franchise. Is this our first glimpse of T. Hawk and Juri? Capcom has hinted at news regarding an update to Street Fighter IV sometime this week, with a Japanese teaser suggesting…
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Welcome To Aion Server Queues, Europe!
If you thought we had it bad in North America, many European Aion players weren’t even able to get into a queue during peak hours during the game’s launch weekend. Consider yourselves lucky! During the weekend several tipsters emailed us with horror stories about the European launch of NCsoft’s new MMORPG Aion. Like North America,…
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Everybody Back In The Britannia
Ultima Online celebrates its twelfth birthday by inviting everyone who has ever played back to rediscover the joys of getting killed over and over again while trying to chop wood. Sure, there are other good things about Ultima Online as well. It’ll run on your toaster, and there isn’t any of that third-person camera view…
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