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The Kid was minding his own business, just wading through a sea of bargain bin deals.  The whispers around town proclaimed that the impending new year was reason to celebrate.  Gems that would usually cost a pretty penny were suddenly cheap.  Real cheap.  The Kid stumbled across a game that told his own tale — [...]

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When Alan Wake makes his triumphant debut on the Xbox LIVE Arcade, he’s going to bring with him some “arcadey” elements that were missing from his initial go-around.  Announced today, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare will feature a brand new mode called “Fight Till Dawn” that will pit good versus evil, and you versus your friends. [...]

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One of the most telling statistics regarding user gameplay is Major Nelson’s weekly list of most played games on Xbox LIVE.  Not that it’s a surprise, but console gamers sure seem to love their first-person shooters, as is evident by the fact that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops [...]

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The follow-up  title to 2010′s under-appreciated Alan Wake, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare was officially announced on Saturday at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards.  The accompanying trailer that’s embedded above does its share to answer some questions, while simultaneously doling out confusion and mystery.   From the video, we can deduce that the gameplay will be [...]

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Major Nelson and the team at Xbox have made a surprising announcement today on the heels of yesterday’s global new Xbox 360 Dashboard release.  Available for download right now is an official Xbox LIVE iOS app.  The app allows users to send messages, change their Avatar, manage their friends list, and more. This is the [...]

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In a meta move that might cause a rip in the space-time continuum, Xbox and Cafepress have teamed up to create a site that allows users to order a t-shirt with their Xbox LIVE Avatar on it.  That’s right; you can put a virtual representation of yourself on the very clothes that you wear out [...]

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As the adage goes, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  However, Ubisoft is obviously not too keen on conventional wisdom, as they’ve released their most ambitious title yet in the Assassin’s Creed lineage under the banner of, again, Ezio Auditore da Firenze – the much-lauded master assassin that’s now well into his 50′s.  [...]

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As far as we’re concerned, there’s two types of aliens – the “Sigourney Weaver-stalking, little mouth inside a big mouth” type and the “so adorable you just want to squeeze them” types, with absolutely no middle ground between the two.  Today, for the sake of children and parents everywhere, the latter is making an appearance [...]

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Most publishers haphazardly slap words like “ultimate” and “special” on their upcoming game’s bundles, but it seems as if Rockstar actually intends to put some weight behind those phrases.  Rockstar announced today that Max Payne 3 will be the recipient of a “Special Edition”, but unlike other special editions, this one has a pre-order cut-off [...]

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Obligatory Spoiler Warning for the Thick-Skulled: The video below contains spoilers for Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed II, and Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Feel that?  Another agonizing second of anticipation leading up to tomorrow’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations release.  There it was again.  This is almost too much to bear.  Time seems to be moving as slowly as [...]

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