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ESA Welcomes Trion and XSEED
Just when you thought everyone was jumping ship, the Entertainment Software Association welcomes two new companies to its ranks. Trion World Network, Inc. isn’t familiar to most gamers – because they haven’t actually put out any games yet. The company is working on “server-based games and original entertainment” and made a couple of headlines last…
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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Dev Falls Into Bankruptcy
Developer Ascaron Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy protection in its home country, Germany. Their newest game, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, hit the PC last November and the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ports are due out this May. But as decent as the game’s been doing so far, that four year development cycle apparently murderized…
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Super Robot Taisen – The Power Is In Your Chest
The official trailer for Banpresto’s Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier for the Nintendo DS proves once and for all that you’re more powerful when you’re nearly naked, even if you’re Kos-Mos. Xenosaga might have been a much shorter series if KOS-MOS had only learned her hidden power earlier. I myself never realized that…
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Shadowbane Goes Into The Shadows
After a successful six-year run, MMORPG Shadowbane will shut down on May 1 according to publisher Ubisoft. Shadowbane is known to MMO devotees as a bastion of player-versus-player gameplay. I seem to remember sieges also being a big draw to bloodthirsty gamers. Ubisoft bought the game’s developer, Wolfpack Studios, back in 2004 and closed the…
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Celebrate Hitler’s Birthday By Killing Him In These Games
On this day 120 years ago, the headman behind World War II and the Holocaust was born in what was then known as Austria-Hungary. He died in 1945, but lives on in video games as the eternal bad guy. “Celebrate” Hitler’s B-day or just seize an excuse to play video games with the following titles…
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L.A. Court Finds In Favor Of Scratch DJ
A California judge has ruled in favor of Scratch DJ Game LLC, granting a temporary restraining order against Activision Publishing, ordering all Scratch intellectual property returned immediately. Despite assurances on Thursday by Activision that the L.A. Superior Court saw no evidence of wrongdoing on their part, a judge today granted Genius Products and Numark Industries…
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite Getting A Demo
Monster Hunter Freedom Unit is hitting the states this June, and Capcom is preparing a tiny demo taste of the game to help players gauge their interest in really big game hunting. The demo for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite will be hitting the PlayStation Store in early June, a bit before the actual game hits…
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Singstar Has Trophies Now
Remember when we told you SingStar was being patched last week? We lied. It’s patched now though, with trophy support, voice control, and a newly redesigned SingStore eagerly awaiting your dulcet tones. It seemed rather silly to release a trophy patch one week and a functionality patch the next. Perhaps that’s why the new global…
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Fight Night Round 4 Is Stylin’
EA shows off some of the different fighting styles represented in Fight Night Round Four. It’s really quite amazing to see the different techniques and styles used by competitors in a game that can be simply described as hit the other guy until he falls down. For those of you who’d rather not get into…
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Tiny Lego Battles Screens Possibly Contain Lego
This box art for TT Games‘ Lego Battles strategy game for the Nintendo DS is about as exciting as the screenshot gallery gets. Translating the Lego Castles, Pirates, and Space sets into a real-time strategy game is a brilliant idea, but when you shrink the whole thing down to function on the Nintendo DS, you…
By Mike Fahey