Archive for August, 2010

Batman: Arkham City Announced

It has been announced today that the official title for the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum will be Batman: Arkham City. The game will be available on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in Autumn 2011…

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Girls in Games: Why Aren’t There More Female Leads?

Name a recent game that featured a female lead. In the last year, there’s been Bayonnetta. And I think Wet was released in the last year too. Can’t come up with anything else? That’s because female leads are few and far between in games; and if large gaming companies have their way, it’s likely to stay that way…

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No Kinect for Fable III at Launch, Says Molyneux

Contrary to prior statements, Fable III designer Peter Molyneux has revealed that when the game ships, it will not feature Kinect functionality.

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Nintendo Collectors Journal 8/4/2010

I didn’t get that many new items this week but I figured I’d report on them anyway. The first item I found was a Mario Bros. t-shirt. I got this t-shirt featuring the Mario Bros. and several other characters from …

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WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 Hits Sales Milestone, Delivers Wii Intrigue

A most interesting thing has happened this week: THQ’s WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 has become a best-seller. That in itself isn’t amazing; in fact, it’s practically expected. But there’s more to the story…

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Wanna Play Super Mario Hands-Free?

Think Kinect as the only hands-free option? Think Again. Waterloo Labs has modified an NES controller port by combining it with the latest in eyetracking technology to create a version of Super Mario Brothers that users can play with just their eyes.

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Transformers Take The War To Asia In Their New MMO

Despite the success of War for Cybertron, it would appear that the next video game outing of the Transformers is destined for another galaxy: Asia.

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Play Babel Rising Free On Your iPhone Thanks To FreeAppADay

Tweet Bulkypix released Babel Rising last December on the iPhone but now it is available to you for FREE thanks to Apple’s FreeAppADay!

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THQ Releases Three New WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 Pics, and They’re AWESOME

Those who follow World Wrestling Entertainment programming know that last month, the company held a pay-per-view called “Money in the Bank,” which featured two such eponymous matches. And the ending to one of them can only be described in one word: awesome.

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Five O’Clock Fan Art: The Legend of Zelda

Like a lot of gamers, I have a special place in my heart for The Legend of Zelda series. It’s nestled between the right atrium and the semilunar valve- oh hell, you guys don’t want to hear all my fancy science talk, of which I have a lot because of how smart I am. Let’s get on with the artwork …

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GameStop Hosting Halo: Reach Preview Events on Friday

GameStop stores across the nation will be hosting early preview events for Halo: Reach this Friday, each with a Major League Gaming player showing off new Reach content and giving out tips and tricks for the new game.

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Games on Demand: Are Digital Downloads the Future?

Microsoft has been pushing their Games on Demand service recently, releasing such great titles as Mass Effect and Batman: Arkham Asylum to download straight to Hard Drive. These are not arcade titles, but full-fledged games that were already released to disc, and are re-released for download. At the same time, the Xbox 360 keeps coming with larger and larger Hard Drives to store the games. The trend isn’t only with Microsoft, either; Steam makes its business completely from selling downloadable copies of games…

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Ripten Review: Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

First and foremost, we must inform you that we literally had to stop playing Harmony of Despair in order to write this review. In fact, we’ve been playing Harmony so much this past week . . .

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Opening Cinematic for Fable III

If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of people waiting with baited breath for more Fable news, then you’re in luck- Lionhead just put out the opening cinematic for Fable III, over two months ahead of the game’s release.

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Torchlight II Announced

Wahoo! That’s all we can say. Being an avid fan of Diablo, and believing that nothing beats the original, Torchlight surprised us in multiple ways. It’s our favorite dungeon crawler (after Diablo of course), and as such we am extremely excited about Torchlight II…

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