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DJ Max Fever’s Extremely Limited, Ultra-Expensive Edition
Fans of Pentavision’s DJ Max series are a fiercely loyal bunch, but are they fiercely loyal enough to shell out $130 for the ultra-limited the crew edition of DJ Max Fever for the PSP? The series might be a bit obscure – I was the only person who pre-ordered a copy of DJ Max Fever…
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Frankenreview: Nintendo DSi
The third iteration of the Nintendo DS is upon us, adding new functionality, more power, and an extra vowel. In 2004 Nintendo released the little dual-screen handheld that could, the Nintendo DS. Two years later they trimmed down the fat with the sleeker, shinier DS Lite. Now the third version of the handheld has made…
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Company Of Heroes Expands With Tales Of Valor
One of the highest-rated real-time strategy games of all-time gets a standalone expansion this week in Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor. Relic Entertainment’s real-time strategy World War II masterpiece gets a healthy dose of new content with the Men of Valor standalone expansion, now available at retail, on Steam, and any number of digital…
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Strong Bad Sales Double With Wii SD Card Support
Nintendo’s addition of SD memory card play to the Nintendo Wii has done amazing things for WiiWare developers, with Telltale announcing that sales of their Strong Bad series have doubled since the GDC announcement. Those looking for proof that a solution to Wii storage limits was sorely needed by both developers and customers need look…
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Blood Bowl Gets A Website, Beta Signups Begin
Cyanide Studios‘ video game version of the classic tabletop fantasy football game Blood Bowl has a brand new website chock full of game information, along with a sign-up page for the multiplayer PC beta test. Of course when I say fantasy football, I am talking real fantasy football based in the Warhammer universe, with dwarves,…
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City Of Heroes Explodes With Player Created Content
City of Heroes becomes the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to allow player created content, with the release Issue 14: Architect. This launch video for Issue 14 is an overview of the mission creation system, which we’ve gone over rather exhaustively in the past. Now that the system is live, it’s all up to…
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Eidos: Batman Is “As Close To Perfect As We’ve Ever Come”
Eidos kicks the hype engine for Batman: Arkham Asylum into overdrive, preparing a massive marketing campaign for what they are predicting will be one of the stand-out titles of the year. Eidos’ head of UK marketing Jon Brooke doesn’t mince words. Speaking to MCV, Brooke extolled Batman’s many virtues in a bombastic fashion sure to…
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Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Deployed
Halo 3 fans now have three new places to kill each other, as the long-awaited Mythic Map Pack makes its way onto the Xbox Live Marketplace. The Xbox Live Marketplace flavor text is simply exquisite this time around, really evoking the atmosphere of these three new maps for Halo 3. If the flavor text doesn’t…
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D&D Co-Creator Dead At 61
Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and one of the founding fathers of the role-playing genre, Dave Arneson has passed away at the age of 61. While the late Gary Gygax, who passed on a little more than a year ago, added fantasy elements to war gaming to create the basis for Dungeons & Dragons, it…
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Grand Slam Tennis Cover Features Tennis Star Triple Play
Instead of focusing on just one athlete for the cover of Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii, EA plasters three of the biggest names in tennis across the front of the box. In one fell swoop, EA has taken my cumulative knowledge of tennis and condensed it neatly into a game cover. John McEnroe, Roger…
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