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Love Is An Open Alpha
A labor of love should be shared by all, so Eskil Steenberg has opened up the first alpha test for his procedurally-generated MMO Love to all comers, though be warned – the test is extremely limited. How limited? Downloading the alpha client takes only a moment, and that’s because there really isn’t all that much…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Preview: Split Personality Gameplay
Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a massively successful CGI show on Cartoon Network. Can its tie-in game live up to the hype? I’m still confused about how to think of Republic Heroes. On the one hand, it’s a tie-in game for a show that turned out to be way cooler than a I thought…
By AJ Glasser - Uncategorized
Square Enix Creates Puzzle RPG With A Bejeweled Twist
What do you get when the puzzle game masters at PopCap team up with RPG kings Square Enix for a Puzzle-RPG for Xbox Live Arcade and Steam? Sounds like countless productive hours lost to me. Puzzle Quest showed us that the puzzle game and the RPG could be successfully married into an entertaining and highly-addictive…
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Brutal Legend and Forza Demos Hit Xbox Live
Two highly anticipated demos make their way onto Xbox Live today, with Brutal Legend escaping from preorder exclusive hell and Forza 3 edging closer to the finish line. Free up some hard disk space as two of the most eagerly awaited games get their demo on. The heavy metal action of the Brutal Legend demo…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Introducing Mr. Yusuf Amir of Liberty City
Meet Yusuf Amir, who’s a successful businessman gangster and rival of Gay Tony. Yusuf enjoys dancing in his tightie-whities, but that’s not why this is NSFW. Huge F-bomb about 10 seconds in; it might rupture your chaste workplace speakers. Rockstar’s news release accompanying this video describes Amir as “The affable, cutthroat real estate and construction…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
PSPgo Costs as Much as a PS3 in Denmark
Either Sony’s gotta cut its price or the Danish kroner’s gotta get a lot weaker against the dollar for the PSPgo’s sake. It’s listed at 2,000 DKK – or $396 US, one reason retailers there aren’t stocking the thing. Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet reports (translation) that Fona will not sell the PSPGo in any of its…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Exploring The Shard Of Love In EQ2
The Shards of Destiny, The latest content update for EverQuest 2, is now live, opening up Erollisi Marr’s Shard of Love to players and adding achievements to the game. The goddess Erollisi Marr has gone missing, and only your stalwart band of adventurers can infiltrate her home shard of Love and get as much loot…
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Guild Wars 2 Art Book Now On Sale
You know that splendid and poignant Guild Wars 2 art book NCsoft was handing out at PAX? Now it can be yours for a price! It’s just like getting it for free, only with money! We’ve learned how big a focus ArenaNet was putting on the art for Guild Wars 2 during our annual pilgrimage…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Scene It? Brings Twilight’s Sparkle Pony Vampires To The Wii
Konami takes the Scene It? franchise in a decidedly darkly romantic direction with Scene It? Twilight for the Nintendo Wii, based on the ridiculously popular “vampire” movie. There’s just no escaping Twilight. It’s in the supermarkets, video stores, and books stores. It’s in the food we eat, and the women we date. To survive as…
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