Archive for June, 2010

Win an Alan Wake Shirt From Cafepress and Ripten!

Shirt maker CafePress recently put out an official store full of Alan Wake gear. But if you don’t want to drop your own buckaroos on a shirt, then you’re in luck! Because we’re giving two away! And you get to choose which two!

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Rumor: Western PSP’s Getting a Virtual Console of Its Own?

It appears that the days of Nintendo’s virtual monopoly on oldschool video game systems that weren’t made by them may be coming to an end.

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Microsoft: Milo Isn’t Coming, Even Though He Is, Except As a Tiger, Only He’s Not

Not only do the people at Microsoft and Lionhead Studios seem to be on different pages when it comes to Milo, but it appears they aren’t even reading the same book.

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Specs Declare Kinect To Have A Webcam Resolution with Two Active Players

It looks like Kinect will launch this fall with a 57-degree horizontal field of view, a maximum 640 x 480 camera resolution (webcam quality, essentially) at 30 frames per second, and here’s the kicker- support for six people, but two active players at a time at most.

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New Details for Raving Rabbids Travel In Time

As one of their most popular series since the Wii launched, Ubisoft be crazy not to release a new Rabbids game this fall, around the time that kids will start to compile their wish lists for Santa. We’ve all seen the cute trailer for the game, but thanks to a press release from Ubisoft, we now we have some solid details about the gameplay itself.

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Seth Green Steps Up to Bat for Dragon Quest IX

Tweet You can tell that Nintendo and Square Enix are going all-out in their promotion of their upcoming DS release of Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, as they have hired none other than Seth Green to promote the game in their television campaign. “Who,” you ask? You might better know him as [...]

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Pissed at Dead Rising’s Save System? Then Urine for Some Relief

Tweet In the original Dead Rising for the Xbox 360, a rather strict save system was implemented. Save points were spread throughout the mall, found in the mens’ restroom facilities and green benches, meaning you were unable to save anywhere you wished. Furthermore, the game contained only one save slot, thus preventing the kind of [...]

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Sakurai Talks Kid Icarus: Uprising, Including Story Details

One of the most eagerly-anticipated titles to be announced at E3 was the return of Angel Land’s heroic guardian, Pit, in Kid Icarus: Uprising. Featuring the man who reinvented the character for Super Smash Bros. Brawl at the helm, Masahiro Sakurai, many have had questions for the Project Sora founder about what we can expect from the series’ return as the flagship title for Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS handheld platform.

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The Old Republic “Sure Thing” and TERA “Sleeper Hit” Leading New Wave of MMOs

In the coming weeks and months I will have much more to say about both of these games, but let me just say a couple of things right now. TERA is going to be a sleeper hit with a hardcore fanbase, and The Old Republic is going to be a Big Fucking Deal.

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Activision Celebrate’s the 4th of July with New Jams for DJ Hero and Guitar Hero

DJ Hero and Guitar Hero fans planning to rock out this weekend for the 4th of July are in for a treat as Activision has announced the release of two new track packs for the games with songs from Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Maroon 5 and more…

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Three Minutes of In-Game InFAMOUS 2 Footage Set to Debut on GTTV

GameTrailers TV Host, Geoff Keighly, just shared an interesting inFAMOUS 2 scoop with his Twitter followers. Not only will the next episode of GTTV feature footage from the upcoming Sucker Punch sequel …

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Disney’s Adventure Club Recreated In Stunning Detail With Half-Life Engine

In March 2009, Breben of Facepunch set out to recreate one of Disney World’s most beloved defunct attractions. Though the Adventurers Club closed to the public last fall, it has reopened to all its fans on the Half-Life engine. The resemblance is uncanny.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Patch Coming Tomorrow

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 developer DICE has announced that a 500MB patch for the PC version of the game will be applied tomorrow, June 30. PC servers will be closed for a few hours to accommodate the update.

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Hulu Plus Officially Coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360

Today, Hulu announced a limited launch of Hulu Plus, a $9.99-per-month subscription-based service that will allow you to watch full seasons of shows from over 100 content providers, including Fox, NBC, and ABC, in 720p HD. The service will work on your PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Mac iPad, iPhone,some Blu-Ray players, and TVs

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Darksiders PC Pushed Back to September

THQ UK have announced today that the PC version of Ripten’s beloved Darksiders will be released not in the Summer as we first thought, but on September the 24th.

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