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  Rumor: You Got “The Touch” In Guitar Hero

  What Stan Bush wants, Stan Bush gets. His motivational power jam "The Touch," featured so prominently in the animated Transformers: The Movie, is coming to Guitar Hero, according to the man behind the song. Wait… it gets even better. Mr. Bush writes to Transformers fan resource Seibertron.com to let music enthusiasts know that Activision has…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2009
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  The Final Resident Evil 5 Viral – Chris Kills A Television

  Resident Evil 5 is finally upon us, signaling the end of live-action Chris Redfield‘s flashbacks and the beginning of his vendetta against appliances. A word to the wise: be careful using your television remote around live-action Chris Redfield. You might want to quietly warn him first, lest the sudden powering up of the entertainment device…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  Rolando Update Delivers New Levels

  A new update recently hit iPhone puzzler Rolando, adding five new secret levels to the game and tweaking the physics and rendering, according to iTunes. The $5 iPhone game was already stuffed with 36 levels spread out over four worlds and has received mostly favorable reviews. There’s even a free version now, if you’re not…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009
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  Rockstar Delivers With Custom GTA: Chinatown Wars Styli

  Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS arrived this weekend at Kotaku Towers West in a swag-filled box, including a pair of brilliant DS styli that make playing the game much harder. Actually, playing Chinatown Wars is challenging enough with the stock stylus. I opted to get smudgy, using nimble finger pokes to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2009
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  Metal Gear Online SCENE’s Charming New Skills

  The Metal Gear Online SCENE expansion comes out tomorrow, bringing with it some charming new skills and fishy emblems for players to strive for. Three new skills drop with tomorrow’s expansion. Close Quarters Combat EX automatically counters any CQC attack on your character, while Toughness allows you to endure knockback moves, lessening your recovery time.…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  Dark Void Setting Concept Art Explained

  Capcom dumped a few pieces of concept art for their upcoming Dark Void title over on their Unity site, and walked through some of the ideas they were going for in creating the different settings. In Dark Void, they say, they want players to be able to move from “lush jungle, to alien canyons floating…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009
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  Alpha Protocol Brings On The Job Training To The Spy Game

  If you caught this weekend’s GameTrailers TV, you’re probably well-schooled in Sega and Obsidian Entertainment‘s Alpha Protocol, the "first modern-day spy role-playing game." If not here’s two minutes worth of introduction. Making RPG-style character progression work in a realistic setting—more realistic than, say, Mass Effect or Final Fantasy, for example—always seems like a challenging thing…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2009
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  Valykyria Chronicles Getting Triple Deployment Of DLC

  Sega’s PlayStation 3 exclusive tactical role-playing game Valkyria Chronicles is calling in reinforcements soon, with three separate packs of downloadble content soon bolstering the ranks. Two entirely new missions and a Hard EX mode add new life one of the most under appreciated titles on the PlayStation 3. Edy’s Mission “Enter The Edy Detachment” follows…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  Capcom Calls “BS” On Resident Evil 5 DLC Complaints

  Capcom received some backlash last week when they announced that they would be selling downloadable content for Resident Evil 5 which would add multiplayer modes to the game. Most of the Internet angst seems to surround the timing of the release and questions why it wasn’t just included on the disc. But Christian Svensson, vice…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009
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  Solid Snake Gets Squared By Michael Lau

  Seminal urban vinyl toy designer Michael Lau riffs on Hideo Kojima’s Solid Snake with his upcoming collection of Gardener figures, planned for a release later this month at the CS Booth 16 event in Hong Kong. Lau’s Snake Square nods not so subtly to the Snake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, packing geometric…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2009
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  Puzzle Quest: Galactrix PC Review: Lost In Space

  Infinite Interactive takes its innovative mix of role-playing and puzzle games to the stars with Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. The follow up to 2007’s smash hit Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Galactrix takes the blend of role-playing mechanics and puzzle game to a whole new frontier, replacing the fantasy role-playing adventure of the first title…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  Polishing The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena

  In this second developer diary for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, developer Starbreeze talks about what goes into making the most polished game they’ve ever created. Starbreeze is big on polish, a fact they’ve readily demonstrated in their two previous outings, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Darkness.…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  Plant Your Seeds In Gardening Mama This Month

  Be prepared to plant your seed, sow the fields, and work that hoe, as Majesco announces a late-March release date for Gardening Mama on the Nintendo DS. Yes, the handling of meat and icing the cake of the Majesco’s Cooking Mama series gives way to an all new set of sexual euphemisms come March 31st,…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  What Guitar Hero and Rock Band Can Teach Us

  Contrary to your assumptions, Guitar Hero and Rock Band are not sneered at by all serious musicians. By themselves they may not teach you how to be a part of a bona fide rock band, but two instructors whose job it is to do so say the games have some qualities that make them a…

  By Owen Good Published March 16, 2009
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  Epic Unveiling New Unreal Engine 3 Goodies At GDC

  Epic is making it even easier for everyone and their grandmother to develop video games, showing off a slew of new features for their wildly popular Unreal Engine 3 at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Now that they’ve managed to license their engine to just about everyone in the gaming industry, Epic is ready to…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  Get Guitar Hero World Tour On The Cheap

  If you’ve been toying with the idea of purchasing Guitar Hero World Tour, yet worried about spending nearly $200 on another band game, Amazon’s video game Deal of the Day is here to help. Today and today only, Amazon has discounted Guitar Hero World Tour across all platforms as part of their video game Deal…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  House of the Dead: Overkill Breaks F-ing Record

  Continuing in it’s tradition of listing bizarre video game world record breakers, Guinness today announced the game with the most swearing in it. Weighing in with 189 uses of the F-bomb is The House of the Dead: Overkill. That works out to more than one rhymes with duck per a minute, or three percent of…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2009
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  The ESA Harvests Natsume

  The Entertainment Software Association continues to regrow after last year’s exodus, with Harvest Moon publisher Natsume casting their lot with the industry trade organization. Natsume is the second publisher to sign with the ESA this year, after SouthPeak signed up earlier this month. This follows a string of companies leaving the organization last year, perhaps…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  Velvet Assassin Trailer Evokes Disturbing Mental Picture

  What was presumably meant to be a sexy and inspiring trailer for Replay Studio’s Velvet Assassin instead manages to bring to mind the disturbing image of Sir Winston Churchill in a bloody nightie. Sir Winston Churchill’s famous June 4th, 1940 speech, commonly referred to as “We will fight on the beaches”, was one of the…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009
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  Weekly Wii Update: The BIT.TRIP Begins

  A new game made to look old and a newly re-released old game join the Nintendo Wii line up this week, with BIT.TRIP BEAT and Summer Games II available for purchase today. BIT.TRIP BEAT(WiiWare 600 Wii points) is one part Pong, on part rhythm game, where they player controls a paddle with their Wii remote,…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2009