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Thanks to this week’s sponsors: Cheez-It Star Trek Yourself, Eidos, EDMC Art Institute, Energizer, Final Fantasy XI, MSN IE8, New Egg, Red Faction Guerrilla, Virgin Atlantic.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Me? I’ll be playing OutRun Online Arcade, so far a brilliant Xbox Live Arcade game that’s deceptively simple at first, but incredibly addictive. I’ll be wailing on some “Heart Attack Mode” when I can. But I’m also going to be playing a little Guitar Hero: Smash Hits and Punch-Out!! for the Wii. Maybe even a…

SOE Assures Parents It’s Okay To Play Free Realms

In advance of the release of their family-friendly online multiplayer game Free Realms, Sony Online Entertainment has release a booklet explaining the benefits that games like Free Realms offer children. “Let The Kids Game” is the title of the booklet, now available via SOE.com and WhatTheyPlay.com, which details all of the good that can come…

We Need a New Drinking Game, Stat!

Sony Comments On PS2 God Of War Games Coming To Blu-ray

Sony surveyed potential God of War III fans this week about what they’d like to see in a collector’s edition for the PlayStation 3 sequel, including repackaging the first two games on Blu-ray. That would almost certainly indicate that PlayStation 2 games would be playable on the PlayStation 3, a backwards compatibility option that the…

Tour Aion’s Lovely Morheim Zone

NCsoft’s latest zone tour video for Aion: The Tower of Eternity ice, sand, lava, forests, and 50% more heim than any other massively multiplayer online role-playing zone. Having not actually played Aion I don’t suppose I can really comment on the heim levels of any particular zone, but people don’t generally name online game zones…

Battlestations: Pacific Ups The Cheesecake Factor

Eidos sexes up World War II quite a bit, with the inclusion of award-winning burlesque artist Miss Polly Rae as aircraft nose art in Battlestations: Pacific. Originally used as a method to mark friendly aircraft, nose-art eventually became a way for pilots to express their individuality, evoking memories of a more peaceful time to help…

City Of Heroes Players Create More Content Than Devs In 24 Hours

Only one after NCsoft released their player-created content focused Issue 14: Architect update, and players have already crafted more than 20,000 mission arcs. In a letter to the community posted on the official City of Heroes website, Matt “Positron” Miller revealed that within the first 24 hours of the new updates’ existence, players in both…

ESA Applauds Pirate Bay’s Year in Jail

The Pirate Bay took a broadsides in Swedish court and the Entertainment Software Association is over the moon about it. “Piracy is the single greatest threat to the development and release of innovative and creative entertainment software that consumers demand and enjoy. It’s a job killer in an economy that needs millions more jobs, not…

Sacred 2 Blessed With A Console Release Date

cdv Software and Ascaron Entertainment deliver Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners to the world of Ancaria in mid-May, announcing the official release date for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. North American Xbox 360 owners are definitely getting their hands on Sacred 2 come May 12th, and while the official press release doesn’t list the PlayStation…

GOG.com Goes Postal

CD Projekt’s DRM-free classic PC game service GOG.com ditches class in favor of crass with the addition of Running With Scissors infamous Postal series. The folks at GOG have been quite busy since we last checked in with them, adding new games to the service left and right. The past month’s additions include Earth 2150,…

Microsoft Explains the E74 Code, Sorta

When Microsoft announced they were extending their warranty for Xbox 360s that received a E74 error, I was curious how different the code was from the red ring of death. Not very, it turns out. I contacted the company earlier this week to find out what a E74 code meant and whether it was possibly…

G.I. Joe DS Screens From The Top Down

Few publishers are brave enough to send us DS screenshots as large as the ones we received for EA’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. As Crecente reported last month, the Nintendo DS version of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a top-down action game with role-playing elements in which the player takes one…

Rock Band Picks Up Styx, REO Speedwagon

Two classic rock groups collide next week in Rock Band, with three songs each from Styx and REO Speedwagon, and one song by Styx and REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon and Styx are getting together for a Can’t Stop Rocking tour that kicks off this May, and with Rock Band as one of the sponsors it…

Gaming Chair For the Weak of Arms

Finally a solution for gamers who want to game but just don’t have the upper body strength to support their own arms. Ikea’s Jesper is a padded bench that you straddle while playing games. The design allows you to rest your arms in front of you as you game, thus mitigating even the slightly physical…

Burnout Paradise Has A Date With The Police

The long arm of the law finally reaches into Paradise City later this month, as Criterion Games announces the release date for Burnout Paradise‘s Cops and Robbers pack. The next batch of paid downloadable content for Burnout Paradise drops on April 30th, with the Cops and Robbers pack adding an all-new freeburn mode to the…

MadWorld Sells 66K In The U.S., Sega Seems Pleased

NPD sales numbers procured by Gamasutra reveal that Sega’s M-rated tongue-in-cheek blood bath MadWorld sold 66,000 copies in the U.S. following its March launch, and the publisher feels encouraged. Despite a respectable Metacritic score of 82 percent, the M-rated MadWorld didn’t exactly explode off of the shelves when Sega released it last month. The stylishly…

A Look At Arkham Asylum’s Harley Quinn

.html I’m not totally in love with Harley Quinn’s look in Batman: Arkham Asylum. She’s a little too hard, a little too grimy.

I Wrote You A Letter. No, You Didn’t. But…

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Flying Tristan Mini-Bash is getting ready to change schools, leaving behind the friends he’s made at his current school — especially one little girl he’s quite smitten with and who’s quite smitten with him. She’s written him a couple letters this week on fancy Power Rangers type stationary. (We think…

Over 20 Minutes Of Starcraft II Gameplay Footage

Blizzard have released the second of their Starcraft II “Battle Reports”, which feature developers giving a play-by-play as two players duke it out in the upcoming strategy title. This episode shows the Zerg facing off against the Terrans, and…well, it’s over 20 minutes of real Starcraft II gameplay footage. Get comfortable.