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  I Don’t Know Whether Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D is Half-Empty or Half-Full

  I don’t think there’s another game on the showroom floor of this year’s TGS (aside from maybe Monster Hunter) that so shows up the conflict between good and evil in the design of the Nintendo 3DS as Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D It looks great. Even with the 3D effects on, it looks great.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2011
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  Dragon Age II’s New DLC Stars Felicia Day. In the Actual Game.

  On October 11, BioWare will release new DLC for Dragon Age II called Mark of the Assassin, which is interesting in that it features the talents (and face) of The Guild star Felicia Day. Tying into the live-action series Redemption, you can see the DLC’s trailer – and Day’s slightly terrifying in-game face – below.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2011
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  Katamari Damacy Gets New Shape-Shifting Controls with Its Release on Vita

  Katamari Damacy is just a working title but, frankly, it’s as good as any for the version of the game soon to arrive on PlayStation Vita. Namco Bandai announced today that the venerable roll-em-up will get a Vita release on an unspecified date, and will take advantage of the new handheld’s touch-pad controls. “A completely…

  By Owen Good Published September 16, 2011
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  Japan’s Biggest Game Getting a Big Change

  For years, Monster Hunter has primarily been a PlayStation Portable game. With Monster Hunter 3G for the Nintendo 3DS, that’s going to change. Monster Hunter started out as a PlayStation 2 title and then made its way to the Wii. It was when it made the leap to the PSP that the game really took…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 16, 2011
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  Metal Gear Solid 2 In HD is all Talk (and Hairy Armpits!)

  I got to play Metal Gear Solid 2 this morning at Konami’s Tokyo Game Show booth, the game part of the company’s HD collection of the older titles in the series. Having not played it since it was first released, I was curious to see how things had changed and/or been improved for this latest…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2011
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  When (Rehearsed) Fights Break Out at the Tokyo Game Show

  The Tokyo Game Show isn’t all about games. It’s also about kicking people in the stomach. This booth is showing off fighting, protective gear, and helmets that light up. It’s also showing off macho grunts. You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 16, 2011
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  For The Next Few Days, Portal Is Free

  From now until September 20, the PC and Mac versions of Valve’s classic first-person puzzler Portal are free. Free gratis. You won’t pay a cent for it. A website has gone live (perhaps a little early) promoting the offer, which directs users to Valve’s Steam service, where they’re directed to download the game free of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2011
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  What’s on the Menu at this Remote FarmVille Restaurant in Turkey?

  I recently travelled to the Cappadocia region of Turkey to get away from work and to enjoy the area’s amazing, exotic geography. Hundreds of rock formations called “fairy chimneys” fill the terrain. In the early morning, dozens of hot air balloons take to the sky. And on the main drag in the town of Göreme,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 16, 2011
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  Let These Gangster Hostesses Welcome You to Sega’s TGS Booth

  Sega’s booth is busier and better this year than it has been in years. Part of that is because there’s a Yakuzapalooza going down, with the franchise’s PSP sequel drawing crowds, but it’s also because this year Electronic Arts doesn’t have a booth of its own. So it shacked up with Sega, adding the clout…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2011
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  Fake: Resident Evil 6 Video

  UPDATE – Despite early morning confirmations from a representative from Capcom Japan that the trailer posted above was being shown in the company’s closed theatre at the Tokyo Game Show, sources have since told us that this trailer is not real. Sorry for any confusion. We’ve left the rest of the original story intact… for…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 15, 2011
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  OverClocked ReMix’s Mega Man 9 Album Goes From Metal to Baroque and Back

  The video game-music collective OverClock ReMix has released another complete set of reimagined songs, this time for Mega Man 9. (I bet you thought I was going to put a “Goes for Baroque” joke in the title, didn’t you? Well… actually, it’s not even baroque music, it’s more like flamenco, so… yeah.) The full album…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published September 15, 2011
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  Gravity Daze is Still the Most Exciting Original PlayStation Vita Game

  The PlayStation Vita is a fantastic platform for remakes and ports (Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Final Fantasy X, etc.), but if you’re looking for something wholly original, look to Sony’s Gravity Daze We’ve played it as Gravity, the name under which it was shown at this year’s E3 expo.…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2011
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  Let’s Pretend This Week’s Nintendo Download Was Worth Waiting For

  Another week has passed, and once more Nintendo has brought us an amazing lineup of downloadable goodies! Mega Man for the Game Boy! Bridge! That other game! Excitement! And I’m spent. No real excitement this week. Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge is nice if you like recycled NES content, and Hearts is a game I…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2011
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  Wanna See More of Dragon Quest X In Action?

  Square Enix’s wildly popular (in Japan) role-playing game series is coming to the Wii and Wii U as Dragon Quest X. Only this one’s an online multiplayer RPG, a decision that’s not sitting well with some Dragon Quest fans. Watch some new footage of DQX right here and judge for yourself. The above footage—part pre-rendered…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2011
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  Would you Camp Outside for 8 Days To Get a Copy of Gears of War 3? David Tyson Would

  David Tyson, aged nineteen years, is sitting outside of the Best Buy Theatre in Times Square for next week’s Gears of War 3 launch party. If David had showed up today I would say that it is a little excessive, but it turns out he has been there since Sunday night. That’s right, he has…

  By Chris Carolan Published September 15, 2011
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  NBA Boss isn’t the First League Commissioner to Appear in a Video Game [Corrected]

  Some ramped-up role-playing sequences in NBA 2K12‘s “My Player” career mode have delivered an unlikely first: David Stern, the NBA commissioner, is the first league officer—to anyone’s recollection—to appear, both in voice and in motion capture, in a video game. [Clarification] While Roger Goodell (NFL) presents the Lombardi Trophy in the Madden NFL Super Bowl…

  By Owen Good Published September 15, 2011
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  Retro Game Master Episode 12: Golden Axe

  This week on the season finale of Retro Game Master the Kacho takes on Golden Axe. Released in 1989 by Sega for the arcade, this high fantasy side-scroller beat ’em up later made its way to a number of different consoles. In the game players take on the role of a dwarf, a barbarian or…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2011
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  Honey Badgers? In NBA Jam? It’s More Likely Than You Think

  With the NBA lockout looking like it will wipe out a lot of games this year, some basketball video game makers are looking outside the league’s real life rosters to create enthusiasm and interest. NBA 2K12 for example, is bringing 15 of the sport’s greatest players to life. NBA Jam‘s going with goddamn honey badgers…

  By Owen Good Published September 15, 2011
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  Patches, The Good Kind

  Tokyo Game Show – There was a time when patches weren’t just to fix broken things. Holding Out Against a Hero You see the icon, you read the name, you boot it up, you think Tiny Heroes is about deploying a diminutive unit to plunder the gold from the dungeon laying out there before it.…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2011
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  Daytona USA May Be Coming To A Video Game Console Near You (Again)

  What’s this?! A new rating for a Daytona USA video game? What could it mean?! If we’re venturing guesses, we’ll go with Sega reviving the classic arcade racer for an Xbox Live Arcade and/or PlayStation Network re-release. But that’s just an educated guess, based on the fact that Sega has already released games like Sonic…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2011