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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, One Watch
Now you can pretend you’re about to die a horrible death by drowning upon a sinking ship with the Gamestop exclusive preorder watch for Aksys Games’ DS thriller Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. It can be hard to sell a game like Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, or 999 as Aksys likes to…
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Global Agenda Woos Distraught APB Players
Taking advantage of the closure of Realtime Worlds’ All-Points Bulletin, Hi-Rez Studios is giving APB refugees 30 percent off the purchase of its massively multiplayer online shooter Global Agenda. In case you missed the news last week, APB is dead. Some other company might snatch it up and give it a go, but as far…
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Lionhead Goes To War…Cake War
When two tribes go to war, delicious cake is all you can score. With Fable III due out next month, the developers at Lionhead Studios turn their attentions from making kings to baking things in an all-out Cake War. From Xbox 360 controller button cupcakes to a partial Companion Cube, the fine folks at Lionhead…
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Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Scores A Second Season
With the first three episodes downloaded more than 1.6 million times and a fourth episode on the way, the BBC reveals plans to continue the groundbreaking Doctor Who: The Adventure Games with a second season in 2011. Doctor Who: The Adventure Games has been a tremendous success for the BBC and developer Sumo Digital, not…
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Just Thinking About Violent Video Games Stimulates Aggression
A new study by researchers from Ohio State and Central Michigan Universities finds that simply thinking about playing violent video games can stimulate violent behavior long after your game console has gone cold, unless you’re a girl. Anyone who has ever played a multiplayer shooter on Xbox Live can attest to the fact that participating…
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The Nintendo Download: Countdown To Excitement
If you had the Nintendo Countdown Calendar app for the DSi last week, you would have been acutely aware of the Nintendo Countdown Calendar’s release this week, along with Aero the Acrobat 2 and one very hungry caterpillar. Of course then we’d be delving into the realm of temporal paradox, and I believe Nintendo has…
By Mike Fahey
