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Sonic Races into LittleBigPlanet
Finally, a Sonic side-scrolling game returns to consoles! Well, sort of. Sega and Media Molecule have teamed up to add Sonic and friends to the playable skins in LittleBigPlanet, revealed at the site for PlayStation Asia.
Now, you can dress up ...
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New 2K Games Shooter Announced to Debut at VGAs...and Outed Soon After
The latest world premiere to be a part of the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards has been announced, and it's a new mystery game that we haven't seen before...or have we?
VGA 2009 Mystery World Premiere #1
The trailer reveals a new military-based ...
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Super Mario Kart, Pilotwings, Smash Bros. Coming to Virtual Console
Kotaku is reporting that three of the most desired games for the Wii's Virtual Console are about to make an appearance. This Monday, expect to see Super Mario Kart (SNES) on the service for 800 points. The other two titles, Super Smash Bros. and ...
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Final Fantasy XIII's Final Trailer Debuts Wednesday
With Final Fantasy XIII's Japan release only weeks away, news has been pouring in regarding what to expect from the series' next installment. While Japanese gamers don't have to wait long to get their hands on the game, North American and European ...
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Supreme Commander 2 Moves Out in March
Square Enix hasn't been known for advancements in the real-time strategy genre...or Western-developed games at all for that matter. However, that will change in March 2010, which has been announced as the official release date for Supreme Commander ...
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Mass: We Pray a Dante's Inferno Marketing Stunt
Last week's satirical advertisement for Mass: We Pray, which featured cross-shaped motion controllers and gameplay modes like 'baptism' and 'ring the tower bell', has turned out to be another bit of sneaky marketing for EA's upcoming Dante's ...
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Week-Ending Game Endings - 11.20.09 - Resident Evil 2
I hope this doesn't count as spoilers.
This week, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles came out for the Wii, and I figured a good way of marking the occasion would be to post the ending of one of the games from which it draws, Resident Evil ...
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My Games This Weekend - 11.20.09 - New Super Mario Bros. Wii and WWE
This weekend, it's more New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The wife and I have already stepped into the dark land of World 8, and will soon make Bowser eat his own shell. So far, the game really hasn't been all that difficult, even with two of us getting in ...
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November Marks the Launch Anniversary of Many a Gaming Platform
A lot of console and handheld anniversaries are being observed this year, such as the SEGA Genesis, the Dreamcast, and the Game Boy. But November seems to be the month to remember, as many a memorable platform celebrate can celebrate its launch going ...
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Media: Rabbids Go Home Music Video, Songs on iTunes
Ubisoft has announced that for those who enjoy the soundtrack to the recently-released comedy-adventure Rabbids Go Home, the tracks can now be purchased and downloaded from iTunes.
To give you a sampling of what you're in for, they have produced the ...
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FFXIII Gets "T" Rating Long After Nintendo Tried Marketing Original to Adults
Following the announcement of a release date, The Examiner reports that Final Fantasy XIII now has a rating by the ESRB. And that rating is... T for Teen. Like you thought it would be anything else.
The reason for the rating is Violence (natch), ...
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A Good (or at Least Fairly Decent) Look at Sony's Magical Wand
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While Microsoft has been quite open with Project Natal, showing it to anyone who will look and taking it on talk show after talk show following E3, Sony has been much quieter about their unnamed motion control peripheral. In ...
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Nintendo Goes Nationwide with Holiday Mall Experience
There are no doubt numerous games you would like to try out this holiday season. Of course, games aren't cheap, and in this economy, you can't just spend indiscriminately on unproven goods. Rentals are an option, but their prices these days are ...
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Microsoft to Reveal More of Project Natal at Gamefest in February 2010
While earlier rumors of information surrounding the release of Project Natal were dismissed a inaccurate, Microsoft has gone on to confirm that it will reveal more information to developers at its Gamefest conferences in February, which are planned ...
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REVIEW: Play Any Other Fishing Game but Shimano Xtreme Fishing
What the Game's About
Shimano Xtreme Fishing brings the sport of fishing right to your living room. You can either be an angler the old fashion way or get more extreme by bow fishing or spear fishing. By requiring using the Wii-mote to simulate ...
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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is the Franchise's Fastest Selling Game
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time, the latest outing for the dynamic duo from Sony and Insomniac Studios, unfortunately did not manage to blast its way into October's Top 10 software sales as rated by NPD. However, that doesn't mean its sales were ...
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Aonuma Says Traditional Flow of Zelda Will Change in Next Wii Game
Yesterday, we learned from franchise director Eiji Aonuma that "some of the internet speculation is right" surrounding the new Legend of Zelda game for Wii. But other than that, he said that further discussion and details surrounding the title would ...
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Mozilla Rejects Rumor of Firefox Coming to PS3
Yesterday, PlayStation Insider reported that Mozilla's popular web browser, Firefox, would soon be coming to the PlayStation 3 emerged. The credibility of this news was a bit shoddy, however, seeing as how the site has been wrong on multiple ...
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REVIEW: The Insanity is Back in Rabbids Go Home
What the Game's About
Rabbids Go Home is the very first time the mischievous, villainous little bunny type creatures star in their very first game without Rayman. The Rabbids want to make a journey back home and they think that home is on the Moon. To ...
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REVIEW: C.O.P. The Recruit Pushes the DS More Than You Would Think
What the Game's About
C.O.P. The Recruit is an open-world game on the DS that puts you in control of Dan Miles, a former illegal street racer turned C.O.P., better known as Criminal Overturn Program recruit. Your partnership with a Detective Winter ...
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GameStop's Black Friday Video Game Deals Revealed
The dreaded date of Black Friday on November 27th, 2009 draws ever closer. And while Kmart's gamer deals did little to excite, perhaps GameStop's offerings will do a little more for you.
So if you decide to venture forth out into the November cold ...
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Sony "Confident" It Will Sell 13 Million PlayStation 3's This Year
Sony Computer Entertainment is aiming for 13 million PlayStation 3 consoles sold worldwide by the end of the fiscal year, as Executive Vice President Kaz Hirai explained to the press that he is "confident" that they can reach that goal. ...
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Media: It's the Spirit of Zelda and She's Really Rad - 17 Images, 3 Vids, and Why Zelda's Playable
We've got a nice heaping helping of Zelda goodness for you today, and at the top of the list are the seventeen new images added to our gallery for The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, which includes the above image. Nothing has been confirmed, but I ...
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"We Interrupt This Deathmatch to Bring You the Following Announcement..."
Some of you might be familiar with the Emergency Broadcast System or its successor, the Emergency Alert System, which tend to interrupt television shows and commercials with their shrill sound tests. And on occasion, they even warn you of imminent ...
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IBM Ending Cell Processor Development
IBM has confirmed that it will cease development of the Cell Processor used on the PS3 among other systems. This does not equate to an end of production.
IBM has been co-developing the Cell Processor along with Sony and Toshiba. Even after the ...
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Infinity Ward Considered Alien Warfare?!
The team at Infinity Ward is made up of quite a unique and creative group of guys, and as such, I'm not surprised when I hear some of the outlandish ideas they originally had for Modern Warfare 2. From zombies and viral outbreaks to alien invasions, ...
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British Government Recruiting Over Xbox Live
Gaming has been prospected as an armed forces recruitment tool for years, so it was only a matter of time before online games were targeted as an avenue. It's just that the British government ended up doing it first.
The Government Communications ...
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Rebuttal: Is Infinty Ward Anti-PC?
A few days ago we published an article under the title "Modern Warfare 2: The Battleground for PC Gaming?" in which one of Kombo's Editorialists, Eric Frederiksen, discussed the hardcore PC gamer's opinions regarding Infinity Ward's move to do away ...
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REVIEW: God of War Collection Gives the PS2 Games a Facelift
What the Game's About
God of War: Collection is the re-release of the PlayStation 2 classics God of War and God of War II. The games tell of the story of a tortured anti-hero named Kratos who seems to always get tricked by the Olympian gods, gets ...
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BLOG: Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Hater
Before I begin my diatribe, please understand something about me first. I am a huge Kingdom Hearts fan. The original game was pretty much what pushed me from casually playing videogames to becoming a hardcore gamer, particularly in the realm of RPGs. ...
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Satoshi Sakai Talks Phantasy Star 0, Plus the Return of Phantasy Star Online?
Our buddies over at Gamereactor were able to catch up with Phantasy Star 0's producer Satoshi Sakai to talk about the upcoming RPG. While there, he dropped some big hints of what to expect from the future of the PS franchise.
As you heard, Sakai ...
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Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer Beta is Up and Ready for Download
Dice has announced that the US client for Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer Beta is ready for download and servers are ready to start accepting players.
If you keep an eye on the Official BFBC2 twitter every day they will be giving out beta codes ...
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Ubisoft Opens Rabbids Comic Blog
If you simply cannot get enough Raving Rabbids, then Ubisoft has found a way to keep you entertained twice a week without running up their computer animation budget. Just check out the Rabbids Comic Blog to see more of their efforts to reach the ...
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Rayman's Raving Rabbids TV Party
Random Video of the Day: Death Metal Bowser's Castle Theme
The folks at CollegeHumor.com suggest that "If you can't handle this, then you shouldn't be inside a kidnapper dinosaurs death castle."
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
And of course, my first reaction near the end would be ...
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15-Year Old Calls 911 When Parents Seize Xbox
CNET News relays a story from the Chicago Tribune of a 15-year old boy from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, who called 911 to ask whether his parents were within their rights to take away his Xbox.
The boy soon hung up, said Commander Steve Husak, but ...
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The Re-Imagining of Mortal Kombat That Might Have Been
Before departing Midway last year, artist Vincent Proce put together a proposal for a new Mortal Kombat game that was "a re imagining of the Mortal Kombat franchise from the original premise but mixing modern muti-player and dismemberment game design ...
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'Return to Ostagar' in New Dragon Age: Origins DLC
Bioware announced today that it would be releasing DLC for Dragon Age: Origins this holiday season. Players will literally Return to Ostagar. The expansion involves a quest, a King Cailan, and said king's honor. If you've played the game that might ...
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Gamer Fails at Suing Sony, Goes After Microsoft and Nintendo Instead
One lawsuit-happy gamer by the name of Erik Estavillo didn't have much luck when he tried to sue Sony Computer Entertainment America for banning him from the PlayStation Network, so he has instead decided to try his luck against the industry's other ...
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Media: 20 Screens of No More Heroes: Hero's Paradise; Marvelous Losing Money on Most Wii Titles, Profiting on PSP
Marvelous has launched the official Japanese website for the HD version of No More Heroes, known as "Heroes' Paradise." Unfortunately, there is almost nothing to do there, but never fear; it just so happens that the Japanese Xbox.com website has ...
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Sony Aiming for PlayStation 3-D in 2010 with Firmware Update
One of Sony's more buzz-worthy exhibits at the Tokyo Game Show was their 3-D demonstration of Wipeout. Today, Sony Computer Entertainment Chief Executive Officer Kaz Hirai followed up on their TGS spectacle during a press briefing with a statement ...
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REVIEW: Buzz! Quiz World is One of the Best Quiz Games Out There
What the Game's About
Buzz! Quiz World is the next installment of the casual friendly trivia game on the PlayStation 3. The focus this time around is more variety of quiz round and an easier user interface that puts you in the game a whole lot faster ...
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Media: 3D Dot Game Heroes Western Launch Trailer
Hot on the heels of Atlus' announcement that they'd be publishing 3D Dot Game Heroes in North America, a March 10 release date, and a $40 price tag, we now have the Western launch trailer.
It tells the story of Dotnia, a once-peaceful 2D kingdom ...
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BBFC's Sonic Classic Collection Rating Confounds and Confuses
There has been a bit of buzz happening all over the net about a new Sonic collection recently given a rating by the British Board of Film Classification.
Called the "Sonic Classic Collection," it is comprised of the original Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic ...
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McKidd Talks Call of Duty Movie
According to a story in the New York Post, Kevin McKidd, voice actor for Captain "Soap" MacTavish in Modern Warfare 2, has said that the video game franchise may be on its way to the big screen:
"They were looking for a rough, Scottish actor in ...
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REVIEW: Resident Evil: The Dark Chronicles Presents New Looks at Past RE Games
What the Game's About
Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles is an on-rails shooter in the same spirit as Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. This time around, you play different scenes from the past games including Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil ...
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Media: Resident Evil 5 Goes for the Gold with New Content
Today, Capcom has officially announced their plans for bringing over the contents of Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition to North America. As we predicted, not only will the content be available through downloads, but there will also be a retail ...
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Media: Take That! The Phoenix Wright Trilogy Heads to WiiWare in Early 2010
As we learned earlier this week, the rumor is true that Capcom is bringing the Ace Attorney series to WiiWare. And as Capcom has now revealed, the games are coming out in North America and Europe early next year as well.
While the European dates are ...
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BioShock Sequel gets a Fully Loaded Collector's Edition
Ever since the release of Halo 3's "Legendary Edition," a pricey collector's edition is almost expected from every big title. From Modern Warfare 2's "Prestige Edition," to DJ Hero's "Renegade Edition," the age of over-priced extras is only ...
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Fan Creates NES-Styled Left 4 Dead "De-Make"
In the face of successful oldschool titles and remakes such as Mega Man 9 and Konami's ReBirth series, the developers at Valve have decided to beat these old industry hands at their own game-- by taking their hit franchise Left 4 Dead into the field ...
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SEGA Looking into PlayStation 3 Bayonetta's Load Times
Much ado has been made over the PlayStation 3 version of Bayonetta and its discrepancies with the Xbox 360 lead version, including load times-- approximately 25 seconds to load a stage, 10 seconds for a cutscene, and five seconds for a menu, according ...
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