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Street Fighter‘s Ono vs. Tekken‘s Harada: Round One—Fight!
Context is key. While this video shows Tekken prevailing over Street Fighter in a series of challenges at Comic-Con 2011, what you don’t see is what led up to it. Earlier, at the Street Fighter X Tekken panel on Thursday, Yoshinori Ono, producer of the Street Fighter series, played a video in which Tekken counterpart…
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Adios, Red Faction
Poor sales of Red Faction: Armageddon this year means the end of the franchise, publisher THQ said in a conference call today. Brian Farrell, the THQ chief executive, told investors that “we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way.” Volition, the studio developing the series, has now been reassigned…
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Finding an Even Better Brawl in Batman’s City
It wasn’t until 72 hours later, when I flew home and resumed an old save file in Batman: Arkham Asylum that I truly appreciated the innate quality of brawling I experienced in Batman: Arkham City, a game I missed at E3 but, at long last, got my paws on at Comic-Con 2011. In Arkham Asylum…
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Get Your Xbox Through TSA More Conveniently With This Travel Case
From CTA Digital, the Brooklyn idea factory known for bowling ball Wii peripherals and other strangely useful oddities, comes this is a handy carrying case for a full Xbox 360—with Kinect. It doesn’t make packing up any easier but it does make transportation a little more convenient. What makes the Xbox 360 not “portable” is…
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Madden Demo Kicks Off Aug. 9; All Free Agent Moves Available at Launch
Madden NFL 12 moved its release to the end of August but still will deliver something for fans on the second Tuesday of the month, its traditional release date for much of the decade. The Madden demo hits PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade then, and will feature the Chicago Bears against the Green Bay…
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Take a Look at the Social Side of Resistance 3
In case your curiosity hadn’t gotten the better of you after Owen posted about Resistance 3’s social networking tie-in over the weekend, here’s the trailer for Global Resistance, a way to play a Resistance-like not-Resistance while not playing Resistance 3
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Assassin’s Creed Gets an 8-bit Makeover
Assassin’s Creed makes a surprisingly good looking retro game. Majami Hiroz reinvisioned the modern classic Assassin’s Creed in 8-bit style graphics. It looks more like a 3DS 3D classic than an actual retro game, but that makes it all the more beautiful. 8-bit Assassin’s Creed [Welcome to the 80’s via Youtube]
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Resident Evil 4 and Code: Veronica HD Remakes Get Prices, Dates, Screens, and Trailers
The downloadable HD remakes of Resident Evil 4 and Code: Veronica X look even better once you know that they’re coming to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network in North America and Europe in September for 20 bucks a pop. I suppose it’s too late for you to look at the latest screenshots and gameplay…
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This is Your Final Free Dose of Red Dead Redemption DLC
Rockstar puts a name and a date of the final free installment of downloadable content for its award-winning western, Red Dead Redemption We knew Rockstar planned one last batch of downloadable content for Red Dead, but we didn’t know that it was called the Myths and Mavericks Bonus Pack, nor did we know it was…
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7 Bad Dating Tips I Learned from My Xbox 360
Lonely? Unlucky in love? I used to be like you until I learned the secrets of love from my Xbox 360. Now I’m passing these pointers of passion, all delivered in actual Xbox 360 dating-advice video games, on to you. Catch her off guard with your opening line. A man walks into a bar and…
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We’ve got Free Tickets to Call of Duty XP
If you really really want to go to the live Call of Duty XP event (and who could blame you) but can’t swing the $150 price tag, then we have good news! We’ve Got it, You Want it We’ve got four tickets to the expo to give away, so act fast! The tickets only get…
By Jen Schiller
