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Enter Drawn: The Painted Tower
Big Fish Games presents Drawn: The Painted Tower, a simply gorgeous PC puzzle adventure game available for digital download this Friday. In a bleak world, legend tells of a child queen who will one day rise to give hope to a world filled with despair. In Drawn, you must unlock riddles and solve puzzles as…
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Can You Beat These Wii Sports Resort Scores?
Video game record keeper Twin Galaxies has posted the first official record scores for Wii Sports Resort. Have you got what it takes to oust the champions? Can you top 105 in Archery on expert difficulty? How about 999 on the Table Tennis return challenge? Probably not, but if you’ve got a bit of free…
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Square Issues Order Of War This Month
Square Enix releases their first Western-developed game outside of Japan this month, bringing Wargaming.net’s World War II strategy title Order of War to North American PCs on September 22nd. Order of War is only the first of three Western-developed titles coming to North America via Square Enix and its new global agenda, along with Gas…
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Namco Bandai Launches Namco Sounds On iTunes
The music of Pac-Man, SoulCalibur, and Xevious are now waiting to be nestled gently within your iPod, courtesy of Namco Bandai‘s newly-launched iTunes music label, Namco Sounds. Namco Bandai will be using the Namco Sounds label to release exclusive re-mastered tracks from its extensive stable of classic games. To inaugurate the launch of the label,…
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So When Is Take-Two Announcing The Next GTA?
During yesterday’s Take-Two Interactive third quarter 2009 fiscal report conference call, chairman Strauss Zelnick laid out the company’s non-strategy for announcing the next Grand Theft Auto game. Responding to a question about the announcement strategy for the next GTA from Arvind Bhatia of brokerage firm Stern Agee, Zelnick made Take-Twoe’s stance on the subject perfectly…
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Muramasa Moment In Art
Ignotion Entertainment’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade will be in stores soon, so the company has released a "Moment in Art" trailer to make sure everyone who owns a Wii sees how lovely it looks. See? Isn’t that lovely?It could be the prettiest thing you’ll see on your Wii this year. While you desperately struggle not…
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Tetris Gives You Thicker Brain Meats
A study conducted by neuroscientist Richard Haier has determined that performing a “challenging visuospatial task” like Tetris can actually alter the structure of your brain. Or at least the brains of adolescent girls, who were the subject of the study, funded by Tetris marketer Blue Planet Software. Adolescent girls’ brains are still developing, as any…
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And Now DC Comics Does Aion
No video game is safe from DC Comics‘ WildStorm imprint, as NCsoft’s Aion becomes the latest title to get the comic book treatment, with a special issue available at PAX or with purchase at GameStop. “Aiva’s Story” tells the story of a young Asmodian warrior named Aiva, which seems completely appropriate given the name of…
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Scenes And Screens From LostWinds: Winter Of The Melodias
Frontier Developments once again puts the power of the wind in your hands in LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, the follow-up to the acclaimed WiiWare launch title. Here’s what it looks like. The art style remains intact, but the play style has changed a little bit. As mentioned in Owen’s article on the game this…
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