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High School Musical Star Gets His Sims On (For Charity)
Corbin Bleu, a.k.a. High School Musical‘s Chad Danforth, at a Starlight Hospital Happening Event at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Los Angeles. The event brings in entertainers like Bleu and entertainment like The Sims 3 to cheer up sick kids. Seen any other stars doing game-related charity this year? Send us some pics!
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Child’s Play Raises More than $1M for the Year
With the all-important holiday month still to come, Child’s Play, the charity donating video games and toys to children’s hospitals worldwide, has tallied more than $1 million in donations this year. It hopes to eclipse $1.4 million by year’s end. The figure is especially encouraging in light of the crap economy in the U.S. Child’s…
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Mass Effect 2 Will Be Incredibly Emotionally Engaging
During a recent conference call about Mass Effect 2, BioWare CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka stressed the importance of emotional engagement in the game by mentioning the phrase “emotionally engaging” over and over again. The conference call was an odd one. Instead of asking questions directly, we either submitted them ahead of time or delivered them…
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Resident Evil In Motorcycle Form
If you could condense all of the brutal zombie-killing action of the Resident Evil franchise into one sleek, sexy package and ride it about town, odds are it would look something like this – Capcom’s official Resident Evil custom chopper. The Resident Evil custom chopper is the result of a partnership between Capcom, production company…
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UncategorizedAion Banhammer: Behind the Rabbit? It IS The Rabbit
Wielding the banhammer on Xbox Live and other static virtual communities (like this little blog here) can be a strangely disconnected experience. One second you’re here, the next you’ve vanished. Not so in Aion: Tower of Eternity. In that game, you know when you’ve been banhammered because a giant freaking rabbit shows up or a…
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BioWare Labs Gives The Gift Of The Yeti
BioWare’s new R&D group, BioWare Labs, gives us The Gift of the Yeti, a Facebook game that could raise up to $10,000 for Child’s Play while giving gamers $10 off Dragon Age: Origins. Help out a sick Santa by maneuvering your yeti through town, avoiding police and delivering as many gifts as you can within…
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UncategorizedSee The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks’ Whirlwind In Action
It’s hard to call this small sample of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks‘ gameplay spoilerific because in truth it looks awfully familiar to anybody who played Ocarina of Time. The Whirlwind is new, though. You can see it in action as the primary strategy to beat this beetle boss. To activate the Whirlwind, you…
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White Knight Chronicles Goes International In February
Level-5’s epic PlayStation 3 RPG finally makes it to the states in February, filled with extras and re-branded as the White Knight Chronicles International Edition. The International Edition of White Knight Chronicles contains all of the action-RPG gameplay of the original Japanese release, along with a slew of updates and downloadable content, all packaged together…
By Mike Fahey