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New Dead Space Extraction Screens Show Old Enemies
The Lurker, the Slasher and the Leaper all make appearances in these new Dead Space: Extraction screens. Previously, we’ve seen the Infector (gigantic manta-ray bats) Necromorph and not much else besides Slashers. Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis has promised that there will be new enemies for the Wii exclusive prequel to EA’s flagship horror title —…
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Raven Software Gushes Over Wolverine
While the second behind-the-scenes clips for X-Men Origins: Wolverine does include some nifty bits about sound design and camera work, for the most part it’s just the team at Raven using complimentary adjectives. According to Raven, Wolverine will be fast, furious, unleashed, and the game that everyone is pining for. It’s like no Wolverine game…
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Dead Space Extraction Shakes Things Up
The first question everyone has about Dead Space: Extraction is: What does “guided first person experience” mean? To executive producer Steve Papoutsis, it means that gameplay in the Dead Space prequel is not a straight line through an alien-infested ship. Players will have the opportunity to choose diverging paths and pan the camera under certain…
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From Flash To Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Cash
The Rockstar Social Club is teasing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars with Mr. Wong’s Laundromat, a new flash game that will let players earn cash for their DS game playing Flash games on their PC. At first Mr. Wong’s Laundromat was a mystery, but the gaming detectives over at MTV Multiplayer soon cracked the case,…
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Sailor Shot Dead During Video Game
A gaming session ended in death on Wednesday, as Clinton Echols allegedly pointed a gun at his fellow sailor and fired it while playing an unspecified military video game. Authorities say that 25-year-old Echols was playing a war video game with fellow sailor Louis Urbana on Wednesday afternoon at a San Carlos, California apartment. Police…
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iPhone Owners Buy The Most Games
Low price points and ease of accessibility could be factors in the discovery that iPhone owners buy more games than owners of any other gaming platform. The findings of a survey conducted in February by E-Poll Research, indicate that iPhone and iPod Touch owners purchased an average of 4.57 games over the past 12 months,…
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Here’s What Borderlands Looks Like Now
Gearbox Software passed us the copy of the cover of the June issue of PC Gamer Magazine to show us exactly what they mean by “Borderlands is not cel-shaded“. According to Gearbox Software’s Steve Gibson, the cover art for the June issue of PC Gamer is an actual in-game screenshot, bereft of any post processing.…
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Bionic Commando Lab Report #1
The first in a series of "lab reports" Capcom’s Bionic Commando focuses on Nathan Spencer’s constant companion and best friend: his left arm. What would you do if you had a left arm strong enough to crush steel with the ability to shoot its hand out as a grappling hook? Would you swing, leap, grapple,…
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Rabbids Ditch Rayman, Go Home
Rayman’s no more, the Raving Rabbids are flying solo in the newly announced Rabbids Go Home, coming this holiday season to the Nintendo Wii. Hilarity surely ensues as the Rabbids cause havok in the human world as the desperately try to make it back to their Rabbid home world in Rabbids Go Home. The Rabbids…
By Mike Fahey