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Another High Quality Street Fighter Fan Film? Awkward…
Street Fighter: Beginning’s End is a fan film with amazing fight choreography, some tight special effects, better than normal Ken hair, and a terrifically bad sense of timing, releasing the same week as the Capcom-sanctioned Street Fighter Legacy. Street Fighter: Beginning’s End is the work of Los Angeles filmmaker Chris Cowan, whose Thousand Pounds Fight…
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The Force Unleashed II Dated Just In Time For Star Wars Day
May the Fourth be with you, and I couldn’t imagine a better time for LucasArts to nail down a late October release date for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. While I’m sure most of you would have preferred celebrating unofficial Star Wars Day by playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, at least now…
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Tron Goes 8-Bit Again
There’s old school Tron, Intellivision style, and then there’s 8-Bit Weapon’s Tron Tribute EP, featuring five chiptune mixes of Wendy Carlos’ iconic music from the first video game movie. With Tron Legacy, the sequel to Disney’s 1982 classic, heading our way this holiday season, excitement is building in fans of the original movie, resulting in…
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What Is Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles?
The latest edition of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Newsbeat newsletter lists a May 18 release date for the Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles downloadable content, which is interesting, as we’ve never heard of it. What is the Darkspawn Chronicles? Microsoft’s description of the downloadable content certainly doesn’t help with an explanation, simply stating that the 400…
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Sid Meier’s Pirates! Sets Sail For The Wii
Nintendo can’t seem to escape the reach of piracy, especially now that one of game industry legend and this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio guest Sid Meier’s most beloved games is making its way to the Wii this fall. Sid Meier’s Pirates! first hit the stormy seas of PC gaming back in 1987, when it won…
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Game Boy Used In High School Bomb Scare
A Nintendo Game Boy and a cell phone made up a bomb-like device that caused the evacuation of a Florida Panhandle high school yesterday. A concerned student discovered the device, reportedly consisting of the Game Boy, a mobile phone, and some protruding wires, taped to the underside of sink in a restroom at Pensacola High…
By Mike Fahey
