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  Minecraft on Xbox 360 Promises ‘Innovative New Crafting Interface’

  You’ve seen Minecraft‘s Xbox 360 trailer, now see a dozen of its screenshots. Two of them showcase what will be “an innovative new crafting interface,” according to a fact sheet from Microsoft. “A streamlined interface opens at the press of a button, and players can choose from several categories of items to create,” says the…

  By Owen Good Published November 18, 2011
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  True Tales of Skyrim Adventure: The Triumphant Freedom of Madness

  As our week-long exploration of the stories spun in the hearts of Skyrim players comes to a close, we bring you a tale of the end result of too much time spent in this virtual fantasy world, as told by reader BlamefulZulu I sunk to my knees on the side of the river. Holding my…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 18, 2011
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  Minecraft is Out! Go Get It Dammit!!

  Minecraft is out. Yes, finished and out and on sale. So get to it. Go buy yourself a copy right this damn minute. It’s $26.95. In the picture above you see Markus “Notch” Persson literally throwing the switch to make his game live during MineCon in Vegas just moments ago. The convention also saw the…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011
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  Here’s Your First Look at Minecraft on the Xbox 360

  It’s Minecon Weekend and that means we’re getting the first look at Mojang’s hit game on Microsoft’s game console. Feast your eyes on the blocky wonderment up above and get ready for more news as we get it. You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 18, 2011
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  These Trine 2 Screens Will Tickle Your Need to Pre-Order

  Frozenbyte’s Trine 2 looks like it’s shaping up to be one of the prettiest games in recent memory. These new grabs from the puzzle/platormer sequel offer up a wild spectrum of color that shows off Trine’s 2 co-op gameplay. It’s available for pre-order now, just ahead of its December release date. European consumers will have…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 18, 2011
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  EA Being Taken to Court Over Broken Battlefield Promise

  EA promised PS3 owners a free copy of Battlefield 1943 when they picked up Battlefield 3. When they didn’t come through, they upset a lot of gamers, both for the bait-and-yank and for the shoddy manner with which it was announced And they might have got away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  Nintendo GameCube Turns 10, Still Slightly Older than Nintendo’s Newest Good Character

  Happy 10th birthday, Nintendo GameCube. No one threw you a party. The GameCube is, I believe, the most wrongly disrespected console in gaming history. People laughed at it because it was a purple box that played a Luigi game in an era when more people wanted to play Grand Theft Auto III on a black…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 18, 2011
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  Battlefield 3 Strikes Karkand In New Action-Packed Trailer

  Battlefield 3 is already a terrific game, but the Back To Karkand expansion adds more explosive content. Here is the new “Strike At Karkand” trailer, showing us our first extended look at gameplay footage. The first trailer displayed a general overview of the expansion, including the locales in which we would be fighting. Back to…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published November 18, 2011
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  When The Secret World‘s Templars Roar, Everyone Listens

  I’ve been trying to succinctly summarize the Templars of Funcom’s upcoming paranormal MMO all week long, and then this young girl comes along and puts it in simple, easy-to-understand terms: They are the lions of The Secret World A Dragon may turn on another Dragon if it furthers the cause of chaos. A member of…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 18, 2011
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  Saints Row: The Third: The Kotaku Review

  Kanye West’s “Power” plays a central, recurring role in Volition’s new open-world crime game Saints Row: The Third. The tune has been featured in the game’s exhaustive promotional materials, plays regularly on its in-game radio stations, and makes bookending appearances in the single-player campaign. Considering the song’s lyrics and the man who wrote them, Volition…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 18, 2011
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  The Women Playing Games Online Have Happier, Sexier Relationships

  There’s the stereotype of the online gamer as an angry shut-in, using the anonymity of the internet to grief anyone in earshot. Especially, it seems, the women who dare enter an FPS lobby But one study’s shown that those women may be getting more action offline than any stereotype can account for. The Games Blog…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 18, 2011
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  All I Need Are Waves of Hexagonal Enemies and Some Electronica to Shoot Them By

  I don’t know if it’s the bite-sized gameplay, the escalating challenge, the flashing lights, or the pulsing soundtrack from electronica artist Smiletron, but Waves is the most addictive little twin-stick shooter I’ve played since Geometry Wars Created by Robert Hale of Squid in a Box Ltd. and now available on Steam for a mere $8.49,…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 18, 2011
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  Should You Buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance? No.

  This week, all the attention’s going the big-boy versions of Modern Warfare 3. But there’s a DS game, too. This version exists only as part of Activision’s strategy to carpet-bomb their games onto every platform possible. The hook to get folks to buy it is that it bridges the story gap between Modern Warfare 2…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 18, 2011
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  Street Fighter x Tekken To Feature Inter-Franchise Cross-Dressing. Seriously.

  The characters of Street Fighter x Tekken are going to be trading more than blows. Capcom and Namco’s characters are going to be swapping outfits when the martial arts mash-up hits next year. The shots over at Capcom Unity show Tekken‘s obese ass-kicker Bob in a Ryu-style gi and Street Fighter mainstay Chun Li in…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 18, 2011
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  Think Rampage Would Make a Good Monster Movie? So Does New Line Cinema

  Inspired by the classic giant monster movies of Hollywood’s past, Midway’s arcade classic Rampage is now the potentially classic giant monster movie of Hollywood’s future. New Line Cinema has begun development on George, Ralph, and Lizzie’s big screen debut. I love video games. I love giant monster movies. Combine the two together and you’ve got…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 18, 2011
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  GameStop Alone Sold 600,000 Memberships to Call of Duty’s Elite Service

  Call of Duty Elite’s launch was rocky, Activision tells us, missteps were made, but we’ve never had any sense of just how many paying customers it might have attracted, until now. During their third-quarter earnings report yesterday, GameStop spilled the beans on just how many people picked up the paid version of the community-building, stat-tracking,…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011
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  Jimmie Johnson’s Anything With An Engine isn’t Your Grandmas Kart Racing Game

  Want to drive a bathtub? Maybe shoot giant golfballs from a go kart? Well you can do all these things and more! But, I’m not sure its actually worth it. Jimmie Johnson’s Anything With An Engine is just a silly kart game that borrows from everything else, without hitting the mark on any of it.…

  By Chris Carolan Published November 18, 2011
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  Prototype 2‘s New York City is Slightly More Dangerous Than Ours

  Fourteen months after the events of the original Prototype, New York City has become a place filled with danger, disease, and corruption. What took it so long? Having only been in the city twice in my life, my opinion mainly comes from television and movies. So I know that for every sexually based offense handled…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 18, 2011
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  The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: The Kotaku Review

  About 20 hours into playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, one of the Wii’s most ambitious games, I shook my head and realized why I was frustrated with a game that I was enjoying. The new Zelda was fun, I thought, but it was also something else. It was formula. It was the fourth…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 18, 2011
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  Minecraft Scores Perfect First Review, Game Selling at One Every Five Seconds

  Minecraft is meant to come out today, but Eurogamer already had a chance to play through the game and… beat it. That’s right the retail version of Minecraft has stats, buffing and an endgame with poetic pay off. It also is a game that warrants a perfect score from the reviewer Alec Meer. Anticipation for…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011