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Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of January 22, 2008

Friday, January 25, 2008

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The end of January is the new middle of November, apparently, as several genuinely excellent titles see release this week. Pick of the Week: Tie: Burnout Paradise Racing | PS3 360 Finally, a real next gen Burnout! Paradise sheds the structure of previous Burnout titles in favor the open-ended, load time-free Paradise City. And best of all, it’s [...]

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Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of January 15, 2008

Friday, January 18, 2008

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The third week of the new year brings three new Wii titles and a couple of handheld games. Pick of the Week: Nitrobike Ubisoft’s answer to Excitebike arrives on the Wii this week from developer Left Field Productions, the same studio behind Excitebike 64. This arcadey motorcross title features 6-player online multiplayer and should be easy to [...]

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Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of January 8, 2007

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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The new year gets started for real this week, with a wide selection of middle-of-the-road titles. Pick of the Week: Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom Kingdom of Fire sheds it’s pseudo-strategy, Dynasty Warriors-inspired elements and gets back to the basics: the hacking and the slashing. Circle of Doom is an honest-to-goodness action RPG complete with online [...]

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Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of January 1, 2008

Monday, December 31, 2007

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No, you didn’t miss it. There was no multiplayer release list last week because no multiplayer games were released. In fact, no games were released. And frankly, we would have been better off had that trend continued for another week. The new year brings with it four budget PS2-to-Wii ports of years old racing games [...]

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Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of December 18, 2007

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

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Only one shopping week until Christmas! And oh, what a forgettable week it is. Pick of the Week: Rock Band Fear not, last gen supporters, the PS2 continues to soldier on with a downsized port of Harmonix’s excellent music game. While the PS2 version doesn’t support downloadable content (obviously) or online multiplayer (unfortunately), up to four [...]

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Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of December 11, 2007

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

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Another week of mostly ignorable titles as we draw ever closer to Christmas. The PS3 offers a trio of interesting FPS games and casual-friendly sports titles continue to dominate the Wii’s software library. Pick of the Week: Unreal Tournament 3 Epic’s latest installment in their long-running, deathmatch-focused FPS series hits the PS3 this week. Besides being one [...]

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Weekly Multiplayer Releases: Week of December 4, 2007

Thursday, December 6, 2007

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The post-Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) slump continues with an influx of licensed games and quick ports. And yet, a few brightly shining rays of hope pierce the shovelware darkness. Pick of the Week: Universe at War: Earth Assault Developed by Petroglyph, the fine folks behind the excellent Star Wars: Empire at War, this Sega-published title promises [...]

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Answer The Call A Full Week Early

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

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Remember when retailers breaking Mortal Kombat’s “Mortal Monday” release date was big news? These days, it seems like a major game release doesn’t go by without someone breaking the street date. Case in point: according to Gameeater, an unnamed video game store in Westminster, Colorado has (and by now, “had”) four copies of [...]

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