Archive for November, 2009

DS Preview: Crime Scene

Tweet Crime scene is a detective adventure game for the hardboiled only. It earns its rare M rating on the DS with grisly, realistic depictions of crime scenes and cases involving murder-suicides and burnt bodies.

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Breaking: British MP Sensible About Video Games

Tweet The BBC reports that MP Tom Watson has begun a Facebook group in response to politicians’ comments about the civilian scene in Modern Warfare 2. Kieth Vaz, one of the UK’s most vocal anti video-game politicians, is quoted as being “shocked” by the scene in Modern Warfare 2, in a brilliant case of missing [...]

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Preview: Left 4 Dead 2

Tweet After my hands-on with the game at the MCM Expo a few weeks ago and a lot of time spent in the pre-release demo, I feel I’ve got enough experience to let you, our dear readers, know how I feel about the game. You may remember last year I did a similar thing with [...]

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Several GameStops Selling Modern Warfare 2 Early, Activision Does Not Approve

Tweet It has leaked on the web that several GameStop locations in the North East (Brooklyn NY, Philadelphia PA, Bowling Green Ohio) have been selling Modern Warfare 2 before its November 10th release date — as in today.

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German Modern Warfare 2 Will Be Censored

Tweet Video game censorship in Germany is as common as… well, Common, so it’s no surprise that the controversial airport scene from Modern Warfare 2 will be altered for the German audience. While I have no doubt that Germans can handle it (at least as well as the rest of the world can) the German [...]

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RedLynx Pirated Their Own Game To Ramp Interest

Tweet If you haven’t played Trials HD yet, you should really check it out. It’s a fun, compelling puzzle game with a time trial twist, but it doesn’t feel like work. Though it’s been doing rather well, the game’s developer, RedLynx, didn’t think it would sell as well, so they decided to pirate the game [...]

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Cartman Rock Band Poker Face Remix

Tweet You may remember the South Park clip we posted a few days ago featuring Cartman and the boys performing Lady GaGa’s “Poker Face” with the Rock Band game. Well, thanks to the hard work of die hard South Park fan and YouTube user phr00ta, we can now enjoy a hilarious five minute remix of [...]

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Rock Band 3 To Help Us Play Real Guitars?

Tweet While I’m sure many of you will just take this news to mean that Rock Band 3 exists in some form, there’s a lot more news here than you’d think. While I assumed Rock Band 3 would just be an expansion of the previous games with a couple of new features, Dhani Harrison tells [...]

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Square-Enix Anagram Solved, Final Fantasy XIII Announcement Coming November 13th

Tweet Square-Enix posted a message/anagram on their North America website earlier today: A puzzle for FINAL FANTASY XIII fans! Solve this anagram to find out what lies ahead: A Henchmen Inventor Tent Unto. Check back Monday for the answer! Well, there’s no need to wait until Monday, as hintonmj and Squirrel Emperor, two finalfantasy-xiii.net forum [...]

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Nintendo Non Commital on Zelda 2010 Release

Tweet According to Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett, Nintendo’s North American President and COO, Reggie Fils-Aime, wouldn’t commit to a 2010 release of a new Zelda title during his recent Q&A session with GameTrailers TV host Geoff Keighley, stating: “We haven’t committed to Zelda in 2010″ I must admit, I watched the same video earlier today, however [...]

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Blizzard Launches World of Warcraft Pet Store

Tweet Tired of your unimpressive World of Warcraft pet collection? Would you rather die than be caught in Iron Forge with a run of the mill cat following your every move? Well if you answered yes, Blizzard has just the thing … the World of Warcraft Pet Store! “Today we’re pleased to introduce the Pet [...]

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Avatar: Ignite The War Video Game Trailer

Tweet I haven’t been following Avatar closely, outside of seeing a few movie trailers that didn’t make a lasting impression on me, but today I came across the trailer for the game below (which just so happens to be the most recent one). My first impression of what I saw (considering I didn’t remember much [...]

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Bayonetta Early Demo Access Codes Free to Sega Pass Members (First Come, First Serve)

Tweet Sega is offering early access to the Bayonetta demo to registered Sega Pass Members. Signing up for the Sega Pass is free and takes about 10 seconds (I did it while posting this). They have a limit of 40,000 codes and they will be given away on a first come first serve basis. If [...]

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Reggie: New Super Mario Bros. Will “Absolutely” Outsell Modern Warfare 2

Tweet The holiday season is closing in and that means the corporate figure heads we know and love are loosening their jaws to allow for some serious product pitching. Direct from the hefty predictions department come two haymakers. The first hails from the lips of Activision CEO, Bobby Kotick, and the second comes from Nintendo’s [...]

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Ripten Radio: Video Game Winners and Losers of the Week, 11/1-11/7

Tweet Every week, I research all the best new video game releases to find the one game you need to play and the one you need to stay away from: my Video Game Winners and Losers of the Week. Who will win this week? Dragon Age: Origins? Band Hero? Five Minutes to Kill Yourself?

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