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NPR Takes On Six Days In Fallujah
NPR revisits the controversy behind Atomic Games‘ Six Days in Fallujah once again, presenting a strong argument in favor of the release of the “game-amentary.” The usual suspects line up in favor of the game, with Atomic Games’ boss Peter Tamte and retired Marine Captain Read Omohundro explaining that the game is meant to inform…
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Champions Online Open Beta Detailed
Champions Online developer Cryptic has dropped details and dates for its upcoming “open” beta test, with 50,000 keys up for grabs worldwide via IGN’s FilePlanet. Yes, Cryptic and FilePlanet have teamed up to help streamline the beta testing process. There are now two ways to get beta keys, either by actually preordering the game at…
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Aksys Suggestively Bringing “Soul Breeding” Game Stateside
Aksys Games has launched a placeholder website for Record of Agarest War, the “soul breeding” Japanese strategy RPG that is completely distracting me with its teaser image. What were we talking about again? Oh yes! Record of Agarest! We’ve mentioned the game on several different occasions, generally in the middle of the night when the…
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NBA 2K10: Draft Combine Gives Fans A Head Start
2K Sports takes advantage of today’s download friendly consoles, giving fans an early taste of this year’s basketball with NBA 2K10: Draft Combine. Available in September on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, the NBA 2K10: Draft Combine is a downloadable game that allows players to fully customize their own player and put them…
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Risen Trailer Flaunts Symphonic Gothic Metal
This new trailer for Piranha Bytes‘ RPG Risen features music by Nightwish, "the most successful symphonic/gothic metal band world-wide." I’m not sure what that means. I’m sure there’s a large symphonic/gothic metal band scene that I am completely unaware of. In fact, the comments section could potentially fill up with arguments on which of those…
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Scott Pilgrim VS. Your Game Console
Scott Pilgrim, the heroic comic tale of triumph over evil ex-boyfriends, is getting a movie adaptation next year, and Ubisoft has signed on to create the game of the movie of the comic. Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim is a digest-sized comic series from Oni Press that follows the tale of Canadian slacker bassist Scott…
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Poor Rock Band Sales Blamed For Declining Viacom Revenues
Viacom’s second quarter 2009 financials dropped this morning, singling out lower than expected Rock Band sales as one of the primary causes of the company’s 14% drop in revenue over the previous year. A little over a year ago Viacom was singing the praises of Rock Band, heralding the rhythm game as the driving force…
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