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  • The Tester 3 – Episode 3 Recap: Melon Ballin’

    The Tester 3 – Episode 3 Recap: Melon Ballin’

    Don’t know about you, but I could swear that George Santayana and Albert Einstein were camped alongside Brent Gocke and Adrianne Curry at this week’s judges’ panel. The former was mumbling about those who forget the past being doomed to repeat it—even though the past...

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  • Contest: Quarrel XBLA Giveaway

    Contest: Quarrel XBLA Giveaway

    Howdy, gamers. Time for another giveaway! This week we have free download codes for Quarrel, the new word battling strategy game available now on Xbox Live Arcade. Check out our review here. You’re going to have to flex your vocabulary muscle to win this one....

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  • Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch’s North American PS3 Launch Set for Winter 2012

    Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch’s North American PS3 Launch Set for Winter 2012

    It’s taken a LONG time–and it’s going to take a while longer still–but Level-5 and Studio Ghibli’s unbelievably gorgeous PS3 RPG Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is finally closing in on a North American release, delivered stateside by Namco Bandai. Still no...

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  • The Tester 3 – Episode 2 Recap: Clown Show

    The Tester 3 – Episode 2 Recap: Clown Show

    Synopsis: After RealityPalez and krystipryde, two of this season’s most level-headed (read: employable) contestants, face off in an epic Twisted Metal boss battle, the contestants must split up and endure the bane of every corporate retreat since 1981—out-of-the-box team building! Dressed up like refugees from...

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  • Catherine is the Perfect Game to Play This Valentine’s Day

    Catherine is the Perfect Game to Play This Valentine’s Day

    No developer/publisher dares to be different like Atlus, and not many games dare to be as different as Catherine. Catherine comes from Atlus’ ‘Persona Team’, but it isn’t a role-playing game like the games in that series. It is a narrative-driven interactive anime drama about...

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  • When Mutant Blobs Attack Valentine’s Day

    When Mutant Blobs Attack Valentine’s Day

    Forget to pick out a Valentine for your honey? Don’t worry, you’ve still got options. Download and print/email one of these three Valentines, brought to you by DrinkBox Studios in anticipation for the coming PS Vita release of Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack. There’s...

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  • A Lollipop Chainsaw Valentine’s Day Love Story

    A Lollipop Chainsaw Valentine’s Day Love Story

    How’s about a bloody zombie slasher trailer to get you in the mood for Valentine’s Day? I know, it sounds icky. But this one tells a lovely story about high school sweethearts, I promise. Cheer-leading zombie slayer Juliet Starling loves her boyfriend Nick so much,...

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  • Help Shape the ‘Playable Vision’ of Krater

    Help Shape the ‘Playable Vision’ of Krater

    Swedish developer Fatshark is playing to the old school crowd with its next PC title, Krater, a post-apocalyptic top down RPG combining elements of squad control and tactical combat. Old favorites like Syndicate and X-COM are given as sources of inspiration, but personally I’m most...

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  • Choices Have Meaningful Consequences in The Witcher 2 Xbox 360

    Choices Have Meaningful Consequences in The Witcher 2 Xbox 360

    CD Projekt RED’s second developer diary for the upcoming Xbox 360 (and PC) ‘Enhanced Edition’ of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is in, and in this installment the writers behind the role-playing masterpiece talk about the deep system of choice and consequence that powers...

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  • Activision, You Sunk My Battleship

    Activision, You Sunk My Battleship

    First Universal Pictures goes and turns a board game that should never be made into a movie into a movie. Now Activision is taking that movie based on a board game that shouldn’t be made into a video game and turning it into a video...

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