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Fast!

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The Big Texan The night before I had to fast for 12 hours to prep for a blood test. Today I apparently fasted for 18 hours because I’m an absurdly absent-minded blogger. I was starting to wonder why my vision was blurring when Trish showed up and fed me. Yes,…

Metroid: Other M Creators Offer Rare Look At The Guts Of A Nintendo Game

The people behind Wii title Metroid: Other M provide an in-depth, behind the scenes look at the forthcoming adventures of Samus Aran in this 17-minute-long video that offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a Nintendo game. Series director Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi explain just about everything a Metroid fan…

Racing, Football, Sims Headline EA’s Mobile Catalog

Sequels of Need for Speed on DSiWare and Madden NFL on the iPhone highlight Electronic Arts’ upcoming mobile and handheld catalog of 11 titles, formally revealed at today’s Studio Showcase event. All are due this summer except for Madden 11, given a fall release timeframe. Need for Speed: Nitro-X succeeds Need for Speed: Nitro, released…

Peter, Dmitri, Milo, and TED

Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux and assistant Dmitri wow the crowd at TEDGlobal 2010 with a demonstration of Milo, the virtual boy.

See What It’s Like To Shank A Friend

Shoot, slice and strangle ’em up Shank is coming to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this August, a gory stabfest that you can share with a buddy, as seen in this co-op video preview of the game. Shank is just one of the many downloadable games that will make this summer perhaps the…

The Obligatory Sims 3 Late Night Music Video

Sure, EA’s upcoming Late Night expansion for The Sims 3 is extremely similar to expansions already released for The Sims and The Sims 2, but just look how much better that musical trailer looks. That’s worth something, right? Judging by the comments in the post revealing Late Night for The Sims 3, fans aren’t too…

Need for Speed World Dated

Massively multiplayer online game Need for Speed World will be available for digital download starting July 27. Good thing EA picked a date for the PC game that doesn’t put it up against any stiff competition.

If Wii Fit And Madden Had A Baby…

Fitness games are huge. Football games are huge. Ready for it? Football fitness game. From EA, on the Wii. The name is EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp and it has already made me sweat. I tried EA’s variation on its hit EA Sports Active virtual workout series at an EA event in New York…

The Darker, More Dramatic Side Of Spore

Here’s the reveal trailer for Darkspore, the intense, fast-paced action role-playing game set in the colorful, friendly Spore universe. I never expected to see a trailer this dramatic for a Spore game, but it makes sense. The latter portions of Spore, where you actually ventured out into space, were some of the more interesting bits.…

Get Shanked Next Month

Klei Entertainment’s side-scrolling action game Shank will hit the PlayStation Network on August 24 for $14.99, with an Xbox Live Arcade release on August 25, priced at 1200 Microsoft points. Are you ready to get Shanked?

The Sims 3 Late Night Adds Club Hopping Vampires

The Sims 3 expands this fall with The Sims 3 Late Night Expansion pack, plunging your Sim into the active downtown nightlife, or letting them explore their darkest fantasies as a Sim vampire. That’s right, Sim vampires. According to EA Play’s Rod Humble, speaking at the EA Studio Showcase today, the supernatural mods for The…

EA Sports MMA Career Mode Screens

Our First Official Look at Alice: Madness Returns

The sequel to American McGee’s Alice will take place 11 years after the events of the original game, with Alice released from an asylum but still struggling to deal with “nightmarish hallucinations,” according to the official site for the 2011 game. As nightmarish hallucinations continue to haunt her and invade her reality, she seeks to…

First Look At Darkspore, EA’s New Sci-fi, Spore-based RPG

The creators of Spore are going to the dark side with an all-new “fast-paced and intense” sci-fi action-role-playing game known as Darkspore, coming to the Mac and PC next year. In Darkspore, players must recruit creatures from across the galaxy to build an army of beasts, each with unique abilities “to wield as your living…

Darkspore Screens

Fight Night Champion Will KO Xbox 360, PS3 Next Year

EA Sports is giving its boxing sim series Fight Night one more round in the ring, officially naming Fight Night Champion for release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011. What’s new? “Full Spectrum Punch Control” for one. That all-new control scheme for EA’s fighter will, according to the publisher, “deliver the most…

The White Rabbit Leads Us To Alice: Madness Returns

A strangely Tweeting member of the family Leporidae teases big news about Alice: Madness Returns, the newly-named action-adventure return of American McGee’s Alice, due out next year from Spicy Horse. Thewhiterabbit Tweets, “Follow me and stay tuned for a major announcement from the mad world of Alice today!,” which leads us to believe that one…

Reckless Racing, A Modern Day RC Pro-Am Coming To iPad

One of the best games I played at a recent EA showcase of dozens of games — Bulletstorm! Dead Space 2! — was an iPad racing game. Really. The game is Reckless Racing and it will be released on iPhone and iPad from Swedish development studio Pixelbite. EA’s Partners program is backing it. And I…

Six New Games Unveiled By EA Today

Yes, it’s an announcement of not one, but six announcements. EA says the six new “products” they plan to unveil today will “range from the whimsical to strategic, athletic to horrific.” News should hit at 1 p.m. Pacific. Stay tuned.

Scott Pilgrim’s Epic Tale Comes To A Close

Will Scott defeat Ramona’s seventh evil ex-boyfriend and live happily ever after, or will he finally realize that he and Kim Pine were meant to be together? Find out today, as the final volume of Scott Pilgrim hits store shelves. It’s been a year and four months since Scott Pilgrim volume five, Scott Pilgrim vs.…