Archive for April, 2008

EA Adds Free Conquest Mode to Bad Company

Tweet After backpedalling on the plan to charge for weapons, EA is making the deal even sweeter following another internet backlash complaining about the lack of Conquest mode in Battlefield: Bad Company.

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Study Suggests Casual Games Are Therapeutic

Tweet Can playing Bejeweled every day keep the doctor away? A recent study by the East Carolina University’s Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies suggests that casual games can relieve stress and improve one’s mood.

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Crytek Shifting To Console Focus

Tweet After the disappointing sales of PC-exclusive FPS Crysis, Crytek president Cevat Yerli has said that his company will no longer make titles exclusive to the PC platform. The main reason? Piracy.

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The Future is Now – Vuzix Virtual Reality Headgear Reviewed

Tweet If you don’t get this picture, please leave now. If you are anything like me, you spend a great deal of time visiting virtual worlds, i.e. playing videogames. If only there were some way to more fully immerse yourself in that world and have real life just disappear. Enter… the Vuzix! (please pretend you [...]

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Fatal Inertia Finally Making Its Way Home

Tweet MTV Multiplayer blog has been handed the exclusive announcement of Fatal Inertia EX. It’ll be made available during late May on PSN, for the low, low price of $29.99 and will support DualShock 3 rumble and Sixaxis tilt control. It will not be seeing a retail release.

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Confirmed: GTA IV PS3 Is Not 630p…It’s 640p

Tweet It’s fun to compare consoles, especially when the comparison involves one of the biggest games of this generation. Grand Theft Auto IV has been littered with websites giving their opinions on which version looks best. Surprisingly, most had no inkling of each version’s native resolution. Eurogamer are the first to speculate that GTA IV [...]

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Grand Theft Auto IV is 8th Wonder of the World

Tweet As millions of gamers worldwide have already discovered, Grand Theft Auto IV is an alright game. That being said, hit the jump to read my thoughts on the subject.

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Rinse, Wash, Wii-peat – March NPDs

Tweet With the dust cloud of Holiday shopping well in our rear-view mirror and the strains of a recession squeezing our checkbooks, you would think the games industry would slow down a bit. You, my friend, would be wrong. Looking at the results of the March NPDs, it seems we’re actually back to where we [...]

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We Have Our Priorities Mixed Up

Tweet Quick! To the Gamestop! Tonight is the night. After so long, at the stroke of midnight, neurotic, pixel-crime loving consumers will be heard around the world as they stand outside one of the 260 GAME stores and one of the zillion GameStops that will be hosting a midnight launch for Grand Theft Auto IV.

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Ghostbusters Preview

Tweet After two decades, the upcoming Ghostbusters game is like one of those nostalgic blasts from the past that lies dormant in your subconscious, like a river of pink slime or a hell-hound in your fridge, just waiting to burst out and go “boo” at the slightest provocation. For me, that awakening took place when [...]

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Prototype Preview

Tweet I can imagine being a little disconcerted, waking up with creepy super powers that you’re not quite sure how you got. I suppose I can also imagine being a little pissed, which is how the main character Alex Mercer feels about the whole thing. Since our last look at Prototype during this year’s Game [...]

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Eight Days in Full Production, The Getaway in Pre-Production

Tweet Despite a worrying silence from Sony on a selection of E3 2005-06 games, you’ll be pleased to know that Eight Days and The Getaway are both alive and well.

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Spore Demo Coming in June

Tweet Those who can’t wait to get their hands on Spore need only wait until June 17th, when a demo version of the game’s creature creator will be made available on the game’s website. Hit the jump for details on what you can expect.

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Wii Fit Vaulting Off Shelves

Tweet Nintendo’s Wii Fit was released this week, and the craze surrounding it is already becoming comparable to the actual Nintendo Wii launch.

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Confirmed: No New Portal in 2008

Tweet When Eurogamer.net spoke with Valve’s Marketing Director, Doug Lombardi, he explained there would be no new Portal in 2008, but the next edition of the series would be something special.

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