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  Investigate Four New L.A. Noire Screens

  Rockstar Games’ detective adventure, L.A. Noire is due to hit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next spring after a very long wait. Four fresh shots of the 1940s investigative adventure are here to make that wait seem ever longer. For impressions of L.A. Noire in words, not so much pictures, read our most recent…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 6, 2010
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  In A Big Room With a Lot of TVs

  To: Ash From: Crecente I’m sitting in the mothership as I write this. To my left: Mike McWhertor and Stephen Totilo. To my right: the glow of a waist to ceiling grid of giant televisions, each tracking the top stories across all of Gawker’s network. Mike’s laptop is buzzing, I’m going to punch it when…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 6, 2010
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  Development of a Great App: Angry Birds

  How often do you find yourself cruising through the apps on your smartphone and wondering: How did they do that? Welcome to the Great Apps series, inspired by the Intel AppUpSM developer program. We give you, Angry Birds, the universally-loved game featuring cute bird bombs, evil pigs, and tumbling bricks. Let’s take a look at…

  By Gawkercreative Published December 6, 2010
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  We May Have Seen The Last Of The Flesh & Blood ‘Lara Croft’

  Tomb Raider is starting anew with the next grand Lara Croft adventure, revealed earlier today on the cover of Game Informer magazine. Tomb Raider’s reboot, an open world origin story, may also signify another serious change for the franchise. According to details from the latest issue of Game Informer magazine, via NeoGAF, the new Tomb…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 6, 2010
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  Is the Future of PC Gaming Massive and Online?

  This week, exceedingly popular computer game World of Warcraft undergoes a cataclysm, reshaping not just the game’s landscape but how you play in the game. But World of Warcraft’s reboot is nothing compared to the turmoil the entire genre is undergoing. Massively multiplayer online role-playing games, once the home of fantasy, magic and swordplay, is…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 6, 2010
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  Which Worgen And Goblin Character Classes Should I Play?

  World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm goes down early tomorrow morning, unleashing the ferocious Worgen and inventive Goblins upon Azeroth as playable races. I’ll have to play both races, but the classes I pick are up to you guys. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be playing World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion pack leading up to…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2010
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  What’s So Special About The Next Bejeweled?

  For some video gamers, December 7, 2010 is the world-stopping release day for the next World of Warcraft. There’s another mammoth computer game coming out that day, a sequel you may not have thought you needed: Bejeweled 3. They’re really making a new Bejeweled? Yes, PopCap Games, which put out the first Bejeweled in 2000…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2010
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  Review: Tron: Legacy Is Cool But Runs Cold

  Tron: Legacy is part rescue mission, part reunion story, less about the return of the computerized world of the Grid than it is about the sci-fi infused relationship of father and son, two Flynns separated by a digital divide. We learn early on, while still in the real world, that twentysomething Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund)…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 6, 2010
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  When Mega Man Meets Halo

  Mega Man fan and Capcom community member Jin Saotome delivers a close approximation of what Mega Man characters sculpted by Halo action figure company McFarlane Toys would look like. As seen on Capcom Unity

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2010
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  I Would Play This Game Simply Because Of Its Name

  This is Warsoup. Do I need to tell you anything more? It’s a game called Warsoup! Oh, and it is a combination of real-time-strategy and first-person shooter. Development studio Moon Games suggests this could be StarCraft crossed with Halo. The game appears to be coming out on the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Mac and…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2010
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  Japanese Hostess Sim Dream Club Zero Ups The Naughty Ante

  The Xbox 360 game that dared to bring you first person sausage feeding of nubile, doe-eyed hostess girls is taking its lack of subtlety to the next level. Meet Dream Club Zero‘s grabby, bug-swatting mini-game. Developer Tamsoft’s latest… innovation is the “Dream Insect.” According to Andriasang, players will be able to brush away bugs from…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 6, 2010
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  Oddworld Invades Steam For The Holidays

  PC gamers get their first taste of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath and Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee this holiday season, as the two former Xbox exclusives arrive on Steam as part of the four-game Oddboxx collection. While PlayStation 3 players have to wait until April for their polished version of Oddworld Inhabitants’ Stranger’s Wrath, PC gamers are getting…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2010
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  Koopa The Hutt And Other Fine Video Game T-Shirts

  Pity those of us who missed some of the great-looking limited edition video game t-shirts that TeeFury.com has been selling. At least we can admire their art. This is Koopa The Hutt by artist glenoneill. This Mega Man one called Bonus Stage was by artist jublin. Sonic gets cash for gold in torakamikaze’s 16 Bit…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2010
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  A Robot That Knows How To Read

  Teaching a robot to recognize symbols is one thing; teaching a robot to actually read and understand those symbols is another thing entirely, but researchers in the UK are getting the job done, thanks to a little artificial intuition. People use text every day. We find our way using street signs, order from written menus,…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2010
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  Review: Epic Mickey Reveals The Price Of Mischief, But With Camera Obscured

  Mickey Mouse is no Super Mario. He’s the star of a more unusual kind of game on the Nintendo Wii, a game that starts poorly but finishes as one of the best hero stories of the year. Mickey’s newest starring opportunity is Disney Epic Mickey. It is a Wii exclusive that sends Mickey into a…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2010
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  A Visual Guide To Epic Mickey

  Your reviewer shows off Epic Mickey’s great Mickey Mouse character model An Epic Mickey Trailer For comparison: Super Mario Sunshine For comparison: The game for which Epic Mickey creative director Warren Spector is most famous, Deus Ex

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2010
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  On German TV, They’ve Unveiled A New Dreamcast Game

  The Spike Video Game Awards have Neil Patrick Harris hosting and some 13 world premieres? Big deal. German broadcast 3Sat just showed a new game for the long-dead (guess not!) Sega Dreamcast. The game is called Sturmwind. It’s a an arcade shoot-em-up, a genre that people keep stubbornly supporting for the Dreamcast, even though Sega…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2010
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  This Is Your Host For The 2010 Spike Video Game Awards

  Last year’s installment of Spike’s Video Game Awards didn’t have a specific host. That’s okay, because this year’s are being hosted by a man with enough talent for two award shows. Whether you call him Doogie Howser, Dr. Horrible, Barney Stinson, Spider-Man, or Carl Jenkins, I’ll just stick to calling Neil Patrick Harris by his…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2010
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  Minecraft: The Music Video

  Some bands may borrow the aesthetic of Minecraft for their songs, but I think this may be one of the first Minecraft music videos.

  By Brian Crecente Published December 6, 2010
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  And Then I Punched Deathwing Right In The Face

  In the Cataclysm-scarred desolation of World of Warcraft’s Badlands, three old adventures tell spectacular tall tales about the day Deathwing came. Check out one of the finest examples of traditional storytelling I’ve seen in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. If you’re a current World of Warcraft player, don’t look at the videos below. Just…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2010