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First Footage Of The Old Republic’s Trooper In Action
During today’s Star Wars: The Old Republic panel at PAX 09, BioWare showed us our first glimpse of the Republic’s Trooper class in action, and we’re passing the savings on to you! Not only do we have footage of the Trooper, which is The Old Republic’s version of the Clone and eventual Storm, Sand, Snow,…
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And Now It’s PS3 Games’ Turn for a Best Buy Sale
As speculated in our Coupons comments yesterday, Best Buy has indeed begun a two-for-1.5 sale on all PS3 titles. The bonanza lasts until Sept. 12. The deal involves “qualifying games” but with 140 on the list, it’s practically all PS3 games priced $59.99 or less, It does not cover preorders. Basically, you pay full price…
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UncategorizedXbox Live’s Top Cop Reads ‘The Book of Enforcement’
Stephen Toulouse gave a presentation at PAX that, like most of his outreach, leavened the dirty work of running Xbox Live’s banhammer ops with comedy. His sermon is about how the wicked “Poonhunter” came to be banned from Battlefield 1943. Stepto’s presentation continued well after the above excerpt. The rest of the address is full…
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Rockstar’s AGENT Arriving Next Year?
File this rumor in the slip-of-the-tongue category. In a Rockstar roundup of reader questions, AGENT, the 1970s-era espionage game unveiled at E3, is lumped in with two other titles for a 2010 release. It’s sooooo flimsy, but then, Wikipedia’s already cited this Q&A in giving Agent a 2010 release window, and if Wikipedia says it,…
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FCC Report Praises Video Game Ratings
Remember how news about a week ago that the FCC was looking into a universal ratings system spooked the video game sector? Relax. A report delivered to Congress expresses a rather high opinion of how games are self-regulated. Quoting the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the report, published Aug. 31, says ESRB ratings are “in many…
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The Secret World: Which Side Are You On?
Along with the second teaser trailer we talked about on Thursday, Funcom has released a slew of new images depicting the Dragon, the Illuminati, and the Templars, the three factions of The Secret World. I spent a bit of time this weekend discussing The Secret World with Funcom, but I can’t tell you about it…
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Why Is Klei’s CEO Playing With Dolls?
This is what greeted me when I arrived at the Sheraton down the street from PAX to meet with Klei Entertainment CEO Jamie Cheng regarding the company’s latest game, Shank. So what do spooky dolls and an even spookier CEO have to do with a cartoonish beat-em up that could wind up being my game…
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The Triumphant Return Of My Sega Nomad
At the retro game shop towards the back of the main show floor at PAX 09 I was finally reunited with a long-lost friend of mine – the Sega Nomad. Back in 1999 I had found a Sega Nomad – a portable Sega Genesis that eats batteries like they were crack and it was one…
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Game Boy Houses 80 GB “Super Hard Drive”
From the just-because-I-can department: This modder stuffed an 80 GB drive inside a Game Boy, USB-enabled the case and then, for good measure, printed out that screen design and stuck it to the glass. He even went so far as to match up the drive’s LED indicator with the Game Boy’s battery indicator. It’s fooled…
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MAG Hands-On: Army Of Me And A Fierce Pancake
The only thing more exciting than playing in a massive, 256-player battle in MAG? Teaming up with another player who has no idea you have formed a bond with him that will last a lifetime. If you caught my preview of Sony’s MAG (Massive Action Game) from E3 earlier this year, it neatly sums up…
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XBL Avatar Golf Game is Now Available
Hey, remember the “leaked footage” of the Xbox Live avatar golf game? Mystery solved. It’s available on the Marketplace in the Indie Games channel. Avatar Golf is its name, because, well, it’s golfing with your avatar. It’s definitely a character-swap game for Easy Golf, as some guessed when the footage was released. The good news…
By Owen Good