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Jumpgate Is Codemasters’ Biggest Beta Ever
With more than a quarter of a million beta sign ups in North America and Europe, Net Devil’s space combat MMO Jumpgate Evolution is the biggest beta campaign Apparently I am not the only one with a craving for action-packed, massively-multiplayer online space combat. According to Codemasters, more than 250,000 individuals have signed up for…
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Capcom Has Its Marvel VS Capcom 2 Mixtape Covered
Capcom shows off the cover to its Marvel VS Capcom 2 hip-hop mixtape today, with a limited-edition vinyl version of the soundtrack up for grabs at the San Diego Comic-Con this week. As we mentioned back in June, Capcom has teamed up with some of hip-hop’s greatest talents to produce a downloadable mixtape, replacing the…
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Chiptune’s Finest Celebrate Weezer
Online record label Pterodactyl Squad has released a free 8-bit Weezer tribute album, featuring some of the biggest names in chiptune paying homage to the band’s greatest works. I’ve been listening to this album all day now, and several of the tracks are really digging in, most notably Bit Shifter‘s “The World Has Turned and…
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The Ultimate Street Fighter Art Collection
From the biggest rivalries to the biggest…other rivalries, UDON leaves no facet of Street Fighter history untouched in SF20: The Art of Street Fighter, ” the most complete collection of Street Fighter artwork ever.” SF20 features more than 1,500 illustrations from the franchise’s 22-year history, from the original Street Fighter arcade game to Tatsunoko VS.…
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Mechner Pens Prince Of Persia Prequel Graphic Novel
Series creator Jordan Mechner once again plumbs the depths of the Prince of Persia mythology, penning an anthology graphic novel to serve as a prequel to the upcoming feature film. The Prince of Persia graphic novel anthology, due out in April of next year, features six short stories authored by Mechner and serves as a…
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The Earth Falls In September
The year 2156 arrives 147 years earlier than anticipated, as the post-apocalyptic massively-multiplayer online game Fallen Earth gears up for a September launch. Fallen Earth is a skill-based MMO that combines the experience gain and skill advancement of traditional online role-playing games with the accuracy and fast action of a first-person shooter. The game is…
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Fallout 3 Mothership Zeta Screens Kill Aliens Dead
The hero from Vault 101 does battle high above the post-apocalyptic planet in this latest set of screenshots from Fallout 3’s Mothership Zeta downloadable content. I’ve got to hand it to Bethesda. These three screens are certainly unlike anything I ever expected to see in Fallout 3. That Oblivion engine sure is versatile, depicting the…
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Oh Look, Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll
Well this one took us almost completely not by surprise! Sega’s countdown clock has ended, revealing a trailer for Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll for the Nintendo Wii. Sega didn’t exactly cover their tracks well, what with the trademark application and the words “Super Monkey Ball” listed in the code for the mysterious countdown…
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The Saboteur Infiltrates December
Pandemic Studio’s espionage thriller The Saboteur has managed to make its way into EA’s 2009 holiday lineup, but only just barely. December is generally a bad month to release video games, but this year could be an exception. With a great many of the big titles we were expecting in the fall being pushed to…
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The Beatles: Rock Band Track List Expands To 25
The list of officially confirmed songs for The Beatles: Rock band grows to twenty-five this morning, as today’s trailer reveals are joined by seven more tracks by way of official EA decree. It’s been a busy morning for The Beatles: Rock Band. First the trailer dropped, bringing with it eight new songs, from “Paperback Writer”…
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