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This Week On Live Arcade: R-Type Dimensions
This Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade, shoot-em up fans get a healthy dose of redone retro goodness with R-Type Dimensions, repackaging and repolishing the first two games in the R-Type series. R-Type and R-Type II return this Wednesday in R-Type Dimensions, which takes the classic gameplay of the original shooters and updates them with all…
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Here’s What Snowboard Riot Looks Like
Here’s the launch trailer for Hudson’s Snowboard Riot, for those of you sitting there staring back and forth between your Wii Points card and your television, frozen with indecision. It might not be the highest quality snowboarding game out there, but then I’ve disliked most snowboard titles since the heyday of SSX. As far as…
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Della Rocca Steps Down As IGDA Director
The International Game Developers Association is officially searching for a new head honcho, as long-time executive director Jason Della Rocca steps down in order to pursue a new venture. Della Rocca has served the IGDA tirelessly since 2000, overseeing the group’s growth from a 500 member-strong group to a 15,000 member force to be reckoned…
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SouthPeak’s NYCC Plans Include Real Velvet Assassin
The 2009 New York Comic Con is kicking off this weekend, and SouthPeak Games plans on making their presence felt, throwing everything from space bears to live-action velvety assassins at convention goers. SouthPeak is showing off a wide variety of titles at the NYCC this year, from the cute and cuddly Roogoo Twisted Towers! for…
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The First Resident Evil 5 Review Is In
The U.S. Official PlayStation Magazine has finished putting Capcom’s latest survival horror romp through its paces, delivering their final verdict on the eagerly anticipated Resident Evil 5. So how did it fare? In a massive seven-page review, OPM sings the praises of the latest entry in the epic saga of Resident Evil, paying particularly close…
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Killzone 2 Demo On PSN This Week
PlayStation 3 owners will be getting a bit more time with Killzone 2 before release than originally anticipated, as Sony’s semi-official blog ThreeSpeech announces a demo for the eagerly anticipated game dropping this week. A demo for Killzone 2 will be hitting the PlayStation Network on Thursday, February 5th, several weeks ahead of the originally…
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CellFactor: Now With More Post-Apocalyptic Snack Sausage Nipples
Immersion Games and Ubisoft have created a somewhat humorous machinima video with their upcoming downloadable first-person shooter CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars, featuring references to Cobra Commander, Osama Bin Laden, and yes – snausage nipples. CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars is a first-person shooter being released on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade early this year, which mixes…
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The Fate Of Free Radical Has Been Decided
The final fate of Timesplitters developer Free Radical will be revealed this week, with a formal announcement from the company’s administrator ReSolve Partners to take place later this week. Free Radical went into administrator late last year, following several canceled projects and the dismal performance of their PlayStation 3 exclusive, Haze, earlier in 2008. After…
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Madden NFL 09’s Super Bowl Prediction Eerily Accurate
The dust has settled and the Pittsburgh Steelers again return to Pennsylvania with some lovely new Super Bowl rings on their fingers, as prophetically predicted by Madden NFL 09. A yearly tradition, EA has been using the Madden football franchise to predict the outcome of the Super Bowl since 2004, when it forecast the New…
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Weekly Wii Update – Snowboards, Sonic, And Space Puzzles
It’s Monday morning, and the Nintendo Wii downloadables delivery van is making its weekly rounds with a mix of alpine sports adventure, space-filling puzzles, and yet another installment of brazen blue hedgehog. Mixing things up today, we’ll kick things off with the solo Virtual Console title dropping this week, Sonic Chaos for the Sega Master…
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EA Gets Ludlum, Starbreeze Does Bourne
Ludlum Entertainment has struck a deal with Electronic Arts, granting them exclusive worldwide rights to the works of author Robert London, with a new Jason Bourne game currently in development at Starbreeze Studios. Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze Studios is already hard at work on a new Jason Bourne game as EA and Ludlum Entertainment…
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