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Blanka Frolics With Livestock In Flock
In case wrangling livestock with a UFO wasn’t enough reason to buy Capcom’s Flock, how about a cameo by everyone’s favorite green-skinned electrified Street Fighter? In this cross-over to end all cross-overs, Blanka makes a special appearance in the UFO livestock puzzler Flock, doing what he does best – rolling into a ball and falling…
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Take-Two Settles Shareholder Lawsuit
Closing one of the last doors left over from last year’s EA takeover bid, Take-Two Interactive has entered into an agreement to settle a shareholder lawsuit stemming from their failure to consider EA’s offer. The lawsuit was filed by Prickett, Jones & Elliott on behalf of Take-Two shareholder Patrick Solomon on Friday, March 7th of…
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Tell The Xbox Live Team What You Think
The Xbox Live Team is assembling today for one of their regular meetings, and you can be there too, through the magic of Twitter. While you won’t be able to actually see and hear the secret things Major Nelson and his crew will be discussing, they’ll have a large screen in front of them with…
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Fight Night 4 Is Realistically Slimy
The new physics engine for EA’s Fight Night Round 4 brings you closer than ever to the true experience of having your head sliding against a large sweaty man’s armpit. It’s all well and good when demonstrating boxing with a bald guy. What I was to see is real-time hair deformation as it slides underneath…
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Zorro Finally Destined For The Wii
After teasing us mercilessly in 2007 with the ability to slash Zs with our Wii remotes, 505 is finally ready to release The Destiny of Zorro this spring. First announced in February of 2007, a splash of screenshots and a promised 2007 release was all we saw of The Destiny of Zorro. Now, more than…
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Greg Bear Penning Halo Forerunner Trilogy
Noted science fiction author Greg Bear takes a stab at the earliest days of the Halo universe with The Forerunner Trilogy, traveling 100,000 years into the series’ past. A mysterious ancient race worshiped by the Covenant as gods, the Forerunners wiped themselves off the face of the universe to help stem the tide of the…
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A Claim to Fame, in the Dodge City of Video Games
These days, a big weekend in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 26,000 or so, is defined by the line out the door at its Applebee’s. On its chamber of commerce’s list of 101 things to do there, you’ll see attractions like genealogy research, pumpkin picking, and a tour of the John Deere factory. The same as most…
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These Kids Are Having Too Much Fun Playing Klonoa
Namco Bandai‘s TV spot for the upcoming Wii remake of Klonoa features two children getting much more out of the game than you and I ever could. Now don’t get me wrong…I love me some Klonoa. It’s right up there with Pandemonium on my list of 2.5D rail platformers. I just don’t remember any moments…
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Re-Does Wii, PS2, And PSP
While Nintendo Power managed the official announcement of the Wii remake of the original Silent Hill as Shattered Memories, Konami handles announcing it for PlayStation 2 and PSP. As mentioned in McWhertor’s post on the Wii version, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a retelling of the original Silent Hill game, with the objectives shuffled about…
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