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UncategorizedJazz Comes Late To The War For Cybertron Preorder Exclusive Party
It seems to me that you’d want to announce all of your retailer preorder exclusive items at the same time, to avoid shutting out one particular store, but here comes Jazz, ready to fight multiplayer battles for Best Buy customers. Activision revealed Shockwave as the GameStop preorder bonus multiplayer character for Transformers: War for Cybertron…
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What On Earth Is Mega Man Universe?
A trademark application filed last week by Capcom for Mega Man Universe could indicate big things in store for everyone’s favorite blue bomber. IS Capcom working on a massively-multiplayer Mega Man title? It sounds unlikely, but that’s the first thought that comes to mind when seeing the name Mega Man Universe. The trademark application, discovered…
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World Of Warcraft’s New Recruit-A-Friend Reward Is So Romantic
What could be more romantic than flying over the moon-dappled snow of Azeroth’s northlands with your significant other’s arms wrapped around you, straddling the new X-53 Touring Rocket, World of Warcraft’s first two-person flying mount? Blizzard wantts you to play World of Warcraft, but if they’ve already got you, they’ll gladly take your friends, and…
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Guild Wars 2’s Design Manifesto Details Anti-Social Social Enhancements
Guild Wars developer ArenaNet launches its new blog in grand fashion today, with a design manifesto detailing all the ways that they’re raising the MMO bar for Guild Wars 2, from exciting combat to a novel solution to kill stealing. The more I read about ArenaNet’s goals in developing the follow-up to Guild Wars, the…
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Bust Up Your World Of Warcraft Character
Why spend all day staring at your Blood Elf rogue’s ass when you can spend all day staring at her chest? Custom statue creators FigurePrints is now making busts of your World of Warcraft alter-egos. FigurePrints made a killing in the custom statue business a couple of years back when then first introduced made-to-order, full-figure…
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Why Conduit 2 Will Be Better Than The Conduit
In a message to Sega fans posted at the company’s European blog, High Voltage chief creative officer Eric Nofsinger explains why The Conduit was a muddled, uninteresting jumble, and why the game’s sequel won’t be. Nofsinger might not use those exact words, but they are certainly implied in the lengthy message, assuring fans that next…
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What’s My Motivation? Why We Play The Top 100 Games
We pulled the top 100 highest rated games from review aggregation website GameRankings.com and broke them down by primary motivation – the driving force behind the heroes, anti-heroes, competitors, and god-like beings inhabiting those acclaimed titles. Are we the world’s last bastion of defense against total destruction, or are we just trying to win the…
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Iron Man 2’s Cinematics Aren’t Looking Too Shabby
Uncanny, or funcanny? This cinematic intro for Sega’s Iron Man 2 captures the wit and warmth of the movie franchise quite nicely, even if the characters do look a little creepy. Becoming a video game character takes years off Don Cheadle’s face, doesn’t it? Samuel L. Jackson is looking a bit younger than usual as…
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Amazon Doing Xbox 360 Deals All Day Long
It’s that time again! Time to watch the clock, solve the clues, and save big on the Xbox 360 titles featured all day long in Amazon’s Gold Box. Is BioShock 2 for $40 really a good deal? Either way, that’s what Amazon.com is leading off with today, giving Xbox 360 owners a chance to revisit…
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