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Left 4 Dead Gets Patched Up For Xbox 360

Xbox 360 owners can now play the version of Left 4 Dead that PC gamers have been enjoying for the last month, thanks to a new title update from Valve. The changes look to be close to identical to those issued on the Steam side in mid-January, closing exploits, modifying game balance and making everything…

50 Cent Optioning Saint’s Row Rights For Possible Movie

Rapper 50 Cent revealed his intentions to develop a movie based on THQ’s Saint’s Row franchise today during a conference call regarding his upcoming video game 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand. Answering a question about the possibility of his own games becoming films, 50 Cent explained that he had other movie plans in store…

Stoked: The Mountains

Stoked features five mountains that you can snowboard all over after being helicoptered in. Here’s a quick look at some of the mountains in Alaska, Chile and Japan. This looks pretty amazing, but can a realistic snowboarding game succeed enough to warrant a sequel. It seems like it’s always been a struggle in the past.

The Making Of Wrestle Jam: The Wrestler’s Unsung Hero

If you’ve seen Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning film The Wrestler, you’re likely aware that it features one of the smartest and most poignant, albeit brief, video game cameos in recent film. The Wrestler, Robert D. Siegel’s heart-wrenching tale of Randy “The Ram” Robinson-played by Mickey Rourke-a former professional wrestler far past his prime, is…

Resident Evil 5 Declassified Packed With RE Background, Details

Following in the footsteps of their excellent Street Fighter IV Training Manual, Capcom just sent me a copy of their guidebook for Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil Declassified is packed, packed with details about the upcoming game. The 39-page glossy mag includes a quick table setter for the upcoming game, detailed write-ups of the Kijuju…

Atlus Remakes Persona For The PSP

The PlayStation Portable gets yet another boost today, as Atlus announces Shin Megami Tensei: Persona for the PSP, and enhanced remake of the PlayStation game that started it all. First released in North America as Revelations: Person in 1996 for the original PlayStation, the spin-off to Atlus’ popular Megami Tensei gets a relaunch this fall…

First Trailer And Screens For MotorStorm: Arctic Edge

Any thoughts that Sony might not be taking the PlayStation Portable seriously enough should go crashing down the snowy mountainside with the release of the first trailer and screens for MotorStorm: Arctic Edge. Arctic Edge, which is actually in development for both the PSP and the PlayStation 2, takes the intense racing action of the…

Hothead Brings Braid To Mac, The Maw To Windows

Hothead Games is teaming up with other independent game developers to bring award winning titles to new platforms, starting with Twisted Pixel‘s The Maw and Jonathan Blow‘s Braid. Hothead Games, the developers behind the Penny Arcade Adventures series, is teaming up with other indie developers to help bring their games to new platforms so they…

Warhawk Command Center Coming to Home

Finally! That amazing sandbox for Warhawk’s in-Home presence we first heard about last year is coming to the Playstation 3. The Warhawk Command Center space in Home will feature “a new place to socialize and strategize featuring the sand table.” The space arrives this week. From what we’ve heard, using a three-dimensional “sand table” replication…

Hannah Montana And Assassin’s Creed PSP Packs Coming

Female gamers finally get a PSP of their own, as Sony announces a Lilac color being released in one of two new PSP bundles being released this year – Assassin’s Creed and Hannah Montana. While the thought of a Lilac PSP is actually rather appealing to me, Sony is releasing it as part of the…

LittleBigPlanet, Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed Coming to PSP

Hot from this week’s annual Destination PlayStation meeting comes news of LittleBigPlanet, Rock Band and Assassin’s Creed for the PlayStation Portable. Rock Band Unplugged will include Wi-Fi support and a “fully-featured in-game store” for downloadable content in the North American and Europeans markets. This fall will see the release of MotorStorm Arctic Edge and LittleBigPlanet…

Square Enix Continues To Slowly Devour Eidos

Square Enix has scooped up another large chunk of Eidos Interactive stock as shareholder support continues to build for the proposed buyout of the Tomb Raider publisher. Square Enix publicly revealed their offer to Eidos earlier this month, and since then stockholders have been tripping over themselves to show their support for the deal. Warner…

New Star Trek Online Screens Beam Down

Cryptic has released four new screenshots for Star Trek Online, a couple of which actually show off some of the more intimate locations you’ll be able to explore. Most of the screenshots I’ve seen so far for Star Trek Online focus on various vessels in outer space, and while they are lovely, there’s only so…

Square Enix Invades Steam

Adding to their ever-expanding list of publishers, Valve today announced a deal with Square Enix to bring their PC games to download service Steam. Beginning April 9, The Last Remnant will be available for purchase via Steam. After the action role-playing game hits the service Square will continue to add to its roster of games…

Galactrix Launch Trailer Perhaps A Bit Too Epic

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix ships today for the Nintendo DS and PC, with the Xbox Live Arcade version dropping tomorrow, and D3 Publisher releases a trailer a bit too epic for a puzzle game. It’s not so much the visuals in the Galactrix launch trailer that get to me, as they seem to have taken their…

PlayStation Gets Its Own Skin Disorder

Just when you think things are beginning to look up for Sony, the PlayStation goes and gets its very own skin disorder: PlayStation palmar hidradenitis. The new skin condition springs from the case of a 12-year-old girl, treated in a Swiss hospital for intensely painful sores on the palms of her hands. The doctors examining…

Activision to Publish Bakugan Game

It was only a matter of time before the soaring popularity of card and toy game Bakugan was snatched up by a developer and turned into a video game. Activision today announced they’ve signed a deal with Nelvana Enterprises to develop and distribute a video game based on the toy and animated television series. The…

A Bad Day (Not Mine, Not Even Yours)

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Recital The Second Mrs. Bashcraft’s sister stopped by this afternoon to have tea and decompress after having a crummy day. She woke up late, missed her classes after bicycling all the way to college (they wouldn’t let her in for some reason when she arrived late!), lost her umbrella, got…

British Kid Sets Street Fighter World Record

Britain’s Zak Bennett entered the record books last week, setting a Guinness World Records…record for most consecutive wins in Street Fighter IV. And it sounds like it took him all day to do it. Bennett’s first attempt at the record – which we guess is new for the book’s gamers edition, since no mention of…

Check The Specs Of Sega’s New Arcade Hardware

At Japan’s AOU arcade expo held last week, Sega unveiled a couple of new arcade boards for use in upcoming games. One of which is the amazing-looking Border Break. So what are the specs? A press release sent out by Sega shows that both boards are running Windows Embedded Home 2009, and that one is…