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Banjo-Tooie Trailer Brings Back Memories
In case you’ve completely forgotten everything you remember about Rare’s bear and bird sequel Banjo-Tooie, the new trailer and screens for the Xbox Live Arcade version should jog your memory nicely. Isn’t it amazing how your mind flavors your recollection of older games? Thinking back to my time playing Banjo-Tooie on the Nintendo 64, the…
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Punch-Out!! Multiplayer Has You Seeing Double
It’s Little Mac versus differently-colored Little Mac in these multiplayer screenshots from Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Wii. It boggles the mind that in a game with such a great cast of characters, multiplayer is limited to a split-screen battle with Little Mac versus another Little Mac. Nintendo tries to mix things up by making one…
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Demigod Review: Aspiring To Godhood
Supreme Commander developer Gas Powered Games seeks to take online PC strategy games to a higher plane with the release of Demigod. Demigod is an action real-time strategy game with role-playing game elements that obviously takes a great deal of inspiration from the popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. Instead of commanding armies…
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Nintenducation – A New Take On Edutainment
It’s a great time to be in grade school, if you live in Japan or Great Britain. Several dozen schools in both countries are putting Nintendo DSs in K-12 classes. Games are no stranger to schools, of course. Think back to the 80s when at least 30 minutes of every school day was given over…
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Supreme Court On Jack Thompson Appeal: No Thanks
Jack Thompson‘s appeal of his enhanced disbarment from the Florida Bar hit a bit of a snag on Monday, as the Supreme Court refused to hear his case. The court’s decision not to grant Thompson a writ of Certiorari was pretty much a given, considering such a grant is reserved for only the most important…
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Atlus Online Now Open For Business
Atlus has completed phase one in the deployment of their internet community and online gaming portal Atlus Online, with mascot Jack Frost running rampant all over the page. Announced to the world back in February, Atlus Online is an online community for fans of Atlus games, role-playing, and anime, three passions that generally coincide quite…
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UncategorizedHow Not To Play Rock Band
Never, ever be this guy. Grant Lokey sent us a link to this video, which supposedly shows him secretly filming his brother behaving like a complete and utter dickhead while playing Rock Band. It’s hilarious, embarrassing, and completely over the top. Considering it was posted to YouTube under the name ChickenFriedComedy, it’s also most likely…
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Half A Billion EA Sports Games Played Online In A Year
EA Sports marches the big numbers out onto the field, announcing that as of this week, more than 500 million online sports games have been played since the ’09 line launched last June. EA Sports titles have gone crazy online this year, with the 500 million plus games being played representing a jump of 175%…
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NCsoft Builds Up Steam
Massively multiplayer online game publisher NCsoft is doing the digital distribution thing, with all of its online titles available today for purchase and play via Valve’s Steam service. All current NCsoft titles should be available via the Steam service today, from the recently released City of Heroes Architect Edition to the Guild Wars series. This…
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Check Out The Package On Devil Summoner 2
The premium bundle for Atlus’ PlayStation 2 role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon is almost too pretty to open. It’s the kind of box set you’d place on your mantle with your other video gaming trophies, rather than simply ripping open the package and leaving it on the…
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Champions Online Swings Into Action
Witness an exciting new travel power that developer Cryptic is including in their massively multiplayer online superhero game Champions Online. One of the big problems with City of Heroes has always been the inability to make a convincing Spider-Man clone. Hulk and Wolverine were not a problem, but without web-swinging, there really couldn’t be a…
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Dreamcast New In Box $99 At ThinkGeek
Retire that poor, battered Dreamcast desperately clinging to life in your entertainment center with a shiny new one from ThinkGeek, where they’re offering the console new in box for $99. I don’t know where they got them, or how many they have. I just know that geek superstore ThinkGeek.com is now selling new Dreamcast consoles…
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There’s A Mystery To Solve In MySims Agents
EA takes their tiny blocked-headed MySims and thrusts them deep into the heart of a sinister plot that could determine the fate of an entire city in MySims Agents for the Nintendo Wii and DS. The MySims are everywhere now. They’re partying, racing, defending fantasy kingdoms, and now taking on the role of secret agents…
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Lifetime PAL Console Sales Figures Get
The latest financial presentation from European video game retailer Game comes complete with lifetime European sales numbers for the current crop of consoles and handhelds. Let’s take a look! The information is presented in the form of a hardware install base chart, with data provided by GfK Chart Track and Game’s own internal data, tallying…
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