Articles By: Drake Hess

World of Warcraft Toyota Tacoma Commercial

Tweet “Four Wheels of Fury!” Toyota goes after the WoW gamer airing a commercial for their Tacoma truck set in the World of Warcraft game. Brilliant! Have at it out after the jump.

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New Video Game Aims To Teach Kids About Food & Dieting – Will It Work?

Tweet Quick! The baby is about to say his first words — I think he said “McDonalds” The problem, obesity in United States children is out of control. Rates are rising and everyone seems to be looking for a canned solution. In steps a new video game called “The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food [...]

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Bungie Defends Graphics In Halo 3 – Photo Realism Overrated?

Tweet Bungie Studio’s Halo 3 has only been out for a few days now and the complaints are already starting to come in. The most recent piece of critisism hails from the UK and calls the game “Halo 2 in HD”. Well, as someone that has watched NFL football for years, many of which were [...]

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BBC Blunder – Killzone 2 Footage Spliced Into Halo 3 Segment On BBC News 24

Tweet How on earth does this happen by mistake? Answer, it doesn’t — and if it does someone should be made to answer. Yes, it is funny, but from a marketing stand point it is free publicity for Killzone 2, and one can only imagine that Microsoft is not happy about it. And from the [...]

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Ubisoft Unveils New Assassin’s Creed Knights Templar Trailer

Tweet The newly released trailer will definitely get your blood pumping with increased anticipation for the games release. The camera pans down from above as the trailer begins and reveals a secret meeting taking place between the Knights Templar. They discuss their plan to prevent the game’s protagonist. Check it out after the jump.

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New Kojima Report – Work On English MGS4 Demo Starts Tomorrow

Tweet A new Kojima report podcast has surfaced, and according to the contents, the English version of the Metal Gear Solid 4 Demo will begin production tomorrow. No date is given for completion, however if you factor in bathroom breaks, sleep, and the occasional pause for food and water, we could be looking at a [...]

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Call of Duty 4 – Real Life Marines and Online Clans Now Testing PC Version

Tweet Infinity Ward has begun testing the PC version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare by bringing in random gamers to their studio.

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NCAA Football 08: Disk Unreadable, Experience Unbearable, Oversight Inexcusable…

Tweet Lets get one thing straight right off the bat, I love college football and this years NCAA 08 makes many improvements in the realm of gameplay. However, that said there is no excuse for the lack of a mid game save feature when your game spurts out a “disk unreadable” error on a fairly [...]

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Tiger Woods 08 “Game Face” Servers Down — EA Sports Issues Apology

Tweet EA Sports announced a new feature this year for Tiger Woods 2008 that would allow gamers to upload a picture of themselves and use it to create an in game character that they said would not only look like them, it would actually be them.

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COD4 Beta: Infinity Ward Promises To Make Things Right

Tweet Angry fans that waited for the Call of Duty 4 Beta sign up today at noon soon realized that the site could not take the traffic and that it crashed again, just like it did when news of the beta was first announced.

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“Encroachment Defense” – Madden 08 Bug?

Tweet Madden gamers may need to get used to hearing this or come up with a rule amongst friends before starting an online match. I popped in Madden 08 for the Xbox 360 after just getting it from the midnight release and have already got the defensive end to jump offsides 9 times on one [...]

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Midnight Release? Call In Sick? What’s Your Annual Madden Release Ritual?

Tweet The Madden 08 countdown is coming to a close, and whether you are a fan of the game or not, you can not deny that the annual release of Madden has become a holiday of sorts. Football has tailgating and Madden has it’s share of midnight releases across the country. We here at ripten.com [...]

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E3 07 – Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools Of Destruction – Hands-On Preview

Tweet You want to see the future? Understandable, heck time travel has been an obsession of many for a very long time. When you stop and think about it, what is there not to love? Apron wearing robots named Rosie and cars powered by twigs that soar high above the city streets.

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Rumor: Quake Arena Heading to the DS?

Tweet A speech made by co-founder of id Software, John Carmack, during QuakeCon last night, has many sites reporting that there may be a version of Quake Arena heading to the Nintendo DS.

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WOW Movie Details Surface At BlizzCon ’07

Tweet A spirited panel announced an upcoming WOW movie at this years BlizzCon causing hundreds of keyboards to hit the ground in unison. This will mark the first movie for Blizzard and it has been long in the making, five years long to be exact.

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