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One thing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has going for it are the brains behind its creation. While Big Huge Games are no strangers to success, partner  38 Studios is a new company with a lot to prove. This means that thinking outside the box and looking for ways to differentiate itself from the pack  leads [...]

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With the new Xbox LIVE Dashboard update scheduled to release tomorrow, Microsoft has officially announced the list of entertainment partners that will launch this week, this month, and early in 2012. Some new additions that were announced today include MLB.tv and VUDU. MLB.TV subscribers will be able to access every regular season game, live and on-demand, [...]

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Built by independent game developer Markus “Notch” Persson and his company Mojang, Minecraft is a game based on limitless creativity and building in a three dimensional sandbox world. The first video for the upcoming XBLA version now appears embedded above, and helps show off what to expect in this world when it releases next year. While [...]

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South Park fans will be happy to know that a new XBLA title was just announced, and will be shown off at the New York Comic-Con starting tomorrow. Details on the game are still pretty vague, but we have gathered some information from the press release that was just sent out, along with the first [...]

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Death.  Betrayal.  Revenge.  These motifs are commonplace amongst some of theater’s most classic masterpieces.  They’re also no stranger to some of the more narrative-driven video games on the market.  However, there’s only one theater that organically puts these elements into the audience’s hands; tempts, taunts, and prods the theatergoers to introduce these seemingly heavy themes [...]

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Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was a milestone game for the XBox 360 as well as Bethesda Softworks. It showed us the beginnings of the system’s limits, redefined RPG expectations, and was a pioneer in the DLC Market. Yes, I’m referring to the horse armor. It’s no shock then that Skyrim is just as, if not more [...]

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To the uninitiated, RedLynx’s 2009 Summer of Arcade release, Trials HD, seemed nothing more than a $15 take on the legions of balance-oriented browser-based biking games.  However, the players that took the plunge and purchased it will most likely attest to the fact that Trials HD turned out to be a much more satisfying experience [...]

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I’ll be honest up front, my hand on time was extremely short. Not due to the fact that it was a bad demo, mind you. Remember… Sonic is a pretty fast hedgehog. The levels just seem to flash by. With that said, there was nothing detracting about this Sonic demo. I was privileged enough to play the [...]

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It’s no secret that the video games have seen their share of post-apocalyptic settings.  Some games are able to capture the scale and overwhelming emptiness of such devastation.  Others carve an environment that fails to live and breathe, but rather feels like nothing more than pure deconstruction.  Arguably, the difference between the two can be [...]

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Epic Games and Microsoft Studios today unleashed the first look at the complete lineup of “Gears of War 3” multiplayer maps, including the reveal of Gridlock, the revamped fan-favorite battleground returning from “Gears of War” and “Gears of War 2.” “Gears of War 3” includes a modified version of Gridlock, the legendary map that defined [...]

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