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Retro/Grade: A Shooter In Reverse
Rick Rocket just saved the universe, and now he has to do it all over again…in reverse. This is Retro/Grade, coming to the PlayStation Network from developer 24 Caret Games. Retro/Grade takes conventional shooter mechanics and reverses them. You pilot your ship around the screen, avoiding enemy fire while making sure your ship is in…
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Dante’s Inferno Comic Premiers At Comic-Con (Updated)
EA and DC Comics have teamed up to create a comic book mini-series based off of the upcoming Dante’s Inferno video game, with preview copies available at the San Diego Comic-Con later this week. DC Comics adds another video game license to their Wildstorm imprint with Dante’s Inferno, the action-adventure game adopted loosely from Dante…
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Mad Catz Brings Exclusive Street Fighter Sticks To Comic-Con
The San-Diego Comic-Con is all about exclusive goodies, and in that spirit Mad Catz is hawking a limited number of exclusive Street Fighter IV arcade sticks and pads to show attendees. Visitors to the San-Diego Comic-Con this week will have a chance to pick up one of 500 of these exclusive Street Fighter IV accessories,…
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Rabbids Go Home On The DS
The Nintendo Wii couldn’t contain the Raving Rabbids‘ first solo game, so Ubisoft is bringing Rabbids Go Home to the DS as well, with extra-added functionality for those who’ve upgraded to the DSi. Featuring the same storyline as the Wii version, Rabbids Go Home DS trades in the console’s Katamari-esque collecting gameplay for a puzzle-adventure…
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Preview The Next 360 System Update
Microsoft is inviting thousands of Xbox 360 owners to help beta test the next big Xbox 360 system update, and your chance is just a modest survey away. As they did with the New Xbox Experience last year, so Microsoft is doing with the next big system update, inviting users by the thousands to test…
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World At War Map Pack 3 Deploys In August
It’s another set of three normal maps and one zombie map in Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3, coming to consoles next month from the fine folks at Treyarch. Three screens accompanied today’s announcement, showing off the three regular multiplayer maps coming as part of World at War’s third dose of downloadable…
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New WoW Races Hinted At By Halloween Masks?
A set of four Halloween masks discovered in the latest test patch for World of Warcraft has players debating over whether or not they’ve uncovered the next two races for Blizzards massively-popular MMO. The four masks in question, shown above courtesy of But Wait, There’s Lore, depict a goblin male and goblin female, which are…
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Virtual Carlos Santana Wails In Guitar Hero 5
Rock, salsa and jazz fusion spring to life in Guitar Hero 5, which will feature the guitar legend Santana in all his 3D-rendered glory. A live version of Santana’s “No One to Depend On” will be featured in the next version of Activision’s band game, and an eerily-lifelike Carlos Santana will be on hand to…
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Shattered Horizon: One Giant Whoops For Mankind
On this, the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon, Shattered Horizon developer Futuremark Games Studio reminds us why humanity can’t have nice things. Shattered Horizon is a first-person shooter which has players fighting in zero-gravity amidst the remnants of the moon, blown to bits during a mining explosion. In case you were wondering…
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The Nintendo Download: My Life As A Darklord
Nintendo only adds four titles to the Wii and DS this week, with the Virtual Console passed up completely, but hey…one of the games has “Final Fantasy” in it, and the kids love Final Fantasy. Of course it also has “Crystal Chronicles” in it, which tends to make many a Final Fantasy fan cringe, but…
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