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Monday Night Combat Update Shortens Crossfire Wait
Not “patched,” remember? Monday Night Combat carries a “Live Update System” that allows it to tune settings without rolling a full patch through the time-consuming certification channels. Here’s what you get: • Time between Crossfire matches (the competitive multiplayer arena) has been shortened to 45 seconds from 60 seconds. • The minimum number of players…
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A Very Brief Look At Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst
During Micorosft’s press event at Gamescom last week, I got a very brief look at Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst, a tower defense game with a real-world twist that doesn’t have much to do with Crackdown, aside from the ducks. Gizmodo gave us a brief look at Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst last week, and they pretty…
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Sony Considers ‘Online Pass’ For MLB The Show
Sony’s European president said the company is “broadly supportive” of measures like EA Sports’ Online Pass – which enables online features through a one-use code free in retail copies – and is considering them for titles like MLB The Show. “On the principle of making online portions of the game available or unlocked from the…
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Forty-Five Minutes As A Bunny-Loving Guild Wars 2 Necromancer
In my 45 minutes with Guild Wars 2 I saved a fortress from centaur attack, rescued some villagers, saved a farm from bandits, watered several other players, gained the admiration of meat eaters everywhere, and corralled bunny rabbits. Guild Wars 2 was the game I was looking forward to seeing the most at Gamescom 2010,…
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The One Thing I’d Change About Resident Evil 5’s Move Controls
What would I change about Resident Evil 5’s PlayStation Move controls? I’d stop staring at Sheva so much. Brian Ashcraft and Stephen Totilo have already played Resident Evil 5 with Sony’s new Move controller, and for the most part I agree with their conclusions: It does feel better than the standard controller, with only one…
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Grab The Keys To The City In Crackdown 2
Ruffian Games and Microsoft detail the Toy Box add-on for Crackdown 2 today which adds the eagerly anticipated Keys to the City cheat mode for free, as well as a handful of new content for those willing to pay the price. The Toy Box updated for Crackdown 2 is an update in two parts, one…
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TimeShift Weighs Heavily On Inversion
Saber Interactive created 2007’s TimeShift, a first-person shooter with a time-twisting gimmick that wasn’t particularly well received. Now they’re back with Inversion, a third-person shooter with a gravity-twisting gimmick. Will history repeat itself? Saber Interactive’s Matthew Karch was on hand at Gamescom on Friday to give us a brief overview and a look at the…
By Mike Fahey
