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Another Reason To Preorder MAG From 7-Eleven
Preorder MAG from 7-Eleven and receive an exclusive recruitment kit and poster on top of potentially getting the game far too early thanks to the company’s sporadic acknowledgement of street dates. MAG isn’t out until the 26th of January, but you can get a head start with the 7-Eleven MAG recruitment kit. It contains all…
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Prepare For A Left 4 Dead 2 Advertising Onslaught
Valve is expecting Left 4 Dead 2 to be its fastest-selling in the company’s history, launching a $25 million advertising campaign to make sure that happens. The original Left 4 Dead sold like gangbusters, thanks largely to word-of-mouth, positive reviews, and the $10 million that valve sunk into making sure everybody knew what the game…
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Yahtzee’s GameDamage Evolves And Improves
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame and pals Yug and Matt polish off their GameDamage television show, removing a bit of the awkward in favor of more funny. When Crecente wrote about the original GameDamage pilot in December of last year, he suggested the dynamic trio keep at it and polish up the writing…
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Tripwire Brings Zeno Clash To Retail
ACE Team‘s first-person melee combat game Zeno Clash is getting the retail box treatment courtesy of Tripwire Interactive, a publisher that truly understands the plight of the independent developer. Tripwire Interactive started off as a modding team, taking its win in the Make Something Unreal contest for Red Orchestra and transforming themselves into a full-fledged…
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Rockstar Challenges MySpace Music Artists To A Beaterator-Off
Rockstar wants to see what MySpace Music artists can do with Beaterator, and they’re providing the PSPs, the games, and a $5,000 prize for the best track. Hopeful MySpace Music artists who want to take a stab at making music with Beaterator can visit http://beaterator.ign.com/ to apply for a chance at being one of up…
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Dragon Age And Army Of Two Launch EA Comics Imprint
EA teams with IDW to release Army of Two and Dragon Age comic books under the EA Games imprint, with talent like Peter Milligan, Humberto Ramos, and Orson Scott Card already signed on. This isn’t your average video game comic book deal. The agreement between EA and publisher IDW actually creates a separate imprint, EA…
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More Prince Of Persia Now Costs Less
Xbox Live gold subscribers looking to for bit more enjoyment from Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia can do so a little cheaper, as the Prince of Persia: Epilogue becomes the Xbox Live Deal of the Week. The ending to the most recent Prince of Persia left a bad taste in the mouth of many a player,…
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It’s Goal Time In Free Realms
Those soccer fields sprinkled about Sony Online Entertainment‘s Free Realms now has a purpose, 3-on-3 footy matches and 20 levels worth of Soccer Stardom now available. Soccer comes to Free Realms in a big way with today’s Goal Time update, which unlocks the various playing fields scattered across the land, allowing players to begin progressing…
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Lego David Bowie Sways Under The Serious Moonlight
Number two on our list of musical artists least likely to become Lego figures becomes a Lego figure, as David Bowie joins Iggy Pop as a playable rocker in Lego Rock Band. This is not the David Bowie Lego minifigure I would have preferred, but seeing as he’ll be performing “Let’s Dance” with a Lego…
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The Nintendo Download: The First Of The Final Fantasies
The Final Fantasy that started it all makes its way to the Virtual Console this morning, and you all know the drill by now. First one to rescue the princess gets a bridge! I hope I didn’t just spoil a major plot point of Final Fantasy for you guys, but after playing it on the…
By Mike Fahey