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Oh Good, the Duke Nukem Forever DLC is Here
Today’s the day 2K Games delivers the “Hail to the Icons Parody Pack” downloadable content for Duke Nukem Forever, featuring new game modes and maps that parody much better games. Along with the new Freeze Tag, Hail to the King, and Hot Potato game modes, the “Hail to the Icons” pack adds four new maps…
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Felicia Day Goes LARPing in Dragon Age: Redemption Episode One
While the production values are fine, the acting solid, and the writing passable, the first episode of Felicia Day’s Dragon Age: Redemption web series still feels like a bunch of friends spending the weekend in the woods role-playing. Felicia can’t help it. It’s part of her charm that she comes across as the sort of…
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These Five Toys Come To Life This Weekend in Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure
We’re only a few short days away from the Sunday release of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, Activision’s ambitious melding of video game and collectible action figures, two of my favorite things. Let’s take a look at five of the 32 plastic heroes taking up arms this weekend. Having collected action figures since I was old enough…
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The Powers, Persecution, and Prostitutes of The Darkness II
With the New York City Comic-Con just a few days away, 2K Games gives fans of the comic book-based The Darkness II a little show of its own, with videos of Jackie Estacado’s powers, the evil organization he’ll be using them against, and the odd slice of cheesecake. With his girlfriend from the previous game…
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The Combaticons Combine to Form Bruticus in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
What could be bigger than a new Transformers game featuring Grimlock, king of the Dinobots? How about five robots combining into one mechanical titan? According to GameStop, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron finally gives us combiners. Despite featuring several characters named after members of the Aerialbots and Stunticon teams, High Moon Studios has shied away from…
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AT&T Giving Uverse Subscribers $60 to Go Buy Xbox Live Gold
Wednesday, Microsoft announced that more than 40 providers had signed on to deliver TV programming to Xbox Live. One of those, AT&T, has been supplying content through its Uverse service for about a year, where it’s been available to free subscribers. Now it will completely transition to Xbox Live Gold. Therefore, AT&T is giving its…
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Easter Egg Gives Breaking Bad a Cameo in Rage
Appropriately enough, the season four finale of Breaking Bad is on AMC tomorrow night. You may recall that, in late August, Rage made a strange cameo in the meth-slinging drama, in which someone plays the game with a light gun. Well, Rage has returned the favor with a Breaking Bad prop cameo of its own.…
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There Will Be No Backbreaker 2 as Its Studio is Moving Away from Console Gaming
Backbreaker‘s small but extremely passionate following got some bad, but not really unexpected news. “Unfortunately, and unofficially, it is very unlikely that we will revisit [Backbreaker]/full-on football again,” the game’s lead developer told a forum member. What’s more, Todd Gibbs told the forum user that “the company has changed direction and is currently not looking…
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Perfect Chaos Reigns Over Sonic Generations‘ Modern Era
The third and final era represented in Sonic Generations is the modern era, represented here by the Crisis City, Rooftop Run, and Planet Wisp levels, and since there hasn’t been a particularly compelling rival character in years, here comes Perfect Chaos. And thus the holy trinity is completed, with classic, Dreamcast, and modern all represented…
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Game Reviewers Redline Forza Motorsports 4
As the proud owner of a 1995 Nissan Pathfinder in dire need of a new manifold, I feel unqualified to say much more about Forza Motorsport 4 than the reviewers seem quite taken with it. You will not find the 95 Nissan Pathfinder on Forza 4‘s expansive roster of high-performance machines. What you will find…
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New Battlefield 3 Screens Put the Campaign in Perspective
While you’re all busy running all over the place shooting each other, Battlefield 3‘s campaign mode sits quietly in the corner, dark, lovely, and full of secrets. You can keep your competitive multiplayer; I’ve not had a braggable online showing since Unreal Tournament first came out. I’m all about the single player experience, and that’s…
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Tiger Woods 13 will be EA Sports’ First Kinect Game
Somewhat obscured by the promotion surrounding Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13‘s fan-voted cover contest is the fact the game, when it arrives in March, will be the first EA Sports title fully playable on Xbox 360 with Kinect. Peter Moore, then the EA Sports president, announced back at E3 that the label would begin offering…
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Spider-Man: Edge of Time Talks Me Into Enjoying It
What defines Spider-Man? Is it his special powers? His great responsibilities? His Jenga prowess? No, true believers. Spider-Man’s most definitive trait is his witty banter, and double the Spider-Man means double the snappy patter right? Thank goodness Edge of Time had Peter David. When I heard Peter David was attached to write the story and…
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There’s a New Transformers Game Coming, and Grimlock’s Coming With It
Following up on the success of Transformers: War for Cybertron, Activision and High Moon Studios return to the planet of the Autobots and Decepticons next year with Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and they’re bringing the king of the Dinobots with them. The original headline of this article was simply “Motherfucking Grimlock”, but I decided to…
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The Bats Vs. Jokerz War Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor
The battle between the vigilante Bats and the villainous Jokerz gets the DC Entertainment animation treatment in this short but sweet trailer for Gotham City Impostors Say what you will about its comics and live-action movies; DC is at the top of their game when it comes to animation. Every single animated feature that’s come…
By Mike Fahey