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Damnation Multiplayer – Aim For The Zip Line

Damnation hits store shelves tomorrow everywhere but North America, and to celebrate Codemasters has released a new multiplayer trailer to show us Americans what we’ll be missing. It certainly looks like the vertical nature of the maps should provide some entertaining multiplayer situations, but as a sniper at heart, I’m planning on finding a nice…

Xbox Employee Issues Maddening Mad-Lib Tweet

Hideo Kojima can have his countdown clocks. Other publishers can have their surprise trailers. But the best tease of the day may be the tweet from one Stephen Toulouse. From the Twitter feed of Stephen Toulouse, head of Xbox Live policy and enforcement, aka the Xbox 360‘s top cop… “Wow. I got to play with…

Red Faction: Guerrilla Demo Available Now

THQ’s long anticipated third installment of the Red Faction series will be released on June 2nd, but you can check out the demo for both platforms (Xbox 360 and PS3) starting today! Click here to find out more information and download the demo, then be sure to buy Red Faction: Guerrilla on June 2nd.

“New Metal Gear” Featured In Next Issue Of Famitsu

Metal Gear makers Kojima Productions are just hours away from revealing… something, as the developer’s teaser page countdown clock is set to expire today. Who knows what Kojima and crew are planning? Famitsu might know. According to a solicitation for the next issue of the Japanese gaming mag’s PSP and PlayStation 3 edition, as listed…

DC Universe Online Much Brighter With The Flash

Here’s some new concept art and screens from Sony Online Entertainment, showing how the Wally West version of The Flash appears in DC Universe Online. A profile shot. The Flash uses this for his Facebook listing. That there’s the fastest head on the planet. Surprise! The Flash is running! And running some more. The Flash…

Indie Devs Turn To In-Game Ads After Piracy Strike

Nearly 24 hours after it went out in mid-April, John Warner checked on the numbers for Raycatcher – a game he and a partner designed and distributed over Steam. The first day, it sold 1,000 copies for $5. But pirates had also made 35,000 copies for free. Warner, 25, an environmental artist who had worked…

Bleach Cleans Up In This Week’s Japanese Sales Chart

Japanese gamers don’t seem to have cooled on manga-licensed fighting games, as Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 tops this week’s Japanese sales chart, the sixth entry in the 3D fighter in just over four years. According to Media Create, the PSP game based on the works of Tite Kubo bested all software newcomers, selling 42,000…

The Chronicles Of Spellborn Free Level Cap Increased

Apparently 7 free levels weren’t enough to entice players to pay up, as Acclaim raises the free-to-play level cap for The Chronicles of Spellborn to 9.9. Acclaim refers to The Chronicles of Spellborn as a “Freemium” massively multiplayer online game. This means the game limits free customers to a specific area and enforces a level…

When You Hear “Exclusive,” Guess What It Means

The recent announcement of a PlayStation 3 release of Fallout 3 content that was previously announced as exclusive to Microsoft sent us searching for answers about what constitutes an “exclusive.” Last July Todd Howard, lead designer at Bethesda Softworks, took the stage during the Microsoft E3 press briefing and did a rather un-extraordinary thing. Like…

Gears Brings Steam to the iPhone… Sorta

A new App on the iPhone serves up details from the Steam community to your iPod Touch or phone. Gears includes three pages of information from Steam accounts for $3. The App has you type in a Steam nickname and then displays the user’s avatar, location, online status and bi-weekly gameplay stats. Another page breaks…

Brutal Thoughts with Jack Black

Jack Black hams it up in the first of a series of live-action shorts promoting Brutal Legend, with a guest appearance by insane game developer Tim Schafer. I don’t know about you, but for me it’s gotten to the point where I prefer to see animated characters with Jack Black’s voice over actually seeing Jack…

PlayStation 3 Getting The Total Watchmen Experience

The PlayStation 3‘s Blu-ray drive has its advantages, as proven by the Watchmen: The End is Nigh The Complete Experience, a two-disc set collecting the game and the film for the PlayStation 3. While the Xbox 360 is getting Watchmen: The End is Nigh Parts 1 and 2 as a standalone retail release, the PlayStation…

Armin Van Buuren Gets His Own DJ Game

The relentless march of DJ rhythm games continues, as TransGaming launches their new development studio with Armin van Buuren – In the Mix for the Nintendo Wii. Perhaps best known for enabling PC games to play on the Mac, TransGaming now enters the full-on game development biz, partnering with Foreign Media Games on Armin van…

A Trip To the X Games As Seen Through LBP

Freestyle skier and X Games competitor Sarah Burke is a big gamer and, apparently, a LittleBigPlanet fan. Burke recently created her own LittleBigPlanet level, with the help of the Playstation folks, to document what it’s like to travel to and participate in the X Games. Burke went on to win a gold medal in Superpipe…

The Queen Of England’s Gold-Plated Wii

THQ knows that if you’re going to deliver a Wii to Buckingham Palace to promote your new game no ordinary console will do, so they had one gold plated. The shiny Nintendo console was delivered to Buckingham Palace today as part of a marketing stunt meant to promote BIG Family Games, the latest title in…

Blur’s Shocking Teaser Trailer

Following up yesterday’s screens from Bizarre Creation’s new weapon-based racer comes this teaser trailer, which demonstrates that good looks only get you so far in Blur. Teaser trailer? More like taser trailer. While the screenshots did an admirable job of showing off the game’s graphics, I believe this teaser trailer captures the game’s essence. This…

Warner Bros. Offers to Buy Most of Midway

Midway today announced that they have received a more than $33 million offer from Warner Bros. to buy out most of their company. “It’s in writing now, that there is interest,” said Geoffrey Mogilner, director of corporate communications for Midway, who added that the company has been in talks with other potential owners as well.…

North American Pangya Back In Business

The North American version of Ntreev’s popular online fantasy golf game Pangya is officially back in business as of today. Pangya is a free-to-play, microtransaction-based online game that banks on players purchasing new costumes and equipment for their adorable anime avatars. Previously operating in North America under the name Albatross 18, the games was to…

GameStop Reports Record Quarter As Used Game Sales Flourish

Video game retailer GameStop reports record sales and earnings for first quarter 2009, with a slight drop in new game sales bolstered by a significant rise in used products. Despite the unstable economy, GameStop once again delivers a report indicating record sales and earnings for the first quarter 2009. Sales were up 9.2% compared to…

Rockstar Co-Founders Form New Studio

Jamie King and Gary Formeman, who founded Rockstar Games with three others, are teaming up with former Image Metrics and NBC execs to create a new video game studio. 4mm Games is developing “online worlds that will define social gaming”, according to the company’s website. The studio is teaming with CEA Autumn Games in a…