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Age Of Conan Expands At GamesCom
A work in progress for the better part of a year, Funcom is finally ready to take the next step with Age of Conan, teasing an expansion announcement to take place in Germany next month. After months spent tweaking and polishing the game play and overall experience of their massively multiplayer take on the Conan…
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When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade
What do you think of when you imagine going to the beach on a hot summer day? Sunblock, towels, bikinis maybe? Not me. I think about Galaga. Less than 150 feet from any shoreline near a beach boardwalk, there’s probably a video game arcade. Beach arcades have been around even before there were video games…
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Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage Preview: Snow In Summer
What better way to cool down a group of games writers in the middle of summer than showing them a video game about snowboarding? I’m not a fan of the Wii Balance Board, so I wasn’t really looking forward to “feet-on time” with the game until I saw the demo master wipe out on a…
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A Look At ODST’s Halo 3 Maps
As promised, Bungie has delivered three shots of the new Halo 3 multiplayer maps included in the add-on disc shipping with Halo 3: ODST. If the above image seems familiar, that’s because the new Heretic map revisits Halo 2’s Midship map, allowing players to plasma grenade each other all over the interior of the Pious…
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Elves Add Classes To Runes Of Magic
The elves are bringing two new playable character classes to Runes of Magic, along with the usual pointy-ears and naked mailbox dancing. The Warden and the Druid join Runes of Magic’s diverse cast of character classes when the second chapter, The Elven Prophecy, hits the game this September. The Warden is at one with the…
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TMNT Smash-Up Preview: Will The Real April O’Neil Please Stand Up?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up aims to combine not only the best of Wii fighting games with the TMNT franchise, but also to combine the best parts of the franchise into one game. To that end, there will allegedly be different characters from the new kids TV show, the old kids TV show, the comic…
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Rabbids Go Home Preview: Rabbids Go In Your Wiimote
The Rabbids series has done pretty well for itself, considering that it’s all about about mentally challenged bunnies doing wacky things. Previous installments of Rayman Raving Rabbids games have all been about mini games that make use of the Wii’s unique controls in perverse and silly ways. Like the one where you used your butt…
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Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes Preview: The Might Of Mana… and Puzzles
The Might & Magic series is more commonly associated with hardcore role-playing game or turn-based strategy combat – but Ubisoft is going for another reboot of the series with Clash of Heroes. The game is still turn-based and there’s still a lot of strategy involved. But this adorable DS game is more of a puzzle…
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Red Steel 2 Preview: Whack-tastic Fun
I like to think I come to every new game with a clean slate – but Red Steel was so bad, I couldn’ help but be pessimistic about what to expect from Red Steel 2. After five minutes with the demo though, I take back everything bad I ever even started to think about this…
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Duke Nukem 3D To Kick iAss On iPhone
Duke Nukem Forever might be dead, but the spirit of the name lives on, as MachineWorks Northwest prepares to release an updated version of Duke Nukem 3D for the iPhone. Yes, MachineWorks is delivering a smoothed-over but faithful port of the original Duke Nukem 3D to the iPhone. MachineWorks is the same team that brought…
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Happy Bungie Day!
On the seventh day of the seventh month, the team at Bungie crawled out of their darkened office to take on the world in Halo 3, during their annual Bungie Day celebration. Bungie has a thing for the number seven, documented by the research team at Halopedia, and so they picked July 7th (7/7) as…
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Champions Online Versus Your Computer
It’s an all-out battle between your computer and the forces of system requirements, as Cryptic reveals the stats your PC needs to roll to run Champions Online. Judging from the game’s simplistic, stylized look, you wouldn’t think you’d need a powerful machine to run it, and you’d be correct in that thinking. Champions will run…
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SimAnimals Bless The Rains Down In Africa
The wild dogs cry out in the night, as they grow restless looking for some solitary company in SimAnimals Africa, EA’s follow-up to their charming animal simulator for the Nintendo Wii and DS. If you want compelling animal drama, you go to Africa. Natsume knows this, as does Majesco. Now EA is getting in on…
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