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June 22, 2012

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So what’s worse than being stuck in Seattle in the ’80s with a bunch of slavering undead? Phobias! The newest developer diary from Tequila Works explores a little bit of what makes the main character in Deadlight tick. Not a soldier, cop, or even a hero- Randall is just a…

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June 21, 2012

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It’s a pretty good week for Wii owners in Nintendo’s weekly download update, but then again any week is a good one when Double Dragon is involved. DDII appears this week for the Wii’s Virtual Console and stars the Lee Bros once again as they quest to… oh forget it-…

Review: A Valley Without Wind (PC)

June 21, 2012

A Valley Without Wind/Reviews

While the category has been around for quite a long time, “Randomly/ Procedurally Generated” games have seen a bit of resurgence. The most current and easily recognized game of this category is Minecraft, a building/adventuring game with a procedurally-generated world. One could argue that Minecraft has been the basis of…

Sine Mora on the way for PS3

June 21, 2012

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Grasshopper Manufacture is bringing it’s popular Xbox Live shmup Sine Mora to the Playstation Network. There’s no release date yet, but PS3 shooter fans are in for a treat as trippy shoot ’em up Sine Mora is on the way for the console. Co-developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality, Sine Mora is…

It’s the best of E3 2010 on the PSN update

June 21, 2012

Assassin's Creed/ghost recon future soldier/Limbo/ps plus/PS Vita/PS3/PSN/psn update/psone classics/PSP/PSP Go/psv/PSVita/Red Dead Redemption/Tom Clancy/Two Worlds/X-Play

X-Play’s ‘best of’ series continues this week as their picks of the 2010 E3 get PSN discounts. And is that a PSOne classic I see? Yes, off in the distance… it’s Tomba! The first PSOne legacy title to hit the PSN in a good long while is an old school…

Nintendo Direct announced for tomorrow

June 21, 2012

3DS/Nintendo Direct/Wii

It was only a few weeks ago when Nintendo held a pre-E3 Nintendo Direct conference to showcase some of the Wii U’s features prior to the actual conference. Even so, another event has been announced for tomorrow, which will feature news on upcoming Nintendo titles. The live stream will be shown…

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June 21, 2012

Outage/PlayStation/PS3/PSN/PSP/psv/PSVita/Sony/South Korea

South Korean PSN players are in for a little bit of a dry spell as the service has gone offline in that country- and it has nothing to do with hacking. Apparently, a new law in SK makes it illegal to ask anyone under 18 account verification questions that include…

The Xbox update is Magic

June 21, 2012

MAgic 2013/Magic the Gathering/Marvel/Microsoft/Pinball FX 2/The Avengers/xbl/xbl update/XBLA/Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox Live/Xbox Live Arcade

Magic 2013 hits Xbox Live this week with a deck full of card battling action along with some new Marvel pinball and a blue blur of a sale. It never ceases to amaze me how much people still like games like Magic 2013. Based on maybe the most popular card…

Giving away free games is not doing anyone any favours, Nintendo, Sony, EA

June 21, 2012

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Chances are, if you’ve got a games console or a PC, you’ve been given free games. Nintendo gave early adopters of the 3DS console 20 free games. Sony’s given away 10 free games twice (once as an apology for the massive hack, and at E3 as a gift for PS…

Xbox 360 to miss out on Clan of Champions

June 21, 2012

Clan of Champions/sad news

Sad news for Xbox fans: NIS America’s promising gladiator game, Clan of Champions, is going PS3/ Steam only. The multiplayer slash-em-up features 3-v-3 team battles and promises a deep combat and equipment system. Which is just as well, because this game is all about the combat. There are three races…

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