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Burnout Cops & Robbers Pack Priced
A brand new way to play Burnout Paradise online is coming this Thursday, and Criterion Games has revealed the price you have to pay for getting mixed up with the Cops & Robbers scene. The Burnout Paradise Cops & Robbers pack introduces a ton of new police-themed makeovers for your favorite Paradise City rides, along…
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New Boxers Enter The Fight Night Round 4 Ring
Manchester England’s own Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton headlines the latest batch of screenshots featuring sweaty men hitting each other in EA’s Fight Night Round 4. How many boxers can you name in the latest roster reveal for Fight Night Round 4? I can make out Hatton, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao from the Philippines, and that’s about…
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Former Take-Two COO Lands At Realtime Worlds
Take-Two Interactive‘s former Chief Operating Officer Gary Dale has snagged himself a new gig, stepping in as CEO of Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds. Dale’s departure from Take-Two interactive was announced in January of this year, with personal reasons cited as the cause of his departure. His last official day at Take-Two was April 15th, and…
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Introducing The King Of Fighters XII
Here is the intro trailer for King of Fighters XII, so you can just press start and skip it once the game is finally released. After watching the intro a few times now, you probably could have just skipped it anyway and not have missed all that much. The seizure-inducing graphics flashing by the screen…
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Petroglyph And Trion Team For Online Strategy Title
The strategy game veterans at Petroglyph have teamed up with online game developer Trion World Network to create a new massively-multiplayer online real-time strategy game. Petroglyph is the developer behind Star Wars: Empire at War, risen from the ashes of RTS pioneers Westwood Studios of Dune 2 and Command & Conquer fame. In short, news…
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The Fate Of Six Days In Fallujah
Six Days in Fallujah might be down, but it’s not yet out, with developer Atomic Games telling Kotaku to expect to a statement soon regarding the fate of the controversial shooter. While Konami may have dropped its plans to publish the “game-amentary” in the face of public backlash, it’s quite unlikely that developer Atomic Games…
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The ESA Nabs Crave, KOEI, and Playlogic
The Entertainment Software Association continues to play “gotta catch ’em all” with small publishers, adding Crave, KOEI, and Playlogic to its ever-growing roster. It still amazes me that the ESA has an ever-growing roster following the rash of companies leaving last year, but the ESA continues to take smaller publishers into the fold. Just last…
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Free Realms Goes Free Tomorrow
After only a few weeks of closed beta testing, Sony Online Entertainment has taken down the servers for Free Realms in preparation for tomorrow’s official launch. “It’s your world and nothing’s impossible,” exclaims Free Realm’s theme song by Southern California trio The Dares, and apparently that includes one of the shortest closed beta tests in…
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Prototype’s Story In Convenient Montage Format
If you want to tell the back story of Radical Entertainment’s Protoype while still remaining cool and mysterious, then you’re going to need a montage. A back story montage! The developers certainly add to the air of mystery surrounding the virus infecting the citizens of New York City and the origin of the game’s protagonist,…
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The Nintendo Download: That Nobunaga’s Really Going Places
It’s an ambitious week for The Nintendo Download, with the feudal warlords of Nobunaga’s Ambition marching into battle against paper planes, card games, and a platforming devil. Nobunaga’s Ambition for the Super Nintendo (800 points) leads the Nintendo Download charge this week, delivering deep strategy game play that none of the newer games in the…
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