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EA Sports Avoids Campaign-Year Headache by Keeping Obama Out of NFL Blitz
A year after appearing in NBA Jam (with Vice President Biden, and eight other political figures of both parties), President Obama will not cameo in January’s NFL Blitz, one of the game’s designers said recently. Though Yuri Bialoskursky didn’t say so specifically, it’s probably because a presidential election year is coming up, and EA Sports…
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Game Reviewers Protest Middle-Earth’s Senseless War in the North
There once was a small hobbit that left the Shire on a grand adventure, performing brave deeds and overcoming impossible odds for the sake of all Middle-Earth. This is not his story. The Lords of the Rings: War in the North instead follows the story of a trio of adventurers going on a journey so…
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Get Swept Up in the Sound of Skyrim‘s Barbarian Choir
Back in 2006 Skyrim game director Todd Howard called up composer Jeremy Soule and told him he wanted the music for the game to sound like The Elder Scrolls theme as sung by a barbarian choir. Lacking barbarians, Soule just hired some men with deep voices. I am posting this video specifically so I can…
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This is How Modern Warfare 3 Will Bring Everyone Together
The Call of Duty series has traditionally been about shooting your enemies apart online, but with the strong social features of Call of Duty Elite and Facebook integrated with Modern Warfare 3 the latest game in the series is more about bringing gamers together. And then killing them. I’m not a big multiplayer shooter person.…
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Homegrown Terrorists Fight to Take Back America in Rainbow 6: Patriots
After a two-game vacation in Vegas, Tom Clancy’s elite counter-terrorism unit takes on an all-new threat threatening to destroy the U.S. government in Rainbow 6: Patriots now in development for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. In the latest entry in the venerable series, Team Rainbow faces off against the True Patriots, a well-organized…
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Sonic Generations Has Game Reviewers Running in Circles
Desperately attempting to please two different sets of fans on Sonic the Hedgehog’s 20th anniversary, Sega has crammed two different types of hedgehog gameplay into Sonic Generations, a formula that never fails to create entertaining game reviews. What else can Sega do? Some fans hate 2D Sonic, other fans hate 3D Sonic. They’ve tried making…
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Run Green Hill Zone in Under 1:50 and Collect Some Nice Sonic Merch
Earlier today I was wondering what qualified me to review Sonic Generations, beyond my capacity for saying “god dammit.” Yet after a solid 24 hours with this game not only are my eyeballs properly tracking its sidescrolling motion, I’ve recovered my innate understanding of the technical requirements of a solid speed-run through a Sonic world.…
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Character Creation Is Back and Better Than Ever in Soulcalibur V
My favorite feature of Soulcalibur IV was the ability to create my own custom characters and see how they fare on the stage of history. Judging by this trailer and these new screens, it’ll probably be my favorite feature of Soulcalibur V as well. With the inclusion of stickers and scars, pattern changing and scaling,…
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It’s Sonic Generations Launch Day
Two generations of hedgehogs collide today in Sonic Generations, and we’ve got the launch trailer to prove it. Just don’t watch it if you’re waiting on the PC version (November 4) or the 3DS one (November 22). Or if you’re in Europe for that matter (November 4). Or Australasia (November 3). Or Japan (December 1).…
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An Epic Adventure Inside the Box of the Gigantic Skyrim Collector’s Edition
Unleash the dragon! The collector’s edition of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has arrived, and I’m taking you inside a box so epic it takes two generations of Faheys to get the job done. While it’s much bigger than it looked on the internet, the Skyrim Collector’s Edition is actually rather light, thanks to the…
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A Journalist and a Raccoon Are My Favorite New Characters in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
One’s a photojournalist that’s covered wars and zombie outbreaks. The other’s a sentient raccoon that acts as the guardian of an entire quadrant of galactic real estate. Together they are the latest two characters joining the roster of Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. What a crazy pair! You can’t help but love Dead Rising‘s Frank…
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European Xbox Gamers Won’t See Jurassic Park Until Next Year
Due for release on Nov. 15, Jurassic Park won’t be arriving on Xbox Live for European customers until Telltale Games can find a publisher overseas, a representative said in the studio’s official forums. Telltale hipes to have news on that soon, but it won’t happen before 2012. The European release is right on schedule for…
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Meet the Cover Star of Battlefield 3
The grim-faced soldier gracing the packshot of Battlefield 3 has a history with the series. He’s Dennis Lennartsson, a motion-capture actor selected by DICE to star on the cover of this year’s game. Lennartsson wore about 65 pounds worth of gear for the cover shoot (more than 500 images were taken). During motion capture for…
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Capcom Sets the Release of Asura’s Wrath and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Asura’s Wrath will release Feb. 21 and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will hit shelves March 20, Capcom said this morning in a news release. Both games will have Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. Capcom also spelled out the pre-order bonuses and the special edition swag for Raccoon City. Preorders through GameStop, Amazon or Best…
By Owen Good
