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  Arcade Cabinets For Your GI Joes

  Disillusioned by the way the recent GI Joe movie treated the 1980’s take on the franchise? You’re not the only one. Spare a thought for the plastic Joes themselves, who must now console themselves with endless games of Tempest. And Pac-Man, and Galaga, and Donkey Kong. The bleeps and bloops of decades-old arcade games are…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  Talent Agency: Hans Zimmer Is Scoring Modern Warfare 2 [Update]

  Hans Zimmer. Check the composer of big Hollywood films, and you’re bound to find his name. He’s scored movies as diverse as the smash hit The Lion King soundtrack and his Badlands inspired True Romance score. Most recently, Zimmer has scored Frost/Nixon and The Dark Knight. According to Zimmer’s agency, the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, the composer…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  Peggle Nights Gets An Extra Ball On Xbox Live Arcade

  Peggle Nights – the joyous expansion to the joyful Peggle – will soon be making the jump from personal computer to Xbox 360. It’ll hit the 360 in the form of downloadable content, and includes everything you’d find in the PC/Mac version of Peggle Nights. Which means 60 new MP levels, 60 new campaign levels…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  UK Gets Xbox 360 Price Cut And Price Hike

  It’s not only the US that is seeing an Xbox 360 price drop, but the UK, too. Starting tomorrow, the Xbox 360 Elite 120GB will be priced at £199.99 (US$324). The new price is a £30 drop from the current retail price, and the the Xbox 360 Pro will be phased out in the United…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  The Limited Edition Pokemon World Champs DSi

  The Pokemon World Championships held recently in San Diego were a source of laughter, yes, but for die-hard fans they’ll also have been a source of envy if this Pokemon DSi is any indication. Handed out in strictly limited quantities, it’s probably as visually pleasing an offspring of Pokemon and San Diego as you’re going…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  Gundam Large And In STONE

  Another giant Gundam statue. Sure, it’s not as big as the 1/1 scale Gundam — this mobile suit is 4 meters and weighs 10 tons. Recently hitting the Japanese internet, this Gundam was created 2 years ago by a Japanese stone cutter in Yasu City, Saga Prefecture. See those stones in the background? Those are…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  Microsoft Confirms Xbox 360 Price Drop, Denies Slim 360 Rumors

  Microsoft’s priciest version of the Xbox 360 is getting a $100 price drop this Friday, the publisher told Kotaku, and its top selling model of the console is being phased out. The 120GB Xbox 360 Elite will sell for $299.99, while the popular 60GB Xbox 360 Pro will be cut to $249.99. Despite being Microsoft’s…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 27, 2009
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  Pro Evo 2010 Box Art Is Short, Beautiful

  The thing about the football market having two flagship series as opposed to, say, the NFL’s one, is that there are always two box art rituals to sit through. We’ve seen FIFA’s, now let’s look at Pro Evo‘s. Appearing on the cover of this year’s edition are Barcelona’s pint-sized Argentinian Lionel Messi, who reprises his…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  Fez: New Footage!

  Can’t say I watch G4’s Electric Playground that often. And by that, I mean never. Which explains why I missed this neat little segment on the neat-looking XBLA platformer Fez. There’s an interesting interview with the game’s shaggy developers, Polytron, along with a few minute’s worth of in-game footage. The clip below is the full…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  How Borderlands Will Handle Cheaters

  There are cheaters. There are always cheaters. Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has a plan to get ’em. “We’re going to wait and see what the cheaters do, and then we’ll attack them,” says Gearbox honcho Randy Pitchford. “It’s the only way to fight them, they’ll be there no matter what we do. The console versions…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  Tearing The PSPgo To Pieces, Just To See What Its Insides Look Like

  Another day, another ruthless dismembering of a Sony console, as following on from yesterday’s PS3 Slim teardown we now get a real good look at the PSPgo’s inside bits. Not knowing what the hell was going on, I just sat back, scrolled through the 12 pages of pics and pretended I could hear the PSPgo…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  This Guilty Gear Statue Will Make You Dizzy

  Don’t worry. Dizzy from fighter Guilty Gear XX Accent Core isn’t cold. She has thick skin. Thick plastic skin, that is. This is the Queen’s Gate version of Dizzy. Queen’s Gate is a spin-off of Queen’s Blade, a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last couple…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  Company Of Heroes Online Replaces Germans With “Federation”

  Like many Western games, Relic’s Company of Heroes is in line for some changes once it hits the Chinese market as Company of Heroes Online. The LA Times’ Charles Proctor reports that, amidst concerns surrounding China’s laws forbidding any reference to the Nazi party, THQ have rebranded the Germans in this new CoH title as…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  The Xbox 360 Controller In Tasty Bento Form

  As seen on Hawty McBloggy.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  360 Price Cuts Also Tipped For UK Market

  British sites are reporting that, ahead of an expected announcement later this week, Microsoft are to copy the rumoured North American moves by implementing both a price cut and a lineup shuffle for their range of 360 consolse. MCV say that retailers across Britain are being told they can’t order any/many existing 360 consoles, while…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  Do You Know Who’s Doing The Japanese TV Theme For Bayonetta? We Do

  Songstress MiChi will be lending her tune “Something” to the Bayonetta television campaign. She won’t actually be lending her song. We imagine she’ll get paid by SEGA — with money even! This is the first TV theme for MiChi, who was worried about which tune should be used to help match the mode of the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  Ghostbusters Now Looks Better On PS3

  Ghostbusters on PS3 took some flak upon release for looking, well, worse than it did on 360. Significantly worse. So Terminal Reality went back to the drawing board, and have today released a patch that should bridge the gap. IGN say that fixes have been made to both single and multiplayer modes, most important of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2009
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  How Accurate Are These TV Ladies’ In-Game Counterparts?

  In Japan, female TV anchors are not just anchors, they are idols. Worship away! Adored by males for being classier and more grown-up than your typical pop star (they also know stuff about sports and other stuff), the most popular anchors transcend news-reading and can even become actresses and appear in countless commercials. Itching to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2009
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  These iDOLM@STER Figures Cannot Sing

  That’s okay. They can stand very, very still. They are figurines, you know. That’s what figurines do. Here 15-year-old Chihaya Kisaragi and 14-year-old Iori Minase find themselves immortalized in PVC. They’re from figure maker Mega House and priced at around US$75 each in Japan. Geek heroin is expensive! Originally an arcade game, THE iDOLM@STER is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2009
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  Problems Plague Pinnacle DLC

  The Pinnacle Station DLC for Mass Effect went out the door today, and already BioWare’s user forums are reporting problems with the PC and console edition. The good news is for PC users. Bioware expects a reasonably fast fix for some CD key rejection issues. A BioWare QA lead said that an installer had been…

  By Owen Good Published August 26, 2009