Archive for January, 2010

New Game Releases: 1/31 – 2/6

Tweet The first week of February isn’t much to brag about with only a few titles coming out and no new 360 titles in sight. Star Trek Online has to be the biggest new release this week along with Global Agenda on Steam and Level-5′s long awaited PS3 action-RPG, White Knight Chronicles, which debuted over [...]

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Mass Effect 2 Cranks Out Two Million Sales Worldwide

Tweet The combination of EA Games and BioWare has Mass Effect 2 reaching two million sales worldwide since its release this past Tuesday. EA wasted no time declaring the sequel the first “blockbuster of 2010″ in a press release that hit our box not long ago. BioWare co-founder, Ray Muzyka, stated the following: “Mass Effect [...]

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Capcom Announces Mega Man Zero Collection for DS

Tweet Capcom today announced its plans to release the Mega Man Zero Collection for the Nintendo DS. Previously a Japanese-only bundle, the collection will contain all four games in the Mega Man X spinoff series Mega Man Zero, which stars Zero instead of Mega Man. Originally released for the Game Boy Advance between 2002 and [...]

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Dutch OPM Interview Promises Final Fantasy XIII DLC Soonish?

Tweet According to the internet, those who crack open the pages of the Dutch flavored Official PlayStation Magazine will be treated to a multi-page preview of Final Fantasy XIII complete with a Yoshinori Kitase interview. It is rumored that Kitase, the game’s producer, talks a bit about the release date differential and DLC content, stating [...]

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Ripten Review: A Tale of Divinity II: Ego Draconis (Not to Be Confused With Id Draconis)

Tweet He heard the noise come closer, the rhythmic pounding of excited footfalls. Feet thudding briskly against the floor with enthusiasm that only children could ever wish to harness. “Grandpa! Grandpa” they yelled. “Aye, aye. Calm down children. Your grandpa is too old and slow now to be going anywhere, you can be patient.” He [...]

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The Story Behind Link’s Second Quest, aka Your Childhood Was a Mistake

Tweet Life is just one long chain of events that came incredibly close to not happening. From evolution to electricity, many of the most historically important events of our lives were just as close to not happening as they were to happening. More importantly than stuff like human beings evolving from the primordial ooze or [...]

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Pressure Sensitive Touchscreens Coming to a DS Near You?

Tweet I couldn’t think of an “Under Pressure” pun, so just hum the song in your head while you read this and we can pretend I did. UK researchers Peratech have apparently won the race to create a cheap and effective pressure sensitive touch screen using an electrically conductive material called a quantum tunneling composite. [...]

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Marvelous Entertainment Executives Taking Huge Pay Cuts, Bizarro Superman Unavailable for Comment

Tweet We as Americans certainly aren’t used to seeing the words “executives” and “huge pay cuts” in the same sentence without the phrase “gun put to their head” somewhere in the article too. Marvelous Entertainment, which sounds especially familiar if you found yourself addicted to the Harvest Moon series, has made us all wonder if [...]

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New Super Street Fighter IV Trailer is Super, Thanks for Asking!

Tweet If it weren’t for BlazBlue, Street Fighter IV would have been the best fighting game in ages. So when you add SUPER before the STREET FIGHTER part you know you are going to have some high expectations. The new trailer shows off some of the new components that, when combined in a sterile scientific [...]

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MAG Out Today Along With a Pretty Big Patch

Tweet Zipper Interactive’s first and long awaited PS3 game, MAG, was launched today in the US along with a much needed patch that is automatically downloaded once you log into the game. According to Zipper’s Jeremy Dunham, the large patch contains tons of upgrades and tweaks including a framerate increase, all-new light settings and an [...]

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Fable 3, Halo: Reach and Others to be Shown at X10 in February

Tweet Microsoft will be holding its all Xbox 360 games event, X10, in San Francisco next month, giving gamers first looks at Fable 3, Halo: Reach and Left 4 Dead 2 DLC. Other games expected to be shown at the event include many 2010 titles like Alan Wake, Crackdown 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Final Fantasy [...]

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Valve Fans Petition for Counter-Strike 2

Tweet Counter-Strike’s getting on a bit now. It used to be the icon of PC gaming, with millions playing and thousands playing competitively, both at LAN events and online. Obviously it still has a following, but some loyal fans think the series needs a bit of a reboot to bring in new blood. It’s nice [...]

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Super Street Fighter 4 & Lost Planet 2 Release Dates Announced, There is Some News for Gears of War Fans Too

Tweet Capcom have released a handful of dates for the big-name lineup this year, including precise dates for Super Street Fighter 4 and Lost Planet 2. Dead Rising 2 has been listed as “coming this year”. Super Street Fighter 4 is coming to the USA on April 27, and Europe on April 30. Lost Planet [...]

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Gears Man Cliff Bleszinski Tweet-Teases “Kick Ass News”

Tweet Just a few short hours ago, Epic Games Design Director and Gears of War creator, Cliff Bleszinski, tweeted a promise of “kick ass news”: “Kick ass news soon. VERY soon. Watch this space…” As a huge fan of the Gears franchise, I’ll be watching and keeping you all posted.

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Darksiders 360 Screen Tearing Patch Hits This Wednesday

Tweet If you read this site you know that I absolutely loved Darksiders, but you also know that the 360 version of the game suffered from some pretty unfortunate screen tearing. Well, according to a post by the Darksiders Community Admin, the patch Vigil Games promised us is on its way. Xbox 360 users, we’re [...]

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