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Crash Tops The iTunes All-Time Top Paid Apps List
As part of the countdown to the one billionth download from the iTunes App Store, Apple has released lists of the all-time top paid and unpaid apps, with Crash Bandicoot riding high. Video games represent 14 out of the 20 all-time top paid applications in the iTunes store, and it really isn’t a surprise to…
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Game Teaches Kentucky Children About Online Predators
$300,000 worth of federal funding in Kentucky is being spent on an interactive computer program designed to warn parents and children of the dangers of online predators. The game, titled Missing, follows the adventures of a teen named Zachary Taylor who finds himself in an inappropriate online relationship with someone named Fantasma. Soon Zachary goes…
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Ghostbusters Rule Number Three
The latest trailer for Atari’s Ghostbusters imparts a pearl of wisdom as poignant today as it was back when the movie was first released: splitting up is always a good idea. I think we’ve missed a rule somewhere. We’ve seen rule number two, don’t look directly into the trap, and now rule number three, which…
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Konami Bringing Fallujah To 360, PS3, and PC
In all of the commotion surrounding Konami’s upcoming documentary-style combat game Six Days In Fallujah, we hadn’t actually learned what platforms the game was coming to. Now we know. Konami officially announced the development of the already controversial game today, revealing that the title is in development for the usual current-generation suspects – the PlayStation…
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Get Even More Familiar With Steal Princess
Atlus wants players to be more familiar with their DS puzzle platformer Steal Princess before it sees release, and nothing says familiarity like enough screenshots to play the game flipbook style. The sun is shining; the grass so green. A perfect day to thumb through 38 new screenshots from Steal Princess. The screens come courtesy…
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Sony: The PlayStation 3 Pushes More Blockbusters
Sony contends that the PlayStation 3 maintains a higher attach rate for blockbuster games than the Xbox 360, and has the numbers to back up the claim. Information delivered to Gamasutra in preparation for an interview with Sony’s Peter Dille included several examples of the how blockbuster titles sell nearly as many or more copies…
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Taking Damnation To The Next Level
Building the vertical-oriented worlds found in Blue Omega‘s Damnation takes a great deal more effort than simply plotting out points on graph paper. Damnation’s lead game designer Jacob Minkoff walks us through the process of creating the expansive, realistic spaces found in the Western steampunk shooter Damnation. They use a completely different method for mapping…
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City Of Heroes Team Becomes Paragon Studios
NCsoft cements their commitment to the City of Heroes franchise today, officially changing the name of development team NCsoft NorCal to Paragon Studios. Paragon Studios gets its name from Paragon City, the central location in NCsoft’s massively multiplayer online superhero game. NCsoft NorCal was formed in Mountain View, California in 2007, when NCsoft took over…
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How To Experience The Red Faction: Guerilla Demo
While North American gamers still have to pre-order Red Faction: Guerrilla through GameStop to gain early access to the demo, lucky Europeans need look no further than their web browsers. GameStops across North America are reporting the arrival of demo codes for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Red Faction: Guerrilla, handed over…
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World Of Warcraft Patch 3.1 Reveals The Secrets Of Ulduar
New dungeons, dual talent specializations, user interface improvements, and much more arrive today with The Secrets of Ulduar, patch 3.1 for World of Warcraft. Though it snags top billing, the massive dungeon of Ulduar is just the tip of the iceberg in patch 3.1. The patch sees the implementation of a relatively expensive but extremely…
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GameStop Breaks Demigod Street Date, Ruins Stardock’s Easter
A street date broken by GameStop late last week had Demigod publisher Stardock scrambling to get enough multiplayer matchmaking servers up to handle the sudden rush of players. GameStop was selling the real-time strategy PC game from Gas Powered Games as early as last Friday, days ahead of the planned April 15th street date. Those…
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