Turns out my fears were unfounded and I didn't have to worry about a forced movie tie-in -- Rocksteady's working on Batman: Arkham Asylum, and it's its own beast. After watching the first 15 minutes of the game, I can say that the title looks like it has a shot at being pretty darn good.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Buy Facebook or Myspace chips for the Texas Holdem app
PokerPlayPoints.Com is a site where you can buy extra facebook, myspace, hi5, and bebo poker chips, for the popular zynga texas holdem application. So now you can have more fun, with more chips! The site is safe, secure and trusted. So if you a fan of poker and fancy impressing your friends with more chips, then why not give them a visit today.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum First Look
Turns out my fears were unfounded and I didn't have to worry about a forced movie tie-in -- Rocksteady's working on Batman: Arkham Asylum, and it's its own beast. After watching the first 15 minutes of the game, I can say that the title looks like it has a shot at being pretty darn good.
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Pandora's Box
While the individual pieces may be a bit weak on their own, the overall experience is satisfying and worthwhile.
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How-To: Emulate Vintage Gaming on your PS3
It's easy to forget that the PS3 is a fully-equipped PC in your living room attached to your house's best monitor. Installing Ubuntu can help you remember, and play SNES games in the process.
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Sage Advice, but Not Viral Marketing for Resident Evil 5?
Lots of you have pointed us to this — a highway roadside sign in Austin, Texas, warning of ZOMBIES AHEAD. Is this viral marketing for Resident Evil 5? I checked with a source at Capcom.
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Is Aion Online Tower of Eternity the Best Upcoming MMORPG?
Aion Online Tower of Eternity Nominated for Best Upcoming MMORPG & Here is Why
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‘Need for Speed’ Franchise Is Shifting Gears
In past years, the ‘Need of Speed’ series hasn’t really been to up to speed because, really, after Pro-Street no one was willing to take another chance with a game from the ‘Need for Speed’ series. Which had led to the problematic sales of the recently released Need for Speed title, Undercover, getting some negative scores from many publications.
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VP of Epic Games Responds to Gears of War DRM Issue
Upset about being locked out of my game, I fired off an angry e-mail to Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, and he actually responded! Kudos to him, though it doesn't mean DRM sucks any less.
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DRM Jams the Gears of War: Crysis and GTA IV Next?
Players of the PC game Gears of War have a problem that means they are currently unable to even load their game. The reason – a hard-coded shutoff date in the DRM that prevents the game from playing. Yet again, DRM prevents an honestly purchased game from working. Will Crysis and GTA IV break next?
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Gridplane shows off what the NXE could have been
Design and animation studio Gridplane has revealed one of the many mock-ups it developed for Microsoft as a potential user-interface update, which later became the NXE. Tasked with creating new ways for users to interact with multimedia, this particular mock-up showcases some of the style found in the NXE. ++Gallery:Gridplane: Xbox 360 UI Mock-up++
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LA Video Game Examiner: What happened to....Omega Boost?
The third part of on ongoing (and infrequent) series about great games that deserve a second look.
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The Truth About Wii Fit And Weight Loss
Fitness videogames might be able to keep players in shape--but not if they don't play them.
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‘Duck Hunt’ iPhone game pulled at Nintendo's request
Lawl Mart’s Duck Hunt, an iPhone and iPod touch game that has been available at the App Store, can’t be found any more. The developer says that the game came down at the request of Nintendo, which alleges copyright infringement.
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Epileptic Gaming #160 - Watch Inside!
This Friday night (January 30th, 2009) at 7PM EST marks the return of the self-proclaimed, “Best Video Game Show Ever”. Join djWHEAT, Force, and NiceGuyEd as they return to the host combination that carried the show for nearly 70 episodes prior to Epileptic Gaming going video.
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Sims of sims: 10 ways to escape from escapism
Yo dawg, we heard you like simulations so we put a simulation in your simulation so you can simulate while you simulate.
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comScore says U.S. online gaming audience grew 27 percent
Free online games had a big surge in 2008, thanks to the ailing economy, market researcher comScore reported today.
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Judge's ruling that WoW bot violates DMCA is troubling
Glider, a popular WoW bot, took another hit on Wednesday as a federal judge ruled that the product went beyond copyright infringement to being a circumvention device under the DMCA. The decision raises serious questions about the legal status of interoperability and competition in the software industry.
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Kid overcomes bullying thanks to video games
Check out this very heartwarming story on how a kid overcame bullies and made new friends thanks to video games.
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Classic Weird and Cool Computer RPG Ads
Back in the day, when computer graphics ranged between non-existent and lousy and system specs called for RAM amounts usually less than 256k, and floppy disks were still...floppy, games that relied mostly upon the user's imagination provided the biggest bang for their software buck.
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Why The iPhone Version 3 Will be a Games Platform
The rumor that Apple has plans a $20 "premium" price tag for games apps in the iTunes App Store is gaining traction on the Web--some claim that Apple sources have said it's really going to happen. While this move will enable a "top tier" of applications, and will direct more money into the pockets of developers, it also hints at something bigger...
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Behind the scenes: Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Remake
A behind the scenes look at the remake of Infocom's brilliant Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy into a freeware and definitely indie AGS point-and-click adventure game. Apparently a "making of" of sorts.
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DRM Jams the Gears of War: Crysis and GTA IV Next?
Players of the PC game Gears of War have a problem that means they are currently unable to even load their game. The reason – a hard-coded shutoff date in the DRM that prevents the game from playing. Yet again, DRM prevents an honestly purchased game from working. Will Crysis and GTA IV break next?
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Gears Of War Shipped With DRM That Shuts The Game Down
Gamers who tried to play Gears of War on the PC Thursday ran into a slight snag: it seems that the digital certificate that allows the game to run expired on January 28, 2009.
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Nintendo Reveals 26 Million-Selling Titles, 2009
Nintendo revealed that 26 of its first-party titles released for Nintendo DS and Wii exceeded at least one million copies sold worldwide since their release, and revealed its upcoming slate for the two consoles. Pet simulation game Nintendogs, which has been released with five different versions for DS since first debuting in 2005, has so far sold
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Punch-Out!! coming first half 2009, and more US / Europe
Nintendo has dropped a bob-omb of release dates for 2009. New Play Control! Pikmin and Mario Tennis will hit Europe February 6 and March 3, respectively, with the US getting both sometime in March. Other notable titles include Pokemon Platinum (March 22 for US, sometime 2009 for Europe) and Punch-Out!! (first half of 2009 for both regions).
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Final Fantasy XIII is...Chrono Cross?
The Internet was buzzing yesterday as the new Final Fantasy XIII trailer was released. The graphics are incredible and looks to be a great sequal in the Final Fantasy universe. The One game, though, that immediately came to mind when watching the trailer is another Square title, Chrono Cross.
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Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable
It seems that the DRM on Gears of War came with a built-in shut off date: the digital certificate for the game was only good until January 28, 2009. Now that the game fails to work unless you adjust your system's clock, what's Epic's response? "We're working on it."
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Blizzard Adds Another Money Maker To WoW: 3D Figurines
Blizzard Entertainment seems to have gotten into yet another way to make more money from World of Warcraft. They haveo done a deal with a 3D printing company (usually used for things like rapid prototyping) to allow game players to buy 3D models of their players.
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Tetris Cures Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Wait…What?
The game of Tetris in general that has been proven as a sort of ‘cognitive vaccine’ to the disorder in recent studies.
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Kid overcomes bullying thanks to video games
Check out this very heartwarming story on how a kid overcame bullies and made new friends thanks to video games.
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Second Round of Stormrise Unit Descriptions and Screenshots
"SEGA has released some more unit screenshots and descriptions for their upcoming RTS, Stormrise. Being developed by Creative Assembly, Stormrise chronicles the survivors of post-apocalyptic humanity fighting it out in the far future. The game is due out for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 in March of this year..."
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Real-life Solid Snake Discovered - Amazing!
Solid Snake is the iconic lead character from the Metal Gear Solid video game series but it turns out he is also a real-life citizen of Earth. Gameplayer has the amazing proof that Solid Snake walks amongst us!
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10 ill-Fated Franchise Reboots
Whatever the reasons, there are certainly remakes and sequels that took forever to arrive but ultimately made us wonder, "why did they even bother?!" Here are our top 10 worst offenders:
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Dawn of War II beta now available to all...Free
Just a quick reminder that the Dawn of War II beta is now available to all people for the low, low price of nothing. With just a click, a little free time and 5.5 gigglebytes of hard drive space you could be well on your way to pitting orcs against space marines in the most stunning visual metaphor for the state of the video game industry ever...
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Sony denies touchscreen PSP 2 rumours
Sony has flatly denied that a PSP mark 2 is in the works, despite usually-credible news source IGN claiming otherwise this week.
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If Only Game Covers Were As Classy As Book Covers (PICS)
Olly Moss has drawn up a few examples of what it would look like if classic games shared the same cover art as classic books. Specifically, Penguin's old classics range.If the children of the 21st century do indeed go on to study the "classics" while at school, we can only hope they're handed out looking like this.
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10 ill-Fated Franchise Reboots
Whatever the reasons, there are certainly remakes and sequels that took forever to arrive but ultimately made us wonder, "why did they even bother?!" Here are our top 10 worst offenders:
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Dawn of War II beta now available to all...Free
Just a quick reminder that the Dawn of War II beta is now available to all people for the low, low price of nothing. With just a click, a little free time and 5.5 gigglebytes of hard drive space you could be well on your way to pitting orcs against space marines in the most stunning visual metaphor for the state of the video game industry ever...
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Red Billboard of Death (PIC)
If it's 'shopped, it's hilarious. If it's real, that's amazing. This picture was created by Pete359 (digg user Arothlink) for Cracked's forums. I hope you win their contest!
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Starcraft Course opened for College - earn credits
Students in UC - Berkeley can take up StarCraft studies for college credits. Something we’ve never imagined would happen.
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Batman’s Best and Worst Games
we recognize there’s a whole lot of Batman love being spread about. To quench your thirst for the masked vigilante, we’re bringing you a look back at every Bat game ever made.
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10 Cancelled Games We Wish Were Released
Sometimes budgets get slashed, timelines shift, milestones slip, the publisher just doesn't see it as a fit in the market at the time. Whatever the reason, some games just get canceled, here's ten games we most regret never having had the time to properly experience. They range from MMOs to RPGs to…well, lots of other acronym-friendly genres.
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Battle Rage: The Robot Wars
It all begun in 2036 with invention of The Drive. After nearly a century the humanity turned it’s eyes at the stars again. First the Moon and then Mars, so unwelcoming and mysterious, had to submit to mankind’s expansion. Space became swarmed with shiny hulls of ships.
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Gaming equals poorer relationships with friends, family
Researchers at Brigham Young University have conducted a study which finds a connection between young adults' use of video games and poorer relationships with friends and families along with a greater frequency of risky behaviors, such as drinking and drug abuse.
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iPhone - the ultimate platform for Alternate Reality Games?
ARGNet has uncovered The Analog Resistance, an Alternate Reality Game described as "the Amazing Race meets The Game" taking place in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York & Chicago. It uses a new iPhone app called Urban Sleuth & the company behind it is encouraging others to use it for their own ARGs as well (offering prizes to the best).
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Video: Holocaust Survivor Shares Her Story In Second Life
With some help from her daughter's Second Life avatar, Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr met with a group of the virtual world's citizens to share her personal experience of the horrors of genocide.
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The Videogame Bosses' Guide to Success
So you aspire to be a roadblock in the path of every hero, a hulking shadow that ominously hangs over the hopes and dreams of normal people, the guy that makes babies squall at your very approach. I know you. You've turned many a pleasant gaming experience into objects being hurled at the TV and flurries of muttered obscenties. You, the videogame b
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A Hands-on Preview with GTA 4 DLC: The Lost and the Damned
A first look into new content from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 4, featuring new music, weapons (auto-shotgun, grenade launcher, pipe bombs), characters, television programming, Internet, and minigames, as well as new multiplayer modes and "superpeds". Motorcycles have also been tweaked so that they’re much easier to ride and harder to fall off of.
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The Biggest Unfulfilled Promises in Gaming
This whole new-President thing got us thinking about gaming promises that were made by large companies that have gone tragically unfulfilled. From small game features to hefty hardware claims, these are the promises that never came to fruition...
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10 Trends That Are Saving Videogames
If the last feature could be seen as a guide on how not to make a game, perhaps this is best viewed on the things to look out for in games for 2009 and beyond. Maybe it's appropriate, then, that this is the bigger of the two articles. There's a lot to look forward to and a lot to love about the games industry – and this is just some of it.
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A Hands-on Preview with GTA 4 DLC: The Lost and the Damned
A first look into new content from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 4, featuring new music, weapons (auto-shotgun, grenade launcher, pipe bombs), characters, television programming, Internet, and minigames, as well as new multiplayer modes and "superpeds". Motorcycles have also been tweaked so that they’re much easier to ride and harder to fall off of.
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The 3 biggest fears about Starcraft 2 and why not to worry
The original masterpiece that is Starcraft is still played 10 years later to this day among tens of thousands of players, and with that, comes skepticism that Starcraft 2 won't be able to match the greatness. Innovation, price, and multiple-building selection top the list of worries, but here are reasons why you should keep the faith in Blizzard.
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Guitar Hero: Metallica full tracklisting revealed
The full tracklisting for the upcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica game has been revealed, with songs such as Battery, One, Creeping Death, Master of Puppets, Orion and Seek and Destroy being included. Slayer's "War Ensemble, Mercyful Fate's "Evil", Mastodon's "Blood and Thunder" are among the Non-Metallica songs to make the cut.
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Don't Blame the Recession, Blame the Developers
News of game developers slashing thousands of jobs this week and shutting down studios, seems to dispute the notion of a recession-proof video game industry. But video games are indeed recession proof, it’s the developers and publishers who aren’t.
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Obama in Fallout, Moon, and industry drama.
This week in gaming brought us the inauguration of the 44th president Barack Obama as seen from Fallout 3, the release of an unexpected first-person gem for the DS in Moon, and more industry drama as Microsoft and Sony trade words.
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PS3 gets "B" on IGN Network Online Report Card
The PlayStation 3, despite having one of the rockiest starts in gaming history, is constantly being improved, expanded and retooled. Still, things do need to change
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10 Last Generation Games That Will Kick Your Ass
Are games today easier than they used to be? Has the skill curve declined as technology has advanced? Here are ten old-school and previous generation games that are the source of millions of broken controllers.
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Walmart Sells Blank Disc Labeled "Redneck Sh*t" As Madden 09
When Michael's son used his Christmas money to buy a copy of Madden 09 from Walmart, he though he was buying a copy of Madden 09, not a blank disc that said "Redneck Sh*t."
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Snake Makes a Solid Tat
There seems to be no shortage of the impressive art gamers are both willing to pay for and have etched into their skin. Kotaku reader Aaron S. sent in this one, which he says is a picture of his friend. Not him. Because that's a lady that sat in a chair while Solid Snake was rendered up and down her midriff. Wow.
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Video Games Are Bad For You In So Many Ways
A study published today in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence maintains that video games - including the non-violent kind - are linked to a variety of negative findings among college students.
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10 Videogame Scenes in Mainstream Movies Part 1
From Swingers to Superbad, Back to the Future II to Terminator 2. 10 clips of videogame scenes in mainstream movies and why they are there.
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PSP2 is real, touch screen-enabled, and coming soon
IGN has learned from several credible sources that the PSP 2 is indeed on the horizon, and will be packing multi-touch technology. According to our sources, the PSP 2 will feature a widescreen multi-touch interface comparable to that of the iPhone for both in-game control and menu navigation.
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Batman’s Best and Worst Games
we recognize there’s a whole lot of Batman love being spread about. To quench your thirst for the masked vigilante, we’re bringing you a look back at every Bat game ever made.
read more | digg story
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Sony denies touchscreen PSP 2 rumours
Sony has flatly denied that a PSP mark 2 is in the works, despite usually-credible news source IGN claiming otherwise this week.
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10 Cancelled Games We Wish Were Released
Sometimes budgets get slashed, timelines shift, milestones slip, the publisher just doesn't see it as a fit in the market at the time. Whatever the reason, some games just get canceled, here's ten games we most regret never having had the time to properly experience. They range from MMOs to RPGs to…well, lots of other acronym-friendly genres.
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