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Incoming Burnout Paradise demo set for release next week
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Mark you calenders, adrenaline junkies! A demo for Burnout Paradise will be asploding onto the Xbox Marketplace and the PlayStation Network on December 13. In true videogame Web site fashion, this news comes to us by way of a countdown featured on Criterion Games.
I’m thankful that Burnout Paradise doesn’t hit stores until January 22, because […]
Dec
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What’s the deal with huge recreations of video game consoles and accessories lately? Last week we talked about the massive Atari 2600 joystick, and there has also been some huge NES pads in the past. We also recently saw the super-sized Wii Remote, which doubled as a storage cabinet. Now another gamer shows off […]
Dec
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Just wanted to highlight Brandon Sheffield’s interview with Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada over at Gamasutra, which talks about why the farming sim and other of Wada’s games are so relatively… humanistic? Is that the right word? Witness the following discussion:
“Brandon Sheffield: ‘It almost reminds me of… many traditional RPGs begin with the hero […]
Dec
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Happy Ninja Day: New Ninja Gaiden II footage and images
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On this glorious day known as Day of the Ninja, Team Ninja unleashed this very Ninjatastic kill montage from Ninja Gaiden II. Ryu Hayabusa makes easy work of his enemies with his assortment of badass weapons. We also have some very pretty screens that oddly lack any blood. Though there is plenty of blood squirting […]
Dec
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New Grand Theft Auto IV screens warm us up for new trailer
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As we patiently wait for the Internet to completely explode over the new Grand Theft Auto IV trailer that will go live tomorrow, Rockstar us some new screenshots to keep you from wetting yourselves in anticipation.
In these new shots we see GTA IV’s anti-hero Niko Bellic in his natural habitat. Like many New Yorkers (or […]
Dec
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[Editor’s note: Community member Rockvillian is a very skilled artist. In fact, I’m going to feature him on an Art Attack Friday down the line. Until then, help him out with is Advent Calendartoid. If there was a way to receive candy and chocolates over the Internet, then this Calendar would have been perfect. — […]
Dec
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Did you know that today is Ninja Day? No joke. So what better time for Electronic Arts to official announce Ninja Reflex, a "party game" coming to the Wii and Nintendo DS in Marcy 2008.
Developed by Sanzaru Games and co-published by EA Partners and Nunchuck Games, Ninja Reflex is a martial arts-themed collection of mini-games […]
Dec
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MediaWise’s top ten ‘games to avoid’ for children and teens
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The National Institute on Media and the Family has just released the 2007 Video Game Report Card(pdf file), which rates the games industry on everything they’re not going to listen to. It covers everything from how parents don’t understand ESRB ratings to how kids are successfully purchasing M-rated games 50 percent of the time, but […]
Dec
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The Great Retro Quiz! .12: Sonic the Hedgehog
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I have a friend who is a genius at Sonic the Hedgehog. She played it religiously in college, but even today can sit down, load it up on my Virtual Console, and still remember where every single jump and power-up is in the game. If there is ever a sequel to The Wizard, I think […]
Dec
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Not too long ago we told you about a SCEJ’s upcoming rhythm game that features marching, spear-wielding eyeballs. This title, called Patapon, will be released in Japan this month, but we have yet to anything of release dates outside of Japan.
Siliconera’s sharp and beady eyes noticed that Gamefly has a listing for the title. Of […]