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New Trailer And Screens Herald Battlestations: Pacific Website
Eidos has just launched Battlestations.net, the community-focused website for their upcoming follow-up to Battlestations: Midway, Battlestations: Pacific, and they’re celebrating by bombarding fans with new screens and trailers. The Battlestations.net website will play host to new screenshots, movies, developer blogs, podcasts, and just about everything Battlestations: Pacific you can imagine. Fans will be able to…
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Subway Teams With Konami To Promote Healthy DDR Sales
From now until the end of March, succumbing to that damnable “Five Dollar Foot-Long” jingle could net you some plastic DDR crap and a $10 coupon good towards your next living room-eating dance pad game. In the name of promoting healthy lifestyles in children, Subway has teamed with Konami in order to include DanceDanceRevolution toys…
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Australian Silent Hill: Homecoming Ban Lifted
One of many titles banned in Australia last year due to a rather wonky classification system, Konami’s Silent Hill: Homecoming has now been granted a rating of MA15+, clearing it for launch. As we’ve touched on in previous stories, Australia’s game classification stops at MA15+, lacking the R18+ rating that particularly violent films are afforded.…
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Capcom Focus Testing In San Mateo Friday
If you’ll be in the San Francisco Bay area this Friday and seek to experience the exciting world of video game focus testing, Capcom could have just the opportunity you’re looking for. Capcom is holding a round of focus testing on Friday, and unless they’ve suddenly decided to go into the soft drink market, that…
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Earthrise Beta Sign Ups Rise
Announced at the beginning of last year, Masthead’s upcoming post-apocalyptic MMORPG Earthrise is now accepting applications for the battle between oppressive order and anarchic freedom. Earthrise takes place years after a cataclysmic third world war. A new society has arisen, populated by clones and controlled by a government that enforces its idea of Utopia by…
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SCEA: Holiday PlayStation 3 Sales Jump 130%
Despite an 18.8% drop in year to year PlayStation 3 sales in November, Sony Computer Entertainment America states early internal data puts them at a 130% increase over pre-holiday PS3 sales. Although November saw relatively disappointing PS3 sales and analysts were expecting numbers to be slightly lower than or right on track with last year’s,…
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Slimmed Down Free Radical Very Attractive To Buyers
Having recently shed 140 employees worth of weight, the slimmer, more manageable Free Radical is drawing a great deal of interest from various parties, with sale news expected later this month. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Cameron Gunn of administrator ReSolve Partners indicates that interest in the recently trimmed company is very high, with multiple parties vying…
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Ashcraft Talks Arcade Mania!
Over at Game Set Watch there’s an exhaustive interview with our own Brian Ashcraft about his book, Arcade Mania!, containing more insight from Ash than I generally see over the course of a year. Ashcraft is the night guy, so I generally roll into work right as he is hitting bed, and have finished up…
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New Ninja Blade Screens And Ninja Blade Facts
Microsoft has releases a storm of new Ninja Blade screenshots showing off just how silly Ryu Haybusa would look without the mouth piece of his Ninja Outfit. Sure the action looks intense and the enemies look immense…none of this matters when your main character looks like he rode the short bus to ninja school. The…
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EA Bring Family Game Night To Xbox Live
EA continues its onslaught of Hasbro titles this spring as the company reveals plans to flood Xbox Live Arcade with classic board games via the Hasbro Family Game Night channel. Rather than release Hasbro Family Game Night as one complete package as they did with the Wii release, EA instead plans on releasing the games…
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