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Marvel VS Capcom 2: Hulk Smash Puny Wrestler
First it was Ryu versus Wolverine, and now the green goliath takes on the Russian bear in the second installment of Capcom’s Marvel VS Capcom 2 strategy series. It’s the same drill as last week. Capcom takes two of the most iconic fighters on either side of the Marvel VS Capcom 2 conflict and pits…
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Ubisoft Toronto Brings 800 Jobs To Ontario
After three years of relentless pursuit, the government of Ontario has pledged $260 million in order to help Ubisoft create a new studio in Toronto, creating more than 800 new jobs in the process. The announcement comes today by way of a live press conference with the Premiere of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, held against a…
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Fallout 2 As A Live-Action RPG
Last month, at a remote disused air-defense base outside of Leningrad, upwards of 300 Russian Fallout fans recreated post-apocalyptic California in a live-action role-playing game based on Fallout 2. All of the information we have on the event is translated from Russian via Google, so it could be completely wrong. From we understand, a workshop…
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LittleBigPlanet: Who Ya Gonna Call?
Media Molecule’s “Who You Gonna Call” teaser has updated with a look at what you’d be calling about. The obvious becomes even more obvious today, with the addition of one spooky little sackboy to MM’s teaser image, where once there was but words. This ghost sackboy, which is surely part of a set of Ghostbusters-themed…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Comic Heats Up In Act Two
With a clash of lightsabers and a smoking Sith corpse, BioWare and Dark Horse launch Act Two of their Star Wars: The Old Republic web comic, The Threat of Peace. As with any Star Wars series, the second act is always the most action-packed, and it looks like writer Rob Chestney is sticking to the…
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The Nintendo Download: Bits, Busts, And Chariots Of WiiWare
Busting moves, tripping bits, and racing chariots are just some of the fun activities presented in this week’s downloadable games for the Nintendo Wii and DSi. It’s a promising week for The Nintendo Download, with an especially robust set of titles dropping for WiiWare. Kicking things off is the release of Aksys Games’ BIT.TRIP CORE…
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NHL 10 Gets In Your Face
Producer David Littman takes us through some of the new features coming in EA Sports‘ latest trip to the most violent ice skating rink ever. Hockey is another one of those sports that I feel a strong pull towards but have never experienced outside of video games, so if EA isn’t delivering an extremely realistic…
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Dirt 2 PC Delayed For DirectX 11
The PC version of Colin McRae: Dirt 2 is being driven to December in order to make sure the title supports the hardware tessellation, multi-threading and Shader Model 5.0 technology coming in DirectX 11. DirectX 11 already? Most games are still trying to catch up to DirectX 10 support, but Codemasters wants to make sure…
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Demon Souls Dated And Bundled With Swag
While we were busy having cookouts and watching fireworks, Atlus spent July 4th telling everyone about the release date and bundle contents for the deluxe edition of their upcoming PlayStation 3 action RPG Demon Souls. I’m curious to see why Atlus decided to announce the release date for Demon Souls on the Fourth of July,…
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