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What Sega Is Bringing To E3 2009
Sega is bringing its A game to E3 2009. Two A games, in fact, along with a B game, a C game, two Olympic titles, and a movie tie-in. Sega’s official E3 line-up announcement doesn’t hint at any big surprises, but it does mention a fair number of titles we’re definitely keeping an eye on.…
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Robots We Love: HK-47
We continue our week-long tribute to the video game robots that we love with a Star Wars droid that loves you too, meatbag. Original characters created for video games set in the Star Wars universe rarely earn the sort of love we hold for HK-47, the homicidal droid who rose to fame in BioWare’s Star…
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Kotaku Robot Wars Round 1: From The Ashes
A nuclear explosion has whittled down our list of thirty-five video game robots to a mere eight, their ultimate fate resting in the hands of our readers, a real-life robot, and random chance. While the nuclear explosion launched by a frightened U.S. military managed to wipe out the majority of the robot combatants summed to…
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Get A Taste Of Miami Law
Hudson doles out a tiny bit of street justice on the Nintendo Channel today, with a downloadable demo of their DS action-adventure title Miami Law. Miami Law is a game that wants to be a police drama, balancing action-packed shoot-outs, car chases, crime scene investigation, and detective work in order to create the ultimate cop…
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LucasArts Confirms Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
LucasArts backs up the ESRB listings for Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for the Nintendo DS and PSP with an official announcement, promising to take the multiplayer battles to several new levels. Elite Squadron is a new twist on the Battlefront series, for the first time allowing players to start a battle on land, commandeer…
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Dark Void: The Bermuda Triangle Angle
The first in a series of developer diaries for Capcom’s Dark Void explores the game’s setting, lost somewhere within the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. I remember being terrified of the Bermuda Triangle as a child, with documentaries on the subject with spooky music and deadly-serious voiceovers by the likes of Leonard Nimoy and Robert Hatch. The…
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Here’s Secret Agent Clank On The PS2
Here’s a look at Sanzaru Games’ PlayStation 2 port of High Impact’s Secret Agent Clank for the PSP, lovingly recreated to provide a “richer game experience” for the console player. Sanzaru increased textures, ge4ometry, and basically tweaked the numbers to make the PS2 version of Secret Agent Clank a bit more of a full PS2…
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The Nintendo Download: Adventurous Islands, Bubbles Bobbling, And Clay Fighting
While those of us in the U.S. were sleeping in, Nintendo spent yesterday adding a fresh crop of titles to their downloadable lineup, with a healthy dose of old games made new and the odd clock. Five new games in total were released yesterday across WiiWare, DSiWare, and the Virtual Console, though since one of…
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Majesco Flips At E3
Majesco is bending the very fabric of space to bring us Flip’s Twisted World, an upside-down platformer for the Nintendo Wii, which they’ll be showing off next week at E3 2009. While games that allow players to turn the world on end are far from a dime a dozen, level-twisting is a gimmick that’s been…
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