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NHL 2K9 is of course another iteration of 2K’s NHL competitor to EA. In the past, it had been making strides to catch up, keep with, or even get ahead of EA in the hockey category. This year however, this is not the case. The game feels like it has gotten stuck in a few [...]

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Bethesda announced that its hit title, Fallout® 3 has enjoyed huge sales so far, reflecting the huge consumer demand for the game. Approximately 4.7 million units of Fallout 3 were shipped worldwide last week for the Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and Games for Windows® representing retail sales [...]

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Welcome to an exploding edition of XBLA Today! This week we are taking a look at Vigilante 8: Arcade, a remake of the classic Vigilante 8 car combat game. Does it compare to the original? Is it worth your time? Being that there isn’t much car combat on the 360, and it’s hard to go [...]

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Hitting this lovely thing we like to call the internet is this awesome commercial for the upcoming co-op zombie apocalypse shooter, Left 4 Dead. I’ve been stoked on this game since PAX, and since then, my excitement hasn’t died down one bit. Check it out!

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Welcome to this weeks slightly awkward edition, as anybody knows, 5th graders and Penny Arcade do not mix, but we’ll have to do the best we can do here, and try to make it all make sense. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, for those who don’t know, is based on a tv show, [...]

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We are in the final stretch before Epic’s Gears of War 2 comes to entertain us, and as such, they have released (through Yahoo! Games) a trailer somewhat like the “Mad World” trailer they released before the original Gears. Not much needs to be said besides, watch it, enjoy it, and prepare for November 7th. [...]

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Welcome to the “Yes I’m Still Alive” edition of XBLA Today, where the hit from last fall, Portal, makes it’s way to XBLA by itself, with 14 new bonus puzzles. Is it worth it? Let’s find out. If you have not played the original Portal yet, you at least have heard about it. The award [...]

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In this new Gears of War 2 Vidoc, the team talks about their game as art, how it is a project of a lifetime, and the blend of artists and their tech to create a game that looks so good. Of course we have it embedded below for your viewing pleasure. For any of the [...]

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Just a few hours ago on the Callofduty.com forums, Treyarch community manager JD announced that an update to the popular World at War beta is coming, raising the level caps, adding new weapons, and a few new gametypes as well. Here is the full text of what he said. “Hey guys! Just wanted to give [...]

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Welcome to this weeks edition of XBLA Today where we take the positions of a hungry little mouse, and a greedy pirate, in two new releases to the Xbox Live Arcade. One, the first one from mainland China, the other, developed in collaboration with Max Hoberman, designer of the multiplayer game for Halo 2 and [...]

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