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Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors Coming Soon to PS3, PSP
If you’ve given up waiting for Capcom to announce a new entry in the Darkstalkers series, take solace in the fact one of the originals is primed for a re-release over the PlayStation Network. Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors has been rated by the ESRB (T for Teen, for the record), clearing it for an upcoming…
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UncategorizedWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
I don’t know about you, but I feel like playing some MLB 2K11 after seeing that. Who knows what I’ll feel like saying, doing or playing after the conclusion of Game Seven of the World Series tonight. Last night’s epic was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen on live television. Otherwise, what’s on…
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NBA 2K12 Works Overtime on a Problem with Roots in the Dreamcast
Within five seconds of introducing himself to YouTube as MrPurple0, the guy is off on a nonstop, highly personal tirade condemning 2K Sports and NBA 2K12. Were it transcribed, it is hard to imagine a period between any of the sentences. “The servers are garbage, the servers are trash,” he says, frustrated by day-of-release problems…
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The Week in Gaming Apps All Rolled Up Into a Giant Star-Sized Ball
You never have to worry about storage when the Week in Gaming Apps contains a Katamari game, only gravitational pull, intense heat, and the odd zombie. Katamari Amore kicked off a week of the best (or at least notable) gaming apps available for iOS, Android, and sometimes Windows Phone 7 (just not this week). After…
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UncategorizedThis is How You Play Heroes of Ruin for the 3DS
There’s not much incoming to the Nintendo 3DS that I’m truly excited about, but after watching more than six minutes of this developer walkthrough of Square Enix’s Heroes of Ruin, the list might just get one title bigger. Having not attended any of the big industry events this year due to a pair of tiny…
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UncategorizedWhy Yes, I’d Love to Play Wizardry on My iPhone
After receiving a rather lukewarm reception on the PlayStation Network, Acquire is bringing the Japanese-flavored old fashion turn-based dungeon crawling of Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls to iOS next week. Long before I was running through MMORPG dungeons in full first-person 3D, I was pointing and clicking my way through PC classics like Bane of…
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I Don’t Know What Project Hell Yeah! Is, But Sega Seems to Like It
Today Sega has revealed that they’re working with Big Bang Mini developer Arkedo on something called Project Hell Yeah!, a game so exciting it requires an exclamation point. All we know so far is it will have monsters, possibly a dead rabbit, and was originally developed for the Dreamcast 2. Oh wait, they lied. I…
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UncategorizedLord of the Rings: War in the North Has Ten Days
With Skyrim-lust whipping fantasy role-playing game fans into a frothy puddle, perhaps November 1 is the best possible time for Warner Bros. to release The Lord of the Rings: War in the North As much as I trust Snowblind Studios to develop a compelling action role-playing game and as intriguing as the concept of an…
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How DUST 514 and EVE Online Bridge the Gap Between PC and PlayStation 3
In CCP’s DUST 514 for the PlayStation 3, battles are initiated by corporations in the PC-based space MMO EVE Online. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, CCP server architect Lin Luo talks about how much fun making that work is. First we need to understand the basic flow of a DUST 514 battle. First,…
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