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30 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; In the olden days, you used to get this sort of thing as a lovely big poster, which came folded neatly inside your game’s large cardboard box. These days, you’ll have to make do with viewing your Starcraft II tech trees online. These shots come courtesy of the gentlemen at Giant Bomb. [...]
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30 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Last week Obsidian Entertainment confirmed what we’ve known for months: The Aliens RPG is officially dead. This morning pics from the now defunct game have surfaced. The images, especially the one of a hulking Alien, sorta make me glad the project isn’t moving forward. RPG Codex Forums [Via Polygamia]
In: Gaming News|Nintendo
25 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Why settle for cheap plastic imitation when you can have the cheap plastic real thing this fall, with the release of the official Star Wars Lightsaber and Clone Trooper Blaster accessories for the Nintendo Wii. Manufactured and distributed by Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, Inc., licensed by LucasArts and Nintendo, and marketed under [...]
In: Gaming News|Humor|PC
25 Jun 2009So, if you’ve been wondering why all the internet emergency lights were flashing this morning to notify you that EA and DICE’s free-to-play, microtransaction supported debut Battlefield Heroes had stealthily just gone live, and yet you still couldn’t find anything but a broken beta sign-up page, it’s because the battlefield-heroes.com and battlefieldheroes.com are apparently entirely [...]
In: Gaming News|Microsoft
25 Jun 2009Developer Croteam has worked up a new versionof their CroTech Engine in order to deliver Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD to the Xbox Live Arcade. Scheduled for a late summer release, Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is exactly what the name implies: the first entry in the tongue-in-cheek, over the top Serious Sam [...]
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25 Jun 2009Taking an iconic video game character and reverse-engineering it as a prototype is a delicate task. Let’s look at a few of the concepts drawing that eventually led to the Big Daddy of BioShock 2. These concept art shots appeared yesterday on The Cult of Rapture BioShock website, they were presented as a way to [...]
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25 Jun 2009When Dawn of War II‘s next major update – “There Is Only War” – is released sometime during the summer, it’ll bring with it a much-needed feature for the game: a map editor. Called the “World Builder”, it’ll allow you to “create, edit, and play” on your own maps, which you’ve built from the ground [...]
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24 Jun 2009Here is one to show all those politicians and journalists who don’t understand. A lot more information here.
In: Culture|Gaming News
24 Jun 2009You didn’t think they just popped up on screen themselves, did you? Commercial animation by South Korea’s WooDUS, who are also behind this vaguely Bubble Bobble-esque title animation. [indirectly via Myk Dawg]
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23 Jun 2009The newest Max Payne shoot ‘em up features “drastic changes in setting and character design,” in Rockstar Games‘ own words. We think these new screen shots of Max Payne 3 perfectly illustrate how drastic those changes are. If you’re a Game Informer subscriber, you’re more than likely already familiar with some of these shots, already [...]