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BioShock 2 Isn’t Sea of Dreams Again
BioShock 2’s on again, off again love affair with the subtitle “Sea of Dreams” is finally officially off…or we hope so, for the sake of our sanity. Despite official word given to Eurogamer last month after the first time we discovered the subtitle wouldn’t stick, IGN now has the official official words, and they are…
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Eating The Story Of Prototype
Poor Alex Mercer. The Prototype antagonist wakes up in a morgue and has to eat people to regain his memories. Yum. There’s a bit more to it than that, but the idea of consuming other people as a storytelling technique is certainly a novel way of putting a fresh spin on the overly-used amnesia mechanic.…
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Fallout 3 360 Pitt DLC: Take 3
The Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3‘s The Pitt downloadable content has been revised once again, with users experiencing crashes urged to delete the old files and download the new. Third time’s the charm, right? The first batch was corrupted; the second plagued with random freezing. Now the third version of The Pitt is up…
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Register Extremely Early For PAX East
The website for the East Coast version of the Penny Arcade Expo quietly went live last week, with registrations now being accepted for the 2010 event. The Penny Arcade boys are giving the East Coast a little loving in 2010, with PAX East taking place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston from March 26th…
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Interplay And Masthead Team For Potential Fallout MMO
Interplay is teaming up with Masthead Studios to complete work on Project V13, which sounds suspiciously like a code name a company would use for a massively multiplayer Fallout game. Interplay announced their intentions to create a massively multiplayer online game based on the Fallout property back in December 2006, having retained that particular portion…
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Lips Mics Will Work With Metallica, Rock Band 2
Microsoft’s nifty wireless microphones that were packed in with Lips just got a whole lot more useful, supporting Guitar Hero Metallica and soon Rock Band 2. Tethering a music game singing virtuoso to a console is a sad, sad thing, especially since the cords are never long enough to allow for the sort of microphone…
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Rock Band Gets A Kick In The Shins
Harmonix is padding next week’s Rock Band Toby Keith release with music from The Shins, Black Tide, and Bullet for my Valentine in order to please the few of you who don’t appreciate country music. I know it’s hard to comprehend that any gamer out there wouldn’t be overjoyed with the Toby Keith Six Pack…
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Red Faction: Guerrilla Gives Us The Bird
From April Fool’s prank to reality, Volition announces that the fabled Ostrich Hammer will indeed be available as an unlockable in Red Faction: Guerrilla. In what some are calling the winning video game ‘prank’ of April Fool’s Day 2009, Volition released a hilarious video on Wednesday revealing the Ostrich Hammer, a brilliant response to NeoGAF…
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Bear McCreary Wants To Make Dark Void Players Uncomfortable
See Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary discussing his unique strategy for creating the musical score for Capcom’s Dark Void. Bear is quite obviously a gamer as well as a composer, so he knows game music and how it generally works. In order to keep his music from fading into the background, he’s splitting his music…
By Mike Fahey