Archive for June, 2009

Will Left 4 Dead Be Left 4 Dead? Valve Says No

Tweet Valve, being the classy gentlemen (and ladies) that they all are, have responded to the concerns of the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott group that popped up following the game’s announcement.

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Create Healthy Game Concept and Win $5000

Tweet Have you ever thought to yourself “If I had the chance to create a video game it would seriously kick ass”, well here is your chance to put your potential prize winnings where your mouth is. I just got a letter a few moments ago from Humana, the Official Health Benefits Provider of the [...]

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EA Sports Announces Dwight Howard as NBA LIVE 2010 Cover Athlete

Tweet Make less than ten baskets (6 of 16 from the field)  in your team’s first two NBA Final games, and you too can grace the cover of EA Sports NBA LIVE … assuming you look really cool with a Photoshop blur effect. Congrats Dwight Howard, aka “Superman”, now stop playing like the court is [...]

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CoD: World at War Map Pack 2 Coming Tomorrow

Tweet The Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 is officially coming out tomorrow, Thursday June 11. Hitting both the 360 and PS3, the second map pack will run you 800 MS points on the 360 and $9.99 on the PlayStation Store. Map Pack 2 will include three new maps: Banzai, Corrosion, and [...]

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A Career in Overlording

Tweet With all the massive titles announced at E3, it seems like Overlord II is getting unfairly overlooked. The first game made for quite a rousing good time, if I do say so myself. Overlord II hits PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on June 23rd, two weeks from today.

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Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott Reaches 18,500

Tweet On June 1st, a group was formed on Steam with the purpose of boycotting the upcoming sequel Left 4 Dead 2. That group has reached 18,500 members.

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Microsoft No Longer Sending Pre-Paid Shipping Boxes For Broken Consoles

Tweet The red ring of death is something that Xboxers the world over dread. However, Microsoft has done what they can to ease the pain of the repair process, which includes shipping you a pre-paid box to send your broken console in. As of May 26th, however, you need to get your own damn box.

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NintendoWares: Minis March Again!

Tweet Nintendo is back on their game this week with four new downloadable game releases for the DSiWare, WiiWare and Virtual Console. The most notable game has to be Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! for the DSiWare, which was announced last week at E3. Check out the video above which features some footage [...]

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Never Use Microsoft Points Again

Tweet That title may have been a little dramatic, but I sure as hell plan to never use MS points again. In a Live update later this year, Microsoft will add the ability to purchase items directly with a credit card, rather than using the points system, which oftemtimes forces you to buy a larger [...]

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New Game Releases: 6/7 – 6/13

Tweet Wow, by the looks of things this is gonna be one hot summer! Summer game releases use to be rare, but this year is totally different with Prototype, Tiger Woods 10, Indiana Jones, Virtua Tennis, and don’t forget Starfy, all coming out this week alone. And it’s not even officially summer yet for a [...]

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Play as Kratos in SoulCalibur

Tweet The new SoulCalibur game for the Sony PlayStation Portable, SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny, will feature the God of War protagonist, Kratos, as a playable character.

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Cops Draw Guns on Cosplayer

Tweet You know you did a good job on your Cosplay costume when gun-toting police officers show up in force. A little too good of a job.

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Metal Gear Solid coming to PSN

Tweet Joystiq reports that the classic PS1 title Metal Gear Solid is coming to the PlayStation Network as a downloadable title. The game will be coming to the North American PSN on June 18 for just $9.99, but there’s no word on the European release just yet. Since Metal Gear Solid is pretty much the [...]

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E309: First Trailer for The Beatles: Rock Band

Tweet Straight out of E3 today is yet another video for The Beatles: Rock Band, but this time with gameplay. The trailer for the game gives us a good look at some of the visual changes added to The Beatles: Rock Band, namely the psychedelic background visuals, addition of 3-part harmonies, and slight changes to [...]

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E309: The Opening Cinematic for The Beatles: Rock Band Is The Greatest 2:35 of Game-Related Cinema Ever

Tweet There’s really no other way to describe this cinematic, other than to say it’s absolutely fantastic. It’s beautiful. From the style, to the animation, to the music, to the surreal ending, it’s absolutely gorgeous, and it hurts my brain to even think of how much work went into making this on Harmonix’s part. I [...]

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