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VGA09: Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 Announced (Video)

Batman, Joker, Harley, and the rest of the Arkham bunch will be coming back for seconds. Rocksteady opened up the Video Game Awards on Spike TV by announcing Batman: Arkham Asylum 2. Watch the trailer below …

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Crackdown 2 Teaser Trailer Video Released, Full Reveal During 2009 Video Game Awards

A new teaser trailer (shown below) was released today for the upcoming Crackdown 2 announcing that the game would be part of the laundry list of Video Game Awards world exclusives debuting live on Spike TV December 12th.

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Prototype Comes Back from the Dead

Prototype was a hotly anticipated open-world action game that was originally supposed to release last year. After an impressive showing at GDC, Prototype continued to dazzle the media until one day it slipped to a 2009 release and then disappeared off the radar. Not any more. Prototype is back, and before its big re-reveal at [...]

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Prototype Preview

I can imagine being a little disconcerted, waking up with creepy super powers that you’re not quite sure how you got. I suppose I can also imagine being a little pissed, which is how the main character Alex Mercer feels about the whole thing. Since our last look at Prototype during this year’s Game Developer’s [...]

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Fuhgedaboutit: New Mafia 2 Screens

The original Mafia game was a bit overlooked in the wake of GTA3 and its ilk, but I thought the old-timey setting, vintage cars and weapons, and Scorcese-like story were pretty awesome. Now, long overdue, comes the sequel.

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GDC 08: Prototype – Open World, Open Wounds

Prototype is what Crackdown would be if you were a bad-ass instead of a superhero. Crunching cars beneath your feet, running up buildings, literally smashing peoples’ heads into the ground, and absorbing dead bodies into your own — just some of the things you will be doing as Prototype’s main anti-hero, Alex Mercer.

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