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BioShock Dated for PS3

Oh, rapturous day! Sony-based gamers who have yet to experience 2K Games’ masterpiece of undersea suspense, BioShock, are one step closer to getting their organs drilled out by a Big Daddy. 2K Games, this morning, has announced the release date for the PS3 version of BioShock, and that date is October 21, 2008 for North [...]

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Henry Hatsworth to Combine Puzzles, Action, Monocles

As strong as my enthusiasm is for puzzle games, I have to wonder whether the Nintendo DS needs what looks like another match-three tile-swapping game. EA has heard my skepticism, though, and replied, “Fine. I guess we’ll put an action-platformer on there, too. Happy now?” Actually, yes, I am, thank you. Henry Hatsworth in the [...]

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EA Announces The Godfather II Game

After EA’s The Godfather game brought a healthy amount of cash — and respect — to the EA family, we more or less had to expect they’d want to wet their beaks a second time, no? Well, it’s time to start tightening up that piano wire, because EA has just announced The Godfather II, following [...]

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T3 to Resume Hellgate, Mythos Development in New SF Studio?

While we still don’t have the definitive word on where Flagship Studios’ intellectual property has actually gone, a pair of job postings have surfaced that point to a HanbitSoft victory. T3 Entertainment, the majority stakeholder in publisher HanbitSoft, is “searching for creative minds to passionately continue development of Hellgate: London and Mythos,” and is going [...]

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Star Trek Online is Back in Business

We already knew this was happening, honestly, but today, the countdown timer has ended, and the announcement has been made official: Cryptic Studios, the MMO developer behind City of Heroes and the upcoming Champions Online, has taken the development reins for Star Trek Online. Enterprising gamers had identified this with 99% certainty some 45 days [...]

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Telltale’s New Series is Wallace & Gromit

I did not see that coming. The AP is reporting on Telltale’s new series, as announced at Comic-Con, and it’s Wallace and Gromit. Yes, the wrong-trousers-close-shave-were-rabbit Wallace & Gromit. Stay tuned for updates as Telltale tells all!

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Can Early XBLA Releases Hurt Publishers?

Earlier this morning, we reported that the release date for Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 had been moved up by a week, allowing us all to enjoy our neon explosions that much sooner. At first, we figured this could only be good news for gamers, but then we started digging around, and we noticed a [...]

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E3 2008: Nintendo Unveils Wii Speak, Animal Crossing Gets City-fied

Nintendo’s new Wii MotionPlus was not the only peripheral revealed at this year’s E3. During the Nintendo Press Briefing on Tuesday morning, Nintendo’s Katsuya Eguchi appeared on video to tell the whole, wild world about Animal Crossing: City Folk. The long-expected Wii incarnation of Nintendo’s anthropomorphic virtual life series, Animal Crossing: City Folk will include a [...]

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E3 2008: Wii Would Like to Play the Drums

Every E3 press conference finishes off with a big, knock-em-dead final announcement, intended to leave the crowd cheering and come away remembering your company fondly. Nintendo had a couple of interesting announcements this year at their press briefing, but their ace-in-the-hole wasn’t an unannounced title — instead, Shigeru Miyamoto made an appearance to give the [...]

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E3 2008: Xbox Live Arcade Revelations

Roughly halfway through his excited explanation of the Xbox 360’s new community features and curious new system of user representation, a few game titles were unveiled. The head of the Live Services team, John Schappert, announced four new titles coming out for Xbox Live Arcade — some as soon as next month. I know two [...]

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