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Nintendo Charges $5 for WiiWare Screensaver

Sometimes, it’s nice to wake up Monday morning and see the latest offering from Nintendo on WiiWare. Lost Winds, Gyrostarr, and some others have been mildly memorable releases. Then you get crap like My Aquarium from Hudson. This is $5 of real money for an aquarium “simulator.” Really. Oh, but according to the trailer, it’s therapeutic [...]

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Australians Will Have No Rock Band

Hey Australians! Are you excited for Rock Band? Sure you are! The rest of the world has been playing it for the better part of a year, so the anticipation must be killing you. Well, considered that anticipation officially dead. The game ain’t comin’ down under. Sorry. Due to retailer apprehension about the game’s age, the [...]

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Xbox Live Arcade Review: Castle Crashers

For fans of the beat-em-up, it’s been a hard decade. The genre has all been dismantled, replaced by action RPGs and forgotten. Glimmers of hope, including remixes of River City Ransom on the Game Boy Advance along with Live Arcade releases of Double Dragon and Ninja Turtles, have helped alleviate the pain. Enter Castle Crashers. It’s not [...]

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Bejeweled More Popular Than You Know

All gamers know Bejeweled. Even a lot of non-gamers know Bejeweled. What’s that mean? $300 million apparently. PopCap has announced today via press release that Bejeweled and Bejeweled 2 have been downloaded a combined 350 million times. That has amounted to 25 million copies being sold across all platforms which includes PC, Mac, Xbox 360, [...]

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First Footage of New Halo 3 Map, Assembly

Halo 3 PAX 08 'Assembly' gameplay HD Halo 3 is getting bigger with a new map pack, hardly unexpected. For fans, the news is exciting as is the first video footage of Assembly straight from this years PAX. The colorful map is large, likely too large for Team Doubles. Expect this one for full Team Slayer and [...]

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Team Fortress 2 Content Not Free on Xbox Live

PC Gamers have been getting a host of new content and updates for Valve’s FPS Team Fortress 2. That content is coming to the Xbox 360 (no word on PS3 stuff), but Valve is being “forced” to charge for it. No word on the “forced” part of that and how that came about, but Valve [...]

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Warhammer Online Beta Begins Sept. 7th

Like Warhammer? Like MMOs? Then you like EA whether you know it or not. All you need to do is pre-order Warhammer Online at a specific retailer (though none were actually announced) and you have a full 11 days to squander for gold to sell on eBay… err, play the game before those that failed [...]

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Sony Reaches Deal; All Instruments Compatible Across All Games

The confusion over instruments from the ever increasing slate of music games (all with their own set of instruments) is one step closer to being fixed. Sony has stepped up, reaching agreements with Konami, Harmonix, and Activision. Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, and Rock Revolution will all share instruments. Users will no [...]

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Neo Turf Masters On Virtual Console

Yes, the original Mega Man is also available the same day, but everyone knows that Capcom classic. The special release for the Virtual Console owners should be Neo Turf Masters. While Tiger Woods and Hot Shots dominate the golf gaming landscape, Neo Turf Masters stands as one of the true greats of the genre, and [...]

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Xbox Live Arcade Review: Bionic Commando Rearmed

It’s amazing what taking such a simple feature such as jumping out of game to do. Over the years, it’s something we’ve become so accustomed to, it’s impossible to live without. Bionic Commando didn’t just take it out, it replaced with a far more difficult to master mechanic, the bionic arm. A video game legacy [...]

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Next Warhawk Expansion Available Aug. 28th

Anyone up for some jet pack action? That’s what the latest update to Warhawk entitled Fallen Star is bringing with it to PSN. These are obtained on-foot (of course) from a number of vending machines placed around the levels. For $8, you can gain access to this game altering update on August 28th. Also, you [...]

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Indie Game Development Not that Cheap

With massively hyped titles requiring an investment of millions of dollars to get off the ground, it’s nice to know a small independent developer can still make it with a small amount of cash and some skill. Err, well, not anymore apparently. Platforming/puzzle title and Live Arcade release Braid was created by Johnathan Blow. [...]

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