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Tetris Spells Trauma Relief
Researches at the Oxford University in England have discovered that the effects of traumatic stress can be dampened by something as simple as playing a bit of Tetris. 40 healthy volunteers were exposed to a film containing a series of traumatic graphic images of injuries. Half of the subjects were given the game Tetris to…
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Uwe Boll Receives Four Razzie Nominations
The Golden Raspberry Awards are the anti-Oscars, celebrating the worst that film has to offer, so it comes as no surprise that our favorite video game movie director Uwe Boll be nominated for four. According to Larry Carroll of the MTV Movie Blog, Boll appears four times on the 2008 Razzie ballot, with nominations for…
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GameCrazy Offers Street Fighter Coinage For SFIV Pre-Orders
Take a gander at this special, limited edition commemorative Street Fighter IV coin, available exclusively to folks who pre-order Capcom’s next big fighting game from retailer GameCrazy. The commemorative Street Fighter 20th Anniversary coin is a thing of joy and wonder, encompassing everything it means to be a coin, while still commemorating an event. It…
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Saint’s Row 2 Hits Steam
The nice folks at Valve have just informed us that THQ’s open-world gangbanger simulation Saint’s Row II is now available to download and play on your PC via Steam. Yes, along with your local PC game dealer, Saint’s Row 2 is now available for download on the Steam Service for the low price of $39.99,…
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Ubisoft Makes Grey’s Anatomy Game Official
Though most likely perturbed by having their fun ruined by the ESRB last month, Ubisoft has gone ahead and made Grey’s Anatomy for the Nintendo Wii, DS, and PC official. The Grey’s Anatomy games sounds like a cross between Trauma Surgeon and a an adventure game, with players taking on the roles of their favorite…
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Creat And Tikgames Bring Cuboid To PSN
Creat and Tikgames are combining gamers’ craving for puzzles with their deep-seated love of geometric shapes, resulting in Cuboid, a new puzzler coming soon to the PlayStation Network. In a post over at PlayStation.Blog, Creat Studios producer Olga Sokolova discusses the new 3D puzzle game, available “soon” on the PlayStation Network for $9.99. Cuboid is…
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50 Cent Takes Cover In New Blood On The Sand Clip
Isn’t he supposed to be Bulletproof? A fresh new video and screens from THQ’s 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand show off the game’s cover system, which involves Fiddy shouting expletives between firing weapons. At first I was a bit taken aback by the cover system, which as I said revolves around calling the enemy…
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Bioshock Could See Upwards Of Five Sequels, Story Willing
While wary of “cashing in” on the franchise, Global President of 2K Christoph Hartmann suggests that Bioshock could follow the Star Wars saga, generating sequels as long as the story holds out. Now of course he isn’t guaranteeing five more Bioshock games, but Hartmann says that if the innovation is there and the storyline is…
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