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Xbox Avatar Awards as Alluring as Achievements

Published 16 hours ago by Gus Mastrapa at GameLife

This weekend I heard the familiar pop of an Xbox 360 notification, but for the first time, the notice read “Avatar Award Unlocked” rather than “Achievement Unlocked.” Even though my band of Left 4 Dead 2 survivors were in the middle of a campaign, I quickly thumbed the ...
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Embedded in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Beta

Published 18 hours ago by Gus Mastrapa at GameLife

The ebb and flow of combat in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , currently beta testing for the PlayStation 3, feels immediately familiar. That’s because EA’s Dice studios has been tweaking, polishing and reworking their formula for goal-oriented, first-person combat since 2002. Just ...
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Today’s Game Book: Race for a New Game Machine

Published 20 hours ago by Chris Kohler at GameLife

The most fascinating part of the console wars happened long before anyone had even heard of PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Inside an Austin, Texas IBM lab, the engineers who’d spent the last two years working on the Cell processor for PS3 were given a new mandate from the top: They had to ...
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World of Warcraft Quests Remain Compelling, 5 Years On

Published 20 hours ago by Tracey John at GameLife

After five years, it’s hard to imagine a world without World of Warcraft . Released Nov. 23, 2004, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game has set the standard for the genre. More than 11.5 million players from around the world, from all walks of life, spend hours a day in ...
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Taking Revenge on Dangerous Plants in Ubisoft’s Avatar

Published 3 days ago by Daniel Feit at GameLife

OSAKA — There weren’t many Western games on display at Games Japan Festa this year, and of those that were, nearly all had already been released in the United States. A notable exception was Avatar , the game based on the James Cameron film that is coming to theaters in December ...
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Hands On: Samurai Shodown Tries 3-D Swordplay (Again)

Published 3 days ago by Daniel Feit at GameLife

OSAKA — The Samurai Shodown series was one of SNK’s biggest successes back in the 1990s, adding medieval weapons to the crowded 2-D fighting genre with a cast of characters rooted in Japanese history and mythology. The newest game is called Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny ( ...
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Retronauts: Mario in the Time of Mode 7

Published 3 days ago by Chris Kohler at GameLife

On the latest installment of 1up.com’s podcast Retronauts, I join Jeremy Parish and Ray Barnholt to discuss the 16-bit era of Mario games. Join us as we talk about why Super Mario World was a pivotal moment in the series’ evolution, why Mario and Wario was the best Mario game ...
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Gamers Play Terrible Penn & Teller Game for Charity

Published 3 days ago by Gus Mastrapa at GameLife

Did Penn and Teller ever imagine that the unreleased Sega CD game bearing their images would raise nearly $100,000 for charity? On Friday, the masochistic sketch comedians from LoadingReadyRun will play one of the must punishing videogames ever created: For the third year running, Desert ...
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Sitar Hero, Hendrix and the 5th Beatle
wired.com - 3 days ago
Sitar Hero, Hendrix and the 5th Beatle
— wired.com — MTV Games and Harmonix released the second major batch of downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band on Tuesday. Each one allows you to complete one of the albums that is partially represented on the disc already. Last month, they added the ... (more) Sitar Hero, Hendrix and the 5th Beatle

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Why Facebook, Twitter on Game Consoles Miss The Point

Published 4 days ago by Gus Mastrapa at GameLife

Adding Twitter and Facebook to game consoles is a good idea, but both Sony and Microsoft are missing the point. These social networks are tools that can be used for all kinds of things. Their usefulness to gamers doesn’t spawn from the ability to learn in real time that your best ...
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Hands On: PSP Metal Slug XX Is Fun, Cramped

Published 4 days ago by Daniel Feit at GameLife

OSAKA — Why isn’t the Metal Slug series as well-known as Contra in the United States? Sure, Contra came first but Metal Slug took that basic gameplay concept and threw in wonderfully animated sprite-based graphics as well as a sense of humor. Perhaps it’s simply a case of ...
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Hands On: Fishing and Swinging in Umihara Kawase DS
wired.com - 4 days ago
Hands On: Fishing and Swinging in Umihara Kawase DS
— wired.com — OSAKA — It’s entirely forgivable if you’ve never heard of Umihara Kawase before. This cult classic Japanese action game is a bit like Bionic Commando , only your character is a little girl and instead of killing Nazis you battle ... (more) Hands On: Fishing and Swinging in Umihara Kawase DS

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Modern Warfare Movie Could Happen, Says ‘Soap’

Published 4 days ago by Gus Mastrapa at GameLife

Kevin McKidd, the actor who provides the voice for Modern Warfare character “Soap” MacTavish, says there’s a Call of Duty movie in the works. “There are talks of a feature film,” McKidd told the New York Post . The actor joked that he wasn’t Infinity ...
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Square Enix, PopCap Collab is Puzzle Quest With a Twist

Published 5 days ago by Gus Mastrapa at GameLife

Role-playing giant Square Enix and casual gaming juggernaut PopCap unleashed their first collaboration this week. Gyromancer , available on the Xbox 360 for $15 and on PC through Steam , looks a lot like the megahit Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords at first glance. But the ...
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Report: Activision Ponders Call of Duty MMO

Published 5 days ago by Gus Mastrapa at GameLife

Activision Blizzard may create a Call of Duty MMO, the Los Angeles Times said Wednesday. “ One person close to the company said it also was considering adapting Call of Duty as a massively multi-player online world,” Times reporter Ben Fritz wrote in a story on Modern Warfare ...
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Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Is Nostalgic, Chaotic

Published 6 days ago by Chris Kohler at GameLife

Don’t let the name fool you. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is actually a little old. This traditional, 2-D action game brings back everything you loved about classics like 1991’s Super Mario World . Hey, it’s the totally ’80s, totally radical Koopa Kids! Fire Chomps ! ...
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Brütal Legend Tees For the Metal Faithful
wired.com - 5 days ago
Brütal Legend Tees For the Metal Faithful
— wired.com — Remember those nifty Brütal Legend T-shirts we mentioned earlier in the week? They’re now officially in play. And if you want to win one, it’ll help if you love heavy metal. Three websites — Metal Insider , Metal Sucks and ... (more) Brütal Legend Tees For the Metal Faithful

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Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm for Xbox 360 Go Live

Published 6 days ago by Gus Mastrapa at GameLife

On Thursday, Microsoft made a handful of new social and entertainment features available to Xbox 360 users: Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm and Zune Video. Twitter and Facebook can be accessed in the My Community category, Last.fm resides in the Music Marketplace and Zune Video can be found in ...
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Review: Assassin’s Creed II Is the Ultimate Killer App

Published 6 days ago by Chris Kohler at GameLife

You can’t see me. I’m there in the shadows, crouched down on the roof above you, dangling on the ledge below you. Maybe you know I’m nearby. Maybe you’re afraid for your life. You should be. Because by the time you realize where I am, you’ll be dead.  ...
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Music Games Aren’t Dead, Just Waiting to Be Reborn

Published 7 days ago by Chris Kohler at GameLife

Much of the wailing and gnashing of teeth coming out of last week’s videogame sales reports seems centered around the music game genre and its failure to stay on the charts. Let’s not confuse the decline of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band brands with the death of music games ...
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