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  • Plants vs. Zombies iPhone Release Dated

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:30 am
    Gleemaker PopCap has pinned the mid-February release iPhone and iPod Touch release of its lawn defense game Plants vs. Zombies to February 15, via Twitter. Pricing has yet to be announced, though PopCap's other iPhone offerings are currently priced at between $2.99 and $4.99. Peggle cost $4.99 at launch before dropping. Never forget that uraniwa ni zombies ga and we most certainly do not want don't want want zombies on the lawn. Or enjoy the roof level music in this iPhone trailer. [video]17096[/video...

  • LEGO Universe Beta Signups Open

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:50 am
    Developer NetDevil has opened beta registration for LEGO Universe (PC), providing the opportunity to help test the block-buster MMO before it launches sometime this year. While some signups are a rather detailed affair, this one is relatively simple--after signing in with a LEGO ID, one simply states if they have no, some, or much experience testing online games. Of course, not everyone will be chosen to participate; " You have now joined our bravest heroes so be ready to answer the call, you might get chosen to battle," declares the site after you've signed up. No word as to when the beta…

  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Officially Announced, Splinter Cell: Conviction Includes Beta Access

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:15 am
    The new entry in Ubisoft's tactical shooter Ghost Recon known previously only as 'Ghost Recon 4' will be named Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and be released during the 2010 holiday season, the publisher announced today. Few details were given, other than it's coming from Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter developer Ubisoft Paris and a press release boasts of "cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes." The logo and 2007's Ghost Recon: Advance Warrior 2. Invitations to a multiplayer beta running this summer will "for…

  • Dead Space 2 No Longer Coming to PC, Survey Suggests XBLA & PSN Ports of Dead Space Wii

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:20 am
    The PC edition of Dead Space 2 was conspiciously abscent from EA's fiscal year 2011 release lineup revealed yesterday--because apparently there is no longer a PC edition. "As of right now a PC sku is not in the plan," an EA representative told Blue's News. No reason was given for scrapping the PC edition, which the video games colossus announced alongside Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions a mere three months ago. The original Dead Space and Dead Space Extraction.

  • Morning Discussion

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    How can one sum up Tuesday February 9, 2010, in a single, short Morning Discussion? Probably with a link to a video of possibly the world's first natural sighting of an oarfish. The ocean is mysterious, wonderful and amazing and one day will destroy us all. If we're lucky, the ocean's life will be responsible for our downfall. We can but dream. On a related note, today we have a dedicated BioShock 2 Chat Thread for all you Rapturian rotters to share their gossip and watery whispers. Chat-a-chat.
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    Kotaku

  • Sign-Up For The LEGO Universe Beta [Beta Watch]

    Mike Fahey
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:40 am
    Beta sign-ups are now underway for NetDevil's LEGO Universe, potentially the largest mass computer bricking of all time. The LEGO Universe is entering its final phase of development, and NetDevil needs builders to help put the pieces all together. The beta sign-ups were announced in the latest edition of the LEGO Universe News Network email newsletter, urging everyone on the mailing list to head over to the official sign-up page in order to fill out an amazingly simple questionnaire. After that, if the developers think you'll be a good fit, they'll be in touch. I've signed up for the beta,…

  • EA: All 2011 Titles To Feature Online Play, DLC [Electronic Arts]

    Michael McWhertor
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:20 am
    Publisher Electronic Arts is a big, big fan of downloadable content. So much so that it's committing to featuring paid DLC and online play in every single title it releases during the company's fiscal 2011. EA COO John Schappert said during the company's Q3 financial earnings call Monday that "every one of EA's releases will have an online component—both downloadable content and online play." That goes for Dead Space 2, the two Need For Speed titles, and Crysis 2, as well as Fighting Title and Action Title. Everything. Looking at the publisher's FY 2011 line-up and its ability to sell…

  • The Daddening Of Video Games [Fatherhood]

    Stephen Totilo
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    I can buy video game's depiction of intergalactic war, sure. Gaming portrayals of romance are a tougher sell. But there's another kind of love that's suddenly popular in games and is being done well: The love of being a dad. I write this article from the disadvantaged position of being married and not being a father. It's possible that what you're about to read is tainted by my gullibility in believing in something I've not experienced. My admiration for the the way modern video games portray the love a father has for his child — as opposed to the ways they often falter at believable…

  • Who Should Gundam Fight? (Besides Gundam) [Gundam]

    Brian Ashcraft
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:40 am
    The Gundam Vs. series doesn't really venture far outside of the Gundam universe. You know what you are getting into: Gundam. Take, Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon, Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam or Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next. Notice a pattern? These games are great if you know your Zeta from your Zeon, but for newcomers to the series and its iterations, these games can seem like inside baseball. So when Namco Bandai announced that it would be announcing (ungh, we know) the next entry in the Gundam Vs. series at the upcoming AOU arcade game expo, it's…

  • Talk Amongst Yourselves [Official Kotaku Forum]

    Stephen Totilo
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:20 am
    Should we add Natal support to TAY? That and any other video game topics are yours to discuss in the comments section of this post.Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
 
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  • LEGO Universe Beta Sign-Ups Available

    pwnophobia
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:45 am
    Want to get into the LEGO Universe beta? Then click here and drop your name in the hat for a chance to test out LEGO's upcoming MMO. Quote: Sign up now for your opportunity to become one of our chosen heroes that must answer the call. Your mission is to test LEGO Universe for bugs, so prepare yourself to strap on your suit of armor and help your friends battle the dark forces of the Maelstrom! Thanks for the tip modeps.

  • Mental Note: Don't Steal From Nintendo

    pwnophobia
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:32 am
    An Australian man made a huge mistake when he decided to rip and distribute NSMBW a week before release; a court has ordered Burt to pay 1.5 Million AUD to Nintendo. Using "sophisticated technological forensics", Nintendo found the individual and obtained a court order to search his home on November 23rd. Moral of the story? Don't think you're safe when you pirate a video game. Quote: Loaded onto the net on November 6, one week before the game was released, Burt was the first one to pirate the game, thus allowing Nintendo to use its “sophisticated technological forensics to…

  • Metro 2033 Gets Limited Edition

    modeps
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:29 am
    In case you were thinking about picking up Metro 2033, how about picking up the limited edition instead? It'll be available for both Xbox 360 and PC when the game is released on March 16th. Quote: Revealed today, the Metro 2033 Limited Edition for both Xbox 360 and PC includes an exclusive in-game weapon – the formidable automatic shotgun! Also in the box you’ll find four art cards featuring artwork by Russian painter Anton Grechko, who was commissioned to create a range of artwork inspired by the universe of Metro 2033. I mean seriously, it comes with a freakin' (in-game)…

  • StarCraft 2 Beta Forums Opening Soon

    Leord
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:23 am
    There have been a lot of signs from Blizzard lately that a StarCraft II beta test is imminent. One of these include that the Community Managers no longer bother deleting or closing beta hype threads. Another one is bigger. It seems like the StarCraft II Beta forum is about to open its doors to the public!

  • Diablo III Gets More Genders for the Classes

    modeps
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:14 am
    On the most recent episode of the Jace Hall show, we saw a sneaky picture of what appeared to be a female monk for Diablo III. Today, Blizzard has updated their official site showing off both a male and female monk. Additionally, if you jump over to the Barbarian and Wizard pages, you'll see female versions of those as well (Wizard has full animated model while Barbarian has concept art), indicating that along with picking a class, you'll be able to select a gender for your character. We still don't know when this will be released, but I bet it'll come out at the same time as Grim Dawn. This…
 
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  • Bioshock 2 - Review

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:45 am
    In Bioshock 2 mechanics are familiar; you rummage in trash for abundant consumables, fight splicers, obtain plot developments and dialogue through radio and melt icy obstacles,and shock faulty electronics with Plasmids. Bioshock 2 does vary from the original, but heightens the best parts. Full review is after the break:5 Vote(s)

  • NandPro 2.0c

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    A new version of NandPro(info (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/NandPro.php )) has been released, the original cmd-line tool that allows you to read/flash the Xbox360 NAND via LTP or USB:What's new/fixed:* Bit settling verify feature added for LPT reading* Add support for Jasper16a* Improved detection for virtual nand device, fixes some problems with writing to...5 Vote(s)

  • Debunking another hacked authenticator story

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:15 am
    One of our readers, Bill, sent us a tip about a WoW account issue on The Consumerist. It seems that the ownership of Anonymous's friend's account is under dispute and Blizzard won't let him use it in the meantime. The ownership became disputed after the account was...5 Vote(s)

  • UFC Undisputed 2010 Preview

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    THQ plans to knock you upside your head with a greatly improved UFC game.5 Vote(s)

  • Upon logging into World of Warcraft, I immediately...

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:30 am
    Last week Eyonix started a poll on the forums asking players what they do directly after logging in (all of the options are listed in the picture above). For me, it's no contest -- before I do anything else, I always pop the friends list up to see who's around. The only...5 Vote(s)
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  • 'Fighting Fantasy' and 'Gamebook Adventures' – Two High Quality Interactive Adventure Books

    Eli Hodapp
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    In 1941, Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges published the first book featuring decisions the reader could make to change the way the story ended through two different branching points that asked readers to flip to a particular page depending on which option they choose. Several other early game books were released over the years, but it wasn't until the late-70's that the genre exploded with several different series of varying complexity– The most popular of which was undoubtedly Choose Your Own Adventure with over 200 titles that were almost always checked out of my local…

  • TouchArcade at Macworld 2010, GDC 2010 and PAX East

    arn
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am
    Macworld Expo 2010 kicks off this week and TouchArcade will be in attendance. If you are a developer and want to meet up to show us your games, feel free to contact us at tips@toucharcade.com. We will also be attending GDC 2010 from March 9-13, 2010 also in San Francisco, CA and PAX East 2010 from March 26th-28th in Boston, MA. Feel free to start contacting us (email) to meet at those events as well. We welcome all developers to reach out and get in touch. If you have nothing specific to show, we'll also be around at the various organized social events and can be contacted via Twitter…

  • 'Doom II RPG' Gameplay Footage

    Eli Hodapp
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Id's Doom II RPG [$3.99] was released yesterday, and so far has had an overwhelmingly positive reception in our forums. Much like Wolfenstein RPG [$1.99], Doom II RPG is a turn-based 3D game chock full of crazy humor, items to loot, and enemies to slay. Here is some gameplay footage of the first few moments of the game: We're still powering through the game for our full review, but right now, it's safe to say if you like silly turn based RPG's, Doom II RPG is a worthy purchase. App Store Link: Doom II RPG, $3.99

  • 'Myst' Sequel 'Riven' Coming Soon

    Eli Hodapp
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:13 am
    According to a post on the Myst Online forums, an iPhone port of Riven, the sequel to Myst [App Store], should be available "by early summer at the latest." Myst is a point and click adventure puzzle game first published for the Mac in 1993. Loaded on a CD-ROM, Myst was absolutely revolutionary at the time. We enjoyed the iPhone port in our review, and there's not much reason to think that Riven wouldn't translate to the iPhone just as well. Riven is set immediately following the events that transpired in Myst and the plot is hard to describe without revealing some…

  • 'Giana Sisters' 2D Platformer Arrives, First Impressions

    Windburn
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:03 pm
    The Great Giana Sisters, as it was originally known, has an interesting and cheeky history, being pulled off the shelves as soon as it first went on sale in 1987 for the Amiga, Atari and Commodore 64, due to its incredible likeness to Super Mario Bros on the NES– henceforth cementing it as a highly sought collectors item. Many years down the track, it was re-imagined on the Nintendo DS in 2009, a port of which has now made its way to the iPhone as Armin Gessert's Giana Sisters [App Store], named after the C64 version's original programmer. Having just played through the first…
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  • Yale gets $4 million grant for HIV avoidance game

    Griffin McElroy
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:45 am
    A group of pupils at Yale University recently received a grant from the (deep breath) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which will help fund development of a video game which teaches youngsters how to avoid contracting HIV. The game, Retro-Warriors, will be designed with a multicultural focus, so that it can be used to teach young people across the globe how to identify and eschew risky behaviors. It's not the first time someone's proposed such a project -- however, considering the aforementioned grant was for $3.9 million, it might be the most…

  • Ferrari Racing Pack exclusive to Need for Speed: Shift on 360

    Justin McElroy
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:15 am
    After a seven year absence, the Ferrari brand is returning to Need for Speed, albeit in an anti-climatic comeback for true Ferrari fans like ourselves. First, the facts: On February 16, those who own Need for Speed: Shift on 360 will be able to get 10 cars from the venerable manufacturer for 800 points ($10) -- we've got the full list for you after the break. It's an okay list, but there are some glaring omissions. Where, for example, is the 2006 Ferrari X734 or the X744? Where's the 2008 Ferrari Sesquiderro? Where's the 1898 Ferrari X78 Horse or the 1962 Ferrari Old-Timey Ice Cream Truck?

  • Producers: Final Fantasy XIII will 'resurrect' Japanese game industry

    JC Fletcher
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:45 am
    Final Fantasy XIII may not be out in North America and Europe yet, but the development team is in full "victory lap" mode in Japan. At least, that's how it seemed when noted industry figure Jem Alexander interviewed producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama for the European PlayStation Blog. Asked about the state of the Japanese game industry, the two (no individual attribution was given to the speakers) said that FFXIII was going to fix it. "Some people have been saying that the Japanese game industry is dead, and all that... I dunno," the creative lead said. "I will say that…

  • 'Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse' outed by OFLC

    Alexander Sliwinski
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:15 am
    Like good burlesque, Telltale had been teasing a new season of Sam & Max ... meanwhile, like good porn, Australia's OFLC went ahead and just exposed the goods. Unless a dramatic change occurs, it appears the title of the next installment in the comedic adventure series is titled Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 1: The Penal Zone. The premature ratings announcement obviously doesn't contain much aside from a title -- there's no telling whether the game might eventually come to Mac or iPhone as recently rumored -- but at this point, we'll take whatever glimpse we can get.

  • Nintendo Australia fines NSMB Wii uploader $1.5 million

    JC Fletcher
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:30 am
    Finally, Nintendo has been able to make a little money from New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a sequel to one of its old franchises, released this November. Nintendo of Australia announced that as the result of a federal court settlement, one Australian will be required to pay $1.5 million ($1.3 million USD) to Nintendo for loss of revenue due. This person was allegedly the first to upload New Super Mario Bros. Wii to the internet, doing so on November 6, one week before the game was released (an act that facilitated creative works in addition to piracy). Not only is this bad news for this one guy,…
 
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  • Fallout New Vegas Official Teaser Game Trailer

    Revenue Robot
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:08 am
    The above teaser trailer is for the game “Fallout New Vegas” which looks like it’s going to be pretty interesting. I have a few friends who have played Fallout 3 and they said that... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Game Demo Download

    Revenue Robot
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:15 pm
    (photo: credits) If you haven’t downloaded the multiplayer game demo for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 that you can download over off of the Xbox Marketplace. The file size is 1GB so make sure you... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

  • Left 4 Dead 2: Moustachio Achievement Guide

    Revenue Robot
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:03 am
    So you’ve tried forever to get the Moustachio Gong Show Achievement well look no further! If you watch the video above you’ll see how easy it is to get. Here is what you have to... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

  • Friday the 13th Jason Zip Hoody – By Ecko Unlimited

    Revenue Robot
    6 Feb 2010 | 8:50 am
    If you recall a bit back I wrote about a Master Chief HALO Hoodie which seemed to be a great gift around Halloween. So I decided to create another post and show you the Friday the 13th Jason Zip... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

  • The Red Dead Redemption Referendum Sweepstakes

    Revenue Robot
    5 Feb 2010 | 9:05 am
    GameStop and Rockstar Games present the “Red Dead Referendum,” a public vote to select the pre-order exclusive unlockable outfit for the upcoming title, Red Dead Redemption. Polls are... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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  • Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Broken Emotions To The Game Of Game-Making

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:25 pm
    In highlights from Gamasutra's Member Blogs, our weblog writers examine how the game medium often destroys emotional ties with characters, why chasing perfection can be a bad thing, and how making games is a game in itself. Member Blogs can be maintained by any registered Gamasutra user, while invitation-only Expert Blogs -- also highlighted weekly -- are written by selected development professionals. Our favorite blog post of the week will earn its author a lifetime ...

  • Analyst: Industry Sales To Rebound In March On Strong Core Slate

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:46 am
    When NPD results for the month of January come out this week, expect year-over-year sales for U.S. retail game software to be down 2 percent, says Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz -- who, like many analysts, pegs the coming March as the month the industry will finally see a return to growth thanks to core releases. "We expect industry software sales to return to year over year growth during Q1, most likely in March, due ...

  • Interview: Composer Garry Schyman Talks BioShock Soundtracks

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:52 am
    [In this interview, we talk to BioShock composer Garry Schyman about the new orchestral LP contained in the BioShock 2 special edition, his approach to making music for the two games in the series, and his influences in creating the franchise's evocative soundtrack.] The score for BioShock, composed by Garry Schyman, has reached an enormously wide audience for a videogame soundtrack. Not only was the title a popular console release, but its orchestral recordings were ...

  • RedLynx Hails Digital Publishing, Sells 1.5 Million Units In 2009

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:29 am
    Xbox Live Arcade Trials HD developer RedLynx sold 1.5 million copies of its games during 2009, the Helsinki-based studio's best year ever, according to an official announcement. RedLynx's release slate last year -- which also included PC title Monster Trucks Nitro and iPhone games Monster Truck Nitro and DrawRace -- together sold 1.5 million copies. CEO Tero Virtala says that developing and publishing in the digital space is the primary driver of its success. "In ...

  • Gamasutra, GamesPress Partner On Press Release Page

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:24 am
    Gamasutra is debuting a new partnership with UK-headquartered information aggregator GamesPress, with a new 'press releases' section listing the latest unfiltered industry announcements. The agreement brings together the industry's leading online trade publication and its leading online trade material repository. Gamasutra will mirror all press releases submitted to GamesPress in their original form in a dedicated section of the Gamasutra website. UK-headquartered GamesPress, the definitive one-stop resource for the video game industry, hosts press releases ...
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  • Morning Hangover -- Hello, Rapture

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    The story of Andrew Ryan and his, er, influence over your character in BioShock may have resulted in the game's most shocking moment, but one of the most important reasons to keep pushing forward was to see more of Ryan's creation, Rapture. The failed underwater utopia remains a breathtaking environment for a video game. Rapture is the heart and soul of BioShock and the most interesting "character" in the game. It's not unlike the -- cue obligatory Tuesday reference -- island in Lost. Returning to Rapture is the whole reason I signed on for BioShock 2, despite my apprehension about…

  • Dante's Inferno "Second" 15 Minutes Of Direct-Feed Gameplay

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    So, you've played the demo but are you still on the fence about a purchase for Dante's Inferno? Never fear, our trusty First-15 direct-feed video team is on the case to bring you the "second" fifteen minutes that take place directly after the official game demo. Go to hell? You make the call. Watch Larger Version | Watch HD Version

  • Daily Wrap-Up 2.08.10

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:01 pm
    Watch Larger Version of this Video Here's what went on today in the world of video games, technology and popular culture: In this Morning Hangover, Patrick Klepek asks what you played this weekend. LucasArts today announced Lego Star Wars: Clone Wars is on the way. The winners of the 2009 Mod of the Year awards have been announced. A mod for MechWarrior took home the Player's Choice award. Jake Gaskill took a long, hard look at Bioshock 2. VIDEO: Need Melee Tips In AVP? Sega's Latest Trailer Has You Covered VIDEO: Backbreaker Trailer Lists Features To Take On Other Football Games (*Cough*…

  • X-Play Goes Hands-On With Split Second

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:36 pm
    I've been anxiously awaiting Split/Second ever since I played Pure, the massively underrated ATV racer from a little while back. Luckily, Split/Second look like it could have some broader appeal. Not convinced? Check out X-Play's latest hands-on with SplitSecond for more.   Watch Larger Version | Watch HD Version  

  • Launch Primer: Dante's Inferno

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:03 pm
    Ever find yourself in a situation where all of your friends are talking about the latest and greatest game, and you can't contribute to the conversation because you haven't been paying attention? Solve that problem with our Launch Primers: everything you need to know (except the spoilers) about a game that's about to be released. Dante's Inferno PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP MSRP: $59.99 (console), $39.99 (PSP) ESRB Rating: Mature  All Dante's Inferno Content Videos   |    Previews   |   Screenshot Galleries   |   News…
 
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  • Game Averse Mom Demonstrates Open Mind

    pete_gallagher
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:34 am
    A columnist for a local Minnesota paper recently detailed her ability to overcome an aversion for videogames.Maggie Modjeski, a writer for the Winona Daily News of Winona, Minnesota, was given a Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit for Christmas. The console remained boxed for sometime after the holidays as Modjeski wrestled with the fact that the game machine was “against everything I had preached for so long to my children.”After some setup assistance from her kids, the Wii was ready to go. Modjeski noticed that her offspring playing Wii Fit were not only occupied, but “they were…

  • Price of Piracy for AU Man: $1.5M

    pete_gallagher
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:55 am
    An Australian man charged with pirating Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros.Wii has reached a settlement and will be fined $1.5 million AU (approximately $1.31 million U.S.).GameSpot gives the accused pirate’s name as James Burt of Queensland. What had to be particularly galling to Nintendo about this case was that the game in question was released Down Under in advance of other territories, a departure from general release timing that usually sees later releases for new games in Australia.Subsequently a Nintendo spokesperson indicated that Australia could see a delay in releases, saying,…

  • Distributors, Retailers React to Proposed Brazilian Game Ban

    pete_gallagher
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:33 pm
    Early in December, word came out of Brazil that the country was considering legislation to make it a crime to create, import or distribute videogames “that affect the customs, traditions of the people, their worship, creeds, religions and symbols.”The bill was sponsored by Brazilian Senator Valdir Raupp, who, as Brazilian website UOL reports (translated), is not in the habit of playing videogames himself and could not name any particular game that might fall under the proposed legislation.Raupp did, however, diss Brazil’s rating system for games—the Department of…

  • $3.9M Grant to Fund Yale Game That Will Teach HIV Avoidance

    pete_gallagher
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:10 pm
    Thanks to a research grant of $3.9 million from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Yale University will create a videogame designed to teach youngsters how to best avoid being infected by the HIV virus.The grant will be distributed over the course of five years and enable the project, which will be led by Yale School of Medicine Assistant Professor of Medicine Lynn Fiellin M.D. Titled Retro-Warriors, the game will be created with different cultures in mind, in order to spread its message to adolescents around the globe.The game’s main…

  • Internet Hub Offers Both Sides of Game Violence Debate

    pete_gallagher
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:13 am
    ProCon.org, a California-based nonprofit charity that specializes in promoting "critical thinking" by presenting both sides of compelling issues has launched a new site dedicated to the topic of video games and violence.The hub offers an introduction to the topic, noting that “The effect of violent video games on children and teens has been debated by researchers and the media since the release of the video game Death Race in 1976.”It then lists a variety of research and opinions on the subject, from both sides of the fence, and offeres gathered images and videos on the…
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  • Age of Zombies!

    GillRider
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:04 pm
    Yes. Yet ANOTHER zombie game, this time by Halfbrick. But you know, at least they’re honest about it: zombie games make money. So with that out of the way, they focused on how to make it fun and funny. The result is Age of Zombies. Simply put, AoZ (that looks way cooler than “Age of Zombies”) is a top view zombie shooter. The main zombie slayer in this number, Barry Steakfries (mmmm) uses a time portal to stop the evil zombie schemes of Professor brains (these names are just epic). Barry wil be facing all kinds of zombies, ranging from ancient mummy zombies to futuristic…

  • Extreme!…Hangman for DSiWare

    GillRider
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:06 am
    I know. There are a million and a half remakes of old school games like scrabble, yahtzee, tic-tac-toe, etc. But this one just sounds hilarious: Extreme Hangman. Cuz I mean, seriously guys, how much more extreme can you get than hangman?? So the game itself is hangman. I mean there’s only so much you can do with a simple game like hangman. But what this game prides itself on is its “absurdist twist of comical proportions.” It’s a bit hard to tell from the trailer below (nice huh?), but apparently this game has various ways in which our hero the hangman pays for our…

  • Magicka – Interview with Johan Pilestedt

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    8 Feb 2010 | 10:01 am
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  • Magicka – the action adventure fantasy for co-op fun!

    ClassicMoments
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:58 am
    Weird. We try our best to keep our antennas out, searching for games that deserve the attention to us gamers. And so far, we haven’t missed much. But we still don’t know how we missed Magicka, which seems like a very cool looking game, with a 4 player co-op mode. Seriously, the last thing the world needs is another war game or a gangsta-wannabe character running around in a so-called sandbox world. We can really use games like Majesty 2, Torchlight and ZEN Pinball for PSN; not too complicated, but with enough substance for hardcore gamers. Let’s take a look at the video…

  • Bleach: The 3rd Phantom for DS – trailer

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    8 Feb 2010 | 8:52 am
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  • Games on Demand: Street Fighter IV and Halo Wars

    Major Nelson
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:11 am
      The following Xbox 360 game are now ready for direct download from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace:     Content: STREET FIGHTER IV Price: Check pricing for your region Availability: North America and Asia Dash Text: (Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB) This game supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Download the manual for this game by locating the game on http://marketplace.xbox.com and selecting “See Game Manual". Capcom's world renowned hit fighting series returns after a 10 year hiatus! Step into the ring with familiar…

  • This week on Arcade: Darwinia+

    Major Nelson
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:17 am
      Darwinia+ will be available this Wednesday February 10th for 1200 points.  

  • Deal of the Week: A week of 3 fighting deals

    Major Nelson
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:59 am
      This week Xbox LIVE Gold Members can choose from 3 different Xbox LIVE Arcade fighting games that have special DOTW pricing:     Title Normally*  Sale Price* Save Availability     Marvel vs Capcom 2   Add to your download queue     1200     800     33%     All Xbox LIVE Regions     TMNT: Turtles in Time Reshelled   Add to your download queue     800     400     50%     Not available in Japan and Korea     Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao  …

  • Demo: Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing

    Major Nelson
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:56 am
      Content: Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Playable Demo Price: Free Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: Join Sonic and his SEGA friends in the race of your life. Dodge weapons, perform tricks and drifts, seek short cuts and look out for that elusive all-star move pick-up as you blast past your rivals in to pole position. Winning has never tasted so sweet!       Add Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Playable Demo to your Xbox 360 download queue  

  • Xbox LIVE being discontinued for Original Xbox consoles and games

    Major Nelson
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
      I wanted to let you know that on April 15, 2010 Microsoft will discontinue Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox 1 games playable on Xbox 360. Our first step in this process will be to turn off auto-renewals for those members who only use Xbox LIVE on a v1 Xbox. While I can’t comment on the specifics, this change will allow us to continue evolving the LIVE service with new features and experiences that fully harness the power of Xbox 360 and the Xbox LIVE community. We did not make this decision lightly, but after careful consideration and review we…
 
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  • 2K Sports offering $1 million for first perfect game in MLB 2K10

    Brian Allen
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Section: Gaming News, Features, Giveaways, Consoles, PS3, Xbox-360, Ads & Media, Web, Game-Companies, Publishers, Genres, SportsThere are few feats in sports tougher than pitching a perfect game (one in which no member of the opposing team reaches base) in pro baseball. It’s so tough, in fact, that 2K Sports will award a cool $1,000,000 to the first player to do so in MLB 2K10 on Xbox 360 or PS3. Gamers will have 60 days to attempt this starting 12:01 a.m. (PST), March 2, 2010, and ending 11:59 p.m. (PDT), May 2, 2010. To enter the contest you need to play against the computer in the…

  • Gamertell Review: Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain for DS

    Kirk Hiner
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:12 am
    Section: Reviews, Features, Opinions, Handhelds, DS, Genres, 3D, Adventure, Shooter, Role-PlayingTitle: Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain Price: $29.99 System: DS Release Date: November 25, 2009 Publisher (Developer): Aspyr Media, LLC (Big Blue Bubble, Inc.) ESRB Rating: “Teen” for alcohol reference, blood and violence. Pros: Classic dungeon crawling feel, fluid movement and animation, fun and rewarding exploration and plenty of spells and weapons to master. Cons: Overly complex controls, extremely difficult enemies, lackluster/slow character upgrades and minimal…

  • Spoiler Alert: Mass Effect 2 loyalty missions

    Jeremy Hill
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:16 am
    Section: Originals, Features, Lists, Consoles, Xbox-360, PCs, Windows, Game-Companies, Developers, Publishers, Genres, 3D, Action, Adventure, Shooter, Role-Playing Caveat Lector: There are times where a game is released where you really want to know what happened but you either can’t or don’t want to buy or play it. To help you out, Gamertell offers Spoiler Alert. We’ll play the games and tell you what happened so you don’t have to spend, or waste, your time on it. Prepare to be spoiled. In this edition of Spoiler Alert, we run down the biggest moments of Mass Effect…

  • Collect bailout cash in iBailout for iPhone, iPod Touch

    Brian Allen
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:41 pm
    Section: Gaming News, Features, Lists, Handhelds, iPhone & iPod Touch, Genres, 2D, CasualMarroni Electronic Entertainment and NightIrion are taking a humorous look at the current United States economic issues with iBailout, a Pac-Man like game on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Players run around the screen and try to eat up as much of the government’s bailout cash as possible. Instead of ghosts, angry mobs of US taxpayers chase players around the board. To counter the angry taxpayers, players can run over machine guns to declare martial law and make taxpayers harmless. Since we’re…

  • Amazon giving a free Xbox 360 Platinum Hit when you buy two

    Jenni Lada
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:43 am
    Section: Gaming News, Consoles, Xbox-360, Genres, 3D, Action, Arcade, Children's, Fighting, FPS, Shooter, Horror & Suspense, Racing, Role-Playing, Sim, Strategy, Web-Sites, Official-SitesIf you need to catch up on some of the more popular Xbox 360 games, like Mass Effect, Bioshock, Halo 3 or Fable 2, then head over to Amazon. The site is holding a buy two, get one free sale on 35 in stock Xbox 360 Platinum Hits games. Yes, I know it says there are 36 results on the Amazon page. Trust me, there are only 35 games to choose from. Since they’re all Platinum Hits, there’s a good chance…
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  • MAG Developer Tips: Suppression

    Jeremy Dunham
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:59 pm
    Now that MAG is roughly two weeks old and players have familiarized themselves with the game and its mechanics, we’ve decided to help all of you take the next step towards becoming MAG superstars. Specifically, every day over the next three weeks we’ll be offering a bevy of developer facts and strategies from the team right here at Zipper Interactive. With inside info like that, you can expect to learn plenty of tips, tricks and tactics that should make you all the more prepared for becoming masters of MAG’s game modes, character classes and leadership roles. First up, is a closer look…

  • Square Enix Talks Final Fantasy XIII + Submit Your Questions

    Chris Morell
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:01 am
    Over on the PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Jem Alexander managed to wrangle up a great Q&A with Final Fantasy XIII Producer Yoshinori Kitase and Director Motomu Toriyama. But Europe’s not stealing all the fun – We’re heading up to San Francisco later today to speak with Mr. Kitase and Mr. Toriyama, as well as FFXIII’s Battle Director Yuji Abe for the first time. So now’s the time to get those final questions out there (That’s Final Fantasy XIII only, so please keep your questions on that topic. They won’t be discussing anything Versus- or…

  • LittleBigPlanet: This Week in DLC

    Mark Valledor
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:49 am
    Hey guys, As mentioned in our last post, we’re trying something new to keep you up to date on all things LittleBigPlanet DLC. So on Mondays we’ll be here filling you in on the latest DLC coming to the PlayStation Store. In time, we hope to fill out this post with more DLC-related news, announcements, highlights, etc. But for now, this week’s post… As Valentine’s Day draws near, PSP fans will be able to dress up their Sackboys and Sackgirls with costumes of ‘Luvre’! Two new packs will release on the Store this Thursday, February 11: Luvre Costume for…

  • PlayStation Around the Web: What We Read

    Jeff Rubenstein
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:01 pm
    Last week, many of you demanded a God of War III countdown timer. Well, it’s there now (down on the right rail); I hope that makes March 16th come that much sooner for us all. The better news is – the new GoWIII trailer is hitting this week! I’ve seen the near-final cut, and it is going to be EPIC. Look for more details soon! Oh, and – Saints or Colts? The PS Blog weekly reading list (Week of February 1, 2010) Alien Chestbuster Cyborg PS3 Mod is Coming for Your Children – Ps3 Maven Demon’s Souls Valentines Day – Atlus Reaction Time: Q Games Reflects…

  • The PlayStation Recap

    Chris Morell
    6 Feb 2010 | 12:01 pm
    So earlier in the week I rushed out the first 10 minutes of a BioShock 2 interview to make sure it got up well before release, only to discover that there was some…ahem…*mixed* b-roll for the game included. Unfortunately with the game only days away from retail, the team seems to be pretty much finished creating assets, so I got clearance from 2K to capture my own PS3 footage. To make up for my flop on Wednesday, I spent my entire Friday capturing and editing BioShock 2 single-player footage, which I included in part two of the interview…and you can see it right here. Of…
 
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  • Square Enix Trademarks Deus Ex: Human Revolution

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:50 pm
    Deus Ex 3 'Debut' teaser HD Deus Ex 3 was announced well before Thief 4, but we still don't know much of anything about the Eidos Montreal project. That could change though, with the game possibly gaining a new name. Siliconera is reporting that Square Enix has trademarked the name Deus Ex: Human Revolution in Europe. While it could potentially be a brand new game in the series, it's more likely to be the official title for the above-mentioned prequel.

  • EA Releasing Ferrari Pack for Need for Speed Shift

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:43 pm
    Electronic Arts has announced a round of downloadable content for Need for Speed: Shift. Last year's racing title will be getting a pack containing new challenges and ten new cars -- all of them from Ferrari. The Xbox 360 exclusive pack's 46 new challenges are designed for the Ferrari cars, and include hot laps, eliminators, endurance races and a world tour. This will mark the first time in seven years that Ferrari has appeared in a Need for Speed title. The pack will be out February 16 on the Xbox Live Marketplace, and will run you 800 Microsoft Points ($10.00). The complete list of cars can…

  • Endwar Sequel Now on Hold

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:47 pm
    Looks like we won't be getting a sequel to EndWar after all, at least not for a while. Videogaming247 is reporting that the project is currently on hold. "It's on the backburner," Ubisoft Shanghai's Michael de Plater said. He didn't go into any further detail. The original game was released in 2008 to mediocre reviews. The main hook was its voice activation, but it was panned for its fairly shallow gameplay.

  • Upcoming Fable III Announcements Will Upset People, Peter Molyneux says

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:10 pm
    Lionhead founder Peter Molyneux has never been one to mince words. When he thinks a game is going to be great, you know it. So what do you do when he says that a game will probably piss you off? We're about to find out, apparently. Molyneux recently told Gamereactor, "We're making some announcements about Fable III and there's some... Wow, there's some very, very big things happening in Fable. Bigger than you think. And it's going to really upset people." "I'm really scared when I go out and tell people what it is they're going to get super pissed off, they really are. But it's the right…

  • The Decade That Was: Influential Faces

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:05 pm
    The Decade That Was: Influential Faces A look at the five people who most influenced the industry over the past ten years. By Jeremy Parish Now that we're firmly ensconced in the year 2010, we at 1UP would like to pause and look back at the century's first decade* and all the changes it brought to videogaming. It's been a tumultuous ten years, opening with Sega's decision to back out of the console-making game and ending with Nintendo back on top as former powerhouse Sony struggled to catch up. High-definition has become the new standard for game graphics, western developers migrated from PC…
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  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Beta Coming This Summer

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:02 am
    Ubisoft announced that the next chapter in the Ghost Recon series is being worked on right now and gamers will have a chance to play it when the beta hits this summer. In addition to announcing the new game, Ubi revealed that if you buy Splinter Cell Conviction (which hits the streets on April 16th) you'll get a beta invite stuffed in the packaging. This is becoming a more common thing lately with Halo ODST offering Halo Reach beta access (still no date on that one) and inFamous giving gamers access to the Uncharted 2 MP beta. I'd rather Read more...

  • LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Coming This Summer

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:12 pm
    LucasArts and LEGO are teaming up again to bring the next edition of LEGO Star Wars to just about every platform except PC (DS, PSP, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360) in August 2010. LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is going to have all of the characters from the Clone Wars animated TV show and some additional ones from the movies. While I've decried the originality of the LEGO series before (recently in fact) they are at least going with the Clone Wars that steps outside of the standard Star Wars movies shadow. In the game you'll be Read more...

  • The Vehicles of Battlefield: Bad Company 2

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:19 pm
    BFBC2 not only has a huge number of guns (45 - see them here) but it also has some vehicles that drive, float or fly. There are 14 vehicles in total and they include the BF2 favorites like the Vodnik (aka Ice Cream truck), jetskis (remember playing Special Forces in BF2?) and the Blackhawk. One thing you won't find in BFBC2 that will either make you jump for joy or cry into your beer are jets. There are only choppers, no more jets to worry about raping you as you just try to run around happily grabbing flags. Read more...

  • The Full Array of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Weapons

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm
    I've been a little busy-beaver this morning churning out some BFBC2 stuff like the overview and objective maps posted earlier. In addition to those, here are all of the weapons you can expect to find in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 when the game ships on March 2nd. In total there are 62 items including the gadgets that for some reason includes rocket launchers along with sensors. For guns, the total available in the game right now is 45 which is pretty damn good. I will say I'm a little annoyed that they left out two Read more...

  • All Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Maps Revealed

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:39 am
    Battlefield: Bad Company 2 hits the streets on March 2nd and can now be demoed on the PS3 and Xbox 360 or if you pre-ordered the game, beta-tested on the PC. At this point we've seen just two maps; the first was Arica Harbor on the PS3 beta a few months ago. Currently, the demos and PC beta are showing Port Valdez. That's just 2 out of the 8 known maps that are shipping with BFBC2. While some might say that 8 is not a huge number you should remember that these maps are Read more...
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    Rahul Sood

  • Why I love Open Communities...

    Rahul Sood
    23 Jan 2010 | 2:13 pm
    There is something to be said about transparency. Back in 1993 we started a new website for Voodoo. It was lots of fun - though not many users. We also created an open forum where people could talk... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Introducing BrightSquid

    Rahul Sood
    21 Jan 2010 | 11:33 am
    My dad died almost a decade ago from Cancer. He was awesome, he was one guy who enjoyed his life. He was jovial, hilarious, infectious, and one of the most aggressive businessmen I knew. He did... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Interview from Mixergy with yours truly...

    Rahul Sood
    15 Jan 2010 | 12:40 pm
    It's a bit long, but there's a ton of great info in there, history on Voodoo, current, and also the other stuff I'm involved with. Business Tips via Mixergy, home of the ambitious upstart! ....to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Viva Las Vegas 2010?

    Rahul Sood
    4 Jan 2010 | 9:07 am
    Debating getting on a flight to go to CES. I know people keep asking if I'm going.. Still deciding. I personally have zero desire to deal with airport security, etc. It's not easy flying these... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • What Else is New?

    Rahul Sood
    31 Dec 2009 | 5:47 pm
    2009 May have been tough for some, but challenges spawn opportunities! In my travels I sometimes come across interesting trends or concepts that I take a personal interest in. Ever since I can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
 
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  • Dragon Age - 3.2M Shipped, New Title in 2011

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:42 am
    EA's 3rd quarter reporting has produced a couple of interesting tidbits regarding Dragon Age.  First, EA took this opportunity to announce 3.2M units have shipped: BIOWARE’S DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS REACHES TRIPLE PLATINUM SALES Legendary Studio’s Newest Title Wins over 30 Industry Awards, Ships Over 3 Million Units Becoming BioWare’s Sixth Consecutive Blockbuster Franchise Edmonton, Alberta (February 8, 2010) – Leading video game developer BioWare™, a division of Electronic Arts Inc....

  • Fallout: New Vegas - "Wittier" Than FO3

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:13 am
    Yes, this is one of those previews of a preview but while we wait for more substantial New Vegas news, this is nice to see.  CVG reprints a snippet from their sister magazine PSM3 about the quality of writing in New Vegas: As part of its world-exclusive cover feature, PSM3 played an extensive demo of New Vegas....

  • Dragon Age - Return to Ostagar Review

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:10 am
    MTV looks at Return to Ostagar and says "you're better off staying at home": Even if you've just picked up "Dragon Age: Origins," this DLC isn't worth your time. Another piece of DLC, "Warden's Keep," has decent armor in it, as well as presents fiction that is much more compelling than this....

  • BioWare - Mass Effect 3 and Beyond

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:08 am
    IGN catches up with Biodoc Ray Muzyka about the success and future of the Mass Effect franchise: IGN: There's a renewed focus on the shooter aspect for Mass Effect 2. Was there a concern that it would put off BioWare's more traditional RPG fanbase? Ray Muzyka: The RPG features are still there....

  • Mass Effect 2 - Scrambled @ The Brainy Gamer

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:05 am
    Guhndahb sends in this excellent article at The Brainy Gamer that doesn't so much look at Mass Effect 2 or even the critical praise but some of the commentary that has accompanied the game - in particular, the assertion that ME2 represents the refined future of RPGs....
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  • WereBox

    grinnyp
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    WereBox is a fun little challenge that will brighten your day. Lurking in the darkness, transforming to save the day, be the hero and vanquish the wicked reds so that life in the city can return to normal. Well, normal for balls anyway. It's a physics puzzle with a twist, as you turn balls to boxes and back again to complete each level.

  • Record Tripping

    Blar
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm
    An experiment in concept, Record Tripping is a short game that you control using your mouse scroll wheel. Play a series of mini-games that take you through Alice in Wonderland with one very pretty presentation. The whole package is a cool little showcase of a neat idea with lovely trappings, well worth the short time it takes to complete.

  • Robot Unicorn Attack

    LDora
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am
    Have you ever wondered what ponies dream about? It's not hay or salt licks. They dream of racing with shiny dolphins across a purple landscape, leaping to avoid smashing into stars and racking up a high score. That's right, they dream of being a magical robot unicorn! And now, thanks to this weird yet addictive two-button game from Adult Swim, so will you. Neigh, my friend. Neigh like you've never neighed before!

  • Mobile Monday

    JohnB
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    One secret fact about iPhone games is that they can make you do weird things. Tilting the device to steer a car, for example, seems innocent enough, but when you're operating a flying taxi cab or flinging enemies up into the virtual sky, it's easy to get carried away. But you know what? Who cares if you look like a weirdo. You're having fun, and that guy making fun of you is not.

  • Sarah Maribu and the Lost World

    grinnyp
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:15 am
    Embark on a hidden object adventure to a lush, mysterious, and strange uncharted jungle island. Despite the flaws there's a lot of hidden object fun to be had with Sarah Maribu and the Lost World. Just sit back and enjoy the wild, illogical, yet dazzling adventure through the island of misfit dinosaurs. Just tell them Grandpa sent you.
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  • Original Xbox games lose Xbox Live access on April 15

    andru@hex.gearlive.com
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:48 pm
    Check it out, Microsoft just announced that all games made for the original Xbox will no longer be able to access the Xbox Live service as of April 15, 2010, and we couldn’t be happier with the news. No, we don’t hate classics like Halo 2, but the thing is, those titles are many years old, and they’ve been holding back the full potential of Xbox Live for far too long. As an example, it’s no secret that we hate the Xbox Live friend limit, and the major reason it exists is because of Halo 2. With Halo 2, and all the rest of the original Xbox games, being denied access to…

  • Modern Warfare 2 throwing knife tricks video

    andru@hex.gearlive.com
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:39 pm
    The youngins that play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 always seem to amaze me, while also catching me off-guard, with their crazy knife-throwing skills. Seriously, taking people out by throwing sharp eating utensils at them, in a first-person shooter no less! Still, I’ve gotta give props where props are due. Hit the video above for a look at some seriously cool throwing knife kills in Modern Warfare 2. Tags: (T), (T), (T), (T), (T), (T)

  • Fallout: New Vegas teaser trailer

    andru@hex.gearlive.com
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:40 pm
    We love Fallout, and poured hundreds of hours into Fallout 3, which explains the pain we feel in our chest knowing that we won’t be able to play through Fallout: New Vegas until the fall of this year. That said, Bethesda has released a teaser trailer for Fallout: New Vegas, which is just enough to whet the appetite. Who’s excited? Tags: (T), (T), (T), (T), (T)

  • Unannounced Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 faceplate (custom console?) spotted!

    andru@hex.gearlive.com
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:20 am
    Our friends over at Gamertag Radio just posted a video promoting their Community Vibes 5 event (which takes place this Saturday) with Major Nelson, and we couldn’t help but notice what appears to be a yet-to-be-announced Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 faceplate on Major’s desk! We haven’t seen or heard about this anywhere, so this may, in fact, be the first time it’s been seen in public. Even more interesting, though, is the fact that Microsoft has kind of forgotten about the whole faceplate-only thing, which leads us to believe that we may see a Final Fantasy XIII Xbox…

  • iPad: What it means for Apple and gaming

    andru@hex.gearlive.com
    28 Jan 2010 | 1:31 pm
    Yesterday, many rumors were put to rest with the release of the Apple iPad. People were excited, joyful, angry, disappointed, or just plain indifferent. Whatever you stance, you had some kind of reaction to Apple’s announcement of the iPad. Is it a giant iPhone? A female hygiene product? A cool netbook replacement? That’s for you to decide. Whatever iPad really is, and regardless of what it’s competing against, one thing is clear–Apple wants to make a dent in the gaming industry.  Developers and publishers were present at yesterday’s conference, including Gameloft and…
 
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  • Soul Master Gameplay Trailer

    zerozombie
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:18 pm
    This trailer shows off gameplay in Soul Master, the new, free-to-play real-time strategy game from nPluto. Share and Enjoy:

  • Red Steel 2 Hero Speed Art Trailer

    zerozombie
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:16 pm
    This trailer shows off some of the art from Red Steel 2, the first-person action game where players become a swordsman who finds himself in an edgy city in the middle of a desert. Share and Enjoy:

  • Rocket Knight Trailer

    zerozombie
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:06 pm
    This trailer shows off Rocket Knight, the new 2.5D sequel to Konami’s classic action adventure series currently in development for Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network and Steam. Share and Enjoy:

  • Magicka Teaser Trailer

    zerozombie
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:54 am
    This trailer shows off some teaser footage from Magicka, the action-adventure title based on Norse mythology will transport players into a fantasy environment. Share and Enjoy:

  • 4Story and Destiny Online Client Updates

    zerozombie
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:46 am
    4Story Client 2-3-2010 http://www.filefront.com/15533171/4Story-Client-2-3-2010/ This is the latest client for 4Story, the online game from ZEMI Interactive that features a real-time strategy command system. Destiny Online v1.0.2.19 Client http://www.filefront.com/15533349/Destiny-Online-v1.0.2.19-Client/ This is the latest client for Destiny Online, a cartoon-style real time strategy MMORPG where you will find a wonderland filled with cute friends, NPC and monsters. Share and Enjoy:
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  • Win Vancouver 2010, play the games before the games

    DeaconBlade
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:07 am
    The Olympic Games are set to being this week in Vancouver and countries across the world will begin their quest towards Olympic Gold (or Silver or Bronze ya never know).  Haven’t you always wanted to be there and pretend that you were indeed an Olympic athlete?  I know I have and the truth is, I [...]

  • Episode 80 BioShock 2 developers speak

    DeaconBlade
    6 Feb 2010 | 11:47 pm
    The return to Rapture is near and we are getting you ready to take the BioShock 2 plunge with a special episode.  Listen to some of the team from 2K Marin and Digital Extremes talk about the development of the game and what fans can expect.  U360 had the opportunity to sit in on a [...]

  • Live show today! Caption contest swag and more!

    DeaconBlade
    6 Feb 2010 | 9:58 am
    There were plenty of hot topics this past week and it’s time to dig into them totally live!  We have the Caption Contest swag and more ready to drop off during today’s live show!  The chat will be up as usual so join in on some community discussion the only way we know how on [...]

  • Discontinuation of Xbox LIVE for Original Xbox Games

    DeaconBlade
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:35 am
    Homie say what?  Yes, it’s true.  If you’re still playing the original Xbox and you’re still enjoying Halo 2 on Xbox LIVE or some other title, then you should start preparing your final frag soon.  What little breath the original Xbox had in its existence will be over on April 15th this year.  I was [...]

  • Truth Serum – Mike’s rage against the publishers part III

    DeaconBlade
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:59 am
    Ready for the final stab against publishers in Mike’s Rage?  The attack continues with part 3 in the series.  Get some lemon juice ready for your throats because you’ll want to respond to this one.  And some of you have taken the liberty to do just that so stay tuned for a community response to [...]
 
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  • Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game

    Soulskill
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:54 am
    An anonymous reader writes "A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after illegally copying and uploading one of its recent games to the internet ahead of its release, the gaming giant says. Nintendo said the loss was caused when James Burt made New Super Mario Bros Wii available for illegal download a week ahead of its official Australian release in November of last year. Nintendo applied for and was granted a search order by the Federal Court, forcing Burt to disclose the whereabouts of all his computers, disks and electronic storage devices in November. He was…

  • Improving Education Through Social Gaming

    Soulskill
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:11 am
    A piece up at Mashable explores how some schools and universities are finding success at integrating social gaming into their education curriculum. Various game-related programs are getting assistance these days from sources like the government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "For the less well-to-do educator, the Federation of American Scientists has developed a first-person shooter-inspired cellular biology curriculum. Gamers explore the fully-interactive 3D world of an ill patient and assist the immune system in fighting back a bacterial infection. Dr. Melanie Ann Stegman has…

  • Game Development In a Post-Agile World

    Soulskill
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:28 pm
    An anonymous reader writes "Many games developers have been pursuing agile development, and we are now beginning to witness the debris and chaos it has caused. While there have been some successes, there have also been many casualties. As the industry at large is moving away from the phantasmagoria of Agile, Gwaredd Mountain, Technical Director at Climax Studios, looks at Post-Agile and what this might mean for the games industry."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Game Devs Migrating Toward iPhone, Away From Wii

    Soulskill
    6 Feb 2010 | 10:59 am
    A new report by Game Developer Research reveals that the number of developers working on games for the iPhone continues to rise, roughly doubling in number from last year. At the same time, the amount of work done on games for Nintendo's Wii dropped significantly: "Just over 70 percent of developers said they were developing at least one game for PC or Mac (including browser and social games), rising slightly from last year; 41 percent reported working on console games. Within that latter group, Xbox 360 was the most popular system with 69 percent of console developers targeting it, followed…

  • Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down

    Soulskill
    5 Feb 2010 | 11:43 am
    itwbennett writes "Giving no explanation beyond that it 'will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community,' Microsoft's General Manager for Xbox Live, Mark Whitten, announced that as of April 15th, Microsoft will be shutting down its Xbox Live service for the original Xbox and its games. 'Cold comfort for those of you who still enjoy playing Xbox titles like Halo 2 with your friends,' writes blogger Peter Smith. But Smith notes that Whitten's announcement does hint at some form of restitution for those affected, encouraging users to check their LIVE messages for more details and…
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    Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today

  • Regulator To Review Chinese World Of Warcraft Licence

    Tom Ivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am
    Chinese regulator the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) has agreed to review NetEase’s application to operate World Of Warcraft after initially rejecting the proposal.read more

  • Community Spotlight

    Alex Walker
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:26 am
    Highlights from our community blogs, featuring a naval sailor’s love affair with Battlefield, an interview with Q-Games’ Dylan Cuthbert and more from the decade in review. read more

  • RedLynx Reports Record 2009

    Tom Ivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:51 am
    Finland-based publisher and developer RedLynx has announced that 2009 was “its most successful year ever”. Worldwide sales of the four titles the company published or co-published last year - Trials HD (Xbox Live Arcade), Monster Trucks Nitro (PC, iPhone) and DrawRace (iPhone) – reached 1.5 million units. read more

  • Free Realms Reaches Eight Million Users

    Tom Ivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:44 am
    Over eight million unique users have registered for Sony Online Entertainment’s MMO Free Realms, the developer has announced. While free-to-play since launching last April, the family-friendly PC title utilises a microtransaction model that allows users to purchase in-game items or to upgrade to a membership status. read more

  • NPD: Software Decline, PS3 Growth Forecast

    Tom Ivan
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:53 am
    Game industry analysts have weighed in with US sales predictions for the month of January ahead of the NPD Group’s release of official market data this Thursday.Wedbush’s Michael Pachter forecast console and handheld software sales of $655 million, down four per cent year-on-year, while Cowen and Company’s Doug Creutz said he expects a two per cent decline.read more
 
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  • Astonishia Story

    Psychphan
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:56 pm
    I’m always game for something unique. It’s part of the reason why the independent game scene (usually called “indie games”) intrigues me. Typically having a low-fi feel, they tend to do traditional tropes of gaming in unusual ways. During one of my previous visits to my local game store, I found Astonishia Story for the PSP. It seemed interesting, so I gave it a whirl. Sadly, it is rather unforgettable. But it is a good starter role-playing game.

  • Speed Forge Extreme

    Alladania
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:46 pm
    Speed Forge Extreme is a snappy little racing game for the iPhone or iPod Touch. I love this game — I just wish I were better at it. There’s a surprising amount of content in Speed Forge Extreme for such a tiny package. You start with one vehicle and can unlock five more as you progress through the game. Each vehicle has its own stats for mass, speed, agility, engine and ammunition. Since my personal car skills rank with knowing where to put gas, oil and wiper fluid, these stats weren’t that important to me, but they are provided. To me, the cool thing about the vehicles is that…

  • THQ Kids, Family and Casual Games

    GrizzMagoo
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:52 pm
    The THQ Kids, Family and Casual games division stopped in New York during its Q1 Media Tour, and this little journalist had the chance to check out some of the latest family-friendly titles coming to gamers this spring, including SpongeBob's Boating Bash, Beat City, World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars and Nancy Drew: The Model Mysteries.

  • BioShock 2 developers and designers

    brubinow
    6 Feb 2010 | 11:29 am
    BioShock was one of the most highly acclaimed games of the decade. The graphics, story and gameplay were all praised universally for going above and beyond the standards set by story-driven first-person shooters up to that point. Now, the sequel to one of the best games of recent years is set to be released this week. BioShock 2 will be hitting stores Feb. 9, but you don’t have to wait until then to get the details. Developers and designers from 2K Marin and Digital Extremes recently gave an interview in which they explained the ins and outs of their highly anticipated sequel.

  • Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven

    Psychphan
    5 Feb 2010 | 3:46 pm
    First-person perspective role-playing games are almost as old as the personal computer. Wire frames and simplistic monsters created an intriguing game. However, back in those days these types of games were difficult to play. It was complex as complex could be. Manuals were more than 70 pages of thickness that was necessary to play well. I honestly do not know how early PC gamers were able to play most of them. Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven serves as a bridge between old-school PC gaming and modern accessible PC games.
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    Xbox-Scene News

  • NandPro 2.0c

    XanTium
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:37 pm
    Update: I've been informed there's a bug in this version, a fix will be released shortly. Please do not use this version!!A new version of NandPro(info) has been released, the original cmd-line tool that allows you to read/flash the Xbox360 NAND via LTP or USB:What's new/fixed:* Bit settling verify feature added for LPT reading* Add support for Jasper16a* Improved detection for virtual nand device, fixes some problems with writing to vnand.* Always corrects the ECC bytes (but not SPARE), even in raw modeie: A raw file that has been hex edited can simply be flashed with -w* Added command line…

  • Xecuter CK3-CP (CK3 Control Panel)

    XanTium
    7 Feb 2010 | 5:44 pm
    Team Xecuter sent us details about one of their new upcoming products:[QUOTE]The Xecuter CK3-CP (CK3 Control Panel)5 1/4" PC Bay Complete Control Panel for all Xbox 360 Connectivity Functionality and more !Custom LCD SupportIntegrated CK3 Pro (Rev D USB)External SATA2 x USB 2.0 PortsCompatible with ALL Xbox 360 DVD DrivesHardware Mode-B For Hitachi DrivesHardware Eject For All Drives4 Programmable Directional KeypadProgrammable LCD OutputProgrammable LED Interface100% Smartie LCD Driver SupportPower Switch For DVD Vendor ModeIncludes SATA CableMore features and 3rd party software support to…

  • Dxbx v0.1 Alpha - Xbox1 Emu WIP for PC

    XanTium
    7 Feb 2010 | 5:41 pm
    Dxbx v0.1 Alpha has been released. Dxbx is a Delphi port based on Cxbx(info), an Xbox1 Emulator for PC:[QUOTE]It has been a long time since the last release.. (Xmas 2008).But now its time to show the world what has been done since the last time.So thats why the new release 0.1 Alpha is there.What has been fixed..- Game logos are shown in the main form and can also be exported.- The dll`s don`t need to be copied annymore to the game folders. ( this because of Xbe Loading ).- No more creating exe files, we run the xbe files instead of converting the xbe to exe.- We use our own dll files, not…

  • IngeniouX Beta 3

    XanTium
    6 Feb 2010 | 6:21 pm
    Ski-lleR released a new version of IngeniouX, an Xbox 360 homebrew dashboard.What's new/fixed:* Added several languages (German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, Arabic, Icelandic, Finnish, Portuguese)* Disabling the previews (instability)* Resizing the screenOfficial Site: n/a, by Ski-lleR (thx to WarriorSan for the news)Download: n/a (built with XDK)News-Source: gueux-forum.net

  • Team Xecuter xDrive 360 – Black Edition

    XanTium
    6 Feb 2010 | 6:13 pm
    From team-xecuter.com:[QUOTE]After many requests we have made the xDrive 360 Black Edition for those with the Elite consoles. The price is the same as the first xDrive 360 and will be available from all Xecuter retailers from next week.Note to current xDrive Users: Remember to switch to your internal stock (unflashed) DVD drive when performing system updates ;) [/QUOTE]Official Site: team-xecuter.com
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  • Dragon Age Reaches Triple Platinum Sales

    Kemuel Stewart
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:30 pm
    There’s no question that Dragon Age was one of the best releases of 2009; it won many awards, and has an average review score of 91. And to add the the excitement, BioWare has just announced that Dragon Age: Origins has sold over 3.2 million units worldwide, granting the game triple platinum status. “This is a tremendous start for the Dragon Age franchise and we are extremely pleased with the great reception the game has already received from critics and fans worldwide,” said BioWare’s Dr. Ray Muzyka in reponse to the news. “Our team is dedicated to crafting high…

  • Madden Prediction Is On The Money, Saints Champs

    Kemuel Stewart
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:18 pm
    Recovering from an debilitating first half, the New Orleans Saints marched down the field, both offensively and defensively, giving them the victory over the Indianapolis Colts; winning the teams its first Super Bowl championship, as predicted by the Madden NFL Super Bowl simulation. “We played for so much more than ourselves. We played for our city. We played for the entire Gulf Coast region. We played for ‘Who Dat’ nation,” said Drew Brees, Saints Quarterback and Super Bowl MVP. “The city was 85 percent under water, most of the population moved to other cities,…

  • Dead Space Sequel Has Modern Warfare Action

    Kemuel Stewart
    7 Feb 2010 | 5:52 pm
    Though there are mixed feelings, Modern Warfare is known to deliver an action-packed experience; in other words, they’ve set a new kind of standard in action delivery. When being interviewed by IGN, senior vice president and head of Visceral Games, Nick Earl offered some details to the anticipated sequel. “I can tell you that we’re a little more focused on action horror as opposed to survival horror. We just created a really beautiful sequence that we’re showing internally — we haven’t showed it externally yet, but we will get it out there soon —…

  • EA Planning Facebook Version of Madden

    Kemuel Stewart
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:25 pm
    Madden NFL is virtually everywhere, it’s even on the iPhone; and, now it’s coming to Facebook. Peter Moore, president of EA Sports, revealed that they’re planning a Facebook installment of the Madden NFL franchise. “We have to make ‘Madden’ more accessible,” Moore said. “You’ll see us on Facebook going forward.” A Facebook version of Madden would deliver a “simpler experience” as its the console counterparts, relayed Moore. That said, when asking about a release date, David Tinson, a spokesman for EA Sports, told Bloomberg that an…

  • Dante’s Inferno Super Bowl Advertisement Rejected [Updated]

    Kemuel Stewart
    1 Feb 2010 | 7:25 pm
    Update: Electronic Arts released THE REAL Super Bowl advertisement. Those expecting to “Go to Hell” during the Super Bowl maybe be a bit upset. In an attempted to make the Super Bowl viewing experience as “family-friendly” as possible, CBS has rejected the Dante’s Inferno “Go to Hell” Super Bowl advertisement. However, Electronic Arts, its publisher, were told to revise the commercial so that it reads “Hell Awaits”, instead. Electronic Art had brought the “Go to Hell” tagline to use in several marketing strategies. However,…
 
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    Destructoid

  • Silent Hill composer speaking at GDC 2010

    Dale North
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:40 am
    Akira Yamaoka has been all over the news lately. We first told you that he was leaving Konami after many years of working on horror game series Silent Hill. Last week we found out that he's the newest employee of Grasshopper Manufacture, and is already working on a new game for them. Now we hear that the composer is going to be speaking at the 2010 Game Developer's Conference. In the Audio Track, his panel, "As Long as the Audio is Fun, the Game Will Be Too," Yamaoka will speak from his experience in the game audio field, going back 20 years. He says: "People tend not to think about game…

  • Sam & Max season three outed as The Devil's Playhouse

    Jim Sterling
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:20 am
    It would appear that Telltale Games is preparing a brand new adventure for Sam & Max with a third season of mindbending puzzles and faintly embarrassing witticisms. It's called Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. At least, that's according to the OFLC. The rating board outed the game recently, shedding a little titular light on the future of the Freelance Police. That's all there is at the moment, but considering the last season ended with Episode 5: What's Cooking Beelzebub?, it would appear that we're picking up where we left off. The OFLC says that Episode 1 of The Devil's…

  • Nintendo blames piracy for late Aussie release dates

    Jim Sterling
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    We all know by now that Australia gets the short end of the stick when it comes to Nintendo releases. The country can wait up to a year after the North American release before getting a sniff of a new Wii or DS game. Frustrated gamers may be tempted to pirate these titles, but Nintendo, fresh off winning $1.5 million from one Aussie pirate, has claimed that piracy affects Australian release dates.  "Nintendo Australia is always pushing for games to be released here at the same time as the rest of the world, so we were pleased to get New Super Mario Bros. Wii before anyone else," explains…

  • Nintendo awarded $1.5m over New Super Mario Bros piracy

    Dale North
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:40 am
    A person in Australia fudged with the wrong game maker. He ripped and uploaded New Super Mario Bros. Wii a week before it was even available in that country. Naturally, he was busted and was taken to court. Now that Federal Court has awarded Nintendo $1.5 million dollars in damages to compensate for loss of revenue. Speaking of revenue, they've sold 10 million copies of the game. And Nintendo on why you shouldn't pirate their games: “Fewer sales of Nintendo’s hardware and software systems means fewer resources that Nintendo, its licensees, developers and publishers have to create…

  • Rumor: Dead Space Extraction coming to XBLA/PSN

    Jim Sterling
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:20 am
    According to a recent consumer survey, Electronic Arts is considering bringing Dead Space Extraction from the Wii to the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network platforms. According to the survey, Extraction would be presented in HD and retail for $14.99 while retaining the "guided first-person experience" of the original game. As well as Extraction, EA is considering another downloadable Dead Space game called Planet Cracker.According to the survey, Planet Cracker would be a "resource strategy game where players will manage a CEC Mining operation." In a similar vein to Fable II: Pub Games,…
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    The Frugal Gamer

  • Chrono Trigger (DS) $20

    The recent release of the uber classic Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS is now $19.99! Frugal linkage: » Amazon » NewEgg » GameStop

  • Fallout 3 (PC) 50% off on Steam!

    Another great 50% off deal today, but this one goes through the weekend. The PC version of Fallout 3 for $24.99 on Steam! If you like RPGs, well, you can't really go wrong with this dealio.

  • Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS) $15 at Amazon

    Today only, Amazon has Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for 50% off. Bringing the price down to $14.99. A rare price for good DS games. I really liked the last Fire Emblem for the GBA, so my order is in!

  • The Sims 3 $40 at Best Buy

    Best Buy has a sale on the recently released The Sims 3 for $39.99. A savings of $10.

  • Red Faction: Guerrilla (360) for $40 at NewEgg!

    NewEgg is currently offering the fantastic Red Faction: Guerrilla for $39.99. A savings of $20. I've been playing this a LOT the past few days and it's probably my GOTY so far. So, yeah, highly recommended. Especially at this price. Update 6/28: The deal is back! Get it while you can. Update 7/1: And...dead again.
 
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  • LEGO Universe Beta Signups

    Blue
    The LEGO Universe Website is  now accepting applications to beta test this upcoming MMOG built from LEGO blocks. Word is: "Sign up now for your opportunity to become one of our chosen heroes that...

  • Metro 2033 Limited Edition Revealed

    Blue
    THQ announces plans for the Metro 2033 – Limited Edition for PC and Xbox 360 editions of the upcoming post-apocalyptic first-person shooter. This a more limited Limited Edition than some of the...

  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier PC Plans

    Blue
    Ubisoft tweets a confirmation that although today's announcement of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier only mentions the Xbox 360, the tactical shooter sequel is coming to Windows and...

  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Announced

    Blue
    Ubisoft has made their promised big announcement, unveiling plans for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, a tactical shooter sequel due this holiday season. The announcement only mentions an ...

  • Ships Ahoy - BioShock 2

    Blue
    2K Games announces BioShock 2 is now available worldwide, offering a sequel to the Objectivism-themed first-person shooter. The new game adds multiplayer to the mix. This inspires 2K president...
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    GameSetWatch

  • XONG Combines Breakout, Snake, And ZZT Into A Delicious Game Stew

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    XONG, a lo-fi, hi-octane action puzzler, is quite the genre mashup. Play This Thing! describes XONG as a brick-breaking puzzle game -- think Breakout or Arkanoid -- but with roguelike graphical aspects. (I'd like to quickly point out, rather snootily, that the game could more accurately be described as ZZT-like, since it has ZZT's same colorful ANSI graphics in common. It also has a bitchin' soundtrack.) In XONG, your goal is to sink your enemies -- which have dangerous trailing tails, a la Snake -- into little "black holes" randomly scattered about the board. To do this, you flit about the…

  • Mega64's Third GDC Commercial Falls At Final Hurdle

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    For a while now, Mega64 have been trying to get their GDC 2010 commercials past the stern and unwilling censor (who is absolutely not Rocco's dad, incidentally). Firstly, it was the 50 Cent and 'Shigeru Meamoto' approach - no dice. And then, they tried nerding out a little bit - with little success. So this third attempt to get the tone _just_ right for our colleagues at the March 9th-13th San Francisco game development conference, Mega64 decided to ramp down the bombast and ramp up the....art. As a result, you may see one or multiple of the following: French berets, discussions of how God…

  • Game Developer February Issue Showcases Borderlands, Trials HD

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    [Here's info on the latest issue of my colleagues' Game Developer magazine, with a super duper pre-GDC double postmortem issue in effect, and a bunch of other neat columnists besides, hurray.] The February 2010 issue of Game Developer magazine, the sister print publication to Gamasutra and the leading U.S. trade publication for the video game industry, has shipped to print and digital subscribers and is available from the Game Developer Digital service in both subscription and single-issue formats. The cover feature for the issue is an exclusive postmortem of Gearbox's post-apocalyptic…

  • Analysis: The Design And Spiritual Evolution Of No More Heroes 2

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    [Is a better-designed game really "better" -- and what does that really mean? Gamasutra's Leigh Alexander takes a look at how Grasshopper Manufacture's No More Heroes 2 for Wii evolves on its predecessor.] In the original No More Heroes, Suda51 had a brilliant concept which critics largely agreed stumbled slightly on the execution -- the main criticism being that the open world lacked depth. With very little to do in the city of Santa Destroy, most seemed to feel the sequences in between missions were sprawling empty space, listless filler that could have just as easily been bypassed. In No…

  • The Art History... Of Games? Games As Art May Be A Lost Cause

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm
    [Finishing up our Art History of Games coverage - here's Part 1 and Part 2 -- and this one has the ever-controversial Tale Of Tales guys kicking off a ruckus, as well as Celia Pearce weaving some absurdist art references into a look at art and games.] At the Art History of Games conference, Tale of Tales, the indie studio behind The Path, argues that "games are not art," and "largely a waste of time." Meanwhile, one professor examines where art and play have collided. Tale of Tales: Games "Not Art," Largely A "Waste Of Time" Tales of Tales has never been shy about making bold statements. At…
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    PlayNoEvil - Game Security, IT Security, and Secure Game Design Services

  • Talk Game Security / Meet during GDC?

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:33 am
    The Game Developers Conference is just a month away. If you would like to set up a meeting during the conference (or before or after if you are in the SF Bay Area) to talk about game security, piracy, cheating, etc. Drop me a note at ceo (at) secureplay (dot) com.

  • Web App Scanners Fail 49% of the time

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:06 am
    In a dismal bit of news for folks trying to protect their web sites, a test of the effectiveness of application security scanners found that, on average, only 51 percent of the set of vulnerabilities were detected. Even worse, the failures were against the test sites provided by the entire range of competitors. Basically, Larry Suto, ran each product against its own test site as well as those of its competitors - making the tests highly repeatable... ... a bit of failure of competitive analysis. The only product that performed well was NTOSpider. Check out the full report at: L. Suto (2010),…

  • 2500 PlayNoEvil Blog Entries - SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION

    4 Feb 2010 | 6:36 am
    PlayNoEvil has just crossed 2500 blog entries since I started writing in the Fall of 2004. Thank you all for reading. I'm looking forward to more comments and support in the years ahead. I need a nap.
 
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    Gamezebo What's New

  • Shutter Island Preview

    Gamezebo
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:30 pm
    Merscom's Shutter Island, which is set to launch later this week on major portals, is a hidden object game based on the Dennis Lehane novel and upcoming film. U.S. Marshall Teddy Dennis and his partner Chuck Aule arrive at Shutter Island, which is home to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, as a hurricane bears down on them. The pair are there to track down an escaped patient, the convincted murderer Rachel Solando. But disappearing patients isn't the only secret that the island hides, and nothing at Ashcliffe Hospital is what it seems. The closer the pair get to the truth, the…

  • Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life Preview

    Gamezebo
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:27 am
    The folks at Last Day of Work are putting the finishing touches on the newest Virtual Villagers game, Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life, and they gave Gamezebo an exclusive sneak peek at what players can look forward to when the game comes out! read more

  • Nightfall Mysteries: Curse of the Opera - Just In

    Gamezebo
    7 Feb 2010 | 6:23 am
    Nightfall Mysteries: Curse of the Opera, a new hidden object game by Vast Studios and starring the enigmatic Count Vladd Vansig III, has been released on Big Fish Games. Download and play Nightfall Mysteries Curse of the Opera, write a review, and discuss the game in our forum. 

  • Epic Adventures: La Jangada - Just In

    Gamezebo
    6 Feb 2010 | 7:40 am
    Epic Adventures: La Jangada, another new hidden object epic adventure has been launched and is ready to play. Download Epic Adventures: La Jangada, write a review, and discuss the game in our forum.

  • 1 Penguin, 100 Cases: Just In

    Gamezebo
    6 Feb 2010 | 7:31 am
    1 Penguin, 100 Cases is released on Big Fish Games.  I think hidden object games have finally jumped the shark.  Or, maybe I am just judging a book by its covers, we'll find out (and perchance I'll eat my words) when we do the review. Download 1 Penguin, 100 Cases, write a review, and discuss the game in our forum.
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    ActionTrip

  • Diablo III Female Monk Revealed

    Blizzard Entertainment uncovers the female version of the Monk character class in its upcoming hack'n'slash RPG, Diablo III. Details, screenshots, concept art and more await you on Blizzard's official Diablo III web site.

  • REVIEW: Dante's Inferno

    We accompany Dante as he descends through the Nice Circles of Hell. You slice and dice hellish minions and tormented souls, punish or absolve them - it's basically a Vicar's wet-dream.

  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Announced

    Okay, so now we know what Ubisoft's "big announcement" is. The publisher just officially confirmed the development of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.

  • Dead Space 2 PC Not Planned

    Get ready to be cheesed off. We've already mentioned EA's financial results in our previous news about DA 2. Well, the publisher doesn't have Dead Space 2, Visceral Games' action horror sequel, in its Fiscal Q4 2011.

  • Dragon Age Sells 3 Million, Sequel Early Next Year

    BioWare announced that Dragon Age: Origins sold-in over 3.2 million units worldwide, according to internal EA data Since the game's launch back in Fall 2009.
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    Diamond Games Free Game Downloads

  • Dream Day Wedding Bundle

    Engage in the wonderful fun of Dream Day Wedding Bundle, and experience a double dose of marital bliss in one delight package of twins. We love these games here at Diamond Games, so having double packs just make it better. Have a grand ol’ time playing these classic hidden object games where it’s all about [...]

  • Youda Legend The Golden Bird of Paradise

    Are you ready to reveal another Legend? This is the latest in the Youda Games series. This time it’s a hidden object game (yes, really) instead of their usual tycoon style games. Well, they did a pretty good job so Youda Legend the Golden Bird of Paradise has a nice plot, good backgrounds, and fine [...]

  • The Otherside Realm of Eons

    Uncover a dark realm in this Hidden Object mystery, travel between worlds and search for a missing girl.

  • The Clumsys 2 Butterfly Effect

    The Clumsys 2 Butterfly Effect is an excellent sequel to The Clumsys. The fun and quirky humor of this odd family is back at it. Now instead of cleaning up their yard they’re trying to fix history, which they somehow messed up. Go back in time and rebuild the greatest inventions and restore the order [...]

  • Treasure Island The Gold Bug

    Treasure Island the Gold Bug is a hidden object game inspired by Robert Louis Stevensons novel, Treasure Island.
 
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    Meryl.net

  • Game du Jour Discounts for Week of 7 February 2010

    Meryl
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:39 am
    The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the first ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games: Mon. February 8th: 65% off on Vacation Mogul Tue. February 9th: 60% off on L!ght Deluxe Wed. February 10th: 60% off on Architect: Episode 1 Thu. February 11th: 50% off on Strange Cases: The Tarot Card Mystery Fri. February 12th: 50% off on Habitat Rescue: Lion’s Pride Sat. February 13th: 60% off on King’s Smith Sun. February 14th: 60% off on Angela Young 2: Escape the Dreamscape

  • Game du Jour: Week of 31 January 2010

    Meryl
    1 Feb 2010 | 4:46 am
    The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the first ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games: Mon. February 1st: 65% off on Mirror Mysteries Tue. February 2nd: 65% off on 1001 Nights: The Adventures of Sindbad Wed. February 3rd: 50% off on Simplz: Zoo Thu. February 4th: 65% off on Boonka Fri. February 5th: 65% off on Rasputin’s Curse Sat. February 6th: 60% off on Passport to Paradise Sun. February 7th: 65% off on Magic Academy 2

  • Game du Jour: Week of 17 January 2009

    Meryl
    17 Jan 2010 | 4:25 am
    The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the first ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games: Sun. January 17th: 65% off on Slingo Mystery: Who’s Gold Mon. January 18th: 81% off on The Build-a-lot Game-Pack [Reviews Build-a-lot, 2: Town of the Year and 3: Passport to Europe] Tue. January 19th: 45% off on Wedding Dash: Ready, Aim, Love [Review] Wed. January 20th: 50% off on Collapse! Thu. January 21st: 50% off on Marooned Fri. January 22nd: 65% off on Tropical Farm Sat. January 23rd: 45% off on Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets [Review]

  • Game du Jour: Week of 10 January 2010

    Meryl
    10 Jan 2010 | 6:20 am
    First, Big Fish Games is offering 20% off all 19 of its customer favorite award winners. The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the first ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games: Sun. January 10th: 65% off on Iron Roses Mon. January 11th: 45% off on Valerie Porter and the Scarlet Scandal [Review] Tue. January 12th: 65% off on Farm Frenzy 3: American Pie Wed. January 13th: 60% off on Tourist Trap Thu. January 14th: 65% off on Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra Fri. January 15th: 50% off on TextTwist 2 Sat. January 16th: 65% off on…

  • New Releases: Farm Frenzy 3: American Pie and Ice Age

    Meryl
    8 Jan 2010 | 6:45 am
    This is the third Farm Frenzy 3. I appreciate the developer for keeping the numbering at three because it shows there’s not much difference in terms of game play. The main difference is the setting, so there’s no misleading anyone claiming it’s a whole new game with enhancements. The series has many fans who are happy to keep playing the same game with new challenges. Farm Frenzy 3: American Pie: Manage five different farms around the world and try your hand at penguin breeding and jewelry making in Farm Frenzy 3! Enjoy outrageously fun levels, wacky animals and more…
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    Gameguru Mania

  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Announced

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:07 am
    Ubisoft officially unveiled Tom Clancy' Ghost Recon: Future Soldier early this morning. In development at Ubisoft’s Paris studio, the newest installment of the tactical shooter franchise. A press release promises ;cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer mod...

  • BioShock 2 Ships

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:59 am
    2K Games sent out a press release announcing that BioShock 2 is now available worldwide! Yes, the UK and Europe included, even though it's not Friday. The game's available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. ing off attacks from an army of genetically modified Splicers, while searching for escape and the key to their survival. Multip...

  • First Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Backbreaker

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:17 am
    505 Games today unveiled the first behind-the-scenes look at Backbreaker (PS3, Xbox 360), showcasing how developer NaturalMotion is engineering the next generation of football for the new generation of football fans. With the Euphoria engine's ability to create completely unique tackles on the fly, Backbreaker proves that it's f...

  • Disney's New Prince of Persia Superbowl TV Spot

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:36 pm
    The only other TV spot that aired during the Superbowl that wasn't already online before was for Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. ...

  • Medal of Honor confirmed for July-September 2010

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:34 pm
    EA just confirmed that both Realtime Worlds MMO-shooter APB and EALA's Medal of Honor will be released in July-September 2010. Key EA Titles - Fiscal Year 2011 andand* Q1 FY2011 - April 1 through June 30, 2010 andando Skate 3 (Console) andando Need for Speed World (PC) andando 2010 FIFA World Cup South Afr...
 
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    N4G.com

  • Forza 3 Sells 2 Million, New Tracks

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:51 am
    MyInsideGamer writes: "Get the balloons out and put on your party hats because Forza 3, the premier Xbox 360 racing sim has sold a whopping 2 million copies since its release in October. To celebrate this, Turn 10 have release two new tracks today from the Nürburgring Grand Prix."

  • Bad Company 2 server admin panel explained

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:50 am
    Bad Company 2 programmer Mikael Kalms has added provided details on the server administration panel for Bad Company 2. Dice is only creating an interface with the basic commands and leaves creating user friendly tools to the community.

  • Steam Deal: Total War Mega Pack - $20.39 (66% Off)

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:48 am
    Gamerdeals.net: "This week, SteamPowered has the Total War Mega Pack for $20.39 (66% off). Includes the following titles: Empire Total War Medieval II: Total War Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms Rome: Total War - Alexander Rome: Total War - Gold This deal runs through Monday, February 15th. "

  • Bioshock 2: PC vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3 - Screenshot comparison

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:47 am
    Bioshock 2 is available today for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. But which version is the best looking one? After we've seen some console-only comparisons, now it's time for a big roundup including the PC-version of Bioshock 2. The pictures are taken with all details and in 1,280 x 1,024 pixel. As you can see, Anti-Aliasing has only a low impact on the quality of the graphics.

  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier confirmed for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:45 am
    The Lost Gamer writes "Following confusion earlier when the released PR made no mention of Sony's current console, Kimi Matsuzaki, Senior Community Developer for Ubisoft, has confirmed that Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is heading for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360."
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    Yahoo! News: Video Games

  • Electronic Arts outlook disappoints, shares decline (Reuters)

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:06 pm
    Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc warned that fiscal 2011 earnings would miss Wall Street expectations as it grapples with a lack of blockbuster new games after a succession of missed targets and restructurings.

  • Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook (AP)

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:05 pm
    AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.

  • On the Call: Electronic Arts (AP)

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:34 pm
    AP - Electronic Arts Inc. reported fiscal third-quarter results on Monday. The company's forecast for the current quarter was below expectations, sending shares lower after hours. During a conference call with analysts, CEO John Riccitiello discussed gamer behavior and whether people are spending less time with video game consoles like the Wii, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

  • 'Bioshock' sequel returns to morally-battered Rapture (AFP)

    8 Feb 2010 | 1:47 pm
    AFP - Thousands of US videogame shops will be open the instant Tuesday arrives for expected hordes of "Bioshock" fans eager to return to the grim, morally-tattered undersea world of Rapture.

  • X10 Fable 3 Reveal will Make Gamers 'Super Pissed Off' (PC World)

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:21 am
    PC World - Peter Molyneux says he's terrified Fable-series fans will balk at radical changes to Fable 3, changes he'll apparently reveal this week at Microsoft's Xbox-oriented X10 gaming event.
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  • MLB 2K10 gameplay trailer arrives

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:20 am
    The latest in the Pitchers vs. Hitters video series. 2K Sports have just released the latest in a series of gameplay trailers for MLB 2K10, outlining the extensive control systems for hitting and pitching.Click here to read the full article

  • BioShock 2: More Avatar gear

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:56 am
    Big Sister, Daddy costumes on Xbox Live. 2K's released a bunch of new BioShock 2 Avatar items on Xbox Live. Click here to read the full article

  • 3D Project Natal has 'a lot of potential'

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:21 am
    Ubisoft keen to merge 2010's most talked-about gaming tech. The executive producer of Ubisoft's Avatar game has said he is keen to merge 3D gaming with site Project Natal - to create "an even more immersive experience" for consumers.Click here to read the full article

  • Ace Attorney Investigations demo out

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:38 am
    Play Capcom's new DS courtroom drama now. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth will be released for DS on 19 February and you can play a demo of Capcom's new DS game now.Click here to read the full article

  • All EA titles "will have an online component"

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:38 am
    DLC and online play key to EA games going forward. EA's chief operating officer, John Schappert, says that all of EAs titles released in fiscal year 2011 will have "an online component".Click here to read the full article
 
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  • GTA IV Mods - Upgrade your Criminal Activity

    Addicted to the world of Liberty City? We've got your fix here with our first ever FileBlog about mods for Grand Theft Auto IV. From drenching the streets in blood to realistic (and cataclysmic) car damage, check out what we have for you below. Be sure to read the instructions carefully on how to install the mods! "S&*!, where is my lightsaber!?" Better City Textures - More detail in Liberty City. Car Spawner & List Mod - Spawn any car in GTA IV. 100% Save Game - Story completed, unlocked maps, go anywhere. Simple Native Trainer v5.2 - Tons of in-game goodies. Light Corona Replacer - Not the…

  • De-Evolution - Best 8 Game 2D Demakes

    It was decades ago when gaming stepped over into the 3D realm, but there is something about 2D and 8-bit games that is still exciting. When some of the best games of all time get re-created into a NES style game, it's like the best of both world coming together. Maybe it's the nostalgia speaking but here are the top retro games. Pixel Forces: Left 4 Dead - Eric Ruth Imagine if Left 4 Dead was made back in the NES days? 2D boomer barf in Pixel Forces: Left 4 Dead will wake you up from your day dream. Experience four L4D campaigns in single player or with a buddy. Download File Here Ocarina of…

  • Stargate Resistance Beta

    The arrogant System Lords believe they are the true masters of the universe, and have begun a savage campaign to dominate and enslave the known worlds. Stargate Command operatives are the first line of defense against this menace! Choose your side in the Stargate Resistance Beta, and decide the fate of the entire galaxy. Note: This beta is now closed! This text will be replaced (Download the HD version here!) Dominance: Battle for control of the galaxy as either the SGC or System Lords, wresting power away from your foes with each glorious victory! Dial It Up: Spearhead the assault by…
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  • News: PATV

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:25 am
    Gabe: I forgot to mention it on Friday, but the latest episode of PATV went up. This is the first of two parts detailing our incredible ping-pong victory over Bungie. -Gabe out

  • News: Penny Arcade Book Tour

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:46 am
    Gabe: Our new book, The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11½ Anniversary Edition AKA "Nearly Twelve Years of Bullshit" will be coming out on February 23rd. This is a huge hardcover book full of great stuff including a history of the comic, Stories about PAX and Child's Play, Interviews, photos, an Art Gallery, A selection of our favorite comics from the past 11 years, and some of our best story-lines. I'm really proud of this book and in order to celebrate its release, Tycho and I will be kicking off a cross country book tour. Here is the full list ...

  • Comic: You Know What I'm Talking About

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    New Comic: You Know What I'm Talking About

  • News: You Know What I'm Talking About

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Tycho: Mass Effect 2 is finally in the bag after perhaps thirty hours of interstellar ramblin', and I'll be God Damned if they haven't ended up with something like a new genre. Bioware's unsparing assessment of their first go-round has resulted in a taut-ass sky-journey that spends hour after hour cinching itself around your throat. I suggested a few days ago that the conversations ME2 engenders - conversations which might unfold during wholly spontaneous confabs - recommend the experience and reinforce how distinct different playthroughs can be. You run into trouble around the sixty or…

  • News: This Lady

    5 Feb 2010 | 2:59 pm
    Tycho: is so fucking rad.  The link is more or less a video appraisal of what makes English such a Goddamned whorehouse.  Trying to explain this satanic gumbo to a new speaker - my task as a father - is beyond daunting.  When he wants to know why this or that bullshit is so irretrivably fucked, I've begun telling him that our language is haunted.   (CW)TB
 
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    Eurogamer

  • : Eurogamer.net Podcast #5

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    Heavy Rain! Star Trek! Aliens vs. Sexual Predator! It's Tuesday at 3pm, which can only mean one thing: it's time for another extraordinary instalment of the Eurogamer.net Podcast, hosted by Tom Champion. Guests this week include Eurogamer.net editor Tom Bramwell, deputy Ellie Gibson and MMO editor Oli Welsh. The dream team! No offence to previous guests! You can download the Eurogamer.net Podcast as an MP3, stream it below or grab it through iTunes. Here's an RSS link, too: http://www.eurogamer.net/rss/eurogamer_podcast_itunes.rss. Read more...

  • News: New Ghost Recon also on PC and PS3

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:29 am
    Future Soldier not a 360 exclusive. Ubisoft's freshly-unveiled Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will also appear on PC and PS3. Both console versions will launch simultaneously, tweeted Ubisoft's Kimi Matsuzaki this afternoon. Fellow community bod Aymeric Evennou added: "To those who wondered, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will also release on PS3: same experience, same development team and same release date." Read more...

  • News: Reminder: BioShock 2 out today

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:14 am
    Worldwide release includes UK, Europe. 2K Games has released BioShock 2 to the world today. Yes, the UK and Europe included, even though it's not Friday. The game's available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. These Tuesday releases are confusing. Read more...

  • News: Q: PixelJunk Shooter 2 not a "re-hash"

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:55 am
    Dev has "ton of ideas" left over. Q Games boss Dylan Cuthbert has said PixelJunk Shooter 2 will be far more than a "re-hash". "Normally sequels are just a re-hashing of the ideas in the original, but for PixelJunk Shooter we still have a ton of ideas on the drawing board and the engine has lots of potential we want to use before moving onto our next idea," Cuthbert told G4TV. "It would be a waste not to use it to try out more stuff." Cuthbert said there will be "a number" of new suits included to make use of some of the "brand new ideas for fluid gimmicks". He didn't mention a release date.

  • News: Ghost Recon: Future Soldier revealed

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:14 am
    Due this autumn, beta in summer. Ubisoft's big reveal has turned out to be Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, a new instalment in the tactical shooter series that's due for release this autumn. The name may ring a bell, as Ubisoft filed a trademark to protect the title last December. A press release promises "cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes". Read more...
 
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  • Nintendo Australia fines NSMB Wii uploader $1.5 million

    JC Fletcher
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:30 am
    Finally, Nintendo has been able to make a little money from New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a sequel to one of its old franchises, released this November. Nintendo of Australia announced that as the result of a federal court settlement, one Australian will be required to pay $1.5 million ($1.3 million USD) to Nintendo for loss of revenue due. This person was allegedly the first to upload New Super Mario Bros. Wii to the internet, doing so on November 6, one week before the game was released (an act that facilitated creative works in addition to piracy). Not only is this bad news for this one guy,…

  • Discounted: Brand new Tony Hawk Ride at ... Goodwill?

    Ben Gilbert
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
    It may seem at this point that we're kicking an already downed and plenty insulted victim here, but we couldn't help but note the shockingly low price of a Tony Hawk: Ride bundle -- complete with board, unopened -- discovered by Gamertell at an Arlington Heights, Il. Goodwill store. Two Wii versions of the game were on sale for just $74.99 (down from $119.99 MSRP) -- a Goodwill employee said the game's presence could be explained by donations from local retailers, listing Kohls, Sears, Borders, and Target as potential donators. Alright, alright, we'll admit it -- the price drop isn't that…

  • We sure hope the new Sonic 4 isn't a remake of this Sonic 4

    Griffin McElroy
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Here's a fun little piece of 16-bit history for you -- did you know that when Sega made its big announcement last week, a game called Sonic 4 had actually been floating around for 14 years? Sure, it's not an official Sonic game, mind you -- it was merely a modded version of the classic Sunsoft SNES platformer Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos. 1UP recently shared the game's illicit history -- a group of Peruvian hackers known as Twin Eagle Group got their hands on the game in 1996, removed all instances of the hasty Mexican mouse, and replaced them with Sega's spiny mascot. Check out a…

  • VC in Brief: Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom (NES)

    David Hinkle
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:15 pm
    Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom is your usual text-based adventure game, with a decidedly vegetarian twist. It's tough for us to provide you with a comprehensive look at a genre with so much content -- plus all of the trial-and-error. It wouldn't make for a very comprehensive and enlightening video, however we soldier on. Check out the latest episode of VC in Brief above! Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Every week, we like to check out what's new on the Virtual Console. We offer these videos as a sort of taste to help you decide whether or not you would…

  • Max & the Magic Marker scribbles down March US WiiWare release

    Alexander Sliwinski
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:40 pm
    Danish developer Press Play would like to draw everyone's attention to Max & the Magic Marker's US release on WiiWare this March. The game released late last month on European WiiWare for 1,000 Wii Points. M&TMM is currently available in the US, directly from Press Play and digital distributors, for PC and Mac at a suggested price of $20. With a WiiWare demo for the game uncertain, we suggest you try it over on the official website. We're also drawing a direct link to some gameplay videos here. Max & the Magic Marker scribbles down March US WiiWare release originally appeared on…
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    Rock, Paper, Shotgun

  • No Longer Sadly Myst: Myst Online Returns

    Kieron Gillen
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:33 am
    Lots of people wrote about this, but Vertelemming was the most appropriately obscure, so gets namechecked. He said “You are returning. The stream in the Cleft is returning. The cavern is returning. Uru is returning.” And so it is. It’s a free server, so you can just go play and donate if you wish. “We’ve opened all the Ages, and added most of the goodies in MO:UL. We’re referring to it as MO:ULagain—feel free to explore and enjoy,” as they say. And here’s three videos made in tribute to the game when it closed. Lost of footage of – er –…

  • Wot I Think: Mass Effect 2

    John Walker
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    First of all, to explain why this review is so late. We’d hoped for code well in advance, but sadly it wasn’t sent to us until the release day. I have since played the game to absolute completion. Thus it is only proper to tell you Wot I Think. (You can safely assume this review contains enormous Mass Effect 1 spoilers, but I will not spoil ME2.) (more…) Related stories:Mass Effect 2 Details, Shakycam Footage RPS At E3: Mass Effect 2 Mass Effect 2: Christina Norman Interview Blue Woman Group: ME2 Reveals Samara Writer: John Walker. | 87 comments Post tags: Bioware, feature, mass…

  • EA Info-Splurge

    John Walker
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:23 am
    Dragon Age 2 could be with us as soon as 2011? This appears to be one of the headlines to emerge from EA’s latest telegraph broadcast, alongside Dead Space 2’s peculiar disappearance from the PC, release dates for APB and Crysis 2, and signs of improving fortunes at the publisher. Oddly enough there’s details below. (more…) Related stories:Crysis Release Moves Forward Draconian Dragon Slain: Dragon Age DRM Free Dead Space Alive In Our Hearts Crysis Heads to War In September Writer: John Walker. | 48 comments Post tags: dragon age 2, EA, financial nonsense | Help RPS:…

  • The Making Of… Buckets Of Blood

    RPS
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:34 am
    Very occasionally RPS runs development diaries from game development teams. Most recently we received one from Sakari Games, who released cartoon combat game Foreign Legion: Buckets Of Blood in late 2009. Written by Pepijn Rijnders, the art lead of Sakari Games, this diary tells the story of how this commercially release game went from Global Game Jam experiment to full-time project for the Sakari team. We think it might make interested reading for all your active or prospective game developers out there, or anyone interested in the indie game process. Okay, over to Mr Rijnders……

  • Wot I Think: Bioshock 2

    Alec Meer
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:05 am
    The DRM sucks. It really does. Only… I can’t comment on exactly how sucky it is because this an opinion based on the 360 version of the game. I know! I played it on a gamepad and everything! I’ll be handing in my PC4EVA badge and gun momentarily, but before that it seemed wise to at least write up my experiences. 360 is what we had access to for review, and, while largely speaking (based upon the differences between BS1 console and PC, and how technically similar this is to BS1) the experience should be very similar, I can’t say that it definitely will be, or that…
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    The Escapist Forums : Threads

  • I guess this is sort of related to gaming, but mostly off topic: What is your opinion of sex scenes?

    DeadlyYellow
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:40 pm
    AboveUp:Pointless filler mostof the time, unless done really well an actually having a point. Or completely creeping out the player with a Necrophiliac protagonist, which results in pregnancy. Damn you Fahrenheit!

  • Recipe Trade!

    Wutaiflea
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:40 pm
    Space Weevil (alternatively known as Chicken En Croute) Serves 2 Ingredients:1 chicken breast per person1 packet of chilled puff pastry, using 1 half per breast (making your own is a tedious chore)1 clove of garlic, finely chopped3 or 4 mushrooms, finely choppedbutter (preferably the spreadable kind)parsley (preferably curly but flat leaf will do)a little milkflour for rolling Place the mushrooms, garlic and butter in a bowl, add a moderate amount of parsley (or to taste) and mix into a lumpy, buttery mess.Sprinkle a surface with flour and roll out the pastry into 2 rectangles large enough in…

  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Will Revisit World War II

    Lono Shrugged
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:39 pm
    thenumberthirteen:WWII was dull. When I ask my Granddad what it was like he's always saying "Oh it was really boring. All those street battles, tank assaults, and storming of bunkers. I mean we didn't even have cruise missiles. In the end Germany didn't surrender they just got bored and quit." Your grandpa is just trying to sound cool and Band Of Brothersy. "I'm not a hero but I served with some" I bet he stabbed some Nazi dude in a gasmask with an American flag and then saved Elvis' life by throwing a cigar at Rommel's eye then cutting the rope holding the chandelier whisking them to safety.

  • Should games be punished for lack of originality?

    Plurralbles
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:39 pm
    Fniff:I think they should. A game needs to have a defining feature, or else, it's just like those rip offs of Mario in the 1980's. Um... http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=offtopic&thread.id=2172189 quickest page I could find that illustrates your sentence's glaring fallacy. Though I'll admit that other gamesprobably did rip off of SMB1 and 3.

  • Christianity-Rigged hipocrcay of a puppet master.

    Amnestic
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:39 pm
    JimmerDunda: Ya fuck it. God is an evil fuck who tries to control us because he doesn't give us the ability to be perfect. Glad to see yo- wait, you...you don't believe that! Oh you are clever, with your clever sarcasm and wit. It is circular logic though. God could make us divine->Won't so we can be free free->But Jesus was free->But humans can't be divine->But God's omnipotent^------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------V
 
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  • A few more random numbers

    Raph
    28 Jan 2010 | 9:23 am
    Number of people who have ever registered for Twitter: 75m (but only 17%, or a bit less than 13m, sent a tweet in December) [1] Number of Wii consoles that have ever been sold: 67m [2] Number of iPhones sold to date: over 30m [3] Number of active Farmville users this month: 74,806,786 [4] Number of tickets sold to see Avatar: 76,421,400 [5] Number of tickets sold to see Gone With the Wind: 202,044,600 [5]

  • Art History of Games event in Atlanta

    Raph
    28 Jan 2010 | 8:36 am
    Got an email today from Jason Rohrer, asking if I was going. Alas no — not only did my son have surgery yesterday, but I have jury duty on Monday. But the event looks very cool: The Art History of Games is a three-day public symposium in which members of the fields of game studies, art history and related areas of cultural studies gather to investigate games as an art form. Also featured in the conference is the premiere of commissioned art games by Jason Rohrer, Tale of Tales and Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman. The three commissioned games will be on display at Kai Lin Art (800…

  • The Global Game Jam 2010

    Raph
    26 Jan 2010 | 10:54 am
    The Global Game Jam 2010 | January 29-31. You still have 2 days, 2 hours and 8 minutes to register for the Global Game Jam™ and join game developers from around the world in a 48-hour marathon game-developing weekend. From 5 o’clock Friday, January 29 until 5 o’clock Sunday, January 31, anyone who has ever wanted to create their own video game will have the chance to join others at 138 locations in 39 countries around the world. You still have time to sign up!

  • Buy games for Haiti

    Raph
    21 Jan 2010 | 8:50 am
    DriveThruRPG.com is doing a clever charity drive for Doctors Without Borders and Haiti — give a $20 donation, and they will give a coupon for $1481.31 worth of digitally downloaded RPGs and materials. You can also give $5 or $10, and they will match the donation Donate $20 and get a coupon for over a thousand dollars in RPG titles. After you make the donation, you will receive the coupon code in your email. It will also be available in your order history. via Gamers Helping Haiti $20 Donation with Coupon – OneBookShelf, Inc. | DriveThruRPG.com. They are apparently already…

  • Your brain on games

    Raph
    21 Jan 2010 | 8:35 am
    There’s an article on CNet about measuring the size of a few areas of the brain, and comparing them to your success at different aspects of playing a specific game. This was a study done at UI by a host of research groups. Researchers found that players with a larger caudate nucleus and putamen did best on the variable priority training, while players who had a larger nucleus accumbens did better than their counterparts in the early stages of the training period, regardless of their training group. This was unsurprising, since the nucleus accumbens is part of the brain’s reward…
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    Terra Nova

  • Journal Adds Social Networking Focus

    Edward Castronova
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:25 am
    It used to be Cyberpsychology and Behavior, but now it's Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networks. The Editors say they welcome papers about Twitter, Facebook, games, and VR. It's an interesting moment. You'll recall a decade ago when newspapers proclaimed that...

  • Full CNET Avatar Interview with Daniel Terdiman

    Bruce Damer
    29 Jan 2010 | 3:46 pm
    Daniel Terdiman: okay...so why don't you start off by explaining your premise of how Avatar presages the future of 3D virtual worlds? Bruce Damer: Cameron and his team developed a 'virtual camera' which as he walked through the set, he...

  • Interview on how 'Avatar' (the movie) may influence the future of Avatars (the worlds)

    Bruce Damer
    29 Jan 2010 | 12:23 am
    Terra Novans, you might be interested in this interview on Daniel Terdiman's Geek Gestalt blog on how James Cameron's film may presage the future of virtual worlds (how we will interact with them beyond our current "keystone kops" era)... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10443265-52.html?tag=mncol;title

  • Virtual Goods Economy: Going Strong

    Edward Castronova
    27 Jan 2010 | 1:06 pm
    Major James D. "Pidge" Fielder, USAF, points us to this report by CNET's Dave Rosenberg indicating that the virtual goods market, once confined to the insides of MMORPGs, continues to expand into all kinds of social software systems. Thanks Pidge!

  • Fortitude, Save Games, and the MMO

    Edward Castronova
    19 Jan 2010 | 10:32 am
    While wandering around the Catholic blogosphere I encountered Basilian Father Chris Valka discussing video games. Fr. Valka's concern is that games erode one of the cardinal virtues, Fortitude. As you know from your Catechism (see Para. 1808), Fortitude "strengthens the...
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  • Interview with Chairman of Crowdstar

    jeremyliew
    1 Feb 2010 | 3:38 pm
    Last Friday Lazard analyst Colin Sebastian hosted a conference call where he interviewed Peter Relan, Chairman of Crowdstar, one of the newer entrants to the top tier of social games publishers. Here are the Lazard notes from the call, republished with permission from Colin: LCM Online Game forecast On Friday we hosted a conference call with Peter Relan, chairman of CrowdStar, which is one of the top social game companies with more than 60M monthly users, primarily on Facebook.  CrowdStar’s games include Happy Aquarium, Happy Pets, and Happy Island. Facebook platform remains the core focus…

  • Entertainment commerce

    jeremyliew
    12 Jan 2010 | 6:47 pm
    I’m heading to New York (love Virgin America wifi) to speak at the National Retail Federation’s “Big Show” conference tomorrow. As I’ve said before, I’m really excited about the trend towards shopping as entertainment that we’ve been starting to see recently, epitomized by companies like Gilt and HauteLook. I think we’ll see more models of “push commerce” like this and am looking for them at the conference, and in general. If you’re doing things like this, contact me!

  • Interview with CEO of Serious Business

    jeremyliew
    6 Jan 2010 | 4:54 am
    In December I posted an interview with the CEO of Playdom that Atul Bagga, the gaming analyst at the investment bank ThinkEquity, recently conducted. Atul interviewed the CEO of Serious Business, Siqi Chen. Serious Business is also a Lightspeed portfolio company. The transcript gives some info on Serious Business’ revenue/DAU, conversion rates, demographics, and revenue split between digital goods and advertising. ____________________ Atul Bagga, ThinkEquity (AB): Please explain your business and why should investors care about Serious Business? Siqi Chen, Founder and CEO, Serious…

  • Top 5 trends for enterprise cloud computing in 2010

    ravimhatre
    5 Jan 2010 | 4:25 pm
    by Ravi Mhatre, Lightspeed Venuter Partners Lightspeed has invested across multiple enterprise infrastructure areas  including database virtualization (Delphix), datacenter and cloud infrastructure (AppDynamics, Mulesoft, Optier) and storage virtualization (Fusion I/O, Pliant, Nimble). This year we wanted to profile several important trends that we see emerging for Cloud Computing in 2010: 1. Enterprises move beyond experimentation with the cloud. Enterprises will start to deploy production cloud stacks with thousands of simultaneous VMs. They will increasingly be used as a resource for both…

  • 2010 Cleantech Predictions

    Andrew Chung
    18 Dec 2009 | 5:00 am
    Lightspeed has invested across several cleantech areas, including solar (Stion), biofuels (LS9, Solazyme), clean coal (Coaltek), LED lighting (Exclara), and energy storage (Leyden Energy, f/k/a Mobius Power). Peter Nieh and I (Andrew Chung) teamed up again this year to make a few predictions about cleantech in 2010 (see our prior year predictions for 2009 and 2008): 1. There will be increased availability of equity, debt, and project finance capital, along with an increased flight to quality. Despite 2009 being a slow year for venture capital firms raising funds (Q3 featured the fewest number…
 
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    Wonderland

  • Big horrible mat

    Alice
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:49 am
    Whoa. That's a bit optimistic... (and cheap, and useless).

  • Heat-changing mugs

    Alice
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:49 am
    Heh, silly :-) (but cute).

  • Glitch: the new game from Stewart Butterfield and friends

    Alice
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:24 am
    Stuart was the co-founder of Flickr. Which was once upon a time part of Game Neverending, a game that never got finished due to Flickr becoming Suddenly Huge... And now here's Glitch. In short: a non-sharded Oneworld in which you nonviolently Adventure with your Friends and encounter lots of Things To Do done in many Graphical Styles.(There's a vid on the site which unfortunately I can't embed here (no option in the player that I can see), so you'll have to head over there to see it.) Daniel Terdiman's already done an indepth look, which is definitely worth a read.

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    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Online Schools "A SERIES OF CURATED SCHOOLS BY PRODUCING, COLLECTING AND CATALOGING THE VAST ARRAY OF VISUALLY STUNNING ACADEMIC CONTENT CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE INTERNET" Online Education Similar to onlineschools: infographics collections. Documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker has two films in the festival There is an AWESOME game in here: "..." while Muniz was initially more resistant "because he knew more about the scary aspects of the situation than I did. Brazilian gangs control many of the dumps and use them to run drugs and dispose of bodies. There was the danger…

  • Beautiful Star Wars travel posters

    Alice
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm
    I'm a sucker for vintage style travel posters in the first place, and these are just drop dead gorgeous.  They seem to be art from JustinVG's flickrstream; whether he's the creator or not I don't know. I would buy these in a heartbeat if they were for sale.(via SuperPunch)
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  • Theme Re-re-re-do

    Hoza
    22 Jan 2010 | 1:15 am
     Again, the theme is changed.  I know it's annoying at times... to me too, trust me.  I'm just not able to spend a lot of time on the theme with all the other stuff going on with the site's rapidly-expanding back end system.For now, you'll be seeing (as of this writing), a pretty happy, bright theme that is a stark contrast to the previously-stark, bleak theme.  However, I'm really not as happy with such brightness in the long run.  However, this theme's structure just provides too much great functionality to avoid.  I'll use it to get the hang of this theming…

  • More Site Updating -- Yay.

    Hoza
    18 Dec 2009 | 1:12 am
     I've been slow on updates again lately.  I'm doing another round of big back-end updates to make it easier for me to post stuff.  Hopefully I'm nearing the end of this work so I can get back to posting content instead of fumbling through PHP & CSS code!Thanks for dropping by -- please do so again soon.  I'll get the content flowing again soon, I promise! 

  • Dungeons & Dragons Online "Black Friday" Specials

    Hoza
    28 Nov 2009 | 5:35 pm
    Turbine Games is running a special for paid portions of their now-free-access game Dungeons & Dragons Online during Thanksgiving weekend until Nov. 30th (Monday).  Go check out the goodies you can get if you choose to buy bits of the game.  I'm sorry about the delayed delivery of this info.  I was out of town.

  • Champions Online Free Thanksgiving Weekend

    Hoza
    27 Nov 2009 | 5:02 pm
     I was away for the first part of "Thanksgiving weekend", so I missed this notice.  However, if you've got some time this weekend, there's still a chance to play Champions Online for free during this weekend's free trial event.  The free time period will end on Nov. 30th at 10am Pacific time.  This is part of a big push for the new Nemesis Confrontation content.  Have fun (sorry I didn't alert you sooner, but hey, I was eating a wonderful meal and spending great time with my family! :)

  • Support Child's Play in Denver this Thursday (Nov. 19)

    Hoza
    18 Nov 2009 | 1:16 am
    Any gamers (or wannabe rock stars) near Denver might consider attending this year's Kotaku Child's Play Fundraiser -- formerly part of the national FundeRazer effort. The Child's Play Charity is amazing and well worth your investment. The event is on November 19th (ack, tomorrow??!?) at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom starting about 8pm.  $10 is the "suggested donation" minimum at the door, but more will be welcomed, so don't be stingy!This year, Child's Play was only one week in and had already raised $500k in money and gifts for children's hospitals all over the world. Awesome.
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  • Can Ghost Recon: Future Soldier re-energise the squad-based shooter?

    Keith Stuart
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am
    Ubisoft's well-received series is back, but can we return to the days of ordering men about?Several years ago, you couldn't wander into your local game shop without being visually assaulted by rows of squad-based military shooters, all promising a highly strategic approach to, well, shooting people in the face with guns. It all started in the late nineties with two defining titles: Ubisoft's Rainbow Six and Hidden & Dangerous from Czech developer Illusion Softworks. Both featured small squads of differently skilled operatives, usually sneaking about carrying out fiddly missions behind enemy…

  • Six great mobile games of the month

    Keith Stuart
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:21 am
    Some miniature marvels to get you through the last of the winter weeks...It's been a while since our last dip into mobile gaming, so here's a selection of recent iPhone and Java titles for your transportable gaming pleasure. I've been helped by Jon Mundy over on Pocket Gamer, who's suggested his own favourites from the last four weeks. You may have already sampled these, but just in case...Oh and feel free to make your own suggestions in the comments section!Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (iPhone)"The same open world crime masterpiece that graced the PSP and DS last year, but for a mere…

  • Games Chatterbox Column Tuesday

    Greg Howson
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:15 am
    The place to talk about games, and just about anything else too.Tuesday's edition of ChatterboxGamesGreg Howsonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

  • Yet more Lego Star Wars

    Greg Howson
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:51 pm
    Lego Star Wars III due out this AutumnIt's almost hard to remember now but the original Lego Star Wars was a revelation. Cutesy yet cool, hugely playable and a genuine cross-generational experience. Five years on and the excitement is long gone, with numerous and increasingly formulaic Lego titles hitting the shelves since. Actually, Lego Indy had its moments and Lego Harry Potter looks quite promising but you can't help feeling that the Lego games are now very much focussed on the kids market rather than the nostalgia plus family appeal of the Star Wars days. The announcement that Lego Star…

  • Bioshock 2 for PS3 and Xbox 360 | Game review

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:15 am
    PS3/Xbox 360; £49.99; cert 18+; 2K GamesIt is difficult to know where to start with a game this perfect, so let's go straight to the headline act: the storyline.Much has been made of Bioshock 2's narrative, and for good reason: it's glorious. You could watch someone else playing and enjoy it as a movie. At its centre is the ideological battle between free-market individualist Andrew Ryan and proto-Stalinist collectivist Sofia Lamb, and this philosophical conflict affects everything you do. You are moving through the wasteland that they created, trying to find the girl you were charged with…
 
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    Broken Toys

  • How To Fix Everything!

    Scott Jennings
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:46 am
    The second part of the most egomaniacal piece I’ve ever done for MMORPG.com, now up!

  • Exploit That IP, My Lord… Discreetly!

    Scott Jennings
    27 Jan 2010 | 9:34 am
    EA reveals Lord of EvonyUltima

  • Gleefully Touching Third Rails

    Scott Jennings
    27 Jan 2010 | 8:21 am
    Latest article for MMORPG.com is up, where I wallow in failure. In a player-vs-player game that focused on getting as many people as possible to fight massive battles, if too many people were in one place, the game would crash with a cryptic “SB.EXE error”. Other causes of SB.EXE errors included network instability, server instability, general instability, phases of the moon, and something you did you know what you did don’t lie.

  • Possibly The Most Awesome Charity Drive Ever

    Scott Jennings
    21 Jan 2010 | 11:13 am
    As seen on Raph Koster’s blog – donate $20 to MSF’s Haitian relief through DriveThroughRPG and get almost $1500 worth of game book PDFs. That’s not a typo, that’s awesome. You have no excuse whatsoever. GO!

  • The “No Actual Writing On My Own Site” World Tour 2010 Continues!

    Scott Jennings
    20 Jan 2010 | 10:40 am
    …with a look at Star Trek Online on MMORPG.com.
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  • URGENT EVOKE: Reserve your spot as a player or a mentor now

    Jane
    1 Feb 2010 | 9:37 pm
    EVOKE trailer (a new online game) from Alchemy on Vimeo. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif"; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1627421663 -2147483648 8 0 66047 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:"";

  • URGENT EVOKE: Help us run a 10-week crash course in changing the world

    Jane
    11 Jan 2010 | 3:10 pm
    URGENT EVOKE: Help us run a 10-week crash course in changing the world Reward: $1000 (US) We’re launching a new alternate reality game. It’s called EVOKE, and we’re putting together a team of five game assistants to help us run it. “If you have a problem, and you can’t solve it alone, EVOKE it.” (If you just want to play the game, follow @evokenet on Twitter or email evokenet@

  • Super Better - or how to turn recovery into a multi-player experience

    Jane
    25 Sep 2009 | 4:29 pm
    I’m either going to kill myself, or I’m going to turn this into a game. After the four most miserable weeks of my life, those seemed like the only two options left. It was the summer of 2009, I was about halfway through writing my book, and I got a concussion. It was a stupid, fluke accident: I was standing up, and I slammed my head straight into a cabinet door I didn’t realize was still open. I

  • CryptoZoo Game Trailer... and Behind the Scenes

    Jane
    11 Jul 2009 | 1:49 pm
    The official CryptoZoo trailer: Find more videos like this on CryptoZooBehind the Scenes... (and how to play guide) Find more videos like this on CryptoZoo

  • New York City - CRYPTOZOO games this weekend! WITH PHOTOS

    Jane
    10 Jun 2009 | 11:55 am
    CRYPTOZOO is a fast, strange, heart-pumping adventure. It's literally the most fun game I've ever designed. If you're in New York City this weekend (June 12th and 13th) please come play with me! This is your chance to learn to run with cute and creepy creatures... It's free, it's in and around Times Square, and it will be strange and unforgettable.Reserve your spot in the game now! FRIDAY 11 PM
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    Digital Media Wire - Games

  • EA to Release Version of "Madden NFL" on Facebook

    Mark Hefflinger
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:01 pm
    New York - Video game publisher Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS) plans to bring a version of its popular "Madden NFL" football game franchise to Facebook, Bloomberg reports. "We have to make 'Madden' more accessible," EA Sports president Peter Moore told Bloomberg. "You'll see us on Facebook going forward." Moore called the Facebook version of the game, which does not yet have a release date, a "simpler experience" than playing on a console. read more

  • Sony's "Free Realms" Online Game Hits 8 Million Users

    Mark Hefflinger
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:27 pm
    San Diego - Sony (NYSE: SNE) Online Entertainment said on Monday that its free, family-friendly online game "Free Realms" now counts over 8 million unique registered users. The Sims-like online game features social networking elements and also an offline physical trading card game. read more

  • Microsoft to End Xbox Live Support for Original Xbox

    Mark Hefflinger
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:53 pm
    Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) announced on Friday that, as of April 15, its Xbox Live online game service will no longer support its original Xbox console, which first went on sale back in 2002. "We did not make this decision lightly, but after careful consideration and review we realize that this decision will allow us unprecedented flexibility for future features," the company said. The company has sold a total of over 24 million units of the original Xbox, which was discontinued in 2006. read more

  • Kwedit Secures $3 Million for Payment Service for Virtual Goods

    Mark Hefflinger
    5 Feb 2010 | 9:48 am
    Mountain View, Calif. - Kwedit, a developer of new payment services for digital content and virtual goods, announced that it has raised $3 million in its first round of funding, from True Ventures, Kapor Capital, Maples Investments, Endeavor Partners, Fenwick and West, and angel investors.read more

  • Sega to Release New "Sonic the Hedgehog" as Console Download

    Mark Hefflinger
    4 Feb 2010 | 3:09 pm
    San Francisco - Game developer Sega on Thursday announced plans to release "Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1," a new 2D game based on the company's flagship franchise. The game will be released this summer exclusively as a download on Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, and WiiWare. read more
 
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  • The Power Of Personalized Content

    5 Feb 2010 | 10:15 am
    "Mass Effect 2" was released last week, and it's been an amazing experience. I was a fan of the first game, and even wrote about the psychological tricks it employed to add a feeling of personalization to what was mostly generic content. The second installment has reinforced and increased my desire for more interactive and personalized content, even if without the game elements. There are two things I've noticed with the most recent title that are worth considering: the emotional impact of forced projection, and the redefinition of water-cooler conversation.

  • Gaming Potential Of IPad May Fall Short

    29 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pm
    Apple's hype-laden announcement of the iPad has come and gone, along with 2010's full complement of feminine-hygiene-product-related jokes. Very few products have been the subject of more pre-launch rumor, and have had more rarefied predecessors. Thanks to the iPad's pedigree, casual game developers are salivating at the chance to develop games for the platform, and reach the huge audience that Apple has a conduit to through the iTunes store. But usability issues could temper this initial enthusiasm.

  • Will Net Neutrality Kill Cloud Gaming?

    25 Jan 2010 | 7:15 am
    The title of this post is "Will Net Neutrality Kill Cloud Gaming?" -- and no, that's not the wrong way around. While a handful of game developers just advised the FCC on the importance of net neutrality for the future of online gaming, and to an extent correctly so, there are cause-and-effects in play that also pose significant threats.

  • Game Joins Movie In $1B Take -- And As Target Of Controversy

    15 Jan 2010 | 2:00 pm
    The big entertainment headlines this week are all about "Avatar" breaking records and earning over a billion dollars in box office takings, faster than any movie in history. But among techie-er pubs, "Avatar" is sharing headlines with Activison's latest mega-hit, "Modern Warfare 2," which has also taken in a billion dollars since its November release, securing its status as one of the best-selling games of all time, along with some time in the mainstream press spotlight. Along with that mainstream attention is certain to come some controversy.

  • What The Nexus One Means For Android Gaming

    8 Jan 2010 | 8:30 am
    Almost two years ago I wrote a post here about how an announcement that week was going to revolutionize portable gaming. I was talking about the announcement of the iPhone SDK and the pending availability of native apps. Now, it's hard to step away from the clarity of hindsight, but at the time this was a controversial point. Games were already available on mobile -- why would the iPhone be any different? Well, an announcement this week poses a new point of controversy: What will the Nexus One mean for the prospects of Android-based portable gaming?
 
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  • 'White Knight Chronicles' Review - In The Heat Of The Knight

    Brad Nicholson
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:30 am
    Released in Japan in late 2008, Level-5's RPG "White Knight Chronicles" took forever to reach North American shores. Here's the question: was the wait worth it? The Basics In "White Knight Chronicles" you'll control a variety of party members in a pedestrian tale of woe, destruction, revenge, and deceit. The narrative hinges on Leonard, a wine peddler who stumbles onto a set of 20-foot-tall organic armor that only the chosen, like him, can use to defeat a group of bad men set on destroying the planet. The Highs Well, At Least This Place Looks Different As boring as the narrative is, and as…

  • How A Trilogy Changed The Way I Roleplay: A Look At 'Mass Effect'

    Locke Webster
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    I completed "Mass Effect 2" early last week and, I'll be honest, the only reason that it took me so long to complete (about 40 hours) is that I was busy relishing every last moment of it. BioWare managed to wield a massive axe so deftly that lopping off entire mechanics that we've so often associated with RPGs (inventory management, exploration) felt like a choice of zen-like clarity. But it wasn't until the final moments of the game, when I finally set my course for the Omega 4 relay, that I began to discover how "Mass Effect," as a franchise, has changed the way I roleplay. WARNING: I'm…

  • Nintendo Bringing New Hardware, MotionPlus Title From Miyamoto

    Brian Warmoth
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:30 pm
    Nintendo has been cagey about what their hardware plans call for when the Wii and DS eras subside, and the DSi XL has yet to begin its lifecycle in the U.S. Shigeru Miyamoto made no secret about the fact that Nintendo is working on new equipment during a talk at the Japan Media Arts Festival on Saturday, however. He also indicated that he's involved in a new Wii game using MotionPlus -- and that's in addition to the next Wii Zelda title. Miyamoto let the details about his upcoming plans slip while accepting a "Special Achievement Prize" at the festival, according to Andriasang. In reflecting…

  • 'Plants vs. Zombies' iPhone Coming Next Week

    Russ Frushtick
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:32 pm
    It's not every day that one of my top 5 games of 2009 makes its way to another platform, so it's important to gasp those moments when the happen. "Plants vs. Zombies" is coming to the iPhone (and iPod Touch). This is not news. What is news is that it's coming next week, on February 15th. The game has seen several delays since it was first announced, but it looks like PopCap is ready to roll with this new date. Considering that they did an awesome job with the "Peggle" iPhone port, and have continued to support the "Bejewled 2" app with Facebook connection excellence, I have pretty high…

  • 'Battlefield: Bad Company 2' Will Contain World War II Battles

    Brian Warmoth
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:30 pm
    EA may be taking its "Medal of Honor" series directly into modern-day combat in 2010 in its quest to reclaim the FPS crown. "Battlefield: Bad Company 2," meanwhile, will be keeping World War II alive for at least a few scenes before transition into the present day. Such details, along with accounts of power-drill attacks, appeared in the ESRB's M-rating justification. "In single-player mode, players conduct missions on an unnamed Japanese island during World War II and then move into the modern day through jungles, deserts, and snowy terrain," a description of the game explained on ESRB.org.
 
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  • Daily PWN Episode 1: Tasty Treet

    Matt Ryan
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:02 pm
    After a few weeks of hard work behind the scenes planning out what exactly the show might be, we made a very rough pilot episode. This is it, the first pilot episode of The Daily PWN: Weekly Roundup. In the coming weeks, regular episodes will be produced in a much more polished and well-rehearsed fashion. For now please enjoy the pilot. More articles about the content discussed in the episode will follow.

  • Early Impressions of Star Trek: Online (Part 1)

    Matt Ryan
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:44 pm
    Star Trek Online is the highly-anticipated space MMORPG set in the world of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek. Cryptic Studios has been working on the title for several years and released the game in both retail and direct download format through Steam and other online retailers. You can purchase the standard or Delux edition that grants you a custom prefix as well as other small perks. You play a talented officer in Star Fleet given charge of your own ship as the Federation struggles to maintain control in a chaotic time of war. On first impression, I was immediately reminded of Eve Online.

  • The Daily PWN Joins Treet.TV!

    Matt Ryan
    11 Jan 2010 | 5:51 am
    We’re very excited to announce that The Daily PWN podcast is now being produced for broadcast on Treet.TV and will be distributed by them. This is a huge plus for the show as it gives us the ability to create a more complete television experience with more involved preparation and professionalism. Shows will be released weekly as a summery of the week’s news. Daily articles will resume in the next few days as we wrap up production of the first Treet episode. Treet is a multimedia company with three years of production experience creating live television in virtual worlds…

  • Big Announcement Coming!

    Matt Ryan
    5 Jan 2010 | 4:13 pm
    The Daily PWN podcast is undergoing an exciting change. Yes, it just restarted and no we’re not ending it (again). The video podcast will be part of something much larger coming out soon. Please stay tuned for details. The next video episode will be released in days with the big announcement.

  • The Daily PWN 87: Elf Bowling

    Matt Ryan
    4 Jan 2010 | 5:14 am
    When you think about the holidays that just passed you may be filled with warm memories of eggnog, family reunions, presents and lights. For a lucky some that managed to come across Elf Bowling: Hawaiian Vacation, it was memories of knocking down elves with a giant bowling ball. In one of the most interesting bowling games we here at The Daily PWN have ever seen, MumboJumbo has created a gaming experience that combines the time honored sport with runaway elves fresh from Santa’s workshop. Your job is to out bowl various opponents and take out as many of these bothersome elves as…
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  • Pure Pwnage Production Blog Episode 5 Likes It Messy

    Paul Hunter
    6 Feb 2010 | 10:49 pm
    By Paul HunterThe Pure Pwnage crew have released another production blog video short to promote their imminent jump to national TV. This episode is a little messy, but if you're a fan of the web series you're probably used to it, maybe even like it.Enjoy. Hope you're wearing a bib.

  • Interactive Ontario Hosting INplay, New Children's Entertainment Conference

    Paul Hunter
    6 Feb 2010 | 10:30 pm
    By Paul HunterIn response to the explosion of casual, mobile and social media gaming markets geared towards children, Interactive Ontario have announced a brand new international event called INplay, to take place in downtown Toronto on May 18th and 19th, 2010.INplay is designed as a forum for game developers/publishers, and other content producers (TV/film/toy/book/magazine/comic) in the kids industry.Game developers/publishers listed on the Partners & Sponsors page include Capybara Games, Corus Entertainment (they have a sizable children gaming presence through their Teletoon and YTV…

  • 2K/Digital Extremes Hosting Bioshock 2 Media Launch Party in London, Ontario

    Paul Hunter
    6 Feb 2010 | 9:10 pm
    By Paul HunterI just caught wind that 2K and Digital Extremes will be hosting an exclusive media launch party for their upcoming multiplatform title Bioshock 2. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 10, at the DE headquarters in London.While we unfortunately are unable to attend, our Canadian brethren from The GAMES DAY Podcast will be there in full force. Their weekly video podcast, which airs Wednesday's starting at 8:30pm Eastern, will be streaming live from the launch party.The team has set-up a Facebook discussion thread and are encouraging Canadian viewers to submit questions…

  • B.C. Bows To Pressure, New Video Game Tax Incentives Announced

    Paul Hunter
    6 Feb 2010 | 8:50 pm
    By Paul HunterRejoice B.C. developers! Your reprieve from the harsh recessionary climate may soon be upon you.The ruling BC Liberals announced earlier this week that they are proposing new tax incentives for the province's languishing television and games industry. Specifically for game developers, the government is seeking to introduce a new interactive digital media tax credit of 17.5%.I wrote a comprehensive overview of what this means for the Canadian video game industry over on the Future Shop Tech Blog earlier this evening. From the article:"The pressure on the B.C. government to step…

  • Blogamoke, As Told In Photos

    Paul Hunter
    6 Feb 2010 | 1:10 pm
    By Paul HunterWell Blogamoke came and went and much fun was had by all. How much fun you ask? Perhaps we should let the pictures do all the talking:Crazy Joe and NextGen Player's Paul Hunter sing Kris Kross's "Jump"NextGen Player's Alice Stancu writing in her doodle bookNextGen Player's Andrew Shin strikes a poseNextGen Player's Leif Conti-Groome side profileShaun Hatton from Toronto ThumbsMike GugliettiLori Dance from CoupleOfGamers.comCrazy Joe doing the YMCAPlenty more event photos can be seen on NextGen Player's Flickr page. We're already planning our next outing, stay tuned soon for…
 
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  • FMA: The Brotherhood Diaries – Episode 42

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:10 pm
    Ani-Gamers staff writer Ink contributes a weekly column in which he examines the differences between the original Fullmetal Alchemist and its re-telling, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. To read previous entries, click here. Watch Episode 42 – Signs of a Counter Offensive Alchemy was made in the kitchen according to both series, but only FMA2’s cookbook comes with pictures. Via a House-like epiphany and an accidental sneeze, May, Marcoh, Al, and Yoki discover an arrangement based on textual code as well as physical plotting that must be utilized in order to perceive the real meaning of…

  • Review: Solanin

    5 Feb 2010 | 4:23 pm
    Medium: Manga (1 volume/432 pages) Genres: Drama, Slice-of-Life Author: Inio Asano Original Run: 2005 – 2006 (Weekly Young Sunday) Release Date: October 21, 2008 (Viz Signature–N. America)) Rated: Older Teen If there is one word you don't expect from a review of a "seinen" (men's) manga, it is "beautiful," but such a word only begins to describe Inio Asano's Solanin, a one-volume manga series that breaks down conventions with graceful, effortless ease. Through the stark, cinematic power of manga, he creates characters that leap from the page with every pang of joy and sadness. Meiko Inoue…

  • Review: El Cazador de la Bruja, Part 2 (Hyb)

    2 Feb 2010 | 8:18 pm
    Medium: TV Anime (26 episodes) Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy Director: Koichi Mashimo Studio: Bee Train Original Run: Apr. 2 - Sep. 24, 2007 (TV Tokyo–Japan) Release Date: Dec. 15, 2009 (FUNimation–N.America) Rated: Not Rated Read our review of Part 1! There’s definitely a division between the last box set and this one, an accelerated (though far from rushed) pacing and linked plot advancement, that makes episodes 14-25 a little more interesting, if only at some slight expense of the series’ sense of patient humor. Sight gags and the female leads’ charm remain but are relied…

  • FMA: The Brotherhood Diaries – Episode 41

    31 Jan 2010 | 6:20 pm
    Ani-Gamers staff writer Ink contributes a weekly column in which he examines the differences between the original Fullmetal Alchemist and its re-telling, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. To read previous entries, click here. Watch Episode 41 – The Abyss In the end, this episode is about a single shot: Edward Elric standing in a room, showered with light from a latticed window, facing the only door. He is positioned thusly, because Miles and his loyal Briggs soldiers have just left through it on a hunt for Kimblee and his men with intent to kill, and Edward is trying to reconcile his innate…

  • Ani-Gamers Podcast #025 - Space Racists

    29 Jan 2010 | 12:06 pm
    Hosts: Evan "Vampt Vo" Minto, Mitchell "MitchyD" Dyer, Elliot Page Topic: "What'cha Been Doing?" We're back, this time with a new format for our shows (and a new hosting service — Podbean!). Instead of having What'cha Been Doing? segments before every discussion, we will be recording shorter podcasts dedicated to freeform discussion alongside episodes that only contain a review or a panel discussion. Thus, all of the episodes should clock in at 30-40 minutes, which should hopefully result in an acceleration of our release schedule. And don't you worry — we'll still be doing our very best…
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  • Scots Use Cyberhawk Drones for Aerial Rugby Surveillance

    Stuart Fox
    2 Feb 2010 | 10:19 am
    While the English use their UAVs to covertly spy on their own citizens, the Scots have leveraged the technology for a much greater social good: helping them beat the snot out of those southern wankers on the rugby pitch. In preparation for the RBS Six Nations Rugby Tournament, the Scottish national rugby team has been using Cyberhawk unmanned helicopters to monitor their practices, and deliver God's-eye-view footage of each scrum. The UAVs are on loan from team sponsor Scottish Hydro, which normally uses the UAVs to inspect pylons and wind turbines. They players have taken to calling the UAVs…

  • New Computer Program Studies Trees on TV to Simulate Their Movement

    Stuart Fox
    28 Jan 2010 | 2:35 pm
    The same subtle, random movements, bouncing shadows, and immense complexity that make plants fascinating to observe in life also make them hell to animate. Like water and fire, a rustling tree is one of the hardest things for a computer animator to realistically render. Thankfully, a new computer program can design realistic trees by watching and copying video of real ones, saving animators plenty of time and money. Developed at the University of Bath, England, the program works by analyzing digital video of actual trees. Then, the computer program can make copies of the original video, but…

  • A New School Teaches Students Through Videogames

    Susannah F. Locke
    7 Jan 2010 | 8:05 am
    A school uses videogame-based lessons to teach a new generation of kids An 11-year-old boy taps furiously on a laptop, blasting enemies as he weaves through a maze. They wipe him out before he can reach the end-game over. Frustrated, he opens the game's programming window, adjusts the gravity setting, and this time bounds over the baddies. Victory! This could be the future of American education, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. The Quest to Learn school opened last September in Manhattan, welcoming the first class of sixth-graders who will learn almost entirely through…

  • Dueling Cyber-Bullying Bills Face Off In the House

    Stuart Fox
    2 Oct 2009 | 6:41 am
    Won't somebody please think of the children! After listening to a week of testimony, the House Judiciary Committee has crafted two bills that seek to deal with the problem of cyber-bullying. One bill is a nuanced attempt to create a conversation between children, parents and school administrators about the proper use of technology, and the other is, well, not. The first bill, H.R. 3630, is sponsored by Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), and focuses on providing money for Internet awareness and education programs for parents. The Bill would dole out $125 million in grants to teach…

  • Real or Fake? The World's Longest Basketball Shot

    Adam Weiner
    29 Sep 2009 | 12:40 pm
    Three points! Is this shot really within the realm of physical possibility? If we time the flight, we can then apply some ballpark approximations to determine whether the trajectory we see in the video conforms to that flight time. Using our stopwatch we observe that the ball is in the air for 3.8 seconds before passing through the basket. The horizontal distance to the basket from the launch point is approximately 50 meters, and the launch angle θ is about 20 degrees. Let's use what we know about projectile motion. We know for a projectile that the horizontal motion is independent of the…
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  • LolCat Escape (addictinggames.com) Review

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:28 pm
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    7 Feb 2010 | 3:40 pm
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  • Light After Dark - For The Alliance

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  • The Future of Final Fantasy Is Unclear Even to Square Enix

    Softpedia News (Florian Totu)
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:12 am
    Since Final Fantasy XIII started out as a PlayStation 2 game, it's no surprise that it ended up staying in development for over five years, for it was eventually carried over to the PS3. And it seems like, while everybody at Square Enix is overjoyed with how well the title was received in Japan, as far as critics as well as sales went, the boss of the company said that it was time for the developer to move past Final Fantasy. Speaking to Edge just as 2010 started, Yoichi Wada, Sq... (read more)

  • Free Mass Effect 2 DLC Kicks In Today

    Softpedia News (Florian Totu)
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:06 am
    BioWare launched its Mass Effect 2 some three weeks ago, and while the developer is hard at work with the Expansion for Dragon Age: Origins, that doesn't mean that it forgot its plans for ME2 downloadable content. Aside from all the preorder and retailer-exclusive bonuses, like the extra companion Zaeed Massani and several weapons and armors, BioWare has de... (read more)

  • Feel The Magic: XY/XX Unlockables XXIV (DS)

    Softpedia News (Florian Totu)
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:10 am
    The purpose of Feel The Magic: XY/XX is to impress the girl of your dreams in typical high-school-boy fashion, by performing insane and ridiculous stunts. These stunts are the actual gameplay, as there are over 30 mini games that can be performed via the DS mechanics. The touch-screen is used to play games such as riding a ... (read more)

  • Another Star Wars Game Will Arrive This Fall

    Softpedia News (Florian Totu)
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:04 am
    There's another Star Wars game soon coming to our PC and gaming consoles, and while Star Wars The Force Unleashed II has already been unveiled, some of you might hope this is about a sequel for Republic Commando or even, maybe, just maybe, Battlefront III. Unfortunately, reality is somewhat more colorful, but not necessarily in the good way. Travelle... (read more)

  • Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires Hints VI (PS2)

    Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu)
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:53 am
    Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was exclusively released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony in August 2004. The title is classed as an action adventure game played from a third person perspective with a lot of influences taken from history and some light fantasy elements... (read more)
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  • iRiS 2.0 Visualizer Studio Review

    Brian Browne
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:15 pm
    For those of us who liked to color outside the lines in art class, iRiS 2.0 Visualizer Studio is for you.

  • GAMINGtruth’s Truthcast – Episode #23

    Deejay Knight
    2 Feb 2010 | 7:16 pm
    Oh, what a week! Mass Effect 2 comes out strong & charity work from major developers. It's like a smorgasbord of awesome, and the train just keeps on moving!

  • Holy #*$%ing S*^!, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Review

    LaWiiG
    30 Jan 2010 | 5:50 pm
    No More Heroes 2 : Desperate struggle is a definite game for gamers. Even if you are unfamiliar with the first title you will not have a problem getting dropped right into the action and get to slicin'.

  • Mass Effect 2 Madness Continues

    Deejay Knight
    20 Jan 2010 | 7:55 pm
    Yes, we come bringing more Mass Effect 2 hotness. Hopefully, you agree that we didn't need a reason! Get in here!

  • GAMINGtruth’s Truthcast – Episode #22

    Deejay Knight
    18 Jan 2010 | 10:31 pm
    Another week; another Truthcast! We missed you last week when our recording was lost, but we made up for it this week. How'd we do it? Get in here and see!
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  • Dante’s Inferno: Descent Trailer

    Chris P
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm

  • League of Legends: Now A Million Downloads Strong

    Ernest Woo
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:30 pm
    Riot Games is on a roll as they announced that downloads of their PC game League of Legends in North America and Europe have surpassed the million mark. Within just 3 months since it launched in late October of last year, players have logged 18 million hours in-game, and over 150,000 from the two reagions play each day. With a slew of “Best of the Year” awards and nominated for a Best Debut award at the upcoming Game Developers Choice Award (part of the Game Developers Conference) in March, free-to-play League of Legends seems to have a bright future ahead of itself. You can read…

  • Just Cause 2: Freedom and Chaos Trailer

    Chris P
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am

  • Activision announces Zhu Zhu Pets Collector’s Edition for Nintendo DS

    Ernest Woo
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am
    If you didn’t know already, Zhu Zhu Pets are the latest kids’ toy craze - think Tickle Me Elmo from oh, 10 years ago? Activision’s game of the Zhu Zhu Pets franchise will include a limited edition “Baxter” baby hamster toy in what they’re dubbing a Collector’s Edition box, while supplies last. In the game, players will take care of and race their hamsters in mazes, collecting “carrots, coins and new hamster friends and babies.” What kiddies won’t care to know is that mom and pop will be shelling out no more than what most most other…

  • Dark Void Review

    Chris P
    5 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm
    Dark Void has a lot in common with that old Disney movie, The Rocketeer. They were good foundations that tried to follow through on grand ideas, but fell short. In the case of Dark Void, the story, characters, and setting are all solid foundations that are interesting and fun to experience until the game basically felt like it ran out of ideas. It’s sad because the game had a lot of potential for the one-man rocket aerial combat situations which arrive a little too late and don’t help to keep the game’s foundation secured. Dark Void is more of a rental than purchase, and the missions…
 
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  • “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier” Currently in Development

    Tiffany
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:15 am
    Ah, Paris. So many good things can be found there. The Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, and…Tom Clancy games? Yeah, those too! Ubisoft announced today that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is currently in development in their Paris studio with a Holiday 2010 release date in mind. Created by the award-winning team behind previous Tom Clancy titles, the game will feature everything that fans of the series have become accustomed to, as well as state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will welcome old and new fans to the…

  • Review: Demon’s Souls

    Vespaa
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    ESRB: M Players: 1/Online Multi-player Genre: RPG Publisher: Atlus/Sony BUY Regarded as one of the most difficult games released this generation (and appropriately released on my birthday) Demon’s Souls is a third person action RPG with rogue-like elements to it. This Playstation 3 exclusive was developed as a joint effort between From Software and Sony Computer Entertainment, and is unlike any other game I’ve played in many aspects. Considered the spiritual successor to the King’s Field games, Demon’s Souls introduces gamers to many unique aspects of game play and…

  • Dragon Age: Origins Goes Triple Platinum

    Tiffany
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:34 am
    To no one’s real surprise, Dragon Age: Origins has sold over 3.2 million units worldwide, making it officially triple platinum. The game has has won over 30 “Best of 2009” awards and has an average review score of 91, according to Metacritic. Dragon Age: Origins is the sixth consecutive blockbuster from BioWare. Most of this success is due not only to the game itself being so awesome, but the additional content packs (Warden’s Keep and Return to Ostagar). The latest expansion pack, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening is set to launch on March 16, 2010. Dragon Age: Origins –…

  • iPlants vs. iZombies – The Trailer…

    dawn
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:18 pm
    In anticipation of the February 15th release date of PopCap’s much adored Plants vs. Zombies for the iPhone, we get a small taste of what it will look like on the touchscreen… Enjoy! I would love to see what it is like to play it on the iPhone, how do you think it will compare?

  • EA Financial Report Reveals Handheld Dragon Age, Confirms Console Versions of The Sims 3

    Tiffany
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:38 pm
    Looks like EA has quite a bit up its sleeve for the next fiscal year, and their third quarter fiscal year 2010 report confirms the existence of a “hit-driven market” in its forward-looking statements. For instance, we can look forward to new installments of Tiger Woods Golf and “the world’s most beautiful game,” FIFA ‘11, not to mention console versions of The Sims 3. EA is definitely taking its mantra of “fewer and bigger” to heart – it’s their version of quality over quantity, since their top 20 games amount to 80% of their sales…
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  • The New Debate on Games as Ert

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:18 am
    A raging war of words that never seems to disappear for long, the eternal question “are games ert?” has reared its many-spectacled head yet again. On the first side we find those who passionately believe in the idea that games are indeed ert, and wish them to be viewed as such. On the other, the stridently dubious, who feel that games are not ert, and either cannot ever be it, or at least have many steps to go in order to become it. It is well understood that ert is important and a big deal. Many people pay respect to ert– and as such, if games became ert, then respect would be paid to…

  • Coining the Faceless Wind

    20 Jan 2010 | 7:01 pm
    Long ago in a philosophy class my teacher touched upon the well-known thought experiment called “the brain in a vat,” in which an imaginary subject’s brain is placed into a tank of something approximating cerebrospinal fluid and hooked up to a supercomputer that feeds it artificial stimuli that is comparable to kind the “real world” would provide. At its most basic level, the experiment brings into question what is “real” or “true” since the mind (we assume the brain is the mind, here) in the vat, by definition, is unable to determine if it is in the “real” world, or…

  • Don’t, Mention, The War!

    4 Jan 2010 | 9:07 am
    Chances are that if you work on big-budget video games for a living you’ll eventually make something with Nazis in it, and while the coming of that day may not be a surprise, the news that your project will be released in Germany often is. Why would Germans want to play a game where they mainly shoot other Germans? you think. But Germany is the world’s second-largest market for many types of games, and a World War II theme has never been shown to harm a title’s sales there. At the same time, playing a game localized properly for Deutschland and set in der Zweite Weltkrieg can be like…

  • Soft Body Dynamics

    10 Dec 2009 | 7:45 pm
    “I think there’s something wrong with the way her breasts don’t sway. A chest that large– they should have some bounce, shouldn’t they?” Hiro was tired and his eyes burned. He bit the inside of his lip to distract himself. “Yeah, I suppose so.” “You suppose so? Have you ever seen a well-endowed woman’s breasts? I mean in real life, like right in front of you. Not in a porno.” “Sure– now and then.” “Don’t lie. I can tell when you’re lying.” Kazu had the controller in his hands, making the girl crouch over and over. Hiro took his glasses off and rubbed his…

  • He Was Always Trying to Prove Something

    19 Nov 2009 | 8:57 pm
    Earlier this year, writer and critic Michael Thomsen appeared on the webcast version of ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson and declared Nintendo’s Metroid Prime trilogy “the Citizen Kane of video games”. The segment was not particularly persuasive, being a collision of film history, video games, and the evening news– we see quick cuts between Kane’s bold swaths of shadow and three-dimensional laser combat with space aliens, while Thomsen says something about loneliness– but the piece struck a chord in the video game community, which emitted a loud and derisive collective…
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  • new p2p virtual currencies for business (b2b) and hacker/hobbyists (c2c)

    admin
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:28 pm
    We’ve been busy lately at superfluid, so I thought I’d post to update folks on the state of things at our b2b site, superfluid.biz, and encourage those who haven’t yet posted offerings to get something started. We’ve been steadily adding users, so you’re likely to find some new offerings of interest to you, and as a registered user, you can borrow a few Quids to purchase products or services before your own time gets used in the system. In addition, we’ve just completed construction of quids.org, a non-commercial implementation of the superfluid technology.

  • Does Skype have Untapped Potential?

    admin
    18 Jan 2010 | 12:57 pm
    Jeremy Wagstaff recently posted a very positive analysis regarding Skype, with which, as a heavy user of Skype for IM, I quite empathize.  However, his take on voice functionality is a tad euro-centric; not to say that he’s wrong, but I think that Skype’s journey back from years of neglect is a harder trek than he posits. The audience isn’t quite aligned as he suggests, and the typical usage isn’t quite right for a widespread integration with social nets. Aside from those talking to Europe, I know very few in the US who use Skype for voice/video communication.

  • superfluid non-commercial version soon + superfluid b2b goes wide open

    admin
    10 Jan 2010 | 4:35 am
    Next week, we’ll be launching a new version of superfluid for non-professional use. This is just as exciting to us as our initial launch, and it’ll free up a lot of flexibility in model and external integration that a site for commercial offerings cannot allow. -But these benefits are really just the gravy for us, on a product for which we’ve quickly come to see the need. We’re rolling this out because we’ve seen that a number of the entities most interested in using superfluid are wanting to use it for collaborative, non-commercial, purposes (games, open source…

  • Why superfluid and Fair Value can be the best way to Bootstrap a Game or Software Project

    admin
    9 Oct 2009 | 8:26 am
    In something of a fluke, I’ve had a few conversations with different sorts of people over the past couple of weeks about the best ways to see a vision for a game or software project through to completion.  It may be self serving, but I think that superfluid could be the best option for many of these. A superfluid-based execution will allow almost anyone with their own marketable skill (whatever that skill is) to put together a team and execute from development through marketing and distribution, and to maintain full ownership of their baby. superfluid is all about fair value for…

  • superfluid is live

    admin
    27 Sep 2009 | 2:54 pm
    …in fully functional (google-style) beta at www.superfluid.biz; when we have the chance to breathe, I’ll post further. For now, suffice it to say that we’re launched, and developing several specific community focii, including game development and marketing that may useful to readers here. btw: If you’re a business (game developer, designer, marketing folks, etc.) that’d like to participate in superfluid, for a limited time you can submit for the beta here. -Nathan
 
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  • BioShock 2 Returns to Rapture Today

    Redeema
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:32 am
    Sequel to the 2007 Game of the Year welcomes players back to the decayed magnificence of Rapture with rave reviews from the industry’s top critics. New York, NY - February 9, 2010 - 2K Games announced today that BioShock®2, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2007 Game of the Year, is now available worldwide for [...]

  • Tomena Sanner Grooves Onto WiiWare

    Redeema
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:54 pm
    Race To Reach The Ultimate Dance Party In Konami’s New Downloadable Game. El Segundo, Calif. - Feb. 8, 2010 - Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced the availability of Tomena Sanner on Nintendo WiiWareTM. In this zany, side-scrolling action game popularized in Japan, players must race against the clock while avoiding a myriad of obstacles in [...]

  • Greg Hastings Paintball 2 Announced

    Redeema
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:50 pm
    The #1 Name in Paintball Brings the Most Realistic Paintball Experience Ever to All Three Next Gen Consoles. EDISON, N.J., February 8, 2010 - Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Greg Hastings Paintball 2 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, [...]

  • Special Pokemon Pikachu-colored Pichu Distribution at GameStop for Nintendo DS

    cnc137
    30 Jan 2010 | 9:59 am
    Two-Week Distribution Gives Pokémon Fans a Special Opportunity To Receive This Exciting Pokémon. For the first time outside Japan, a special PikachuTM-colored version of the adorable Pokémon PichuTM will be available for distribution to Pokémon fans at more than 4,300 GameStop stores located throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Beginning Saturday, January 30, through Sunday, February [...]

  • Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes Review

    Niadano
    30 Jan 2010 | 9:45 am
    Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes is one of the most surprising games I have played in a long time. I had no idea what to expect when I began playing the game. It carries the Might and Magic name, which didn’t exactly prepare me for the game I was about to play. [...]
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  • Getting an 8-in-a-row in Bejeweled (and other apparently possible things)

    Nick Robinson
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    The great thing about the internet is the way it allows like-minded individuals to gather and absolutely obsess over their interests. From the eccentrics who mod their Xbox controllers for Marble Blast Ultra high scores to the people who discovered Modern Warfare 2’s Javelin glitch, there’s no shortage of examples that when enough people bang on a game for a long enough amount of time, almost anything is possible. Eight in a row! Aww snap! One of the coolest examples of this I’ve seen in a while is a series of images by the admin of message board eDepot depicting how…

  • Bytejacker on Attack of the Show!

    admin
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:52 pm
    If you couldn’t catch it, here’s our segment on tonight’s episode of G4’s Attack of the Show: Hey, why not leave a comment over on G4’s site and let them know you appreciate the coverage of indie games? That would be right neighborly of you. Thanks to Attack of the Show for the coverage! You guys rule!

  • ModDB announces top 10 mods of 2009

    Nick Robinson
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:23 am
    Mod and total-conversion repository ModDB have posted the winners of their 2009 Mod of the Year (or MOTY) Awards. After 133,000 votes, here are the results! I gotta admit, that Modern Warfare: Galactic Warfare mod looks pretty damn cool. Suddenly all the Modern Warfare 2 dedicated server outcry seems slightly less crazy, just because it would’ve been fun to see what kinds of mods fans could have put out for that game. Interesting aside: due to the often perpetual nature of mod development, mods are only eligible for the Top 10 if they placed higher in the awards than they have in years…

  • Project Needlemouse is now Sonic 4 Episode I, coming this summer

    Nick Robinson
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:46 am
    Four months ago, Sega teased Project Needlemouse, an upcoming downloadable 2D Sonic game coming to consoles sometime this year. As of yesterday, we have a name, a release window, a list of the consoles it’s coming to, and even a tiny sliver of gameplay footage. Woo! Sega has chosen to go the Mega Man 9 route with the title, calling it Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I. Call it authentic, call it exploitative, but this is probably a pretty good idea considering how well MM9 sold. Not to mention that hearing the phrase “Sonic the Hedgehog 4″ reaches inside me and tickles some…

  • ‘Splosion Man for $5 through this weekend!

    Nick Robinson
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:42 pm
    Through the end of this week, you will be able to get all 50 levels of ‘Splosion Man for 400 points, or $5. Do the math. That’s ten cents a level. How can you say no? The bargain is happening as part of Microsoft’s semi-new ‘Deal of the Week’ promotion. There’ve been a few other notables, but this has got to be the newest game Microsoft has temporarily knocked points off of. You can buy the game without even getting up from your computer by visiting this link: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/offers/00000001-0000-4000-8000-00005841098f Happy…
 
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  • Craps Hedging: Part 1

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:07 pm
    This 2 part lesson at Gambling Teachers answers the question, To Hedge or Not? Spend some time at the craps tables and you will see and hear a host of hedges, the most common of which are that they increase or decrease your chances of winning or losing on the Pass Line. But is hedging really worth it? A classic hedging consists of utilizing one bet to offset another bet. For example, you place a $5 Pass Line bet and then ask the dealer to give you a one-dollar, Any Craps--2, 3, 12--in order to offset the possible loss of that Pass Line bet when any of the craps numbers appear. Continue to…

  • NEW! Video Poker Pro

    30 Jan 2010 | 10:19 am
    If you are an experienced video poker player, you have likely thought about going pro. This new lesson at Gambling Teachers discusses that plan and the strategy of betting max coin. A veteran player knows that some games pay more than 100 percent with expert play. You will not find them everywhere, but when you do, they are gold, regardless of whether you find them online or at land-based casino. The How to Play Poker program will assist if you are leaning towards going Pro with live Poker. Start your education at the GT free learning center.

  • Video Poker Questions & Answers

    26 Jan 2010 | 9:06 am
    There are 12 Video Poker FAQ, frequently asked questions with answers at Gambling Teachers. Here is an example from this lesson at the Learn to Play Video Poker program. Q. Could you explain to me what is meant by a full pay Video Poker machine, in particular as regards to a Deuces Wild machine? A. 9/5 Deuces Wild full pay schedule refers to nine coins for a straight flush and 5 coins for four of a kind under the 1 coin payout schedule. Continue your education with live poker lessons at How to Play Poker program with 36 lessons taught by gambling pros

  • Learn to Play Video Poker

    21 Jan 2010 | 6:52 am
    Learn to Play Video Poker is one of the most inclusive programs offered at Gambling Teachers. You will find Q&As, Tips, Online reviews and a Quiz among the lessons. The program provides basic strategies and how-to lessons for 16 popular versions with paytable illustrations. You can begin with VP Paytables that includes poker rankings, paytables and descriptions of VP versions.

  • Online Free Play

    17 Jan 2010 | 8:51 pm
    This lesson at Gambling Teachers is about player options when choosing online gaming. Online free play or practice play including online poker free-rolls is a casino luxury that often goes unappreciated. It is an opportunity to explore what is available, and to learn the many free casino games with zero risk involved. It gives online players the chance to test strategies, learn the basics of games or to simply have fun knowing there is no consequence no matter what you decide to do. Want to play that game at a max bet of $200 a spin? Go for it! As poker is another online player option, GT…
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  • ...and the BlazBlue: Continuum Shift info starts pouring in...

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:39 am
    by: Jeremy DuffNEWS -  I reported on the Famitsu cover leak yesterday and today the full article has been exposed.  Japanese gaming blog Andriasang has exposed all of the details included in Famitsu's four page story on BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.  In addition to everything that was listed yesterday from the arcade version of the game, the home versions of the game will include yet another additional character, u-12, and a ton of additional gameplay modes.  Among the modes that will be included in the home versions are: Tutorial- guided instruction(s) on all fighting…

  • Max & the Magic Marker finally coming to WiiWare

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:11 am
    by: Dan KeenerNEWS - It was announced yesterday on the game’s official site that Max & the Magic Marker will finally be hitting the U.S. WiiWare queue in March. The game is available on PC and MAC currently, and is a 2D physics-based puzzler with the following details: 15 inventive and puzzling levels Unique drawing control in a truly dynamic physics environment 3 beautiful worlds inspired by childrens drawings Death traps, monsters, and challenging puzzles Unlockable challenges, secrets and rewards Original and awesome soundtrack by Analogik

  • EA finds another outlet for the Madden series

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:47 am
    by: Jeremy DuffNEWS -  As if the Madden series had not already hit every platform imaginable, Electronic Arts found yet one more to put the game on: Facebook.  The Facebook phenomena continues to spread and many game companies are starting to turn to it as a viable outlet for free-to-play games and promotion.  Peter Moore has stated in an interview with Bloomberg Television that their goal is to make the Madden series "more acessible" to the public.  In order to do so, the series will now have a presence on the Facebook social network.     It is…

  • E3 2010 Registration now open

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:14 am
    by: Dan KeenerNEWS - With CES just wrapped up and PAX East around the corner, the folks at E3 say “Don’t forget about us” as registration is now open for the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 Expo). The 2010 E3 will once again be at the Los Angeles Convention center (Someone please move this to Vegas!) from June 15th-17th. According to the release, 90% of the available space has already been sold out, so the 2010 show should be as full as last year. Those looking to go can register here:

  • The well isn't dry yet- LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:03 am
    by: Jeremy DuffNEWS -  LucasArts and Telltale Games know how the industry works and know that when you have a good thing going, you should continue going with it until the end.  The companies released a press release yesterday announcing LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars for later this year.  The game will be coming out on pretty much every platform imaginable, both handheld and home consoles.  The game is also going to include the characters introduced in the Cartoon Network television series in addition to the classic roster from the various movies.  The game is…
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  • NEWS: Sims 3 coming to consoles

    Duncan Geere
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:40 am
    It was only a matter of time Looks like EA Games is bringing its record-breaking game - The Sims 3 - to consoles. In EA's financial reports, which have just been issued, a placeholder called "The Sims 3 on Console Title" is present - scheduled for a Q3 release (i.e. in time for Christmas). We don't have any more information than that at this stage - it could come out on any or all of the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS or the Sony PSP. We wouldn't be surprised if mobile phone versions started showing up, either - EA have a respectable track record in mobile gaming.

  • NEWS: Daily news roundup: HTC Incredible photos, Nexus One and more

    Ben Crompton
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:03 am
    Links to the biggest stories of the day in one place Want to know what's been hot in the world of technology and gadgets today? We have plenty of technology and gadget ingredients to make our Pocket-lint roundup stew as tasty as ever. First up and we have news of some leaked photos of what could be the HTC Incredible apparently running Android 2.1, this is then followed by the announcement from Play.com that it is stocking the Nexus One, at what appears to be a rather inflated price. Meanwhile, iPhone news comes in the form of the iPhone Dev-Team releasing a 3.1.5 version of its PwnageTool…

  • NEWS: Win a copy of Dante's Inferno for the PS3

    Ben Crompton
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:22 am
    As the Dante's Inferno DVD goes on sale from 8 February To celebrate the launch of the film version of "Dante’s Inferno" on DVD, Pocket-lint has two copies of the coming-soon game to give away for the PS3. "Anime, gaming and animation fans can venture into the nine gates of hell not once, but twice this February as Starz Media’s Film Roman company unleashes Dante’s Inferno The Animated Movie, a ferocious companion piece to Electronic Arts’ forthcoming Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PSP title", says the blurb. Both the game and the movie "take players and viewers on a…

  • REVIEWS: Dante's Inferno - Xbox 360

    Tobias Henry
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:04 am
    Poetic justice? Ah, Dante's Inferno: the game where EA surprises us all with a sensitive, literate take on the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th Century Masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, taking us on the poet's imaginary journey through the nine circles of Hell, led by the Roman poet Virgil. Offering fascinating insights into the medieval mind, this rich, scholarly effort, featuring dazzling graphics inspired by Medieval frescos, gives us scope to contemplate the nature of sin and redemption, and captures - in video game form - the poet's musings on science, philosophy, politics and history.

  • NEWS: Sony still losing money on the PS3

    Amy-Mae Elliott
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:25 am
    WSJ estimates every PlayStation 3 costs Sony $18 Some clever chaps at the Wall Street Journal have grabbed their calculators and worked out that Sony is still losing money on the PlayStation 3, the first version of which was launched back in 2006. Despite some recent sales success for the high-end console, it seems the Japanese gaming giant is taking a loss of around $18 for every single console it sells which might sound a lot but is less than the $37 a previous estimate put it at. The WSJ came to this conclusion by analysing Sony's third quarter financial results, deducing that the company…
 
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  • Inside Gaming: God Of War Slurpeed & A New BioWare Title: 2/6/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E09

    machinima
    6 Feb 2010 | 8:53 am
    Inside Gaming: God Of War Slurpeed & A New BioWare Title: 2/6/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E09 www.youtube.com Click here to watch Inside Gaming from 02/03/10! Inside Gaming: God Of War Slurpeed & A New bioware Title: 2/6/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E09 God Of War 3 DLC gets slurpeed, episodes from Liberty City jump platforms, and an all-new bioware title. This is Inside Gaming for February 6th, 2010. ----------------------------------- Follow Machinima on Twitter! Machinima twitter.com Inside Gaming twitter.com Machinima Respawn twitter.com Machinima Entertainment,…

  • Inside Gaming: Microsoft X10 & Bad Company 2 Single Mode: 2/3/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E08

    machinima
    3 Feb 2010 | 9:08 am
    Inside Gaming: Microsoft X10 & Bad Company 2 Single Mode: 2/3/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E08 www.youtube.com Click this to watch Inside Gaming from 01/30/10! Inside Gaming: Microsoft X10 & Bad Company 2 Single Mode: 2/3/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E08 X10 is here, Gears of War invades Lost Planet 2, and some Bad Company 2 single player. This is Inside Gaming for February 3rd, 2010. ----------------------------------- Follow Machinima on Twitter! Machinima twitter.com Inside Gaming twitter.com Machinima Respawn twitter.com Machinima Entertainment, Technology, Culture…

  • Friendly Fire: Best Hand-Held Gaming Device (Results) S2E3

    machinima
    30 Jan 2010 | 5:05 pm
    Friendly Fire: Best Hand-Held Gaming Device (Results) S2E3 www.youtube.com Click this to watch Friendly Fire: Best Hand-Held Gaming Device! Friendly Fire: Best Hand-Held Gaming Device (Results) S2E3 What is the best hand-held device of the decade? Thanks for voting! Here are the results. YOUR PORTABLE CHOICES WERE: None - Kovic PSP - Matt iphone - Rob dsi - Sark - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Follow Machinima on Twitter! Machinima twitter.com Inside Gaming twitter.com Machinima Respawn twitter.com Machinima Entertainment, Technology, Culture…

  • Inside Gaming: Oblivion The MMO & PAX East Sells Out: 01/30/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E07

    machinima
    30 Jan 2010 | 8:54 am
    Inside Gaming: Oblivion The MMO & PAX East Sells Out: 01/30/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E07 www.youtube.com Click this to watch Inside Gaming from 01/27/10! Inside Gaming: Oblivion The MMO & PAX East Sells Out: 01/30/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E07 Oblivion the MMO, PAX East sells out, and kissing your level cap goodbye in Borderlands. This is Inside Gaming for January 30, 2010. ----------------------------------- Follow Machinima on Twitter! Machinima twitter.com Inside Gaming twitter.com Machinima Respawn twitter.com Machinima Entertainment, Technology, Culture…

  • WatchThis!Gaming :: Top 5 Plays, Modern Warfare 2 :: Episode 9

    WatchthisGaming
    29 Jan 2010 | 7:45 am
    WatchThis!Gaming :: Top 5 Plays, Modern Warfare 2 :: Episode 9 A truly amazing week... Send your clips to: Watchthistop5mw2@yahoo.com From: WatchthisGaming Views: 98335 3647 ratings Time: 03:41 More in Gaming
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  • Hudson Brings Dream Chronicles to XBLA and PSN

    Assassin
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    HUDSON SOFT, partners with PlayFirst to bring Dream Chronicles to consoles beginning this Spring. The stylized adventure game licensed through PlayFirst is coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network. “Dream Chronicles has been enchanting players on Windows PC for several years and soon console players will get the chance to solve the mystery [...]

  • Total War Week on Steam

    Assassin
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:40 am
    To celebrate the release of Empire: Total War – Elite Units of the East DLC, this week on Steam get all the Empire, Rome, and Medieval II: Total War games and packs, including the Total War Mega Pack at 66% off, while all Empire: Total War DLC and the new Empire: Total War – Downloadable [...]

  • Halfbrick’s Age of Zombies heading to PS3 minis

    Assassin
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:47 am
    Since the press release is more entertaining than anything I could come up with, I decided to just post that instead. Enjoy. We at Halfbrick are very happy to announce Age of Zombies – Rated T for TEEN – for the PSP and PS3 minis. We know what you are thinking – “Great, another %@&$in zombie [...]

  • LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars Announced

    Assassin
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:09 am
    LucasArts and TT Games announced the development of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. The next chapter in the LEGO Star Wars videogame franchise, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will combine the best elements of all previous LEGO games while adding brand new gameplay to make it the most action-packed LEGO videogame [...]

  • Left 4 Dead 2 PC & Xbox 360 Update Details

    Assassin
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:18 pm
    The latest update for Left 4 Dead 2 is now available for PC. No exact date for the 360 version yet, but the details for the 360 update are below. From Steam Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. XBOX 360 users will [...]
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  • Ubisoft announces Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

    Delriach
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:14 am
    The promised "big announcement" from Ubisoft is that Ghost Recon is making its return. From PS3Attitude.com; hit the link or visit the site for the full story now... http://www.ps3attitude.com -- Please help us raise much-needed funds for GamesAid - visit the site for details and to donate - Our new PS3 Attitude Gear store is live - support the PS3 Attitude Charity Fund with your purchase - http://ps3attitude.spreadshirt.com

  • Special Edition Unboxed – Dante’s Inferno: Death Edition

    Stefhutch20
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Ever wanted a game, but weren’t sure which edition to get? Then PS3 Attitude is here to help, in a new occasional feature known as Special Edition Unboxed! With special editions of games becoming increasingly more common, you’ll be forgiven for feeling a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of choice gamers are subjected to these days. Exactly what you get in the box can sometimes be a little unclear, so the purpose of this new feature is not only to let you know what you get for your money, but also to give our impressions, and ultimately decide whether it’s worth getting over the…

  • EA report suggests Dead Space and Dragon Age sequels sooner rather than later

    Folken24
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    It's fiscal reports time again - hurrah! Although seemingly written in an alien language, these reports often give us a glimpse in to what we gamers have in store for us over the course of the next fiscal year. So EA, you claim to be the PS3's number one publisher, but can you back it up? From PS3Attitude.com; hit the link or visit the site for the full story now... http://www.ps3attitude.com -- Please help us raise much-needed funds for GamesAid - visit the site for details and to donate - Our new PS3 Attitude Gear store is live - support the PS3 Attitude Charity Fund with your purchase -…

  • Heavy Rain demo impressions

    Delriach
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:32 am
    When we learned that the Heavy Rain demo was available to download a week before its official release, we were excited. After all, Heavy Rain is our #2 Most Wanted Game of 2010 and the anticipation is overwhelming. Did the Heavy Rain demo exceed our expectations or were we left disappointed? From PS3Attitude.com; hit the link or visit the site for the full story now... http://www.ps3attitude.com -- Please help us raise much-needed funds for GamesAid - visit the site for details and to donate - Our new PS3 Attitude Gear store is live - support the PS3 Attitude Charity Fund with your purchase -…

  • LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars announced

    Folken24
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    LucasArts and TT Games have announced that the award winning LEGO Star Wars franchise is making a comeback - this time set during the Clone Wars. Will the Force be strong with this one, or are LucasArts flogging a dead Wookie? From PS3Attitude.com; hit the link or visit the site for the full story now... http://www.ps3attitude.com -- Please help us raise much-needed funds for GamesAid - visit the site for details and to donate - Our new PS3 Attitude Gear store is live - support the PS3 Attitude Charity Fund with your purchase - http://ps3attitude.spreadshirt.com
 
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  • Alice’s Tea Cup Madness Review

    7 Feb 2010 | 8:17 am
    Excuse me... I've just had tea with the queen... and how did you spend your afternoon?? That's what I thought... certainly not as exciting as my afternoon... but we can't all be privileged to dine with royalty. LOL! Ok, so the snobbish tea party thing is a little too much fun for me... I'll stop now. Alice's Tea Cup Madness... how fun! Alice was always one of my favorite characters growing up... in fact I'm drinking out of a Alice in Wonderland cup right now, so I couldn't help but be super excited when I saw this new game come out. I just HAD to play it right away! The characters in this…

  • Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allen Poe Conspiracy Cheats and Walkthrough

    7 Feb 2010 | 7:58 am
    Well, it's one of those days where you just want to curl up in bed with a good book or a good movie. Cloudy, with a steady drizzle to lull you into a happy place. Even my son, who's normally bouncing around about this time is quietly playing with his toys. I should be taking this free time to start planning my husband's birthday party, but I just can't seem to bring myself to tackling that big event right now. I'm not sure where to even start. Should I keep it small with just immediate family and a few close friends this year? My son thinks we should take a trip to Disneyland, but I'm not…

  • Vacation Mogul Review

    26 Jan 2010 | 2:06 pm
    So this weekend I had a blast. Pristine white beaches, blue-green ocean as far as the eye can see, some hottie boy bringing me drinks in my beach cabana. It was like a dream come true. Ok... so maybe it kind of was a dream that I had while I was passed out drooling on my Economics 101 book. But it was a great dream I'm telling you. And all because of my latest find... Vacation Mogul! Normally when I talk about games, it's something that I've played for a while and then I stop to tell you about it and continue playing... sorry guys... not this time. I couldn't stop playing it, it was so much…

  • Virtual City Review

    25 Jan 2010 | 10:20 am
    My son is now at an age where he is very interested in playing games and activities on the computer. He loves cars and trucks so, in looking for a computer game in that genre, I came across Virtual City. I set it up for him and let him go. I figured he would like it, but he loved it! So I thought I would give it a try myself. I was initially very captivated by the graphics. Watching all the vehicles driving their various routes was fun to watch. The intro movie is well done and the city itself has some great detail. Best of all was the challenge in creating the city and helping it to thrive.

  • Tinseltown Dreams: The 50s Review

    22 Jan 2010 | 1:16 pm
    I used to love to go to the movies . See a good movie, most of the time, visit with all your friends and eat Dots and Popcorn. All for a good price. The last time I went to a movie I walked out before I went totally deaf and froze to death. Good Grief. Now I prefer to watch in the comfort of my own heated or cooled just right living room. The food is much better, my chair is comfy and I don't have to go to the bank and get a loan to buy a ticket, That said, let's get on with this review. Tinseltown Dreams : The 50's. You are hired by a big movie mucky muck to direct a movie. So if you have…
 
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  • Army of Two: The 40th Day

    Ken Barnes
    26 Jan 2010 | 8:25 am
    Anyone who played the first version of EA’s Army of Two series will probably feel the way I did about it. The concept was good, sure, but the execution was somewhat lacking in some key areas. The fact that you pretty much had to perform terrible homoerotic buddy-buddy actions in order to keep your AI-controlled player from pretty much ignoring you – which he then did anyway – was the icing on top of a badly-prepared cake. With this new version, though, a lot of the issues have been ironed out. A lot more of the “friendship” system is based on your actions in combat rather than your…

  • Bayonetta

    Ken Barnes
    15 Jan 2010 | 3:03 pm
    Every now and again, a game comes along that defies cohesive description. So much so, that if you sat and played it for a month straight, you’d still be fumbling for words when someone asked you about it. Having played a heck of a lot of Bayonetta over the last few days, the best I can come up with is this:- “Well, you play as this woman called Bayonetta who wears glasses that she pushes up her nose with her gun and she’s a witch with crazy powers and somehow manages to carry and fire four guns…yeah…she’s got two attached to her shoes as well and no…I don’t know…

  • Vancouver 2010

    Ken Barnes
    14 Jan 2010 | 3:18 am
    Over the course of the past twenty years, the majority of video game genres have matured impressively. No more is this apparent, than with the sports simulation. The likes of FIFA, Pro Evolution Soccer, Fight Night, Top Spin and the various NHL, NFL and NBA games show that with greater power comes not only greater realism, but longer and more involved career modes to draw the player back in to play, time and again. One sporting subset that hasn’t grown up though, is the multi-event simulation. With their take on the Beijing Olympic Games, Sega provided a hard-as-nails Olympic mode that…

  • Darksiders

    Ken Barnes
    13 Jan 2010 | 2:09 pm
    It’s always nice to start the year off with a pleasant surprise, and 2010 kicked off for me with lashings of THQ’s rather decent Darksiders. It’s a surprise, because when a title misses the furore that is the Christmas sales rush and stumbles onto store shelves with little in the way of a fanfare to get the punters interested, you generally expect it to be another bog-standard one-trick pony that will disappear  without a trace. Darksiders proves that this doesn’t have to be the case, and that despite the abominable waves of bland being thrust upon gamers these days, there are still…

  • Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Interview

    Ken Barnes
    15 Dec 2009 | 12:09 am
    The Prince of Persia series of titles has been a major influence in the world of gaming for decades now, and a new movie based on the games looks to have a decent shot at becoming the first truly solid game-to-Hollywood conversion. As Ubisoft have recently announced a new game in the series, to be released in 2010, we thought we pick up some insight from Producer Graeme Jennings as to what to expect. 1. Why are you going back to the Sands of Time storyline? The Sands of Time universe is one that’s a real favorite of the developers at Ubisoft, as well as fans. A great thing about the Prince…
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  • Backbreaker Devs Fill You In

    Wondering how "Backbreaker" is looking to change football games? Well, the game's developers are here to fill you in. Check out their first Dev Diary and get clued in on what to expect when this anti-Madden hits the streets in a few weeks.

  • Project Needlemouse No More … Now It’s Sonic 4

    There's really nothing else to say, aside from, it's about damn time. Official Site

  • Dev Box Interview: Blood Bowl’s Project Managers

    It usually takes a small army to create the video games that we play, and, most of the time, all of the focus gets put on the game itself, and not on the people that came together to make it. Our Dev Box interview series takes a look at some ...

  • 3D Dot Game Heroes Hopes To Help With Your Inadequacy Problems

    Oohh Atlus, you always know how to make us giggle inappropriately. Check out the latest "trailer" for the blocky-looking upcoming PS3 title "3D Dot Game Heroes" and see if it questions your manliness. At the very least it should give you a look at some solid gameplay, and the upgrade ...

  • BioShock 2 Launch Trailer May Cause Hydrophobia

    Well damn. If you weren't excited about "BioShock 2" yet, watch this trailer and you will be. AND ... if the massive battle that goes down there doesn't hook you, check out Multiplayer's guide to all the plasmids in the game. Yes, it's a sequel to an amazing game, and ...
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  • Check Swings are in MLB 2K10… After Patch

    Matt Paprocki
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    Check swings are part of baseball, when the hitter decides, “Whoops, shouldn’t be doing this” at the very last second. However, 2K Sports didn’t find this necessary, and didn’t include them in 2K10, which many previews pointed out. Now wonder the franchise is lagging behind MLB: The Show… Anyway, after a small but assuredly vocal fan revolt, 2K Sports has stated they will include the feature after all, but not on the disc. It will be released as a patch later. The companies initial excuse for not including it? The other batting features, such as…

  • Rumor Dept.: NCAA March Madness Franchise Dead?

    Matt Paprocki
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Could an EA Sports franchise have died to join the NCAA Baseballs and Arena Footballs in that great sports game heaven above? The poor-selling NCAA basketball franchise, March Madness, has failed to appear on a listing of EA’s upcoming games for 2010. However, the list is noted not to be complete, but sports games, unlike some others, are typically guaranteed releases. Not including one is certainly questionable. Previous years have saw a dip in sales, surely due to the prior decline in quality of the NBA Live series before that made a comeback. When sales were already lukewarm, and the…

  • Modern Warfare 2 Care Package Glitch Fix Coming on Xbox 360

    Matt Paprocki
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    Those who tend to play a lot of Modern Warfare 2 have undoubtedly come across someone using the infuriating care package glitch… at least if you’re on the 360 where the problem has still not been corrected despite PC and PS3 users already having non-cheating fun. Thankfully, the patch is not too far away, as confirmed by Robert Bowling on Twitter. The patch is currently in the hands of Microsoft certification, and will go live when they get done giving it a run through, which is of course within an unspecified timeframe. Beyond the care package cheat, other adjustments are being…

  • Blizzard to Release Remote WoW Auction House Service for iPhone/iPod Touch

    Gabriel Zamora
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    Image via CrunchBase Blizzard has been hard at work after the release of the World of Warcraft Armory and Mobile Armory App, updating and tweaking the system in an effort to keep players connected to the game as long as possible, even when not actually playing. One of the newest services in development is the ability to let players access the Auction House directly through the Armory Website and Mobile Armory iPhone/ iPod App. Blizzard Poster “Bornakk” broke the news on the World of Warcraft forums, where he informed forum-goers about the services’ development: This is a…

  • Halo 2 Currently Unplayable for Some on Xbox Live

    Matt Paprocki
    6 Feb 2010 | 5:18 pm
    Microsoft has already started breaking down Xbox Live for original Xbox owners, starting with the removal of all DLC from the service. The problem is that DLC is required for all Halo 2 playlists, so those that signed on for a few games today can no longer access required DLC. So, if someone replaced their hard drive or deleted the content to make space for some reason, they currently cannot join in. Bungie’s response was not particularly reassuring to those looking to take part in a promised farewell come April, but they must have some ideas: “Not sure what, if any, solution we…
 
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  • Twilight : New Moon – the Video Game

    Geoff
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:30 am
    If you haven’t figured it out yet, two thirds of us here at Lazygamer are anti-fans of Twilight. While we’re not going to point fingers at our obviously effeminate colleague, we are going to take every possible opportunity to poke fun at the books, films and their lunatic fandom. What you’ll find after the jump is what would undoubtedly be printed on the instruction manual for a game based on the latest Twilight film, New Moon. This would, naturally, be one where that emo, vegetarian, sparkly fairy Edward would be the protagonist – Although I’d really prefer one where he were the…

  • Vancouver 2010 Reviewed – Stop, Collaborate and Listen.

    Geoff
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:45 am
    Here in sunny South Africa we’re generally a sports-mad bunch. Many a Saturday afternoon is whiled away, sat around a screen, with beer and biltong consumed in disproportionate amounts. Where we falter in our enthusiasm is with regards to winter sports. This is, of course, mostly due to geography – but it’s hard to get excited when we, unlike Jamaica, don’t even have a bobsleigh team. The 2010 winter Olympics begin this Friday in Vancouver, and as with most such events it comes with its own videogame. Let’s take a look and see if Vancouver 2010 holds the gold at the podium, or…

  • Mass Effect 2 Gets New DLC Goodies Today – Free

    Nick de Bruyne
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    Just last week, I wrote a post about Mass Effect 2 getting some free DLC soon. Well “soon” has arrived and while I am not sure if this will be the only free DLC coming, it’s coming today, and for the price of sweet nothing, it’s the perfect price for me. The free DLC will be delivered via the Cerberus Network and will add a shiny new set of armour as well as a new Shotgun to Commander Shepard’s closet. Info and another pic after the jump. Okay, so here’s what we’ve got. Cerberus Assault Armor Cerberus assault armor is designed for shock troops, turn…

  • Pirate Ordered to Pay R10 million to Nintendo

    Geoff
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:15 am
    An Australian pirate by the name of James Burt has been ordered by a court to pay Nintendo the staggering sum of one and a half million Australian dollars, "to compensate Nintendo for the loss of sales revenue caused by the individual’s actions." His crime? He released an early copy of Super Mario Bros Wii on to the internet, ensuring it would find its way into its underbelly, and eventually be downloaded “many thousands of times,” according to Nintendo’s Australian representation. He had the game available for download from November 6th, despite the game only officially…

  • Mass Effect 2 Review – To Boldly Go To A Galaxy Far, Far Away….

    Nick de Bruyne
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:30 am
    Every now and then, a videogame comes along that changes everything that you thought you knew about gaming. A game so epic, so magnificent, so deep and so emotional that you are blown back in the realization that a new era of gaming is upon us. Unfortunately, we didn’t receive a review copy of Karaoke Revolution, so we opted to review Mass Effect 2 instead. Okay, so I had a bit of fun with the opening paragraphs of the review, but I am not going to beat around the bush here folks. As a gamer, who started at the ripe old age of around 6 years old and has played countless games over the…
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  • How to Fix BioShock 2 Crashes and Freezes?

    Calin Ciabai
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:26 am
    BioShock 2 was just launched (a bit later than the pirated copies, unfortunately) but reports from gamers all over the world are already pouring, with users complaining of BioShock 2 crashes and freezes. Although these game crashes, freezes and error messages don’t appear to be widespread, there are still a number of gamers that get [...]

  • New Star Tennis – PC Review

    Calin Ciabai
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:01 am
    Ah, the glory, the money, the fame, your face on the billboards, your name all over the news… you’re a star: the number one tennis player on Planet Earth, with the entire world at his feet. You love the feeling, you always did, you always wanted to become the number one player. A reporter asks [...]

  • Penumbra Overture Walkthrough

    Calin Ciabai
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:31 am
    Even though the game was released all the way in 2007, Penumbra Overture was a really cool title and very appreciated by the gamers so that I decided to post a complete video walkthrough for the Penumbra Overture so that if any o you wishes to go through the game once more, they have what [...]

  • Play This: M-Bot

    Calin Ciabai
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:23 am
    Playing M-Bot made me feel like a Power Ranger, if you recall that show for kids that aired aeons ago. I have no idea why since there are barely any connections between the two titles, but the thing is that I had oh so much fun that I had to recommend this game to you [...]

  • Championship Manager Online Goes Offline This April

    Calin Ciabai
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:02 am
    Sad news for the fans of football management games – Championship Manager Online, the game launched by Eidos back in 2005 will close its doors and go offline this year, by the end of April. The main reason stated by the publishers for the closure of the online football management game is the lack of [...]
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  • Indestructible Charges, Disruptor, New Hero Page, Fan Art

    Anderson Mccutcheon
    7 Feb 2010 | 6:18 am
    The month of February began with a reinvigorated, hopeful, and well justified beta rumor frenzy. Blizzard has been contacting gamers, websites and certain individuals about their StarCraft 2 beta access, and all eyes will be focused on Blizzavision’s public conference call, only 3 days away. Blizzard is setting up the pieces for the most massive RTS game beta test in history – a beta that will test not only StarCraft 2’s mechanics and balance, but also the revolutionary gaming platform Blizzard has been working on for a long while. Blizzard’s Korean community…

  • Micro-Updates: Queued Construction, Unit Types, Mothership

    Anderson Mccutcheon
    26 Jan 2010 | 5:39 am
    January hasn’t featured any significant official update from Blizzard (yet),  but a few pieces of information have surfaced through the constantly-growing RTS community team. Here’s a quick run down of the recent updates to the StarCraft 2 Universe. The role and functionality of the Changeling, a shape-shifting spy unit that can be spawned by Overseers for an energy cost, has been clarified by Avarius. The changeling’s transformation is permanent. Once it is within range of opposing forces, it will transform to that race’s basic tier 1 unit (marine, zealot, or…

  • StarCraft 2 – The Year of 2009: Milestones, First Award Given

    Anderson Mccutcheon
    31 Dec 2009 | 1:46 pm
    With they year 2009 coming to an end, marking two and half years since StarCraft 2’s unveiling in Korea, it’s time to summarize this year of continuous teasing; feature annoucements, previews, battle reports and recurring mentions of the upcoming beta. The first thing we covered on January 2009 is, ironically, 1UP’s post of the 25 most anticipated games of 2009, topped with the obvious reservation to curb the readers’ enthusiasm.. … both Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 appear in 1Up’s  “25 of the Most Anticipated Video Games of 2009“, Thierry Nguyen (1Up’s…

  • Karunology and 4Players.de StarCraft 2 Fansite Q&A

    Anderson Mccutcheon
    20 Dec 2009 | 9:15 pm
    This week in StarCraft 2 was marked with multiple blue posts on the official StarCraft 2 forums, topped with a seven question Q&A session for the German fan site starcraft2.4players.de. Most of the answers deal with the finer aspects of StarCraft 2, but there are some interesting new revelations in as well. 1. Are you still developing new units or are you satisfied with the amount of units for each race and, therefore, more concerned about the fine tuning and balancing? Our philosophy has always been to keep the amount of units for each race to a certain number to keep the gameplay tight,…

  • Dustin Browder Interview: The Making of StarCraft 2

    Zetaras Xal'Kurat
    8 Dec 2009 | 7:58 am
    Dustin Browder, StarCraft 2 Game Director, gave a lengthy and interesting interview to TeamLiquid, focusing on key StarCraft 2 issues such as the balance and development process, the patching strategy planned for the game, E-Sports, and, of course, the major goals Blizzard has set for itself with StarCraft 2. We bring you the important highlights. Dustin begins by describing the early influences which led him to be interested in games, citing Dungeons and Dragons as a main one. He goes on to talk about movies and how they affect both StarCraft’s story and actual game scenarios.
 
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  • Ubisoft Makes Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Official

    Dana Olson
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:53 am
    The next entry in the Ghost Recon series is coming sometime towards the end of this year. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is the name of the game, and that's about all we know right now. There's some kind of a beta thing for 360 users only, so let's hope that they put lots of effort into the PS3 version, too. I know I'm not the only one looking forward to this.

  • Dead Space Extraction Losing Wii Exclusivity?

    Dana Olson
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:11 am
    Apparently EA is sending out a survey asking about incentives for pre-ordering Dead Space 2, which they have planned to release in early 2011. | | On the survey is also mention of a mining tycoon type PSN game called Planet Cracker, but more interestingly, the currently Wii-exclusive Dead Space Extraction getting an HD port was also mentioned. If this materializes, it would be a PSN download at a potential price of $15.

  • New Fallout: New Vegas Details

    Dana Olson
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:09 pm
    It's no secret that Fallout 3 was 2008's Game of the Year (it even says so right on the box). So, you can understand my excitement toward Fallout: New Vegas when I hear that it's confirmed to use the same engine as Fallout 3, but with tweaks, including some VATS improvements.

  • Prison Break: The Conspiracy Details

    Dana Olson
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:58 pm
    The game based on the Prison Break TV series is coming sooner than you might think.

  • Hudson Announces Dream Chronicles

    Dana Olson
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:36 am
    Dream Chronicles apparently released a few years ago for the PC, and is now coming to the PSN. Hudson's game appears to be a cross between an adventure game and a hidden object game. | | "Follow subtle clues to help Faye find her missing husband and escape from the mysterious sleeping spell that has taken over the town of Wish! Stay sharp and focused and you just may unravel this intriguing, dreamy mystery!" | | No release date was given.
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  • Ferrari Coming Back to NFS After 7 Years

    | Balu |
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:17 am
    I used to play NFS a lot as a kid and there was this neighbourhood friend who used to looove Ferraris. I’m not in touch with him, but Ferraris have been missing from NFS series since Hot Pursuit 2. So the good news now is that Ferrari cars are now available as downloadable content for NFS Shift. The cars which’ll be available are 1996 Ferrari F50 GT, 2005 Ferrari F430 Spider, 2005 Ferrari FXX, 2005 Ferrari Superamerica, 2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, 2006 Ferrari F430 Challenge (Online/Quick event only), 2006 Ferrari F430 GTC (Online/Quick event only), 2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia,…

  • Review: Army of Two: The 40th Day> On a Shanghai noon

    | Balu |
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:38 am
    It was past mid night and I was getting tired of the vague storyline, but not of the cover-aim-fire-kill ritual. This along with my modified guns had kept me and my partner alive in China which — in the game — is under siege by a militant group. Army of Two: The 40th Day, sequel to Army of Two is a co-op campaign which throws you into China and expects you to stay alive despite being out numbered and auto-gunned. But hey it’s the world of gaming where anything is possible, provided you have the guts and the wits. So if you think you got it, pick up your Xbox360 controller…

  • BioShock 2 Launch Trailer

    Sudeep
    3 Feb 2010 | 11:45 pm
    Last night, 2k Games launched the trailer for their newest title Bioshock 2. The trailer offers very little new insight into the plot of the game or  footage of actual game play. It starts with a splicer chasing a little sister through new areas of Rapture and you as Big Daddy playing the hero and saving her. Slated to be be released on February 9th, 2010 for both Xbox 360 & PS3, looks like Rapture is going to open it’s gate again. Have a look at the trailer here-

  • E-Xpress Surprises, Launches a Gaming Store in Mumbai

    | Balu |
    26 Jan 2010 | 1:58 am
    We had written earlier about how game4u, an initiative by Milestone Interactive (game distributors) who were planning to launch a retail outlet for selling games and accessories. Looks like someone else has beat them to it — as a new retail chain called ‘Games the Shop’ has been launched in R-city mall in Mumbai and according to MCV, The owners plan to open an additional 15 stores over the coming year, all of which will stock both modern formats such as Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii as well as handheld and older consoles like the PS2. Other promised in-store features include demo…

  • Just Cause 2 For PS3 Will Have Built-in Video Capture Feature

    | Balu |
    25 Jan 2010 | 3:26 am
    Good news, you don’t need to connect your PS3 to a PC any longer to record your PS3 gameplay footage. Just Cause 2 for PS3 comes equipped with this feature baked into the game. And like in Spore, you can upload the videos directly to youtube from the game. From the press release: The in-game menu has a 10 minute capture feature which allows players to create more detailed and planned presentations. Gamers will be able to capture and share in-game mission walkthroughs, create online speed-run competitions, direct their own South East Asian-inspired Machinima and more, with the best…
 
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  • Ferrari makes their Need for Speed SHIFT debut

    THEjdb360
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:12 am
    EA has announced that a Ferrari content pack will be racing its way into Need for Speed SHIFT, as well as an extended career mode, sounds good to us so far! The Ferraris included with the content pack are…… 1. 1996 Ferrari F50 GT 2. 2005 Ferrari F430 Spider 3. 2005 Ferrari FXX 4. 2005 Ferrari Superamerica 5. 2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano 6. 2006 Ferrari F430 Challenge (Online/Quick event only) 7. 2006 Ferrari F430 GTC (Online/Quick event only) 8. 2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia 9. 2008 Ferrari California 10. 2008 Ferrari 16M Scuderia Spider In addition to the new cars, a Ferrari Racing…

  • Review: Serious Sam HD

    Alex Jones
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am
    Platforms: XBLA (reviewed), Steam Price: 1200 MS Points, $15 Developer: Croteam Publisher: Devolver Digital ESRB Rating: M Croteam have recently promised us that Serious Sam 3 is on its way within the next year, and if you’re among the segment of the gaming population who are yet to realize how brilliant this news is, now is as good a time as any to download the XBLA remix of the first game, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter. It’s been more than eight years since it was first released, so how does the game hold up in the year 2010? The game begins with a simple premise: in the 22nd…

  • Nintendo Downloads for Feb. 8th

    Adam
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am
    A whole bunch of stuff but the only notable one being the Blaster Master Remake for Wiiware. The original version is already on the Virtual Console. “WiiWare BLASTER MASTER OVERDRIVE Publisher: SUNSOFT Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Mild Fantasy Violence Price: 1,000 Wii Points™ Description: BLASTER MASTER OVERDRIVE is an action-adventure game that takes place on an Earth infected by an aggressive, polymorphic virus. Poor, defenseless animals worldwide have been turned into flesh-eating, hemoglobin-swilling terrors. Fortunately, the world has Alex, who…

  • Dantes Inferno Superbowl commercial

    THEjdb360
    7 Feb 2010 | 6:37 pm
    As most of you certainly should know by now, Dantes Inferno made an appearance during this years Super Bowl battle between the Colts and Saints. In case you missed it, check out the TV spot below!

  • CONTROLLER THROW PODCAST EP. 11

    ControllerThrow
    7 Feb 2010 | 2:36 pm
    Mikee checks into Benway’s Massage Parlour, and the boys give the xbox indie title “A Perfect Massage” a live playtest. While the good vibes flow, Mikee and Benway take a look at the new Alien Vs. Predator demo, the Mario clone ‘Pixel’ and the recent charity release ‘Chime’. Full of relaxation, the boys also revisit some of the more risque elements of Bayonetta, and look forward to Darwinia +. There’s also a bonus Bioshock 2 musical number presented after the outro, created and submitted by members of the controllerthrow community. The…
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  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo on Live

    Colin Temple
    30 Jan 2010 | 7:33 am
    Just a quick heads up for other Battlefield junkies out there — in case you haven’t noticed, the demo for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is now available on Xbox Live. The new demo lets you play online on the Port Valdez in Rush Mode, which is similar to the Gold Rush mode of the first Bad Company. The demo allows you to try out some of the new changes to the gameplay style. My first impressions: Some nice changes, though a little more in the style of Call of Duty, this definitely feels like a Battlefield title to me so far. The demo will be available until February 25. Battlefield:…

  • Mass Effect 2 launches with 2 million sales

    Colin Temple
    30 Jan 2010 | 7:26 am
    The second installment in the Mass Effect trilogy, Mass Effect 2, has been released worldwide. EA reports this weekend already passed the 2 million sales mark. Ray Muyzka, who heads up the EA-controlled BioWare studio, had this to say: “Mass Effect 2 is poised to be one of the biggest games of 2010. We could not be more proud of the game’s universal acclaim and early commercial success.” EA has also announced that it will be showing off new BioWare titles at E3 this spring, no doubt building off of the instant success of Mass Effect 2, along with Dragon Age: Origins late…

  • 2009 Xbox 360 Round-Up

    Colin Temple
    31 Dec 2009 | 11:50 am
    I don’t know what happened to 2009. I honestly don’t, it went by quickly for me. But there were games, and some of them were good. But for New Year’s Eve, here’s my take on Xbox 360 gaming in 2009. I’ll be the first to admit that this round-up is a little thin. It’s been a busy year, and I didn’t get nearly as much gaming time in as I’d like. So, I can’t say much about many of the games that came out this year. I didn’t get to play Resident Evil 5, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins or Borderlands yet. I also didn’t get…

  • Medal of Honor reboot in 2010

    Colin Temple
    3 Dec 2009 | 12:37 pm
    EA and DICE have given a timeline for their new Medal of Honor game, indicating that we should be expecting the game in 2010. Medal of Honor will reboot the franchise, bringing into modern-day Afghanistan. The game will follow the story of a special forces soldier deployed by the U.S. National Command Authority. EA believes that Medal of Honor, coupled with developments in the Battlefield series, also developed by DICE, can help it reclaim the top spot in the FPS market from Activision, which is currently leading with the Call of Duty series. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 comes out next March,…

  • Call of Duty goes classic on Xbox Live Arcade

    Colin Temple
    2 Dec 2009 | 3:06 pm
    Activision has released the original Call of Duty as an Xbox Live Arcade game, complete with the single-player campaign and multiplayer modes. The game has been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace under the name “Call of Duty: Classic”, and costs 1200 Microsoft Points (which roughly amounts to $15 U.S.).  The game also comes free with the Hardened and Prestige limited editions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The return of the original Call of Duty was announced back in March of this year. … just in case Modern Warfare 2 hasn’t given you your CoD fix.
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  • Kingdom Hearts III is in the works

    Colin Temple
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:53 am
    The third main-line installation of the Kingdom Hearts series is in the works, according to series creator Tetsuya Nomura. Confirmation comes after Nomura hinted about the title last September. Nomura, who has served as director and designer on Kingdom Hearts titles to date, has told Japanese magazine Famitsu that his team is under pressure to work on Kingdom Hearts III from fans, and is working to bring it about. This confirms that the game is on the way, but is only in the early design stages. More on Kingdom Hearts III it comes.

  • New Dragon Age title in early 2011

    Colin Temple
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:46 am
    EA and BioWare have announced that the next title in its new Dragon Age franchise will be out in early 2011. Dragon Age: Origins just launched the series last November, and more downloadable content and a standalone expansion are in the works. The news that a second full title is coming in about a year shows dedication (and perhaps aggression) in advancing the Dragon Age line. Meanwhile, BioWare is currently basking in the success of Mass Effect 2. The third installment to that series is unlikely to be out until sometime in 2012.

  • Star Trek Online offering lifetime subscription

    Colin Temple
    16 Jan 2010 | 6:31 am
    Cryptic Studios, the company behind Star Trek Online, is offering an alternative to the standard monthly pricing model that most MMOs run on. Instead of paying per month, or per year, would-be starship captains can put down a larger amount upfront, and guarantee their lifetime access to the game. I’m saying “lifetime” a bit liberally here, meaning as long as Star Trek Online stays online, although there are probably enough Trekkies in the world to keep it alive much longer thanTabula Rasa, even if it turned out to be underwhelming. Those who pre-order the game can sign up…

  • Final Fantasy XIII promises over 60 hours of fun

    Colin Temple
    2 Dec 2009 | 2:57 pm
    Square Enix’s upcoming Final Fantasy XIII is, of course, going to be one big, long game. I expect that, you expect that. Now, Square Enix is giving us a number. FF13 will lock in at least 60 hours of your time in the first playthrough. Motomu Toriyama, who’s heading up the project, tells Kotaku: … the size of the entire game is considerable. Just running through the main story takes experienced players over 50 hours. For the first time, I think it’s possible to play through in full in about 60 hours or so. That’s for the storyline alone. For completionists, who…

  • Warhammer Online’s new trial has no time limit

    Colin Temple
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:17 am
    In an effort to grow its player count, Mythic has released a new free trial for Warhammer Online — and this one never expires. While most MMORPGs are offering limited 10- or 14-day trials, Warhammer Online is allowing new and returning players to enjoy their online world indefinitely without paying a dime. Of course, there’s a catch. The trial caps your characters at level 10, so if you’d ever like to advance beyond the low-level quests of the game, you’ll have to become a paid subscriber. Still, there are plenty of things to do in those early levels, and you can play…
 
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  • Mass Effect 2 DLC brings free armor and shotgun tomorrow

    Shawn Evans
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:13 pm
    It’s only been two weeks since Mass Effect 2 was released, but Bioware is already rolling out some new DLC for the game.  Starting tomorrow, anyone who’s logged into the Cerberus Network will be able to download the new Cerberus Assault Armor and M-22a Eviscerator Shotgun for free. Each of these two pieces of equipment will be available at 12PM Mountain Standard Time (February 9th) for the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game, that way no one feels left out in the cold of space.  For complete descriptions of both pieces of equipment, and to see some screen shots, hit the jump.

  • Wiitis ushering in new injuries

    Curtis Takaichi
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:23 am
    Over the past few decades, we’ve heard tails of people straining their muscles and injuring the tendons in their hands from not properly stretching playing too many video games for extensive periods of time.  Well, since the Wii Fit’s induction to the gaming world, “Nintendinitis” has evolved to fit this generation of gaming related injuries called “Wiitis.”  It’s extending to the entire body. That’s right, numerous injury reports are popping up around the globe that are directly associated with the Nintendo Wii.  The truth of the matter is…

  • Gamer Limit iPhone Review: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

    Dylan Snyder
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:53 am
    The current formula used by Rockstar in their Grand Theft Auto franchise has been a staple of the industry for nearly a decade.  Ever since Grand Theft Auto III exploded onto the PS2 in October of 2001, the sandbox genre has never been the same. Offering an incredible amount of freedom (and controversial content) for the time, Grand Theft Auto III represented a huge departure from the first two titles in the series.  The games that followed built on this foundation, culminating in the critically and commercially acclaimed Grand Theft Auto IV, and its downloadable episodes. With IV, Rockstar…

  • Arcade fighting games on sale this week on XBL Marketplace

    Shawn Evans
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:08 am
    It’s the start of a new week, and along with that comes a whole new slew of games discounted for the Xbox Live Marketplace Deal of the Week.  This week’s list consists of a trio of popular arcade fighting games, which are sure to attract some buyers who’ve been hesitant in the past to pick them up. The lineup begins with everyone’s favorite 3-vs-3 brawler, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, which has been reduced 33% to 800 Microsoft points ($10).  Rounding out the list is TMNT: Turtles in Time Reshelled and Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao.  For a complete list of discounted prices, hit…

  • The Weekly Recap: Dressing Down

    Mark Davis
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:37 pm
    Hello again and welcome to The Weekly Recap. I see you’ve brought your bubble pipes and smoking jackets with you this week. Congratulations on remembering, but you must have missed the memo about top hats and monocles. It’s okay, it’s okay; I’ll just take mine off and keep it a little less formal than originally planned. At least we can blow our bubbles in unison and share a sense of superiority over how incredibly refined we are. As for the past week, well, it was a humdinger! There were some fun forum discussions, fantastic user blogs, intriguing features, and…
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  • Review: BioShock 2

    Donkey Biscuits
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:57 am
    Step back into the unforgettable world of Rapture in BioShock 2, the next installment in the franchise that has won more than 50 Game of the Year Awards and has sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide. Developed by 2K Marin, 2K Australia, Digital Extremes and 2K China, BioShock 2 features the perfect blend of explosive first person shooter combat, compelling storytelling, and intense multiplayer to form one of 2010’s most highly anticipated titles. Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along…

  • Review: Dante’s Inferno

    Donkey Biscuits
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:55 am
    Based on part one of Dante Alighieri’s classic poem “The Divine Comedy,” Dante’s Inferno is a third-person action adventure game taking Dante on an epic journey through Hell as he seeks to rescue the soul of his beloved Beatrice. Descend through the nine circles of Hell: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. Each circle features distinct environments, enemies, and story elements befitting the sins committed by their inhabitants, with large-scale beasts and bosses, some of which Dante will be able to fully tame, utilizing them to throw back…

  • Demo: Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing

    Donkey Biscuits
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:39 am
    Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing demo is now available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo is available in all Xbox Live regions. In a frantic battle to the checkered flag, Sonic and his friends speed around tracks all taken from the universes of Sonic and SEGA inSonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. Each character has a specific All-Star move for a quick way to get back into the race. Collect power-ups and weapons around the tracks and use them against the opposition to ensure they’re not a threat for that number one position. Battle it out in single or multiplayer mode,…

  • Discontinuation of Xbox LIVE for Original Xbox Games

    Donkey Biscuits
    5 Feb 2010 | 1:35 am
    Dear Xbox LIVE Members, On April 15 we will discontinue the Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox v1 games playable on Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals. I want to start by saying this isn’t a decision we made lightly, but after careful consideration, it is clear this will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community. Seven years ago we laid out our vision for the connected console when we launched Xbox LIVE. We believed then that the power of the Internet to connect people would revolutionize living room entertainment. It started with amazing…

  • Demo: Aliens vs Predator

    Donkey Biscuits
    4 Feb 2010 | 5:46 am
    Aliens vs Predator demo is now available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo is available in all Xbox Live regions (except Germany, India and Japan). Hunter. Survivor. Prey. Which will you be? Will you lock and load as a United States Colonial Marine? Fight for honour as the savage Predator? Or go in for the kill as the murderous Xenomorph? And will you be the hunter… or the prey? Demo features one map in Deathmatch multiplayer. Full game features eight maps, seven multiplayer modes and three single-player campaigns.
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  • Rogue Warrior: The Review

    SlayerAgamon
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:50 am
    Here at Feed Your Console we like to let every dog have his/her day..a far shake if you will at an unbiased fair review despite how bad a game is labeled out the gates. Enter Rogue Warrior, a title I waited a long time to pick up. The trailers had me hooked months ago. Finally a game I thought that was good for a solid 15-20 hour run of great 3rd person shooting mayhem. Sadly, this was not the case. Whatever you’ve read about this game to date is true. For $60 it’s extremely short, the controls stiff during important firefights and the scenery blocky at times (think N64 block…

  • Molyneux interview at Game Jam in Copenhagen

    Captain Scurvy
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:48 am
    The Global Game Jam happened at the tail end of January and Peter Molyneux stopped by the event in Copenhagen to check out all of the upcoming game developers. Gamereactor was on the scene and was able to nab an interview with the Fable III and Milo director. In the video interview (watch it here), Molyneux explains why he likes indie games: “We make a lot of games that are very serious and they’re about end of the world stuff… and it’s nice to see the sense of humor running through everything” And his views on game complexity: “Making something complex…

  • First Impressions: Alien Vs. Predator (the demo)

    SlayerAgamon
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:16 pm
    Haven’t heard from SEGA in a while have we aye? Enter the long anticipated and awaited AvP demo on HD consoles. I sat down eager to download and set aside some good quality time to enjoy this quick tease only to find myself slightly vexed. Why is it that a lot of the publishers of games these days feel I want to jump into a multiplayer ONLY demo after I’ve waited months just to play it “myself”?!! This was the case with Army of Two: 40th day as well…just utterly annoying. Let’s jump to the gameplay. I quick match-up into a lobby (which was fast) and I was…

  • BioShock 2 is coming

    Mvern78
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:09 pm
    On the eve of your return to the city under the ocean? If you are you really should know what your in for. Splicers, Adam, EVE, Plasmids and Little sisters are all waiting for you, along with a new and improved protector – the Big Sister. Catch the Bioshock 2 Trailer here. See you in Rapture.

  • Halo Legends: The Babysitter Teaser

    Mvern78
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:54 pm
    Below you will find links to the opening 1:47-second clip from “The Babysitter” episode of “Halo Legends.” ” “The Babysitter” focuses on the intense rivalry between the ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers) and the Spartans. When given an assignment to assassinate a high-ranking Covenant Prophet, a four-man team of ODSTs must accept a Spartan Sniper to their strike force. Each discipline learns something important about the other as the mission progresses into hostile territory – and old rivalries must be reexamined if the mission is to succeed.
 
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  • Diablo III in the Desert

    pepo
    1 Feb 2010 | 9:13 am
    Blizzard's devs and artists have been cooking up an eyeful of sandy vistas, but these aren't just some barren wastelands. No, they're chock full of monsters and temples and more monsters. Check out the new screens in their pixel perfect glory (currently pages 1, 2 and part of 3 out of 13). Still too 'colorful' for a Diablo title?

  • Steam Deal Alert: Psychonauts for $2

    pepo
    26 Jan 2010 | 11:47 am
    Double Fine's legendary title with an 87 Metacritic Score. Bargain gaming at its best. Nothing more to be said than go, buy it now! Source: @InsideGaming

  • Final Fantasy Coming to iPhone

    pepo
    26 Jan 2010 | 9:48 am
    Good new for fans of Final Fantasy's sprite-based outings in the 80's and 90's. Square Enix is prepping two titles, Final Fantasy I and II, for the iPhone. And fortunately for iPhone/iPod Touch owners looking for some "Made in Japan" RPG goodness, it looks like they're going all out in refreshing the look and feel, along with touch-enabled controls. Check out the screens after the break. You can follow the project on Facebook and Twitter. Availability: "Soon" Source: Download Squad

  • Help Haiti, Shop PopCap

    pepo
    16 Jan 2010 | 8:58 am
    Kudos to PopCap for a program they're running in which all of the proceeds from the sale of today's (Saturday Jan. 16) games goes toward Partners in Health, one of the many organizations lending a helping hand in the wake of the terrible disaster that struck the nation. If you've been eyeing some of the delightful games PopCap has to offer like Peggle or Bejewed 2, and you'd like to support the humanitarian effort, today is the day to do it. Ends midnight. So go. Shop. Now! [via Joystiq]

  • Star Trek Online: Resistance is... Well You Know

    pepo
    15 Jan 2010 | 11:48 am
    If you've been on the fence about Star Trek Online, Giant Bomb's series of STO beta videos with commentary may firmly push you out of the air lock (I know, I'm mixing franchises). The newest video, the hour-plus-long Set Phasers to Fun - Part 03 shows a nice little newbie encounter that starts with an away team rescue mission scenario. Expect some genuinely fun-looking gameplay, authentic sounds and Shatner-esque rolls to avoid enemy fire. A good sign for Cryptic's MMO. Fun times!
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  • Interview with Melissa Heidrich of PassionFruit Games

    Andy
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:49 am
    Melissa Heidrich of PassionFruit Games conducted an interview with GameJobHunter to talk about her experience with being victim to a layoff in the video game industry, and how she and her team have started up their own video game studio. GJH: What are some of the most important things to start thinking about if you’re laid off? What were the first steps you took? Melissa Heidrich: I’d say if you’re laid off, the most important thing is to stay positive – instead of viewing the situation as an ending, you have to see it as a new beginning. I’ve been laid off three times now, and…

  • Why Make a Lateral Move?

    Andy
    27 Jan 2010 | 8:40 am
    The Wall Street Journal published an article earlier this month about how to get ahead in a time where promotions are hard to come by and new job openings are scarce. When asked about making a lateral move, EA’s VP of Talent Acquisition, Cindy Nicola, was quoted as saying “you’re still learning and growing,” and “broad-based experience can ultimately position you to move up.” So, if a move to a new company or a promotion just seem like dreams, consider taking advantage of opportunities to work in other departments or move to a new position internally to get…

  • New Companies, New Jobs – 12/02/09

    hailpza
    2 Dec 2009 | 7:38 am
    We’ve gotten off to a busy start this week – the turkey-induced comas have started to wear off, and companies are once again posting new job ads.  I’ve said many times that one of the main reasons that we started this site was to help smaller/newer/unique/etc. studios get their jobs posted and seen by job hunters.  We love having the major players post, too, but it’s nice to learn about new companies as they pop up on GJH.  There are always a LOT of jobs open in the game industry, but they can be tricky to find if you’re not sure where to look.  It’s…

  • Job Hunter Spotlight – UI/Creative Director

    hailpza
    25 Nov 2009 | 8:02 am
    I’ve got a good friend who is about to go into job hunt mode, and I’m looking to help spread the word that he’s available.  I’ve worked with him personally, and he’s got my highest recommendation.  He’s got almost 20 years of experience in the UI, 2D, 3D and effects fields. He’s keeping his search slightly under wraps for now – if you’re interested, ping me and I can get you in touch.  This is NOT for any type of referral fee, any introduction will be free of charge.  Here’s a brief rundown of his skillset: High level UI design…

  • New Companies, New Jobs, Layoffs

    hailpza
    17 Nov 2009 | 2:53 pm
    It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in the game industry.  First, we had the news last week that EA was laying off 1500 of its employees worldwide.  Then, we had the news today that EA was shutting down Pandemic.  If you’re an industry veteran, I’d almost bet money that you knew someone that was affected – I’ve worked at EA in the past, and I had a few friends that were let go.  If you’re a job hunter, it means that there is suddenly a lot more people looking for jobs.  This can definitely be worrisome, but there ARE still a lot of people hiring.  With…
 
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  • Go (former) Green Ranger, Go!

    vichus
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:21 am
    You may remember Jason David Frank as the Green/White Power Ranger in the original Power Rangers show. Now he’s showing you that he doesn’t need a Dragon Zord to take people out. Check... Love video games, tech stuff, and nerdcore? Then check out the ElectricSistaHood.com website for stuff like that and more.

  • XBL Arcade Get You Will Die

    pandalicious
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:42 am
    The games of the past didn’t strive for earth shattering graphics or a strong compelling story. Gamers from the past were two things: simple and enjoyable. This isn’t to say that games now aren’t... Love video games, tech stuff, and nerdcore? Then check out the ElectricSistaHood.com website for stuff like that and more.

  • Episode 183: Sex and Probing-That’s My Kind of Game

    NinJaSistah
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    Brand new Monday, brand new-ish site, brand new episode of the ESH podcast, and this one has the ladies all in a tizzy about Mass Effect 2! In this episode both NinJaSistah and Pandalicious chat... Love video games, tech stuff, and nerdcore? Then check out the ElectricSistaHood.com website for stuff like that and more.

  • Episode 182: Pandalicious Takes On All Comers (I Wasn’t Going to Say That)

    NinJaSistah
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    New podcast Monday is here once again and this hour long show is jam packed full of puns and bad jokes. This week, NinJaSistah and Pandalicious talk about Apple’s newly announced (and poorly... Love video games, tech stuff, and nerdcore? Then check out the ElectricSistaHood.com website for stuff like that and more.

  • Episode 181: I Don’t Know Nothin’ Bout Birthin’ No Eggs

    NinJaSistah
    25 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am
    Well, not really as this fresh Monday episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast is just chock fulla ladies! Pandalicious and NinJaSistah welcome guest host PyroGirl to the show to chat about the... Love video games, tech stuff, and nerdcore? Then check out the ElectricSistaHood.com website for stuff like that and more.
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  • “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier” Currently in Development

    Tiffany
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:15 am
    Ah, Paris. So many good things can be found there. The Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, and…Tom Clancy games? Yeah, those too! Ubisoft announced today that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is currently in development in their Paris studio with a Holiday 2010 release date in mind. Created by the award-winning team behind previous Tom Clancy titles, the game will feature everything that fans of the series have become accustomed to, as well as state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will welcome old and new fans to the…

  • Review: Demon’s Souls

    Vespaa
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    ESRB: M Players: 1/Online Multi-player Genre: RPG Publisher: Atlus/Sony BUY Regarded as one of the most difficult games released this generation (and appropriately released on my birthday) Demon’s Souls is a third person action RPG with rogue-like elements to it. This Playstation 3 exclusive was developed as a joint effort between From Software and Sony Computer Entertainment, and is unlike any other game I’ve played in many aspects. Considered the spiritual successor to the King’s Field games, Demon’s Souls introduces gamers to many unique aspects of game play and…

  • Dragon Age: Origins Goes Triple Platinum

    Tiffany
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:34 am
    To no one’s real surprise, Dragon Age: Origins has sold over 3.2 million units worldwide, making it officially triple platinum. The game has has won over 30 “Best of 2009” awards and has an average review score of 91, according to Metacritic. Dragon Age: Origins is the sixth consecutive blockbuster from BioWare. Most of this success is due not only to the game itself being so awesome, but the additional content packs (Warden’s Keep and Return to Ostagar). The latest expansion pack, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening is set to launch on March 16, 2010. Dragon Age: Origins –…

  • iPlants vs. iZombies – The Trailer…

    dawn
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:18 pm
    In anticipation of the February 15th release date of PopCap’s much adored Plants vs. Zombies for the iPhone, we get a small taste of what it will look like on the touchscreen… Enjoy! I would love to see what it is like to play it on the iPhone, how do you think it will compare?

  • EA Financial Report Reveals Handheld Dragon Age, Confirms Console Versions of The Sims 3

    Tiffany
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:38 pm
    Looks like EA has quite a bit up its sleeve for the next fiscal year, and their third quarter fiscal year 2010 report confirms the existence of a “hit-driven market” in its forward-looking statements. For instance, we can look forward to new installments of Tiger Woods Golf and “the world’s most beautiful game,” FIFA ‘11, not to mention console versions of The Sims 3. EA is definitely taking its mantra of “fewer and bigger” to heart – it’s their version of quality over quantity, since their top 20 games amount to 80% of their sales…
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  • The Notion Ink Adam – iPad what?

    Sam
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am
    OK, so everyone knows that Apple has a tablet coming, and yes I still hate the name. But Apple isn’t the only player in this fledgling market, and some manufacturers are doing things that are a lot more interesting, hardware wise, than Apple’s proposition. A render of what the Adam would look like the a digital mag version of SlashGear The Notion Ink Adam has been on my watch list ever since the nice fellows at SlashGear got their hands on it. It’s a tablet device that runs Android, so you could argue that it’s going to have the same inherent problems and benefits of…

  • Things to Look Forward to: Feb 8th – 12th

    Andrew Plein
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    Well another week another Release List. This week features the great Holiday of Valentine’s Day. Though for the life of me I still can’t figure out who decided it was a good idea not to release New Moon on the week of Valentine’s Day. Seems like a no brainer to me. That’s okay ladies cause Arnold has got your back, with the long awaited release of the Running Man on Blu Ray :) If that wasn’t romantic enough for you, the Video Games come to the rescue with BioShock 2 and Dante’s Inferno. Now that screams romantic. It seems the only Valentine’s Day…

  • We are going to PAX East

    Nelson
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:43 pm
    Thanks to our new east coast staff writers, Bob, Justin and Rett, we now have this whole nation covered.  Our 3 east coast boys will be covering PAX East and almost everything around it.  Expect videos, photos, interviews, hands-on previews, and more from Penny Arcade’s first event in BAH-STOHN. If it’s funny, interesting or weird, our boys will capture it. Oh, and I hear there is going to be a party some where there. So, expect photos and videos of that as well. Hey BAH-STOHNIANS! If you see Pleek, make sure to wave to the camera or do some weird pose. We’ll be sure to…

  • The Zombies are coming… for your iPhone

    Nelson
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:01 pm
    Pop Cap announced last year that it would be bringing it’s popular tower defense strategy game, Plants VS Zombies, out on the iPhone.  On February 15th, they will make good on that promise. Get ready to have even more fun while on John (American) or the Loo (British) while killing some zombies. To see what it will look like on the iPhone, watch the trailer below. Click here to view the embedded video. [via @PopCap_games (Twitter)]

  • Google’s Super Bowl ad was meh, should have used more Batman

    Nelson
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:41 pm
    After seeing Google’s 2 million dollar ad run during the Super Bowl’s 3rd quarter, first word that came to mind was “meh.”  Yea, it was cute. Yes, it told a good story. Yes, it was a perfect way to further brand Google. But, what it have killed them to use the Batman Search story? That one seems more lively and energetic.  It would have fit better with the overall atmosphere of the Super Bowl.  Plus, how many Super Bowl parties or Sports Bars actually heard the cute ending of a baby laughing? I bet not much.  Now, if you played the sounds of the below video, I bet…
 
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  • Chime Review: What’s Your Excuse?

    Steven Wright
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:13 am
    Music based puzzle games are nothing new, with XBLA alone having Lumines Live, Boom Boom Rocket and OD Beat Drop, but there is definitely something unique about Chime. Available for the bargain price of 400 MP, with 60% of the profits going to children’s charities around the world, what excuse do you have not to buy it? I’ll do my best to explain what in theory is complicated but in practise quite easy. You have control of one object at a time, and much like Tetris or Lumines, you can rotate and move the piece around before placing it into the grid. The goal is to create quads:…

  • The Priory: Gears of War

    Sam Giddings
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:24 am
    My name is Sam Giddings, and I have a problem with Gears of War… On Thursday 23rd November 2006, Gears of War dropped through my letterbox. That day, drowning in chum, the kibbled flesh of an alien menace showering my television, I experienced what Gearheads refer to as a moment of clarity. Cut-scenes would stop me in my tracks; brutal, confined firefights would leave me punching the air in satisfaction. The plot made no sense, but who the hell cares what a Lightmass Bomb is anyway? Then I took it online. That was the real epiphany, the real revelation. Once I was blind, but now I could…

  • MAG Review: You Against The World

    Sam Morris
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:34 am
    Hype is a curious beast. Live up to the expectations and you’re onto a winner, fail to come close and you’ll find your game the target of a witch-hunt. Back in 2008, Sony debuted the multiplayer only FPS, MAG, to instant acclaim and subsequent hype. It was an ambitious project to say the least and the project as a whole was definitely a risk on Sony’s part. So why is it that a game that took so many risks, feels so generically safe? The biggest risk they took with MAG was trying to include a whopping two hundred and fifty-six players into one server. So to quickly get all…

  • The Uninformant Podcast #17: Have We Mentioned Uncharted 2?

    Sam Morris
    2 Feb 2010 | 4:09 am
    It’s important that we make this podcast better than last weeks shambles. So with that in mind the conversation quickly turns to Uncharted 2… I’m sorry. We also discuss ModNation Racers, Mass Effect 2, entertainment critics being out of touch and narrative in games. Any questions, queries or general mail send it to podcast@nidzumi.com or drop us a comment below this post. Download | RSS | iTunes | Website Tag

  • From The Editor: February 2010

    Sam Morris
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:56 am
    I hope anyone didn’t blink and miss was what a busy January as it’s now the month that nobody can pronounce because of that awkward r and surprisingly games are afoot. I initially thought that every game running scared of Modern Warfare 2 was a bad thing, it showed a lack of confidence in their own game and left 2009’s Christmas very one dimensional. Luckily 2009 was full of other non-Modern Warfare games to get us by, oh and Modern Warfare 2 lived up to the hype. This smart strategy of moving your game away from the big release to a month full of releases is now, somehow…
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  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier in 2010

    Gamer Syndrome
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:02 am
    Its official, Ubisoft has confirmed the next release of the ultra popular Tom Clancy series in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.  Not to much information has been released about the upcoming game but if you want to get into the beta this summer you better pick up a copy of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction for [...] Related posts:Ghost Recon Future SoldierGhost Recon 4 AnnouncedKillzone 2 multiplayer Strategy: Soldier

  • Team Fortress 2 Update Released

    Harry
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:02 am
    Valve has released yet another update for its popular FPS title, Team Fortress 2, now available to download. The patch is part of a series of small updates being applied to the game in order to fix small issues that the community has been reporting. This update sees the fix of the fonts in the main menu [...] Related posts:Team Fortress 2 Update ReleasedTeam Fortress 2 Update ReleasedTeam Fortress 2 – Content contribution site launched

  • The Illusive Man’s Guide to Mass Effect 2: The Classes

    Adam Dodd
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:09 pm
    The Illusive Man wanted me to tell you that you suck at Mass Effect 2.  Those are his exact words, so don’t take any anger out on me, I’m simply the messenger.  But worry not, dear reader, as the Illusive Man and I have teamed up to form a database of awesome, a duo of [...] Related posts:Borderlands Strategy Guide – Basics of Classes and SkillsMass Effect 2: Character Creation GuideMass Effect 2 Soldier Class Walkthrough

  • Some Mass Effect 2 DLC Coming Tomorrow

    Adam Dodd
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:10 pm
    Don’t get too excited, the DLC only includes new armor and a weapon, but it’s free so you’re also not allowed to complain.  That’s right, you can’t get excited and there’s no complaining, all you can do is sit back and take this news.  Take it.  Anyways, the content, which if you hadn’t gathered from [...] Related posts:Mass Effect Coming To The PS3?New Mass Effect 2 GameplayTwo New Character Trailers for Mass Effect 2

  • Actually, Final Fantasy XIII’s More Like a Really Long Movie

    Adam Dodd
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:56 pm
    A really long movie.  Those zany Japanese developers really like making us sit through long winded (and usually nonsensical) cinematics, don’t they?  Metal Gear Solid 4 and Bayonetta being the most recent examples of what I like to call ‘would you like a game to go with your movie?’ syndrome.  Well, it seems as if [...] Related posts:Final Fantasy XIII PreviewNew Final Fantasy XIII Screenshots!Final Fantasy XIII Box Art Unveiled
 
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  • Reload

    wynn
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:23 am
    I will be back in tournament action today and cash games later this week … I think. Here is a story of how I outplayed a young gun in a cash game several weeks ago: I am in seat 9. Seats 8 and 10 were open. This young gun sits down in seat 10, presumably so he can raise me. I am in the big blind with K-K. He raises under the gun with a hand like A-Q or A-J. The flop comes K-Q-7 rainbow. I check call my set all the way to the river. His chips are gone, and I take it down. The young gun reloads and moves to seat 8. “You moved to check raise me now?” I ask him. He grins. He…

  • Deal Me In?

    wynn
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:58 am
    Last week, I wrote a post saying I was done with poker. Since then, I have had fellow players, friends, and dealers call and email me asking what the hell is going on. Perhaps my post jumped the gun a bit. I don’t know. I have the gift of accurately reading players’ hands blind and making the right decision. Blessings are curses sometimes. I took a break from cash after I flopped Queens full of 9s (I had Q-Q) and got called pre-flop and at every street by someone with K-9 off. Well, the dog hand caught the case 9 on the river for quads. So, I went to tournaments for a week. I…

  • Seat Open

    wynn
    28 Jan 2010 | 8:21 am
    I have played my last hand of poker. It is time to find a new source of income. One without extreme disappointment and longshot odds. What is driving this? In addition to me being generally tired of playing with bad players, drunks, and scumbags? I have taken some brutal bad beats lately. Especially yesterday. I lose to the worst players and they give the money away almost as fast as they win it. And they win by sheer dumb luck. Tournaments. Cash games. It is all the same. The only thing these players know is they have a better chance of winning on a 989-to-1 runner-runner longshot than they…

  • Mary Lou

    wynn
    27 Jan 2010 | 7:11 am
    Remember the Bob Seger song Mary Lou? It reminds me of how people play pocket Queens wrong. It goes something like this: I’m gonna tell you a story ’bout Mary Lou You know the kind of woman make a fool of you She make a young man itch She man an old man faint The way she took my money was a crying shame Mary Lou she took my watch and chain Mary Lou she took my diamond ring Mary Lou she took the keys to my Cadillac car Jumped in my kitty and drove off far I watched one player go broke with Queens last night. Twice. Another player raises to $12 in early position and gets seven…

  • Get Away

    wynn
    26 Jan 2010 | 7:07 am
    I tried an experiment yesterday to confirm what I already know. What the hell, I was bored. Brunson’s Super System says you cannot put a play on a weak player. You must showdown the best hand. This, I already know from playing with weak players. Sometimes, I need validation. I am in a hand with a guy that raises to $20 pre-flop. I call. A player behind makes it $40 to go. The original raiser and I both call. The flop is As-Ks-9h. The original raiser checks. I bet hoping to represent an Ace or a King. Both players call. The turn is a Queen. The Queen of spades. The original raiser gets…
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  • SDF-1 Vs Super Star Destroyer

    admin
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:34 pm
    Here we have a match in where I am taking the complete fanboy route and pick the SDF-1 from Robotech to win while I wait for L-W’s reply to show me at least 13 ways in which the SSD is superior. But take it easy on the old Admin, he’s celebrating his birthday!

  • JOpinionated

    admin
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:31 pm
    …And here we have another timely review of another recap blog, except this one is for a little show named LOST. I’ve been a reader of this site for the past few years and in my opinion, it’s simply the best spoiler free site I’ve stumbled across when it comes to all things regarding the [...]

  • Shadowness

    admin
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:09 pm

  • Hope Has A Warrior

    admin
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:15 am
    Big shock here, right? Yet another mention of that Legend of the Seeker show on FactPile. While I obviously watch all the shows as they air, I’ve always found it interesting to get other people’s perspective on the same thing I just watched, and perhaps even gain some new ideas I hadn’t thought of before. The [...]

  • Marcus Fenix Vs Solid Snake

    admin
    7 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm
    Suggested by cyborg pirate ninja jesus I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know a ton about Fenix. While I’ve played a ton of Metal Gear by comparison. So, I know I am not qualified to make an intelligent decision on who would win this fight. But, putting the fanboy hat on, it’s Snake [...]
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  • Still Think 'Social Media is a Fad'...Think Again

    Lindsay Ruggiero
    20 Jan 2010 | 12:52 pm
    We all know about Twitter, Facebook, and the plethora of other social networking sites, but are we fully aware of the impact these sites have in our daily lives and in every industry? Check out this video from the those that rely and depend on networking, the real estate industry.  If you think for a second that social media has no impact on your daily life or how you are influenced as a consumer, think again. "If Facebook were a country, it would be the world's 4th largest" under China, Indonesia, and the United States. "A 2009 US department of Education study…

  • Stetson University Holds Annual Computer Science Contest for HS Students to Attract the Best for Their Programs

    Lindsay Ruggiero
    2 Dec 2009 | 10:47 am
    The best of the best high school computer science students competed at Stetson University for scholarship money to the Florida-based University, as reported by local news source SWVolusia News.  The students must know how to use Java or C/C++ to solve the provided programming problems. The competition tests students’ problem-solving skills and their programming knowledge. The problem set covers topics such as solving miscellaneous math problems, sorting, searching, strings manipulation, grids, trees and graphs. The level of difficulty was established to ensure that at least one…

  • President Obama to Announce Big Push on Math and Science Education

    Andrea DeFronzo
    23 Nov 2009 | 5:25 am
    President Obama will announce a campaign today to enlist companies and nonprofit groups to spend money, time and volunteer effort to encourage students, especially in middle and high school, to pursue science, technology, engineering and math, The New York Times reported. To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmers and thousands of scientists. The campaign, called Educate to Innovate, will focus mainly on activities outside the classroom. For example, Discovery Communications has promised to…

  • Meet the Author and Have Your Book Signed by J&B Author Cecelia Allison

    Lindsay Ruggiero
    14 Oct 2009 | 6:13 am
    Cecelia Allison, author of SQL for Microsoft Access, Second Edition, will be at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in St. Petersburg, Florida Saturday, October 17th to sign copies of her book. Ms. Allison is an author and on-line professor. Her background as a software tester and technical support specialist has given her extensive hands-on experience using SQL. She wrote and facilitates an on-line SQL course titled “Introduction to SQL” that is offered through hundreds of educational facilities, and also teaches on-line technical courses for ITT Technical Institute and Park…

  • Motion Controls: Niche or Norm?

    Lindsay Ruggiero
    4 Oct 2009 | 8:24 pm
    Phil Spencer, VP of Microsoft Game Studios, predicts that motion sensor controls will one day be the only way to play.  Nintendo has helped make motion controlled games popular with the Wii console and now Microsoft plans to incorporate this style into many of their forthcoming games.  However, Microsoft is not completely laying the handheld controls to rest just yet.  "Much like with multiplayer, I think it will become the norm. If you are a racing game without multiplayer the game just didn't sell. We think that motion control, we think voice recognition, should become a…
 
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  • Tatsunoko vs. Capcom

    25 Jan 2010 | 9:14 am
    REVIEW: Anime superstars go toe-to-toe with gaming legends in this outrageous mash-up brawler!

  • Mass Effect 2: Primer

    24 Jan 2010 | 1:02 am
    A quick study guide to prepare you for the complexities of Mass Effect 2: characters, races, locations, and events.

  • The unseen side of Rapture

    22 Jan 2010 | 12:44 pm
    FEATURE: Discover how BioShock 2's story takes you to all of the places that Andrew Ryan wasn't even aware of.

  • Analysis: Is net neutrality good?

    22 Jan 2010 | 12:00 pm
    GamePro asks what net neutrality means for online games.

  • Mass Effect 2: Launch Trailer

    21 Jan 2010 | 10:29 am
    VIDEO: The face of the enemy is revealed as a familiar foe in Mass Effect 2.
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  • The Case for Jailbreaking [Editorial]

    Amos Ngai
    13 Jan 2010 | 9:00 am
    I’ll admit it, I’m a Jailbreaker. According to Apple, that’s considered treason illegal.  There’s benefits and disadvantages for jailbreaking but the reason I do it is simply for functionality.  Certainly there are those that use jailbreaking for running pirated apps and games but the reason that I still jailbreak, despite the increased functionality OS 3.0 brought to the iPhone; it’s still not enough. A little preface to this article is in order.  I started my smartphone usage on a BlackBerry, as most other people I’m sure.  There are certain things have been…

  • Amazon Kindle 2 Review [Gadgets]

    SuperLi
    4 Jan 2010 | 8:30 am
    I have to admit that when I first heard about Amazon’s latest wireless reading device, the Kindle 2, I was convinced that no one in their right mind would ever buy it; let alone pay $259.00 US for it!  But knowing how much I love to read, my husband said I should at least watch the video demonstration. Amazon claimed its electronic paper technology eliminated the eye strain that came from reading computer screens and other digital devices.  Happy customers raved that it was light, thin and sturdy and loved they could easily bring multiple books anywhere. I was still skeptical, but in my…

  • Avatar Review [Movies]

    Adam Goetz
    21 Dec 2009 | 8:30 am
    So everyone’s heard the “buzz” around this film for months now (even from us). People are talking about everything from the new 3D cameras, to the Na’vi alien language that was created, and the fact that it is the most expensive movie budget OF ALL TIME. And while I am always a skeptic when it comes to “internet buzz,” the difference with this one is that most of it isn’t manufactured. People are actually excited about this film. And after seeing this film in IMAX 3D this past Saturday, I can honestly say that the buzz is justified. So much of the talk has been about the 3D…

  • Mainstream Gamer PC Build [December 2009]

    Ben Wong
    18 Dec 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Harsher economic times means less disposable income for some but just because you can’t afford a monster of a system doesn’t mean you will be left in the dark.  In fact, gaming PCs have reached a point where hardware advancement is beyond that of what most software require when in comes to raw power.  For example, other than a few choice games such as Crysis, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series video cards have few troubles rendering today’s games at 1920×1200 pixels and below with high/maximum detail settings. For those looking to squeeze a bit more muscle out of their…

  • Technology Addiction [Editorial]

    Ben Wong
    17 Dec 2009 | 9:30 am
    To clear the air before I start, be aware that the following is based on my own experiences.  I didn’t scour literature for factual data or base this post on scientific studies.  With that said… Most people associate addiction to activities such as smoking or recreational drugs.  What you probably don’t hear too much about are people who are addicted to technology.  Like many tech geeks, I have a house full of TVs, computers, video game consoles and various electronic knickknacks.  Loving technology can get very expensive indeed. Now the question is, do I really need…
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  • Miyamoto reveals his influence for Super Mario Galaxy: A hamster

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:04 am
    Shigeru Miyamoto, pioneer game designer and Nintendo's General Manager of Entertainment Analysis and Development, has a way of turning ordinary inspirations into extraordinary games. Miyamoto based the first Legend of Zelda game on the caves he explored as a child. He based Pikmin on the flora and fauna of his own backyard. And when he put together Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii, he was thinking of...hamsters? Miyamoto dropped his latest creative revelation at the 13th Annual Japan Media Arts Festival held last Saturday. After being awarded a "Special Achievement Prize" by the…

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly taking print subscriptions again

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:38 am
    In an age where it seems like print magazines are dropping like shot birds, it's heartening to hear about the resurrection of an old favorite. Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine (also fondly known as EGM) ceased printing at the start of 2009 when UGO Entertainment bought Ziff Davis Media. But the magazine is warming up to start haunting newsstands again, with its original founder, Steve Harris, at the wheel. Harris, who bought back the rights to EGM in spring of 2009, recently updated EGM's webpage with subscription information. US subscribers can get 6 monthly issues of EGM for $14.99 USD,…

  • Electronic Arts reveals several new games, release dates

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:01 pm
    In a press release issued to report its third quarter results from the 2010 fiscal year, Electronic Arts revealed several upcoming games, as well as release targets for much of its upcoming projects. Gaming site Shacknews has a full breakdown of the various announcements and release dates, but here are some of the more pertinent revelations for our readers: - The second quarter of the 2011 fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to September 30, 2010, will see the release of APB (All Points Bulletin), a massively multiplayer online game, as well as the new Medal of Honor first-person shooter, a…

  • Plants vs. Zombies hits iPhone on February 15

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:15 pm
    PopCap's well-received PC and Mac strategy game Plants vs. Zombies will make its handheld debut next week, as the previously announced iPhone and iPod Touch iteration will be released to the App Store on Monday, February 15. Plants vs. Zombies offers a unique take on the tower defense strategy genre, letting you use a variety of offensive-minded plants to ward off waves of undead invaders. Like the best PopCap releases (like Peggle and Bookworm), Plants vs. Zombies is accessible and enjoyable by gamers of all ages and skill levels, and infuses a large dose of comedy within the experience.

  • Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing demo released on Xbox 360

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:58 pm
    A free playable demo for Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is now available for Xbox 360 via Xbox Live, with the download requiring about 1GB (gigabyte) of hard drive space. As is typically the case with new release demos, only Xbox Live Gold members are currently able to download the file, though it should open up to other Xbox Live users in the near future. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing inserts the famous hedgehog and his numerous Sega compatriots into the kart racing mold (popularized by the Mario Kart franchise) for a series of aggressive, fast-paced races set in environments from the…
 
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  • Metroid Director Yoshio Sakamoto Profiled on MDb

    Brinstar
    3 Feb 2010 | 11:44 pm
    Yoshio Sakamoto, Director of the the majority of Nintendo-developed Metroid games, will speak at the Game Developers Conference this year. Sakamoto also happens to be the Director of my favourite Metroid game, and the game that (if pressed) I might call my favourite game of all time: Super Metroid. The Metroid Database has an extensive feature article about Yoshio Sakamoto: Sakamoto has become a kind of enigmatic director at Nintendo to outsiders, being overshadowed by the work of Miyamoto and Miyamoto's apprentice, Eiji Aonuma (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess). In some cases, Sakamoto's…

  • Shadow Over Kingsmouth

    Brinstar
    27 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am
    Last week, the clever members of The Secret World community were busily deciphering cryptic clues posted on the @thedarkplaces Twitter account. One of the notable clues was this telling post on 21st January: From a king, in the king's version, about a king. The signs are converging. The future holds only darkness for them. And then the next day, this clue: Daniel 4:31. Listen. They will depend on you all. Which led players to the King James version of the Bible, book of Daniel, chapter 4, verse 31, which reads: While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven,…

  • Choice of the Dragon

    Brinstar
    23 Jan 2010 | 9:22 pm
    Choice of the Dragon is a web-based multiple-choice game. It's also available for Android, the platform on which I primarily played the game. The premise is fairly basic: [Y]ou play a powerful dragon that likes to kidnap princesses and sleep on a hoard of treasure. Dominate the local kingdom, loot and pillage, and inspire terror in the hearts of your enemies! The execution, however, is quite entertaining. It plays like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, where the reader must decide what the protagonist should do. Your choices affect the outcome, and they have a meaningful impact on the…
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  • Acer 23″ Monitor (Unboxing)

    admin
    25 Jan 2010 | 10:09 am
    One thing I’ve been wanting for quite a while now is another 23″ monitor to go along with my 23″ Hannspree monitor I received for my birthday a couple years back and I can now proudly announce that this wish has come true! BUY ACER 22″ MONITOR Follow Me on Twitter for All my Tweets! Join my Facebook [...]

  • Kontrol Freek Review

    admin
    18 Jan 2010 | 6:24 pm
    A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of getting in contact with a representative from Kontrol Freek and ended up being sent a set of Speek Freeks and FPS Freeks to review, so this is it! Make sure if you order you use the coupon code “extremedays” for a 10% discount on your FPS Freek [...]

  • Tix Clock Unboxing

    admin
    14 Jan 2010 | 1:18 pm
    After a long wait, I now finally own a LED Tix Clock, as made popular by Chris Pirillo! Just the fact that it’s a bunch of multicolored changing LED’s is enough to make me buy it, but not only does it flash pretty colors, it also tells time for you! BUY BLACK TIX CLOCK BUY SILVER TIX CLOCK Follow [...]

  • Block All Firefox Ads

    admin
    14 Jan 2010 | 11:26 am
    I know I’m not the only one who hates going to a website and having ads all over the place getting in the way of you trying to navigate around the website and ruining the overall experience. This has bothered me for years and eventually, most people develop tunnel vision and just ignore them, well [...]

  • Samsung 40inch Unboxing

    admin
    6 Jan 2010 | 7:39 pm
    I filmed this unboxing on Christmas Day 2009, my Dad surprised our family with the Samsung 40″ LCD TV for us all. So here’s the unboxing, this is not a review, it is only an unboxing, I will be putting up a full review later, so keep checking back for that! BUY SAMSUNG 40″ LCD TV Follow Me [...]
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  • SCEA Expands Original Content with PlayStation Reality Show

    Alex Elliott
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:15 am
    Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced that it is planning ... Related Posts Ever Wanted To Be An “Official” PlayStation Game Tester, Here’s Your Chance To Be On “The Tester” PlayStation Network Adds NBA Content To Go Along With Already Available NHL, MLB, UFC, and TNA Content Final Fantasy VIII Out On PlayStation Network For PlayStation 3 & PlayStation Portable

  • UFC Undisputed 2010, Everything You Wanted To Know So Far

    Lorenzo Winfrey
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:23 am
    Glad to see one of my favorite titles of last ... Related Posts UFC 2010 Undisputed Teaser Trailer Out Now UFC 2009 Undisputed Demo Hits The PlayStation Store!! UFC 2009 Undisputed Achieves The “Platinum Hits” Milestone

  • Just Cause 2 “Freedom and Chaos” Trailer

    Lorenzo Winfrey
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:45 am
    We are getting closer and closer to being able to ... Related Posts Just Cause 2 “An Island In Chaos” Trailer Released Just Cause 2 Multi-Path Trailer Puts You In Control New “Just Cause 2″ Trailer and Game Details

  • Final Fantasy VIII Out On PlayStation Network For PlayStation 3 & PlayStation Portable

    Alex Elliott
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:35 am
    Square Enix have released Final Fantasy VIII onto the PlayStation ... Related Posts Final Fantasy XIV Online To Include Cross-Platform Interactivity And More Final Fantasy XIII Limited Collector’s Edition Unveiled Final Fantasy XIII Fact Sheet and Screens

  • Iron Man II The Video Game “War Machine” Trailer

    Lorenzo Winfrey
    6 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am
    As you know Sega announced a continuation of their existing ... Related Posts Iron Man II The Video Game Trailer, Now I Can Get Behind This Disney Interactive Studios Announces TRON: Evolution, the Video Game Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince Video Game Launch Trailer
 
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  • David Allen is NOT Helping my Insomnia

    ssmirnov
    2 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    Note to self: when it’s 3:45 am and work anxiety wakes (and keeps) you up, do not think reading David Allen will lull you back to sleep. For those of you unfamiliar, David Allen is the Getting Things Done guru (or “GTD,” as we personal management geeks call it). I read David Allen the way non-cooks watch the Food Network: it’s a spectactor sport. Because you see, while I can get things done in my life, I don’t Get Things Done. Which means I don’t get my inbox to zero each week, I lurch through the work day with a brain so full of ”uncaptured”…

  • I Can’t Believe I’m in Dubai

    ssmirnov
    20 Jan 2010 | 1:25 am
    I’ve been trying to write this post since I got to Dubai two days ago but words keep failing me. I fancy myself a sophisticated traveler but nothing prepared me for this place. It’s not just the opulence (which is outrageous), it’s more the sheer FOREIGNESS of it. There are only a few places on this planet I never thought I’d see in my lifetime, and the Middle East is one of them. Moreso in a post-9/11 world. And yet — here I am. I awoke at one point during the 12 hour flight over here and saw on the on-screen flight tracker that we were flying right over…

  • Outgrowing Star Wars

    ssmirnov
    13 Jan 2010 | 9:01 pm
    This image is known in Star Wars movie poster geek circles (not that I’d know anything about that) as “US One Sheet Original Movie Poster Style C.” It’s awesome and old school and at the height of my 7-year old’s Star Wars frenzy, I found a decent reproduction and had it lovingly framed for his bedroom. Did I mention it’s awesome? Tonight getting ready for bed the 7-year old gives the poster a sidelong glance and says casually, “You know I’m not into Star Wars anymore, right?” And a little piece of my heart dies a quiet death, kind of…

  • New Presentation Design Inspiration

    ssmirnov
    12 Jan 2010 | 4:36 am
    I’m a sucker for a good presentation design book but truth be told, there aren’t a ton of them out there. My bibles are Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte and Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds – well-worn copies are never far from reach at my desk. I was thrilled to read on Nancy’s blog this morning that Garr has published a new book called Presentation Zen Design. Nancy and Garr are close collaborators; watching two people who could be considered competitors collaborate and share is pretty inspiring (a lot of this dynamic plays out on their respective blogs.)  I highly…

  • The Bra Color Meme: So What?

    ssmirnov
    8 Jan 2010 | 7:25 am
    So this was me at 5:32 PM last night on Facebook. If you’re a chick, I bet you had your own “what up with all the colors on Facebook statuses?” moment yesterday.  And, like me, you probably had your little moment of epiphany:  As I think many of us now know, someone somewhere invited women to share their bra color on Facebook yesterday without public explanation, all by way of spreading breast cancer awareness (Mashable speculates on the origins of the meme here.) I actually adore this idea – it does everything a viral campaign should. We saw, we questioned, we buzzed, we laughed,…
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  • The Official End Of openTRAY

    iBlizz
    25 Jan 2010 | 3:59 pm
    I am sad to say that the true potential of openTRAY will never be reached, as I am going to have to shut this site down (again). There simply was a lack of time, mostly on my part, and resources to keep the content going, causing the site to slowly die. I apologize to everyone that was involved with the project, it was fun while it lasted. Should circumstances change, I do have a interest in turning this around. Meanwhile, the site and all it’s property is up for sale. Please contact me by emailing email@sajanparikh.com.

  • Final Holiday Deal – Battlefield 1943 1942 Discounted to 560MSP

    Kyaizen
    31 Dec 2009 | 7:00 am
    For the last 14 days, Microsoft has been doing one Holiday Deal a day, some ranging from meh, to deals like this which are pretty good value. If you haven’t picked up this multiplayer-only arcade hit from July, now’s a great time, as it’s only 560MSP [$7]. You can purchase and cue the download here or go on your dashboard and select “Countdown to New Year” and go to the “New Year’s Countdown” tab and selecting "Battlefield 1943”. This offer is exclusive to Gold Members. For more gaming updates or to contact me, follow me on Twitter or email me – Kyaizen@openTRAY.com

  • Green Day Rock Band Reveal Trailer

    Kyaizen
    12 Dec 2009 | 8:14 pm
    With the success of The Beatles: Rock Band, MTV games probably decided it was a good time to whore out the series… Let’s hope I’m wrong. Personally, there are so many legendary bands out there, and they chose Green Day… Well, I’ll let you decide. Here’s the trailer for Green Day: Rock Band:   For more gaming updates or to contact me, follow me on Twitter.

  • Halo Reach Reveal Trailer

    Kyaizen
    12 Dec 2009 | 7:58 pm
    Easily the most anticipated part in this year’s VGAs; here’s the Reveal Trailer for Halo Reach. For more gaming updates or to contact me, follow me on Twitter.

  • Arkham Has Moved; Batman Arkham Asylum Sequel Announced

    Kyaizen
    12 Dec 2009 | 7:34 pm
    Revealed at the launch of the Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, they teased us with the following trailer:   There’s also a new website to go with the game, which you can check out here. For more gaming updates or to contact me, follow me on Twitter.
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  • Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack 2 on XBLM

    Jonathan Heier
    2 Feb 2010 | 2:45 pm
    Today, the final three Halo 3 multiplayer maps make their long awaited a la carte debut onto Xbox LIVE Marketplace. If you can’t wait to throw down on Heretic, Citadel, and Longshore, scroll down and hit the link at the bottom of this article. They’re available right now for 800MSP. Longshore Citadel Heretic Add to Download Queue Source: Bungie.net Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack 2 on XBLM is a post from: 360Junkies.com Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack 2 on XBLM is a post from: 360Junkies.com

  • Halo Legends Poster/DVD Contest

    Jonathan Heier
    1 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Hey everyone we here at 360Junkies would like to give you the opportunity to get one of these sweet Halo Legends posters provided by 343 Industries and a copy of the Halo Legends Anime on the format of your choice. Just leave a comment on this story with your first name, gamertag and tell us what Anime art style you prefer to watch. The contest will run from today February 1st till February 15th at 11:59pm PST. You can click on each picture to enlarge it for detail. Official Rules The official entry to be considered for the drawing must consist of the following information: First name,…

  • BLUR Trailer

    Seeson Mahathavorn
    29 Jan 2010 | 8:58 am
    Blur is the ultimate powered-up racing experience, dropping players into heart-pumping, electrified action with multiple cars trading paint as they charge towards the finish line. Drivers careen through real-world track locations packed with fast curves, sneaky alternate routes and hair-raising jumps in over 50 licensed cars as they collect intense Power-ups, including the ability to blast other cars out of the way with huge bursts of energy, boost their speed, and more. The game’s gameplay unfolds through Bizarre Creations’ unique and innovative community-based interface, enabling…

  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo Screens

    Seeson Mahathavorn
    28 Jan 2010 | 12:55 pm
    EA/Dice have released the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Multiplayer Demo on Xbox LIVE! Feel free to add it to your download queue right now as you wait in anticipation at work. You might see this message a lot: Here’s some screenies that I just took. I was playing without sound (went 3-6, yikes!) I do love being able to choose which spawn point you’d want to re-enter the game at. There’s also a “Your Killer” cam to show who shot you. If you want more info, hit up www.ea.com! Enjoy the pics! (Sorry for the whack placement of thumbnails) Battlefield: Bad Company 2…

  • Red Dead Redemption Gameplay Series Video 2-Weapons & Death

    Seeson Mahathavorn
    28 Jan 2010 | 10:06 am
    Today we are pleased to present part two of the special Red Dead Redemption Gameplay Video Series: “Weapons & Death.” Take an up close and grisly look at the West’s weapons of destruction and the havoc they wreak. As the American frontier melted away, weapons technology advanced and ushered in a new era of devastation. Witness the evolution of the single-shot pistol and musket into swifter, deadlier weapons and see the first machine gun makes its awesome debut to change the west forever. Players have a massive array of weapons at their disposal to take care of any situation from…
 
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  • Interview: Test Lead Paul Loynd from Xbox LIVE Arcade Group (ex-employee of VMC Game Labs Montreal)

    Chris Comeau
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:37 am
    Here’s an interview for you game testers out there, with an ex-employee of VMC Game Labs Montreal. From C.Dump Magazine: Here at C Dump Magazine we have had the opportunity over the course of a few years to work with many people in QA. This includes people who were clients and co-workers at both 3rd party testing companies and development companies. For our first interview on C Dump we had a chat with former co-worker and close friend Paul Loynd who now works at Microsoft with the Xbox LIVE Arcade Group. Jack Rage: Can you describe your role in QA at the Xbox LIVE Arcade Group? Paul Loynd:…

  • Ubisoft annonce Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

    Chris Comeau
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:49 am
    Une version Bêta multijoueur exclusive disponible dès cet été Montréal, QUEBEC – Le 09 février 2010 – Ubisoft annonce le développement de Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ par les studios d’Ubisoft Paris. Ce nouveau jeu sortira fin d’année 2010. Créé par l’équipe talentueuse à l’origine du succès de Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter et de Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, Tom Clancy™’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ se distingue par une technologie de pointe, des prototypes d’armes sophistiqués et des modes solo et…

  • IGDA Montreal: February 24th: Jonathan Knight discussing adaption of Dante’s Inferno

    Chris Comeau
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:26 am
    See you at this month’s IGDA Montreal meeting! Here are the details: From IGDA Montreal: "Burn Babe, Burn: Adapting Dante’s Inferno" Is Dante Alighieri laughing, or rolling, in his grave?  Can the world’s most exciting and dynamic entertainment medium tackle the challenge of making games out of dusty old literature?  Take a visual and literary tour through the creative process and challenges of EA’s controversial adaptation of part one of The Divine Comedy. When: Wednesday, February 24th @ 7:00pm What: IGDA-Montreal Presentation Night Where: The SAT, 1195…

  • EON Reality and Evolver Announce Alliance Providing New 3D Avatar Technology for Business and Education

    Chris Comeau
    5 Feb 2010 | 7:16 am
    From AJAX & RIA Journal: EON Reality, the world’s leading interactive 3D software provider, and Darwin Dimensions [from Montreal] — creators of Evolver, the world’s first 3D Avatar Portal, today announced a partnership on two important projects which serve customers through provision of rich and compelling 3D immersive experiences. The projects deliver breakthroughs in several aspects of 3D collaborative applications and will enhance users’ abilities to communicate more effectively online, and help to revolutionize the way organizations leverage their digital…

  • Gamerizon’s Chop Chop Runner, Single Button Game for Gamma 4 contest

    Chris Comeau
    5 Feb 2010 | 7:08 am
    From Gamerizon: Chop Chop Runner is a single-button game we submitted to the Gamma 4 contest It’s an “action beat’em up platformer” made mostly with reused art assets from Chop Chop Ninja We plan to release it as a more fleshed out game in the future.  In the meantime, here are some screenshots to whet your appetite.    
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  • Interview with May El-Husseiny, Sony Gulf Marketing Manager

    TheEd
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:20 am
    May El Husseiny is the Marketing Manager at PlayStation division, Sony Gulf FZE (pictured right). The PS division responsible for the distribution, marketing and sales of PS3, PS2, PSP, and PSN software and hardware across the GCC, Levant and North African markets. May joined Sony Gulf late 2007, and since then has been hard at work to make the PlayStation logo be recognized in every household! Q. Must have been a busy week for you with FIWC event just finished. What’s your overall impression about the tournament? Yes, it was most certainly a busy week for us, but thoroughly enjoyable.

  • Taipei Game Show 2010 concludes انتهاء معرض تايوان 2010 للألعاب

    TheEd
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:07 am
    The 2010 Taipei Game Show (TGS, not to mix with Tokyo Game Show) is concluding today, at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taiwan, after around 62 game developers and distributors showed countless new games at 450 booths. Now in its 18th year, TGS offers five days of fun and entertainment to gamers of all kinds, from online games to PC and console games. TGS 2009 attracted over 300,000 visitors, making it one of Asia’s leading trade fairs for games. TGS receives more global attention as well because of its its close ties to the booming Chinese market. One of TGS’s big events is the…

  • [Giveaway] 25 C&C 4 Beta Keyes رموز تشغيل النسخة الاختبارية من لعبة كوماند اند كونكر

    TheEd
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:02 pm
    After 15 years of entertaining RTS gamers, the legendary Command & Conquer Tiberium Saga is coming to an end, and to celebrate this rather saddening release, EA gave us 25 codes for our readers to enjoy the Multiplayer Beta of C&C4. All you need to do is leave a comment on this post telling us which is your favourite C&C game in the series, and we will send you the code on your email. ACCESS TO BETA EXPIRES on March 15, 2010. Enjoy! After you get the code, please follow those step: 1. Go to commandandconquer.com 2. Click on ‘Preorder’ 3. Click on ‘Redeem Code’ 4. Connect…

  • UAE’s Karaoke Singing Stars announced إعلان الفائزين في مسابقة نجوم الغناء بالإمارات

    TheEd
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:04 am
    In a collaboration between Sony PlayStation Gulf and Dubai Festival City, PlayStation SingStar Karaoke Nights took place every Saturday over the months of December and January. The participants came together to show off their talents and enjoy pop songs from all generations. Abba, Queen, Britney Spears and Pink were no doubt among the favourites and kept everyone’s feet tapping rhythmically. The Panel of judges The competitions brought forward the best of UAE’s hidden singing talents, who were judged by the official SingStar score rating and a judging panel comprising of representatives…

  • [Kuwait] X-cite MW2 Challenge concluded نهائيات بطولة اكس- سايت في لعبة مودرن وارفير

    TheEd
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:52 am
    The second round of the X-cite 2v2 Modern Warfare 2 Challenge took place last week in X-cite Marina Mall, in the city of Kuwait (in the country of Kuwait). Over the course of two days, more than 60 teams battled it out in Modern Warfare 2 to climb the ranking, aiming to be crowned the champions of Kuwait. Eight winning clans were qualified for the Grand Final, slated to take place in the X-cite Al-Rai Showroom, on the very next day, Feb 6, 2010. The finals in Al-Rai saw real tough, neck & neck competition, in a League Point system, ending with 3 teams on a tie and so the league was…
 
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  • List of Best FREE Online Games and Downloadable Games updated Sun Jan 31 2010 10:24 pm CST

    31 Jan 2010 | 8:24 pm
    I am an online games addict enjoy playing any kind of games especially online MMO multiplayer games that players can interact with each others. Here I recommend my all-time favorites that nobody should ever miss these great games and all these sites listed here are the best Games Network with the highest qualities games and completely FREE to play either in online browser games and free to download (though there are charged advanced option there you always can purchase for bonus and game extensions) All sites recommended here are tested with completely legal and virus-free & spyware-free:
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  • Evoly

    We Should Play
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Match-making and creature-creating fun awaits you in Evoly, a delightful Match 3 game! Make fast matches in the puzzle rounds to clear the board and watch your income grow. Then use the money you've earned to purchase a range of plants and creatures and bring a barren world back to life. As you progress, you can upgrade your creatures to produce hundreds of unique species and populate different worlds with a variety of eye-popping delights.

  • Penny Dreadfuls Sweeney Todd

    We Should Play
    3 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Travel back to the 19th century and encounter a literary legend! Sweeney Todd has come back to England seeking revenge. After being falsely accused and convicted of a crime, Todd was sent to Australia for life. Now he’s back and ready to get payback. Use your Hidden Object skills to track down and stop the notorious killer and bring his operation to an end! Find crucial clues and solve puzzles to piece together the mystery in Penny Dreadfuls Sweeney Todd.

  • Shaman Odyssey: Tropic Adventure

    We Should Play
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Although a tropical Laguna seems like a great place to live, not everything is so simple! The people of your tribe have been split apart for many years now. Pirates are patrolling the waters, starving sharks are swimming around, and storms are threatening peaceful villagers and their families. It's up to you to give your best and help your people to reunite and build a new safe place to live in Shaman Odyssey: Tropic Adventure, an exciting Time Management game.

  • Lost Secrets: Ancient Mysteries

    We Should Play
    1 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Play the role of a famed archeologist, named John Carter, who discovers a solution to the mystery of King Tut’s short reign! Working against you will be an ancient brotherhood who is dedicated to preserving and protecting the memory of the Pharaoh in this Hidden Object game. On multiple occasions you will be confronted with problems and puzzles that the brotherhood has in place to stop you from uncovering the truth in Lost Secrets – Ancient Mysteries!

  • The Clumsys 2: Butterfly Effect

    We Should Play
    31 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am
    Grandpa Clumsy is up to his old time travelling shenanigans again and has upset history by inadvertently bringing a butterfly back with him from prehistoric times. Who knew a single butterfly not flapping its wings would cause a chain reaction through time changing our modern day into the Stone Age! Helen needs to take matters into her own hands and rediscover all of civilizations greatest discoveries that never happened in The Clumsys 2: Butterfly Effect, a fun Hidden Object game.
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  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Officially Announced

    Tom Copeland
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:45 am
    It’s been a couple of years since we last spent some time with the Ghost Recon series, but, if like many of the staff here, you were wondering when the squad based shooter would return – wonder no more. Today Ubisoft officially announced that the next title in the series will be Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The title is being developed by Ubisoft Paris and is scheduled to hit shelves in time for the holidays. It promises to deliver a fresh gameplay experience that features cutting edge technology and prototype weaponry. Laser beam anyone?   There has…

  • Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Demo Impressions

    Jeff Schille
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:03 pm
    I’ll admit it.  I love kart racers.  I know they’re not the newest, flashiest games on the block.  I know they haven’t done a lot to evolve with the times.  But I started all the way back with Super Mario Kart on the SNES, and just never really got tired of them. So imagine my joy when I fired up the XBOX 360 today and discovered that the demo for Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing had gone live.  This game is only a few weeks away, and I’ve been starting to eye it from a distance.  It doesn’t hurt that the developer, Sumo Digital, is responsible for the…

  • Discussion: What Characters Did You Use in Mass Effect 2?

    Rob Keyes
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:14 pm
    Tomorrow marks the two-week anniversary of Mass Effect 2 and you may be thinking, “who the hell cares?’ Well, I only bring this up because by now, assuming you’re a gamer and a fan of Mass Effect or BioWare’s high quality RPGs, you must have at least given this game a shot. Several of us here at Game Rant have already beaten the game, some more than once, so we want to start a discussion about the characters of Mass Effect 2. In a spoiler-filled manner, tell us what characters you liked to use, which characters you didn’t and perhaps, who didn’t make it…

  • New Mass Effect 2 DLC coming tomorrow

    Will Delaney
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:04 pm
    On launch day of Mass Effect 2, several downloadable items were made available free of charge. Although many had issues getting them to download and work because of the requirement of going through the BioWare site first, they were pretty cool and added some fun to the game. On that note, new Mass Effect 2 DLC will be arriving tomorrow, specifically, a new set armor and a shotgun will be available through the games’ Cerberus network, and will be free of charge. Cerberus Assault Armor Description: Cerberus assault armor is designed for shock troops, who are expected to turn the tide of…

  • EA Report: Crysis 2 on Consoles, Dead Space 2, New Dragon Age & More.

    Will Delaney
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:40 pm
    In a financial report released today by EA, details emerged about release windows for several upcoming games, as well as some interesting facts and finds.  EA reported that 19 of their games in 2009 had a Metacritic average of over 80, which is very respectable.  Another impressive note was that FIFA 10 sold over 9.7 million units worldwide over all platforms. So, let’s break down the interesting games of their newly released fiscal 2011 schedule by quarter, shall we? (Q1 will be skipped since there are no surprised here, Skate 3 and Need for Speed World being the two games of note).
 
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