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The Best Movie Licenses Ever Made

Posted October 8th, 2006

Whenever a block-buster film comes out these days, there is usually a game to go along with it, and it’s usually by EA. Over the years, especially in the late 80’s and 90’s movie licenses gained a reputation for being pretty poor, and bearing little or no resemblance to the film that inspired their [...]

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WoW Collector’s Edition Revealed

Posted October 6th, 2006

Blizzard has announced that it will release two versions of its MMO expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition. The Collectior’s Edition will include a bundle of goodies that includes:

A behind the scenes DVD
The Art of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade book
Etherwhelp: Collector’s [...]

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SIXAXIS PS3 Controller – Details Released

Posted October 5th, 2006

The now officially named SIXAXIS PS3 controller is called so due to its six degree motion sensing feature (up/down, left/right, forwards/backwards). It will be released on the same day as the PS3 and cost around $43 compared to the Wii’s $60 for both Wiimote and Nun-Chuck.
Also announced is the USB powered Memory Card adapter, making [...]

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Zelda: Twilight Princess Update

Posted October 4th, 2006

With the Wii release scheduled only a few months away and the long awaited Zelda: Twilight Princess as a release title, game director Eiji Aonuma has given us some new juicy details to get our interest stirring.

The game will be 70 hours long, and include at least as many dungeons [...]

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Devil May Cry Box Set

Posted October 2nd, 2006

Capcom is releasing its Devil May Cry trilogy later this month as a newly refurbished box set on PS2.
The package includes the greatest hits version of the classic Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 2 and the tricky Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition.
The box set will set you back around $30 at the [...]

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Speedrun: Half-Life Completed In 45 Minutes

Posted October 1st, 2006

For those of you not in the know, a speedrun is the act of a player attempting to complete a videogame (or a portion of a game) as quickly as possible. Players doing speedruns will usually use tricks or exploit parts of the games mechanics (without using cheats) to achieve seemingly impossible fast times.
With that [...]

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Assassins Creed AI Better On The 360?

Posted September 30th, 2006

In a recent interview with IGN, Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond made a comment which suggests the 360 version of Ubisoft’s upcoming title will sport better crowd AI than the PS3 version.
Raymond puts this down to the “improved threading” technology on the 360, although the AI of the crowd will undoubtedly have little (if any) [...]

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Ultima Online: 9th Anniversary Collection

Posted September 29th, 2006

Today Ultima Online the longest continuously running MMORPG in history, announced it’s 9th Anniversary Collection. In addition to making available more than 50 items marking the different ages of Ultima Online, they have created 2 new housing designs and numerous servants to wait on you hand and foot. It will be available on November 2nd [...]

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Alan Wake Screenshots & Video

Posted September 29th, 2006

Remedy showed off their upcoming psychological thriller, Alan Wake, recently at the Intel developer forum.
The game was running on quad-core processors, using the “multiple cores to stream in data seamlessly in the background” – however it works, the results are stunning!

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Oblivion On The PS3 and PSP

Posted September 28th, 2006

Today Bethesda Softworks announced that it’s best selling game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the Xbox 360 and PC will now be a launch title for the PS3 in November. Also The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion will be released on the PSP in Spring 2007.
“Oblivion features a powerful combination of free-form gameplay, unprecedented graphics, [...]

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