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Steam Deals Day Four: Prince of Persia, Lucidity, Guild Wars marked down

The next-to-last day of Steam's "Early Holiday Sale" brings with it an eclectic collection of discounted PC titles, including last year's Prince of Persia ($14.99), Battlefield...

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  • Posted: 11/29/2009

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King of Fighters movie trailer giving us Street Fighter flashbacks

We are conflicted, dear readers, over the assumed quality of the King of Fighters film adaptation, the debut trailer for which can be found after the jump. On one hand, we hav...

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CrimeCraft latest game banned in Australia

Australia's video game ratings board have yet again denied to rate a PC game effectively banning the game from sale in that country. The latest title is CrimeCraft, the first p...

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  • Posted: 11/29/2009

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Report: Splinter Cell: Conviction to have co-op, new multiplayer mode

According to a recent post on CVG, the publishing partner of PC Zone magazine, the next issue of the latter will drop some knowledge on us regarding Splinter Cell: Conviction's...

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Reminder: Last day to enter SteelSeries PC hardware contest

A lot of you have likely been out and about shopping today, looking for the best gift to give your gamer man or woman. However, one of you will be getting something very cool fr...

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  • Posted: 11/29/2009

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Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is falling behind

Oh, man! We knew we forgot to do something yesterday! In the midst of our holiday spending spree, we forgot to post the winner of last week's Wrapup! Here's a shocker: First pl...

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  • Posted: 11/28/2009

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Microsoft's Marc Whitten sees Natal replacing television remote controls

Speaking to a room full of executives focused on "the business of online video" at this year's Streaming Media West trade show, it's easy to understand how Xbox Live GM Marc Wh...

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Robin Williams plays Call of Duty, named his daughter Zelda (guess why!)

Though we may not be steadfast watchers of Jimmy Fallon's late night talkshow, we have to give the man credit for once again bringing the world of gaming into his decidedly non...

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  • Posted: 11/28/2009

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Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising gets March 11, 2010 release date

You can add one more game to the massive list of PC titles due out in the first quarter of 2010. This time it's for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising. Thanks to a p...

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  • Posted: 11/28/2009

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Nintendo UK announces Reflect Missile for DSiWare, releases it

Ready for some fairly unsurprising news? Nintendo UK recently revealed what we all expected yesterday following the OFLC rating of a Q-Games project titled Reflect Missile -- t...

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  • Posted: 11/28/2009

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Alone in the Dark 2 movie heading straight to DVD this holiday

It's been four years since Uwe Boll first graced American cinemas with his game-to-film masterpiece, Alone in the Dark. Though only acting as producer (rather than his usual di...

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  • Posted: 11/28/2009

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Infinity Ward targets PC Modern Warfare 2 cheaters

Infinity Ward has said using Steam's VAC anti-cheat system for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 was going to be their way to deal with players using cheats and hacks in the ...

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Thief 4 development coming along in 'leaps and bounds'

Our memory of the announcement of Thief 4 has long since been washed away by other sizable pieces of gaming news and releases -- however, Eidos Montreal boss Stephane D'Astous ...

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Dyack dismayed by layoffs, anticipates growth in Ontario

Following yet another report of company restructuring resulting in job losses, outspoken industry veteran Denis Dyack called industry-wide layoffs within the last year and a ha...

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Child's Play updates fund raising numbers

The annual fund and prize drive for the Child's Play is officially in full swing and so far the drive is well on its way to completing it's $1 million goal. On Friday the charit...

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  • Posted: 11/28/2009

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Warmachine game attacking PC, consoles

According to a statement made to BigDownload, the video game adaptation of Privateer Press' tabletop fantasy war game Warmachine is currently in development for the PC and (uns...

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Japan facing Final Fantasy XIII oversaturation crisis

And you thought Halo 3-themed Game Fuel was bad. A recent round of advertisements have taken Japan by storm, all of which either shill for Final Fantasy XIII, or some product b...

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Lucidity gets new patch

Last October, LucasArts released Lucidity. The downloadable action-puzzle game was the developer/publisher's first original game title in several years (you can check out our r...

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  • Posted: 11/28/2009

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Real world CSIs look at videogame tech to help solve cases

While TV-based crime scene investigators use futuristic moon technology to solve mysteries, real world forensic scientists say the biggest advancements need to come from how inv...

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  • Posted: 11/28/2009

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Santa's Dragon Quest IX cameo now available in Japan

He might know if you've been bad or good, but that won't stop St. Nick from sending you on a horse-related fetch quest in new DLC for Dragon Quest IX in Japan. Released on Novem...

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