Archive for November, 2009

Weekend Agenda: What Will You Be Playing?

Tweet I’m about to head out the door to grab some dinner and maybe catch a movie, but before I go, I’d like to know what you all plan on playing this weekend? I’ll be digging into Uncharted 2 and finally cracking open Batman: Arkham Asylum. You can find me on PSN and XBL under [...]

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Japanese FFXIII To Include FFXIV Beta Codes, Will North American Version Do The Same?

Tweet Our friend Sal over at Scrawl got his hands on some early scans of Shonen Jump (shown above). In addition to showcasing the Chocobo new look and giving us a glimpse at yet another summon, the magazine reveals that Japanese versions of Final Fantasy XIII will come with a beta code for Final Fantasy [...]

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Unlimited Trial: Play Warhammer Online For Free Until The Dwarfs Come Home

Tweet EA announced today that free trial access to their MMO Warhammer Online will be available to gamers on an unlimited basis. Jeff Hickman, the game’s executive producer, states: “With the introduction of the endless free trial and streaming client, we are making it easier than ever for a new player to join the WAR,” [...]

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Valve’s Chet Faliszek Says 360 Community “Head and Shoulders Above” PS3

Tweet Valve continues to show their love for the “it only does everything” PlayStation 3 console. The latest show of support comes from a CVG interview with Valve’s writer extraordinaire, Chet Faliszek. “In hooking up with your friends and the community aspects, I think the Xbox 360 is head and shoulders above the PS3 …  [...]

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Been Caught Stealing: Facebook Helps Put Modern Warfare 2 Cyber-Thieves Behind Bars

Tweet Activision’s highly anticipated Modern Warfare 2 can already be found on a multitude of internet torrent sites (so I’ve been told), but the quick work of Dallas based IPCybercrime (hired by Activision) helped move one cyber-thief out of his spacious gadget filled hacker pad into something a little more “cozy”.

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Nintendo “Forcefully” Denies Wii HD Rumors

Tweet Nintendo’s President and Chief Operationg Officer in North America (better known as Reggie), firmly denied rumors of a Wii HD, telling GameTrailers TV: “I don’t know how forcefully we can say there is no Wii HD.” Well Reggie, you could pull the Wii HD out and beat people over the head with it while [...]

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Digital Denial: Direct2Drive Refuses to Distribute Modern Warfare 2 PC Edition

Tweet Infinity Ward’s decision to utilize Steamworks exclusively (it will handle updates, saves, achievements, etc) for the PC version of their Modern Warfare 2 title has IGN’s Direct2Drive download service refusing to sell it. Valve’s Steamworks platform is a direct competitor to IGN’s Direct2Drive service, and considering the fact that you won’t be able to [...]

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BioWare Bunch: New Mass Effect 2 Screens

Tweet The team at BioWare released a few new Mass Effect 2 screens for us to chew on over the weekend. How nice of them.

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Cliff Bleszinski Calls Borderlands New Diablo

Tweet In a recent Twitter status update, Gears of War mastermind, Cliff Bleszinski, expressed his admiration for the new first person shooter based RPG “Borderlands”. “Borderlands, I adore you. You’re Diablo for a generation raised on first person shooters. I want a Claptrap statue.” Interesting analogy. I guess that means Twitter is the same as [...]

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Americans Love Their Videogames

Tweet The 2009 Today’s Gamers Internation Survey tells us something that a lot of us could of guessed: most Americans love playing videogames more than anything else.

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Nintendo Game Boy Inducted into Toy Hall of Fame

Tweet The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York inducted the Nintendo Game Boy, created by the late Gunpei Yokoi, into the ranks of play time immortal. The “Toy Hall of Fame” is a distinguished and elite honor which includes other childhood favorites such as The Ball and Big Wheel (both inducted this [...]

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Final Fantasy XIII March 2010 US Release Seems Possible According to Square-Enix

Tweet The wrap up of a recent Square-Enix Financial meeting featured CEO Yoici Wadam assuring smooth development of the Western release, adding that there was a possibility the game could release globally before the end of the fiscal year. The Japanese fiscal year runs from April 1st to March 31st, so if development continues as [...]

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Left 4 Dead 2 Pre-Orders Four Times The Original, Remember That Silly Sequel Boycott?

Tweet Short and sweet, the boycott laden announcement of Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 has made it’s way through the shit storm of hate to amass a pre-order amount four times greater than that of the original. Setting aside the hurtful past, Valve’s Chet Faliszek comments on the pre-order numbers telling CVG “I think people [...]

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Several Halo: Reach Weapon Screens Leaked on MLG Forum, Return of Master Chief?

Tweet Oh the irony in life. A message board which states that it is powered by the Xbox 360 and Bungie serves as a home to several images featuring what the poster, “Tom Morello”, claims to be leaked Halo: Reach in-game weapon screens.

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Best Buy Announces Nationwide Modern Warfare 2 Midnight Release (Full List of Locations)

Tweet If you want your copy of Modern Warfare 2 as soon as possible, and live near one of these participating Best Buy locations in the United States, you can station your ass outside one of them on November 9th as the clock approaches midnight. Full press release below.

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