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City Of Heroes Celebrates Five Years Of Heroism
NCsoft’s superhero simulation City of Heroes celebrates its five-year anniversary next week, with contests and events planned to keep the game’s super-powered denizens partying Paragon City into the ground. The festivities start on Wednesday, April 28th, continuing through to Sunday, May 3rd. Kicking things off will be an in-game event running from 11am Eastern to…
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It’s Good To Be The Saboteur
The latest batch of art and screens for Pandemic’s The Saboteur display some of the more tangible benefits of being an Irish racing mechanic liberating France from Nazi oppression. It’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen anything new from Pandemic’s free-roaming World War II adventure game, which is quite obviously looking rather lovely, and I’m…
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Burnout Paradise Cops & Robbers Go For The Gold
After teasing us for weeks with videos and pictures of Burnout Paradise’s Cops & Robbers update, Criterion finally delivers the first actual gameplay footage, along with some rather disturbing cosplay. While I probably could have done without the random dressing up, the team at Criterion look like they’re having a great deal of fun playing…
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UK Change4Life Campaign Changes Its Tune
Criticized in March for ads that equated playing video games with an early death, a new commercial for the UK government’s Change4Life campaign promotes healthy gaming. The colorful new ad is a big change from the campaign’s previous efforts, which depicted a sickly-looking young boy sitting on a couch holding a game controller underneath a…
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Ghostbusters: The Opening Cinematic
.html The opening cinematic for Atari’s Ghostbusters game isn’t all that much different from any other video game opening – until the music kicks in. If there was ever any doubt that Ray Parker Jr. is every bit a part of the Ghostbusters cast as the franchise’s four main characters, this trailer completely reinforces that…
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Nothing’s Shocking In Next Week’s Rock Band Update
The Harmonix crowd gets another full album release next week, as Jane Addiction’s best album, Nothing’s Shocking, hits the Rock Band Music Store. With the album’s :Mountain Song” already appearing in Rock Band 2, next week’s release of Nothing’s Shocking contains the remaining ten songs from the band’s controversial but critically acclaimed 1998 album. The ten…
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Champions Online Heroically Dated
Strategy Informer reports on an event taking place over in the UK today, where Cryptic Executive Producer Bill Roper delivered a July released date for Champions Online in the U.S. and Europe. In what feels like the fastest massively-multiplayer online role-playing game development turnaround in the history of the genre, Roper told Strategy Informer that…
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Star Trek Online Screens Explore Strange New Worlds
Following the official announcement of Paramount’s Star Trek D-A-C yesterday, Cryptic sent us a trio of exclusive Star Trek Online screens to remind fans that there’s much more than a top-down shooter in the works. Out of the three images that Cryptic passed along, the top one here is the one that truly spoke to…
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Madden 10 Cover Athletes Revealed
The battle of the long-haired football players commences, as Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu score joint custody of the cover for EA’s Madden NFL 10, a first in the franchise’s 21-year history. EA can’t seem to commit to one cover athlete this year, with multiple sports stars sharing the covers for Fight Night: Round 4,…
By Mike Fahey
