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  Pro Evo 2010 Box Art Is Short, Beautiful

  The thing about the football market having two flagship series as opposed to, say, the NFL’s one, is that there are always two box art rituals to sit through. We’ve seen FIFA’s, now let’s look at Pro Evo‘s. Appearing on the cover of this year’s edition are Barcelona’s pint-sized Argentinian Lionel Messi, who reprises his…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  Fez: New Footage!

  Can’t say I watch G4’s Electric Playground that often. And by that, I mean never. Which explains why I missed this neat little segment on the neat-looking XBLA platformer Fez. There’s an interesting interview with the game’s shaggy developers, Polytron, along with a few minute’s worth of in-game footage. The clip below is the full…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  How Borderlands Will Handle Cheaters

  There are cheaters. There are always cheaters. Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has a plan to get ’em. “We’re going to wait and see what the cheaters do, and then we’ll attack them,” says Gearbox honcho Randy Pitchford. “It’s the only way to fight them, they’ll be there no matter what we do. The console versions…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  Tearing The PSPgo To Pieces, Just To See What Its Insides Look Like

  Another day, another ruthless dismembering of a Sony console, as following on from yesterday’s PS3 Slim teardown we now get a real good look at the PSPgo’s inside bits. Not knowing what the hell was going on, I just sat back, scrolled through the 12 pages of pics and pretended I could hear the PSPgo…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  This Guilty Gear Statue Will Make You Dizzy

  Don’t worry. Dizzy from fighter Guilty Gear XX Accent Core isn’t cold. She has thick skin. Thick plastic skin, that is. This is the Queen’s Gate version of Dizzy. Queen’s Gate is a spin-off of Queen’s Blade, a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last couple…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  Company Of Heroes Online Replaces Germans With “Federation”

  Like many Western games, Relic’s Company of Heroes is in line for some changes once it hits the Chinese market as Company of Heroes Online. The LA Times’ Charles Proctor reports that, amidst concerns surrounding China’s laws forbidding any reference to the Nazi party, THQ have rebranded the Germans in this new CoH title as…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  The Xbox 360 Controller In Tasty Bento Form

  As seen on Hawty McBloggy.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  360 Price Cuts Also Tipped For UK Market

  British sites are reporting that, ahead of an expected announcement later this week, Microsoft are to copy the rumoured North American moves by implementing both a price cut and a lineup shuffle for their range of 360 consolse. MCV say that retailers across Britain are being told they can’t order any/many existing 360 consoles, while…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2009
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  Do You Know Who’s Doing The Japanese TV Theme For Bayonetta? We Do

  Songstress MiChi will be lending her tune “Something” to the Bayonetta television campaign. She won’t actually be lending her song. We imagine she’ll get paid by SEGA — with money even! This is the first TV theme for MiChi, who was worried about which tune should be used to help match the mode of the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2009
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  Ghostbusters Now Looks Better On PS3

  Ghostbusters on PS3 took some flak upon release for looking, well, worse than it did on 360. Significantly worse. So Terminal Reality went back to the drawing board, and have today released a patch that should bridge the gap. IGN say that fixes have been made to both single and multiplayer modes, most important of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2009
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  How Accurate Are These TV Ladies’ In-Game Counterparts?

  In Japan, female TV anchors are not just anchors, they are idols. Worship away! Adored by males for being classier and more grown-up than your typical pop star (they also know stuff about sports and other stuff), the most popular anchors transcend news-reading and can even become actresses and appear in countless commercials. Itching to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2009
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  These iDOLM@STER Figures Cannot Sing

  That’s okay. They can stand very, very still. They are figurines, you know. That’s what figurines do. Here 15-year-old Chihaya Kisaragi and 14-year-old Iori Minase find themselves immortalized in PVC. They’re from figure maker Mega House and priced at around US$75 each in Japan. Geek heroin is expensive! Originally an arcade game, THE iDOLM@STER is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2009
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  Problems Plague Pinnacle DLC

  The Pinnacle Station DLC for Mass Effect went out the door today, and already BioWare’s user forums are reporting problems with the PC and console edition. The good news is for PC users. Bioware expects a reasonably fast fix for some CD key rejection issues. A BioWare QA lead said that an installer had been…

  By Owen Good Published August 26, 2009
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  Left 4 Dead 2’s Concept Art

  “Zombies in the south”. Simple premise, but sometimes even a simple premise needs a little visual representation before it becomes real. Cue Left 4 Dead 2’s concept art.

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2009
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  NCAA 10 Patch Resolves ‘Gay’ Filtering

  Probably not the biggest gameplay issue NCAA 10 players are concerned about, but the “gay” filtering foofaraw has been cleared up as part of a massive patch, the second put out for this game in two months. You might remember, earlier this month, we reported the egg-on-face situation where auto-named rosters from NCAA 10’s Teambuilder…

  By Owen Good Published August 26, 2009
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  Wow, there really IS an Arkham Care Website

  I know, I know — just one more thing about Batman: Arkham Asylum and I swear I’ll shut up. But there’s actually an Arkham Care website setup for the game. Warden Quincy Sharp welcomes you to the site and there’s an “Inside Arkham” video clip show that reminds me of the Kaiser Permanente health care…

  By AJ Glasser Published August 26, 2009
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  This Week In Video Game Comics

  Here’s a rundown of the new video game-based comics going on sale in comics shops in the U.S. this week, including Warcraft, Chun-Li and Sonic (always!). Click the thumbnails for more details. Sonic Universe #7 … Written by Ian Flynn. Drawn by Tracy Yardley. Summary Via Publisher Archie Comics: PART THREE OF THE EPIC “MOBIUS:…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2009
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  Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo

  In a public library, a dude sitting at a monitor with his hands in his lap, covered by a newspaper, implicitly means bad things. Fear not, he’s only sneaked in an Xbox to steal the free WiFi and play Halo. The tumbelog teendrama picked this up – the writer’s pal spied the multiplayer shenanigans in…

  By Owen Good Published August 26, 2009
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  Turbine Rolls For Damages In Atari Lawsuit

  Turbine slapped Atari with a $30 million lawsuit two weeks ahead of the launch date for Turbine’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online game, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited. The suit, filed August 24 in the state of New York’s Supreme Court, alleges among other things that that Atari breached its contract with the developer to…

  By AJ Glasser Published August 26, 2009
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  Wolfenstein Review: Occult Following

  The battle against supernatural Nazis wages on in Wolfenstein, that latest chapter in epic saga of one man’s struggle against the occult-fueled Third Reich. Himmler’s Schutzstaffel is on the verge of harnessing a dark paranormal power that would mean the end of the free world as we knew it in 1943, and special agent B.J.…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 26, 2009