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Xfire Sold Off, Development Team Leaving [Update]
Two communications today from Xfire, the social networking tool for PC gamers, indicate that the service has been sold off and most of its development team will be leaving as a result. Update: Titan Gaming has acquired Xfire. At about 3:15 p.m. Pacific Time, Xfire members received the following message: Xfire was bought by new…
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Kevin Butler Gets a Gift Basket of Sorry from New Zealand
The New Zealand TV network that ripped off a PS3 ad and was called on it by fake executive Kevin Butler sent the PlayStation “vice president of everything,” a large gift basket as a gesture of goodwill. Butler, noticing that New Zealand’s TV3 straight-up copied the PS3’s “Montage” ad from earlier this year, didn’t send…
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Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game Looks Wonderfully Complex
From the creators of the World of Warcraft and StarCraft board games comes Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game, the second board game inspired by the addictive turn-based strategy game. Sid Meier borrowed concept for the original Civilization video game from an Avalon Hill board game of the same name, so it seems a no-brainer…
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Frankenreview: StarCraft II: Wings Of Liberty
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted a good old-fashioned Frankenreview, so we’re bringing it back with a game that hasn’t seen a sequel in over a decade – StarCraft II. StarCraft II is the sequel to what many consider the greatest real-time strategy game of all time. It continues the epic tale of interstellar conflict…
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Choose Your Own Fable III Villager
Get a head-start on populating the world of Fable III with the Fable III Villager Maker, an easy way to add a new non-player character to your game without having to be a virtual slut. If you played Fable II like I did, by the time the game was over, 80% of the non-player characters…
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BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Gets Two Special Editions In Europe
Are you a North American BlazBlue fan that’s upset that Aksys didn’t offer a collector’s edition for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift? If so, then these UK/European exclusive special editions will really piss you off. Like many North Americans, I was slightly disappointed that I didn’t have the option to pick up a collector’s edition of BlazBlue:…
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Afterlife’s Chris Redfield Needed A Resident Evil Montage
The actor behind Resident Evil: Afterlife’s Chris Redfield isn’t a gamer, so how did Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller prepare to play this iconic character? With a montage – a Chris Redfield montage. MoviesOnline.ca caught up with Wentworth during the San Diego Comic-Con earlier this month, where the actor admitted he’s never been much of a…
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God of War: Ghost Of Sparta Walks The Earth This November
Experience the origin of everyone’s favorite vengeful god slayer on November 2 when God of War: Ghost of Sparta hits the PSP, with “the ultimate DLC pack” offered up as a sacrifice to preorder customers. With 25% more gameplay than Chains of Olympus and the ability to render up to nine enemies on screen at…
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The Nintendo Download: It’s Not BlazBlue, It’s BlayzBloo
Aksys plays it fast and loose with the names in this week’s Nintendo Download, with BlayzBloo: Super Melee Action Battle Royale for the DSi and Deer Captor, a game where you “capture” animals with guns and crossbows. I suppose Aksys is showing its range, but I suspect the DSiWare BlayzBloo: Super Melee Action Battle Royale,…
By Mike Fahey
