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World Of Warcraft Lights The Summer Flame
Is it that time of year again already? Blizzard once again celebrates the coming of summer in World of Warcraft, with an icy new nemesis joining this year’s Midsummer Fire Festival festivities. The Midsummer Fire Festival is a great time to slip back into World of Warcraft for awhile, with plenty of activities easily accomplished…
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You Got Resident Evil 3 In My Left 4 Dead!
Here’s an excellent example of someone using the Left 4 Dead creation tools for their intended purpose – recreating Resident Evil 3’s Raccoon City. You’ll have to forgive the frame rate, as mod author Outatime is still ironing out the bugs for this faithful recreation of Raccoon City in Left 4 Dead, but it’s obviously…
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Gaming Minds Picks Up Where Ascaron Left Off
After picking up the majority of Sacred 2 developer Ascaron’s assets earlier this month, Kalypso Media now announces the formation of Gaming Minds Studios, where former Ascaron devs work on former Ascaron games. When German developer Ascaron entered insolvency in April, things were looking grim for the studio’s properties, which included Port Royale, Darkstar One,…
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Win Real Boxing From Fight Night 4 And Pizza Hut
EA and Pizza Hut have teamed up for the Rumble in the Ring Ultimate Fight Sweepstakes, in which entrants can win a custom Xbox 360 or a trip to watch men punching each other. It’s part sweepstakes, part instant win game as Pizza Hut signs on with EA to promote the latest entry in their…
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Canada Can Have PSN Cards Now
Now that the giant ice spiders have gone back into hibernation for a few months, Sony can finally ship PlayStation Network cards to Canada without fear of having arachnid eggs planted in their drivers. Now available at the EB Games and GameStop locations that have yet to be ravaged by the ongoing conflict, PlayStation Canada…
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Blood Bowl Launch Trailer, With Color Commentary
The PC version of Cyanide Studios‘ adaptation of classic Games Workshop board game Blood Bowl is less than a week away, and all eight fantasy football teams are raring to go. After a bit of legal wrangling over Cyanide’s last fantasy football release, Chaos League, the developer and Games Workshop settled their differences, and Blood…
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Rare Shopping For Project Natal Designers With Twitter
Rare dropped us a line to let us know that they were now active on Twitter, posting haiku movie reviews, new game teases, and fishing for game designers who might be interested in Project Natal. It isn’t exactly rare for a game developer to show up on Twitter these days, so why is Rare so…
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21st Century Digital Rock Band Warped Tour Pack
As expected, Harmonix has delivered the details on next week’s initial Warped Tour track pack, with tracks from five Warped tour bands and a triple shot of Maroon 5 on the side. “21st Century Digital Boy” is really the only song here you need concern yourself with. Bad Religion‘s anthem got so much play time…
By Mike Fahey