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High Voltage To Reveal New Original Title At E3
With The Conduit as good as released, High Voltage Software plans to use this year’s E3 to reveal their all-new original IP to the world at large, and they couldn’t wait until then to tease it. No matter how you feel about announcement announcements, there’s no way we’re going to get the game companies from…
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Dead To Rights: Retribution – Welcome To Grant City
Dead to Rights: Retribution‘s Grant City has gotten one hell of a makeover since last we visited. I believe the team at Volatile Games was going for filthier, slightly more industrialized New York City, or at least I hope they were, because that’s certainly what they ended up with. A few of the new shots…
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ArmA II Pushed Up A Week
With Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising missing its originally planned summer release, original Flashpoint developer Bohemia Interactive scootches its spiritual successor’s release up a week. ArmA II will now be shipping for the PC on the 19th of June, one full week ahead of the originally planned release date. For awhile it seemed like Codemasters’…
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Xbox Live Arcade This Week: Gel and Blazing Birds
It’s obscure game week on Xbox Live Arcade, with Wednesday seeing the release of Gastronaut Studio’s Gel: Set & Match and Vector 2 Games’ Blazing Birds. Gel: Set & Match is a puzzle game which features multicolored blocks that melt as you match them together, with an Action mode that adds a little side-scrolling to…
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Champions Online Heroically Delayed
A true superhero knows when to boldly charge into battle and when to delay your game for a couple of months in order to make sure it’s solid. And that’s just what Champions Online developer Cryptic is doing. Originally slated for a July 14th release, the developer is delaying the game until September 1st, in…
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Rock Band Unplugged DLC Detailed
Harmonix has released the full track list for Rock Band Unplugged, which we already knew, but they’ve also announced the first batch of downloadable content, which we didn’t know. This weekend’s video reveal of the full track listing for Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP looks a little more legitimate today, as the official listing…
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Wal-Mart Launching Video Game Trade-In Kiosks
Wal-Mart has teamed up with kiosk company e-Play to test automated video game trade-in kiosks in several store locations throughout the Northeastern United States. The machines, currently being tested in 77 Wal-Mart locations in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, should be relatively simple to use. You scan the bar code on the game…
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The Nintendo Download: A Milestone Marked By Majora’s Mask
We’ve struck a major milestone in this week’s Nintendo Download, as The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask becomes the 300th game to grace the Wii Virtual Console. If I have to explain what The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is to you people, then you might be at the wrong website. The second outing for…
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Guitar Hero 5 Brings New Look, New Features, And New Bands
Determined to deliver more than just another band game sequel, Neversoft gives Guitar Hero 5 a brand new look, innovative new features, and introduces more than 25 new artists to the rhythm game genre. More than 25 new artists means that we’ll find at least 26 songs we’ve never played before included on the disc…
By Mike Fahey