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Risen Trailer Flaunts Symphonic Gothic Metal
This new trailer for Piranha Bytes‘ RPG Risen features music by Nightwish, "the most successful symphonic/gothic metal band world-wide." I’m not sure what that means. I’m sure there’s a large symphonic/gothic metal band scene that I am completely unaware of. In fact, the comments section could potentially fill up with arguments on which of those…
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Scott Pilgrim VS. Your Game Console
Scott Pilgrim, the heroic comic tale of triumph over evil ex-boyfriends, is getting a movie adaptation next year, and Ubisoft has signed on to create the game of the movie of the comic. Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim is a digest-sized comic series from Oni Press that follows the tale of Canadian slacker bassist Scott…
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Poor Rock Band Sales Blamed For Declining Viacom Revenues
Viacom’s second quarter 2009 financials dropped this morning, singling out lower than expected Rock Band sales as one of the primary causes of the company’s 14% drop in revenue over the previous year. A little over a year ago Viacom was singing the praises of Rock Band, heralding the rhythm game as the driving force…
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Ryu And Momiji Work Well Together
Here’s five minutes or so worth of the co-op gameplay PS3 owners will see when Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 launches this September. It looks like a great deal of fun, doesn’t it? I haven’t really gotten into the Ninja Gaiden games since the first one on the original Xbox kicked my ass from here to…
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GameStop Has Street Fighter IV Ridiculously Cheap
In case you were either holding out or saving up for Street Fighter IV on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, now would be an excellent time to scrape up those pennies and head to GameStop. How cheap is cheap? How about $40 off the normal retail price? That’s right, GameStop has marked down Street…
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More Quantum Screens Emerge From Cover
This new set of screens Tecmo’s East-meets-West third-person shooter Quantum highlights the game’s strange mix of Gears of War-esque characters in a high fantasy setting. I first saw Quantum (formerly Quantum Theory) at E3 this year, and boy was I confused. It looks and plays a bit like Gears of War, but the environments are…
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Bionic Commando PC Swings Into Action
Nathan Spencer is back and he’s pissed, as Capcom’s remake of Bionic Commando attempts to grab PC gamers where it counts – Steam and retail. Ascension City has been taken over by terrorists, which turns out to be good news for Nathan R.A.D. Spencer, pardoned from execution at the very last minute and sent behind…
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