Articles By: Cavin Smith

Exit DS Demo Online

Tweet Web-based DS demos are all the rage these days. No surprise then that a few levels of Taito’s spatial puzzler’s have found their way onto a browser near you.

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Disney Now Testing DS-Based Park Map

Tweet Why bother with the repeated folding and unfolding of a traditional paper map until the edges start to wear, when you can just flip open your portable? With the help of a special cartridge, Disney plans to give tech-savvy visitors a better way to get around their famous theme parks.

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Cheers! Undertow is Your Free Xbox Live Game

Tweet Undertow is officially Microsoft’s sacrificial lamb, offered up to all the players who suffered through the recent Xbox Live outages.

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Piechart Tracks Power Struggle in Japanese Videogame Market (Video)

Tweet It turns out that setting your sales presentation to the tune of the Metal Gear Solid theme makes it a whole lot more fun to watch. It’s a fitting soundtrack for the epic brawl between various Japanese game companies slugging it out for market share between 1996-2007 in graph form.

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Smash Bros. Brawl Delayed Again

Tweet Our balls are already bluer than a depressed Sonic the Hedgehog, but that sultry tease Nintendo is going to make us wait even longer for the climax. In a kinda-sorta-last-minute announcement, the game’s been pushed back roughly a week in Japan and a whole month in the U.S.

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Resistance 2 Finally Unveiled

Tweet 60-player online? 8-player co-op? An expansive campaign across the United States? Insomniac wins!

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Two Yakuza 3 Demos Now On Japanese Playstation Store

Tweet We knew it was coming soon, but not this soon. If you already have a Japanese Playstation Network account, Japanese gangland fun is only a few button presses away.

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Warner Bros. Announces Blu-Ray Exclusivity

Tweet No longer the Switzerland of the format war, Warner Bros. has decided to throw its weight behind Sony’s hi-def disc and only Sony’s hi-def disc.

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Netflix May Be Coming To Game Consoles

Tweet According to a pre-CES press release, Netflix is working with electronics giant LG to produce a set-top box capable of receiving rented movies over the internet. Console support for the company’s direct download service may not be far behind.

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Plug Pulled on Monster Hunter U.S. Servers

Tweet Apparently three long years of service were enough for the small community of gamers that still played Monster Hunter on their Western Playstation 2s.

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Buy a Wii, Pay Off Someone’s Debts!

Tweet It’s not diamond-encrusted, or forged in the fires of Mount Doom. Neither does it contain the secrets of eternal life. Heck, it doesn’t even really come with any games. So why, then, would this particular Wii command $5.5 million dollars on eBay?

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Return of the King: Duke Nukem Forever Trailer [Video]

Tweet Why waste time pontificating when we could just deliver you the goods? Duke Nukem certainly wouldn’t. If you want to hear some thoughts on the long-awaited sequel, see our editorial below. For the trailer itself, just click on through!

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Duke Nukem Forever: How Can it Blow Us Away?

Tweet Over ten years in the making, Duke Nukem Forever has the potential to be a bloated, confusing mess of worn-out ideas and half-hearted attempts. Overambition is the enemy of any game designer (just ask Peter Molyneux or Yasumi Matsuno). Yet, even when the main goal at this point is to just hurry up and [...]

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Rumor: Killzone 2 Beta In Mid ’08

Tweet A poster on Killzone.com’s forums claims to have received this month’s UK Official Playstation Magazine a little early, and what’s inside? Allegedly, some juicy Killzone 2 tidbits.

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Square-Enix Announces Early ’08 Lineup for U.S.

Tweet For all the great games released this Fall, it feels a bit neutered without any truly huge Square-Enix titles on the market. That’s probably because most of the good ones have been pushed into next year. While we still don’t know the status of Final Fantasy XIII or Last Remnant, they’ve given us a [...]

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