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Where Will You Preorder Champions Online?
Cryptic has announced the preorder bonuses for their upcoming massively-multiplayer online superhero game Champions Online, with what you get depending on where you buy. No matter where you preorder Champions Online you’ll gain access to the open beta test on August 17th, 30 days game time, and five in-game microtransaction dollars, but after that it…
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DJ Hero Scores The Fresh Prince’s Other Half
DJ Hero might be scoring quite a few new preorders with the news that DJ Jazzy Jeff is contributing his likeness and tracks to the game. While we kid DJ Jazzy Jeff for his ties to Will Smith’s Fresh Prince character, the man is actually a damn fine DJ, as well as a record producer…
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Coloring In Your City Of Heroes Powers
During Comic-Con 2009 I got to spend some time hanging with NCsoft’s Matt “Positron” Miller, who walked me through how to show your true colors in the upcoming Issue 16: Power Spectrum update. According to Positron, power customization is something they’ve wanted to include in the game from the very beginning, only to have the…
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Kevin Conroy Doesn’t Remember Batman: Rise Of Sin Tzu
I’m not sure if the fact that the voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, not remembering doing the voice work for Batman: The Rise of Sin Tzu is a good thing or a bad thing. A roundtable discussion with the legendary voice of Batman kicked off on Saturday at Comic-Con with Conroy addressing the question, “Is…
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The Fat Princess Battle Begins This Week
Hats will fly this Thursday afternoon, when Titan Studios’ Fat Princess finally waddles her way onto the PlayStation Network. The eagerly-awaited multiplayer game of fantasy combat and cake eating is coming with this week’s PlayStation Store update on the 30th, priced to move at $15.00. For those of you unfamiliar with the title, it’s a…
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Splinter Cell Conviction And Red Steel 2 Slip To 2010
The fall gaming season grows sparser still today, as Ubisoft announces the delay of Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, with I am Alive and Ghost Recon slipping into the next fiscal year. Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, two of the breakout titles from this year’s E3 Expo, won’t be making their…
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Arkham Asylum’s Scarecrow Design Is BioShock Creepy
This Friday, GameStop revealed their preorder exclusive Scarecrow Challenge Maps for Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the villain’s new look certainly coincides with his fear-inducing powers. Players who preorder Batman: Arkham Asylum from GameStop will gain access to the Dem Bones Scarecrow Challenge Maps for the game, which pit Batman against a horde of skeletal hallucinations…
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The Other Real-Life Inspiration For The Saboteur’s Hero
Pandemic’s art director Chris Hunt found the inspiration for The Saboteur‘s main character at a concept artist convention, but not how you’d think. Saboteur protagonist Sean Devlin may have been inspired by real-life Grand Prix motor racing driver and special agent William Grover-Williams, but Grover-Williams’ look didn’t quite fit what Pandemic was looking for in…
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