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Persona PSP Packed With Persona Soundtrack
The Atlus Spoils customer appreciation program continues to live up to its name, with the announcement that every launch copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona for the PSP comes packed with a two-disc soundtrack. That’s right, two-discs, not just half the soundtrack, like the disc that shipped with Persona 4 for the PlayStation 2. The…
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Video Games Live Has Its Own MP3 Player
The Video Games Live concert tour kicks their merchandising up a notch with this new VGL-branded VIVO MP3 player, loaded with unreleased recordings from Kingdom Hearts, Halo, and more. The 2GB MP3 player is now available for sale at the Video Games Live online store, and will also be making appearances at the merchandising tables…
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Spore Galactic Adventures Attacks The Mothership
EA only has a week and a half left to convince you that the Spore Galactic Adventures add-on is worth your time and money. Let’s see if this trailer helps! I can’t help but think Ratchet and Clank as I watch this trailer for Mothership Down, one of the Maxis-created adventures included with Spore Galactic…
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Zenonia Micro-Review: Unexpectedly Epic
Korean developer Gamevil seeks to pack an epic experience into a tiny space with Zenonia, an action roleplaying game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Zenonia follows a young man named Regret as he searches for answers to the mystery surrounding his birth after the sudden death of the man who raised him. Players start…
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PlayStation Home’s Xi Comes To A Close
Sony’s PlayStation Home alternate reality game Xi is coming to a close, and the door to the story’s dramatic conclusion now stands open for all. After a couple of months worth of teases and mini-games, Xi is finally winding down. Now anyone, regardless of how much they’ve participated in the ARG, may enter the final…
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Xbox Live Community Games Renamed
Buried in the official announcement of XNA Game Studio 3.1 is news that, come late July, Xbox Live Community Games would be getting a much-needed name change. Goodbye Xbox Live Community Games, and hello Xbox Live Indie Games. The name is being changed in response to community feedback, in order to increase understanding and promote….here,…
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Fox And Friends Finally Addresses Fallujah Game
Despite the odd leading questions and attempts to evoke emotion in a mother who lost her son, today’s Fox and Friends roundtable debate on Six Days in Fallujah wasn’t much of a debate at all. The Fox talk show gathered together Atomic Games president Peter Tamte, game advisor Capt. Read Omohundro (retired), and Tracy Miller,…
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Red Faction Guerrilla’s Smashing London Promotion
Promoting the release of Red Faction Guerrilla in London, THQ yesterday packed a car with 100 copies of the game, chained a sledgehammer to it, and let nature take its course. Sounds like a completely appropriate and amazingly creative way to promotion the new Red Faction game, in which smashing things with a sledgehammer accounts…
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NBA Live 10 Cover Has A Magical Center
EA couldn’t wait until the finals were over to name the NBA Live 10 cover athlete, naming Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard as their poster boy. Dwight has been having a pretty good year, what with Orlando currently battling the Lakers in the NBA finals and winning the 2009 NBA Defensive Player of the Year…
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Guitar Hero 5 Combo Screens
These latest screenshots for Activision’s Guitar Hero 5 not only show off the game’s new art direction, but also the ability to play any combination of instruments. Four drum kits make for one crowded stage. Still not quite sold on this feature. I think part of the fun of the game in a social setting…
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Gaming Instead Of Sleeping Makes You Tired
A research study at the University of Arkansas has indicated that excessive gaming interferes with sleep. Thank goodness that mystery has finally been solved. Research studies sound like a great deal of fun. You get to arbitrarily assign values and definitions and then cull data based on those arbitrary assignments in order to get obvious…
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