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Bay Area Game Jam Rocks My Weekend
This weekend, Wild Pockets, Crispy Gamer and Microsoft are teaming up to host Bay Area Game Jam – a 24-hour game development competition at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, California. Contestants have to use Wild Pockets’ 3D web-based game engine and the fine print on the contest rules specifies that this is…
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Not As Shocking New G.I. Joe Screens
After the last batch of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra screens, I was seriously hoping to see more of Cobra — specifically Destro and Baroness — doing their thing. But instead, we’ve got more “Yo, Joe!” shots of Snake Eyes, Duke and some random dudes blowing stuff up. Mind you, blowing stuff up is…
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Alpha Protocol: Obsidian Evolves
The team at Obsidian talk about how they’ve evolved over the years leading up to the development of the real-world espionage role-playing game Alpha Protocol. Looking at Alpha Protocol in action, it’s hard to imagine this is the same team that worked on classic role-playing games like Planescape: Torment. Despite their fine relatively performance working…
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Xbox Live’s April Deals Of Darkness
Microsoft has revealed the game and add-on discounts coming your way as part of the Xbox Live Deal of the Week program, and odds are you might find something worth spending points on. Heading up the deals for this month is Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, on sale next week for…
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BioShock 2 Isn’t Sea of Dreams Again
BioShock 2’s on again, off again love affair with the subtitle “Sea of Dreams” is finally officially off…or we hope so, for the sake of our sanity. Despite official word given to Eurogamer last month after the first time we discovered the subtitle wouldn’t stick, IGN now has the official official words, and they are…
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Eating The Story Of Prototype
Poor Alex Mercer. The Prototype antagonist wakes up in a morgue and has to eat people to regain his memories. Yum. There’s a bit more to it than that, but the idea of consuming other people as a storytelling technique is certainly a novel way of putting a fresh spin on the overly-used amnesia mechanic.…
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Fallout 3 360 Pitt DLC: Take 3
The Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3‘s The Pitt downloadable content has been revised once again, with users experiencing crashes urged to delete the old files and download the new. Third time’s the charm, right? The first batch was corrupted; the second plagued with random freezing. Now the third version of The Pitt is up…
By Mike Fahey