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New Dreamcast Game Gets A Deluxe Version
Just when we were sure Dreamcast games managed to dodge the trend of more expensive premium versions, redspotgames announces the Deluxe edition of it upcoming Dreamcast title, Rush Rush Rally Racing. Announced on the Dreamcast’s 10th anniversary, Rush Rush Rally Racing is a top-down racer that, in all fairness, looks rather primitive. Primitive as it…
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The Nintendo Download: Pinballs, Gravity, And More Final Fight
Nintendo distributes three new games to its three digital download services today, with DSi pinball, WiiWare gravity battles, and WiiWare getting a fight so final it had to have a 2 at the end. Final Fight 2 for the Super Nintendo (800 Wii points) is the only recognizable title in the Nintendo download this week,…
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Ready At Dawn Makes Its Own Game Dev Platform
Ready At Dawn gives its experience and expertise back to the development community with the Ready At Dawn Engine, a comprehensive game development platform that contains everything a company needs to make AAA console titles. In order to develop a title for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, or even the PSP, developers have to piece…
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Go Play Games With Earthquakes In Them
October 17 marks the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake — that famous 1989 one that rocked Northern California during an Oakland Athletics/San Francisco Giants game. So all this week, I’m going to try to play games with earthquakes in them. I guess I could widen that to include games with bridge collapses, since part…
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Mass Effect 2 On PS3? Da, Mate! UPDATE
Two non-United States EA sites are listing Mass Effect 2 for the PlayStation 3. UPDATE: Brian Rubin with Fortyseven Communications has confirmed to Kotaku that those listings were “both mistakes, and they’re being corrected.” Sorry, PS3 owners! The first spotting was made by RPG Site on Russia’s EA site. VG247 made a second spotting on…
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Prince Of Persia Creator Talks Film Sequel
At China’s Game Developers Conference, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner talked about the evolution of the series and about the sequel potential for that upcoming Jake Gyllenhaal flick. Gamasutra reports that Mechner sees potential for the film to continue on its own way in sequels that aren’t necessarily bound to any of the Prince…
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You Led Me On! — Dating In Video Games
I peruse columns on Sundays and today found myself cracking up over Emily Short’s GameSetWatch column, ‘Homer In Silicon’: Communicating Character. In it, Short recounts her first brush with Fable II‘s romantic interaction system. She was told non-playable characters would have gifts for her, so she mistook the ring icon above a villager’s head as…
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I Could Car Less
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Tangled Up in Blues After tomorrow my car is officially like Airwolf. No, smarty, Ernest Borgnine is not coming over to ride shotgun. I mean it will be a vehicle whose existence is not acknowledged by the government. That’s thanks to the California DMV. In mid-August, after I moved here,…
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SOE Prez Calls it ‘Planetside Next’ in Blog
Two weeks ago, word spread among Planetside fans that Sony Online Entertainment would be working on another iteration of the popular MMO FPS. Now John Smedley, the SOE president, has called it “Planetside Next” in a LiveJournal entry. To me, Planetside Next means we get a chance to take the essence of everything that was…
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UncategorizedTen Fingers on Five Frets in Guitar Hero: Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen’s performance of “Eruption” is more impressive. That’s not the question being asked. But this comparison shows the similarity of the finger work in the tapping sections, which speaks well of the design of Guitar Hero: Van Halen. It takes a performer like Danny “GuitarHeroPhenom” Johnson, holder of eight marks in the Guinness…
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“Dead Before Dawn” Mod Guaranteed to Hit on Halloween
News to some, friendly reminder to others, but the Left 4 Dead mod “Dead Before Dawn,” a mall-based homage to “Dawn of the Dead,” is no ordinary mod. Valve sent the makers a soundfile of Francis saying “I hate malls.” Anyway, “Dead Before Dawn” hits on Oct. 31. The modmakers are working feverishly, and promise…
By Owen Good