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Borderlands Is An Exhilirating But Oddly Hollow Experience

I’ve scoured the Arid Hills in search of the monstrous Moe and Marley, hunted the winged and clawed predators of Skag Gully and blown off the legs, arms, heads of more bandits in the Arid Badands than I can remember. But after all of the time spent in Borderlands, collecting weapons, finding upgrades, earning experience…

The Lessons Learned — Or Resisted — While Making Assassin’s Creed II

The man in charge of Assassin’s Creed II wants to continue his dialogue with you. He’s changed his game in some ways you requested. But he still wants to send obsessive collectors a message and struggles with a grand idea. “A game is a dialogue,” Patrice Desilets was telling me earlier this month when we…

Spyborgs Webisode 2: Webisode Harder

When we last left our intrepid half-human heroes, armless guy and ninja girl were hang gliding, Kinetic was missing, and Jackal was nowhere to be found. The Spyborgs action continues in webisode 2! It looks like Capcom has toned down the corny dialog a bit in the second webisode for its upcoming Wii beat-em up.…

DC Universe Online: Visit Scenic S.T.A.R. Labs

The Austin Game Developers Conference kicks off today, and Sony Online Entertainment celebrates with new DC Universe Online Screens featuring S.T.A.R. Labs, Metropolis General, and some random DC guys. Not sure that I really see a theme here running between all five screenshots. There’s S.T.A.R. Labs in two or possibly three of the shots, but…

Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels

PlaySega.com has recently launched a flash version of the original Sonic the Hedgehog, complete with a level editor that allows fans to create, share, and play their own Sonic levels online. The Sonic the Hedgehog level editor, a creation of Mediatonic, lets VIP members of PlaySega create Sonic levels relatively easily. Using a simple interface…

WoW Cataclysm: The Abyssal Maw

Blizzard has updated the webpage for the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion with a look at the aquatic realm of the water elementals, the Abyssal Maw. The Abyssal Maw is an important area in the Cataclysm expansion. So important that Blizzard has created a whole new swimming combat mechanic to make it work. The elemental…

Gaming’s Slingbox Backed By $1M Funding

Announced earlier this week, Spawn Labs version of the Slingbox for gamers is backed by $1 million in Series A round funding, according to the Austin Business Journal. Spawn Labs’ HD-720 is a set-top box that plugs into your console and allows you to play streamed console video games over WiFi via your PC laptop…

Try Darkest Of Days On Your Xbox 360

For those of you who’d rather not blindly buy into a new intellectual property no matter how cool its premise is, time-traveling FPS Darkest of Days now has a demo up on Xbox Live. Darkest of Days is a first-person shooter from developer 8monkey Labs and publisher Phantom EFX featuring a time-travelling protagonist who must…

Runes Of Magic Gets Flooded With Elves

Frogster’s free-to-play Runes of Magic turns the page today with Chapter II: The Elven Prophecy, opening up new lands and filling the world of Taborea with scantily-clad, mailbox dancing Elves. The Elven Prophecy went live around 3AM Pacific, with players flocking in droves to get their hands on the first new playable race for Runes…

Tekken Much?

As seen by Stance Is Everything At Importfest in Toronto. [Thanks Dave]

Dragon Age Novel Saga Continues

The epic tale that began in The Stolen Throne continues in October as Tor Books releases Dragon Age: The Calling, further expanding the Dragon Age fiction beyond the video game. In The Stolen Throne, Dragon Age: Origins lead writer David Gaider told the story of Maric’s mission of vengeance to reclaim the throne from those…

Skate 3 Rolls Out In 2010

The third entry in EA’s growing skateboarding franchise is coming in 2010, with rival street crews vying for prime Port Carverton turf in Skate 3. So how is EA’s Skate franchise evolving in the face of Activision’s new peripheral-based entry in the Tony Hawk franchise? This time around it’s all about the community and teamwork,…

iPhone Chart Toppers

With the inclusion of a new “Top Grossing” category in the iTunes’ App Store we finally get a more realistic look at which games are bringing in the most money. As a new feature we will be tracking these, posting the results as a top ten list every week. Here’s your first look: Position Title…

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Headache, Headache, Headache

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: T-Minus Man, I’ve got a doooooozy. Star Ocean 4 Sails Onto PS3 What Is Microsoft Bringing To Tokyo Game Show? PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.01 Is Live Xbox 360’s Processor Delivers Budget Supercomputing Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story Review: A Fawful Good Time Beatles: Rock Band Required Six Months of…

Zune HD, Now Available In An “Xbox Series”

The Zune HD is out today. Doesn’t yet have much to do with the 360, aside from these Zunes engraved with logos and characters from current and upcoming 360 games. They’re part of the Zune’s “Xbox Series”. Which basically means you buy a Zune, then pick from one of ten designs (pictured below) that can…

Bobby Kotick Wanted To Take All The Fun Out Of Making Video Games

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the above headline is taking a liberty or two with a comment from Activision boss Bobby Kotick. Nope. Those words are straight out of the man’s mouth. Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday, Kotick said “The goal that I had in bringing a…

Club Sega, “An Adult Game Center”

As seen on Kirainet.

WipeOut HD Coming To Blu-Ray

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (officially) announced yesterday that both WipeOut HD and WipEout HD: Fury are to be bundled together on a Blu-Ray disc and sold at retail. It’ll be out in Europe on October 16, and priced at £20 (USD$33). Even allowing for a wonky exchange rate, that’s a great price. No word on…

Nintendo Updates Own Wii Channel

You may have noticed, you probably hadn’t, but the Nintendo Channel on your Wii has been updated, and it’s for the better. Take a look at that new UI! It’s clean, it’s useful, it’s a sign of what should be going down on all the Wii’s channels. And, behind the scenes, probably is. Updated Nintendo…