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Sunday Coupons: GameStop Gives Us Credit
You can still find 13-month Xbox Live cards for $30, or 3-month subs with the Lost & Damned DLC. Plus, GameStop is opening up store credit like a subprime lender from 2004. • Last week, Best Buy offered the 13 month XBL card for $29.99. It’s back to full price there, but Toys R Us…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
SFIV’s Opening Cinematic, for Japanese Versions
.html Here’s your three-minute opening cinematic for Street Fighter IV (Japan release). The heavily stylized rendering spills huge amounts of blood – or ink, depending on your point of view. Any franchise with a stable of well known characters going back 20 years – especially one that’s made everyone wait this long for a true…
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Far Cry 2 Goes Hardcore
The next set of patches for for Far Cry 2 will deliver a “hardcore mode” begged for by players in Ubisoft’s forums. It will deliver “a more realistic experience” in multiplayer. Ubi community manager Atmon spread the word on Friday. Hardcore mode delivers a new damage model (meaning, increased damage) and rebalanced weapons. Also: •…
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Have Your Rock Band Cake, and GH:WT Bundle for $60, Too
Ed B. has had a helluva two weeks. First he got married, and his bride gave him that Rock Band drum cake. Then Best Buy gave him Guitar Hero: World Tour, with instruments, for $60. First, the Best Buy tale, because once you hear this SKRU-ed up SKU promotion, you may want to see if…
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Preview: Don’t Cross The Streams
It’s hard to believe it has taken almost 25 years for someone to make a good Ghostbusters game. Thankfully, Atari came to the rescue and picked up this stranded title for us to finally enjoy. What It Is Ghostbusters: The Video Game is a 3rd-person action game written by none other than Dan Aykroyd (Ray)…
By Jim Reilly - Uncategorized
Transformers Trailer: Optimus Warned You
Here’s your trailer and a few screengrabs for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Duh-duh-duhhhhhhh …) Call me old, but I liked their look better when I could visualize how their parts fit together. Not only that, if the robots from the 1980s actually did look like this, they’d be the ouchiest, finger-pinchiest, consumer-product-safety-commission-recallingest mofos ever…
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Rumor: Namco Yanks Splatterhouse From Bottlerocket
On the same day the Splatterhouse trailer debuted, Namco is rumored to have pulled the unfinished project from Bottlerocket, dooming the California-based developer. Sources through the San Diego-area dev community – but not with Bottlerocket itself – say Namco showed up Friday and took back the dev kits and all assets for Splatterhouse. Word has…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
All of Halo 3’s Maps Included in ODST
Bungie’s cleared up “an oft-asked, but pertinent question” regarding multiplayer content on Halo 3: ODST. Specifically, yes, it will have all 24 Halo 3 maps. Quoth Bungie: Just some minor housekeeping this week. We wanted to address an oft-asked, but pertinent question about the Halo 3 Multiplayer content that will ship with Halo 3: ODST…
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Rockstar Neither Confirms — Nor Denies — Luis Rumor
Gamer speculation holds that GTA’s second DLC episode, following Lost and Damned, will feature Dominican dope dealer Luis Fernando Lopez. Given the chance to deny it to Gametrailers, Rockstar’s Jeronimo Barrera didn’t. For those who haven’t played this far, spoiler alert (I guess. This is so old. Anyway.) But completing “Museum Piece” in Grand Theft…
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Konami Smacks Down 100+ Metal Gear Online Accounts
Konami told Metal Gear Online gamers that it’s “taken action” against 113 alleged cheaters. From the tone of the announcement, it sounds like a response to months of complaining of glitching and other abuses. Here’s the note Konami sent out to players late yesterday afternoon: Konami has a firm policy regarding cheating in Metal Gear…
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Witcher Goest Thou, White Wolf?
Six new screens are out there for The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf. The RPG places you in a medieval world, hunting down monsters and sleuthing out your own mysterious past. That’s the company line, anyhow. To me, I’d say the game involves David Carradine walking the earth looking for supernatural asses to kung…
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WWI Flight Combat Makes Another Sortie
It’s been 10 years since would-be flying aces had anything worth playing – 1999’s Red Baron 3D. Since then, fans of this genre have been disappointed repeatedly. Rise of Flight wants to fix that. The World War I combat flight sim may be a rather specific genre, definitely suited for PC play over console. But…
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Godfather: The Lawsuit Settled
Paramount and the estate of “The Godfather” author Mario Puzo settled their $1 million dustup over how much was owed to whom over sales and rentals of the 2006 game. The estate of Puzo, who died in 1999, sued Paramount Pictures Corp., which licensed the game to Electronic Arts. The two sides appeared headed for…
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Unbound Saga: Drawing Up a Beat-Down
Unbound Saga, billed as an arcade-brawler with comic-book art direction, was announced with this trailer at New York Comic-Con. The adaptation of the Dark Horse title is due out for the PSP in June. An accompanying news release says PSPers can battle it out as Rick Ajax, the series’ star, traversing 10 levels of comic…
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ESRB Gettin’ Ready for DSi
As you can see, the ESRB is all set to start listing DSiware. And we’re all ready to start snooping them out once they get rated. The page, for now, is empty. Of course, we’re all wondering what rating the Tokyo rail map and the alarm clock will pull down once that content is in…
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Xbox Helped Drone Pilot Be All He Could Be
A guy went from high school dropout to drone pilot instructor in the Army – not a position most 19-year-old enlisteds hold, by the way – thanks in part to his video game skills. In an interview, P.W. Singer, a former defense policy adviser to the Obama campaign, and the author of “Wired for War,”…
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Kotaku Originals: Impressive Impressions
In a week that saw our new previews format, we gave you the goods on Resident Evil 5 (preview) and Killzone 2 (impressions) plus nearly half-a-dozen more titles. The previews weren’t limited to just games. Jeff Kass gave everyone a look at the video-game parts of his comprehensive Columbine retrospective set for publication right around…
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