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No, not that Raiden. Raiden IV, the top down scrolling shmup released in Japan for the Xbox 360 last year year is headed to North America, courtesy of publisher UFO Interactive. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; The publisher has confirmed to 1UP (and does a new ESRB rating) that the most recent entry in the long-running Raiden [...]
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27 May 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; A week and a half after reaching the million player mark, Sony Online Entertainment‘s Free Realms has gone and doubled it. The player population of Free Realms continues to grow at a ridiculous rate, hitting the two million player milestone within a month of the game’s official launch. According to SOE, the [...]
window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; The developers of popular Half-Life mod Natural Selection are preparing to release standalone sequel Natural Selection 2 this year via Steam, and we’ve got the exclusive teaser trailer to prove it. Last we heard, the development of the standalone sequel to one of the most played Half-Life 2 mods had hit a [...]
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27 May 2009Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot predicted today not just a coming generation of consoles and a gaming revolution in set-top boxes, but a bigger gaming play by Apple than just the iPhone. Yves Guillemot crossed his name off the list of people who have yet to predict that Apple will become a bigger player in gaming [...]
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27 May 2009Early concepts for BioShock 2‘s Big Sister by Colin Fix (and additional Little Sister concepts by wife Annie Fix). [via Super Punch]
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27 May 2009Well, as repeatedly predicted on here, we have the Zune to take on the world. And they haven’t put a phone in it! Features: Wi Fi internet access. Widescreen multitouch OLED screen (nicer display technology). HD Radio. Video and music playback. USA market only. Uses Xbox Live. Downloadable games. Web browser based on Internet Explorer. [...]
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27 May 2009As seen on Albotas.
Oh look. Another new product announcement just days before E3. In this instance, for a big, proper game based on Pirates Of The Caribbean. Why, exactly, do we have the show again? Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned is an “action RPG”, being developed by Propaganda Games and to be published by, who [...]
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25 May 2009You do? Well, okay then! Here’s a run down of the monster variation. It’s not all concept art, as there are some early builds as well.
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25 May 2009NYC Resistor collaborator Kelly Farrell shows off her latest project: a gazing-ball trackball controller that plays Katamari Damacy the way we should have realized it was meant to be played all along.
How does it work? Kelly explains:
It uses an…