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Capcom Has A “Whole Slew” Of Titles Coming To PSN And PSP In ’09
I think Sony’s PSN could use some more PSone downloadables. I’m glad to see Capcom agrees with me. John Diamonon from Capcom writes on the Playstation Blog: “So what’s in store for 09? Well, I’m working with Grace and Ro at SCEA to come up with some innovative ways we can offer games and programs…
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UncategorizedGears Of War 2: The Ultimate Glitch Collection
Gears of War 2 attended Glitch Fest 2000. We know that. But just how glitchy? Here’s a video that shows off just about all of them. There’s 16 total with some honorable mentions. Not only does the video do a great job of highlighting said glitches, but it also takes shots at Epic Games and…
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SF Chronicle’s Best Games Of 2008 (GTA IV Doesn’t Make It)
While 2009 is almost upon us, there’s still some time to pass out gaming awards for 2008. I bet you didn’t think No More Heroes would be making anyone’s list. The San Francisco Chronicle handed out their gaming awards for the year. Noticeably missing from this list are the usual suspects, like Grand Theft Auto…
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Worlds.com Files Suit Against NCsoft – Every Other MMO Company To Follow?
90’s virtual world developers Worlds.com has fired the first shot in what could be a game company-spanning battle as they file suit against NCsoft for infringing on their patent for multiplayer virtual environments. The patent at question is 7,181,690, “System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space”, which was file in…
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Disturbing Art From Nintendo Powers Past
Agent B from The -Minus World discovered a stack of old Nintendo Power magazines recently, and for some god-awful reason decided to share with us the The Top 10 Most Disturbing Illustrations From Nintendo Power. B theorizes that Nintendo Power made the switch to graphics designers rather than illustrators because graphic designers are so plentiful,…
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Space War Commander Launches With New Year
Who said there would be no new games this week? Pish, and possibly posh. Independent PC developer Dreamspike has announced their real-time strategy title Space War Commander will launch on New Year’s Day. Actually Dreamspike calls Space War Commander a real-time real-strategy game, and then really doesn’t go into great detail explaining why. Apparently it…
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The Art Of War Vs. Dynasty Warriors
One of the Chris-es over at Hardcasual passes along this little bit of brilliance, which compares the teachings of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to the teachings of Koei’s Dynasty Warriors. So how does the Chinese history-delving hack and slash action series hold up in the face of Sun Tzu’s immensely influential book of…
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Call Of Duty: World At War $35 On Amazon
Those of you itching to spend some quality time early next year shooting other people in World War 2-era gear might want to hit up today’s Amazon.com Gold Box deal, featuring COD: World At War. Call of Duty: World at War seems to be one of those titles that retailers have been crazy about discounting…
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Dissidia: Final Fantasy Import Review: The [Evil] Emperor’s New [Suit of Armor]
When we were children, we wanted two things: a Super Mario Bros. movie and a Final Fantasy fighting game; we got one of those things, and it made us wish we were dead. Today, fifteen years later, we have the other one. Does it make us wish we were dead — or does it make…
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You Got KOS-MOS In My Tales Of Hearts
Recently released in Japan, Namco Bandai’s Tales of Hearts for the Nintendo DS features a slew of support-character cameos, including everyone’s favorite gnosis killing machine, KOS-MOS. Hearts features cameos from a wide variety of Namco Bandai’s characters from previous Tales games, but KOS-MOS here comes straight from the ill-fated Xenosaga series, which towards the end…
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Michael Phelps’ Game To Be The Next Tiger Woods Game
505 Games is creating a game based on Olympic swimmer extraodinaire Michael Phelps, but can swimming carry a video game? Probably not. That’s where the pure action comes in. Swimming is a the sort of sport that is extremely exciting…for swimmers. 505 Games realizes this, and while there will be a healthy dose of watersports…
By Mike Fahey