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Soundwave Get!
After two days of misery, the 25th Anniversary Transformers Soundwave is mine. I can now go home, leaving McWhertor to cover the remainder of Comic-Con on his own. Or maybe I’ll stick around. I still haven’t decided. The point is now I have a great many more bags to carry around, and will need to…
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Hello Kitty Online First Look: So Cute, It Causes Pink
There are three things going on with Hello Kitty Online that render me completely unable to look away. The first is the whole massively multiplayer online game aspect. That’s the last video game genre next to first-person shooter I would have thought of for a Hello Kitty game. Developers Sanrio Digital and Typhoon Games along…
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NCsoft’s Heroic Booth Babes
At a largely booth babe-less show, one MMO developer has the sheer guts to hire an aspiring actress and a model to represent City of Heroes. There aren’t many booth babes at Comic-Con, mainly because the fans tend to include pretty girls in skimpy outfits, and there’s nothing worse than a professional model feeling she’s…
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MMO Makers Market The Genre’s Future
At the “The State of the MMO” panel at Comic-Con, five massively-multiplayer devs weighed in on the positive changes coming to the genre, lacing as much marketing into their answers as humanly possible. At a development conference their answers might have been different, but this is Comic-Con, and this distinguished panel of guests from BioWare,…
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White Knight Chronicles Preview: Her Head Is So Huge!
A little hands-on time with Level-5’s PlayStation 3 RPG White Knight Chronicles last night demonstrates why you should never let a slightly-drunk journalist have a go at your character creator. What Is It? White Knight Chronicles is an action role-playing game developed exclusively for the PlayStation 3 by Sony’s Japan Studio and Level-5 of Dark…
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