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Second Skin Documentary Debuts In Theaters, On Hulu
Second Skin, Pure West Films‘ documentary about the lives of the people behind the players of massively-multiplayer online games, hits select theaters today, but if you can’t make it there’s always Hulu. Second Skin provides a rather balanced look at the relationships formed via online games, from friendships to romances to relationships that go even…
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Arkham Asylum: Making The Game, Respecting The Franchise
With the demo dropping today and the game right around the corner, Eidos and Warner Bros. release another behind-the-scenes video to make sure everyone knows how much they respect the franchise. If this were any other comic book franchise, I’d say they were laying it on a bit thick, but Batman fans have been burned…
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Penny Arcade’s Tekken 6 Comic Packs A Pouch
That’s no typo; Namco Bandai has enlisted the boys from Penny Arcade to create a Tekken 6 web comic, and they’re focusing on the most compelling fighter the series has ever produced. Yes, Penny Arcade is telling the secret origin of Roger, Tekken’s gestalt character, who is actually two fighters in one. When an erroneously-named…
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The Humorous And Romantic Old Republic Smuggler
Humor and romance are two things you don’t often associated with an MMO character class, but those are two qualities BioWare is focusing on for the Smuggler class in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Senior writer Hal Hood talks about creating the Smuggler class in the latest developer diary on the Star Wars: The Old…
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The First Game Dedicated Entirely To Sushi
City Interactive makes a bold claim while introducing its upcoming Nintendo DS game, Sushi Academy, the “The first-ever video game dedicated entirely to sushi.” Bold words! I’m pretty sure I’ve played a sushi-themed puzzle game or two in my lifetime, but if they mean the first-ever video game dedicated to the preparation to sushi…well who…
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Tying Together Dead Space Extraction’s Story
How does a development team create a whole new story for a prequel like Dead Space Extraction for the Wii while maintaining ties to established fiction? If only there was some sort of video explanation… Ooo, convenient. Running parallel to the events in the Dead Space comic book series and the animated feature, Dead Space…
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Tales Of Monkey Island Continues August 20th
Telltale continues the tale of Guybrush Threepwood that began in Launch of the Screaming Narwhal on August 20th, when they release Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: Siege of Spinner Cay. When we last left our intrepid pirate friend, he had found himself stranded on Flotsam Island, a strange place where the wind always blows…
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More City Of Heroes Power Customization Screens
Paragon Studios shows off more of the power customization coming in the Issue 16: Power Spectrum update for City of Heroes. The new screenshots come with the news that every player will be getting one free Tailoring session per costume slot when the Power Spectrum update is released, in order to ensure that every costumed…
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Gorillaz Trample Rock Band Next Week
A heavy dose of classic rock in next week’s Rock Band Music Store update gets completely overrun by the Rock Band debut of Gorillaz. Feel good? I’m feeling glad. Up until now, the Gorillaz presence in music games has been limited to karaoke games and an appearance in the promising yet ultimately disappointing Battle of…
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Demo Out Everywhere
The PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum may have been delayed, but the demo is still live today, available for download now along with its console siblings. PC gamers disappointed by yesterday’s news of the delay of their version of the what could be the best Batman video in ages can rest a bit easier…
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