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A Bit More on Monday Night Combat’s Second Certification
Sunday we reported that Monday Night Combat passed certification twice when Uber Entertainment found some things not up to snuff after it went gold. Penny Arcade learned it’s because of the game’s ability to tune itself without a patch. Jerry Holkins was intrigued by the claim that Monday Night Combat can make balance adjustments “on…
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Talk Football With The Madden Man Tomorrow
Madden NFL 11 is on shelves now, and tomorrow we’ll have the series’ senior producer, Phil Frazier, take us inside this year’s game and how it was built. Plus a special guest appearance by yours truly! Frazier will be taking our questions and your calls, hopefully fully recovered from whatever hangover “Madden Gras” delivered down…
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Stephen Hawking Thinks The Earth Should Probably Start Packing
“I see great dangers for the human race,” begins noted theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. As a human myself, that’s exactly the sort of thing I don’t like to hear. Perhaps they are words I , or more accurately we need to hear, however. As part of website Big Think’s Dangerous Ideas series, Hawking suggests that…
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Aeris Is Dead, Get Over It Already
The latest episode of GameTrailers’ Mythbusters-esque Pop Fiction series adds a few more nails in the coffin of Final Fantasy VII’s flower girl. Are fans still insisting there’s a way for Aeris (or Aerith, in Japanese) to come back to life thirteen years after the release of Final Fantasy VII? Can’t we just let the…
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Assault Horizon Rebuilds Ace Combat From The Ground Up
After yesterday’s trailer piqued our curiosity, Namco Bandai delivers more details on Assault Horizon, a game being called a “complete rebirth” for the Ace Combat franchise, or “steel carnage in the sky.” According to today’s press release, Project Aces has always wanted more out of the Ace Combat series. They wanted a game that not…
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Everything Exciting About Guild Wars 2 In One Video
From now on whenever anyone asks me what excites me about Guild Wars 2 as an MMO player, I’ll save myself a lot of time and just point them to this video. Click to view ArenaNet and NCsoft could have saved themselves a lot of time as well, skipping the past year’s worth of blog…
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Valkyria Chronicles II Demo Marches Onto The PlayStation Network
War spills across a much smaller CANVAS today as Sega releases a demo of Valkyria Chronicles II for the PSP on the PlayStation Network. Check out the sequel to the underappreciated PlayStation 3 game ahead of its August 31 release. The original Valkyria Chronicles for the PlayStation 3 is an amazing game, with striking visuals…
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It’s Time To Stop Looking At Legends And Killers Screenshots
This post contains the last four screenshots of Red Dead Redemption’s Legends and Killers downloadable content you’ll ever need, as the pack goes live today for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Pig Josh is now in your hands. That’s right, there’ll be no more screenshots, trailers, or stories telling you about the eight characters…
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The Two Sides Of Brink’s Civil War
There ain’t no good guys, and there ain’t no bad guys. There’s just the revolutionaries and the security forces, and they just disagree with bullets in this first developer diary for Bethesda’s Brink. Developer Splash Damage lives up to its name with the waterlogged world of Brink, detailing the two sides of the civil war…
By Mike Fahey
