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Six New Rock Band Albums Announced

Harmonix knew we needed a little cheering up after yesterday’s news that Rush’s “Moving Pictures” wouldn’t be out this week after all, so they’ve gone ahead and announced all six of the full albums they promised to confirm this month. Spotted over at Kotaku, MTV Games spilled the news to Entertainment Weekly in a large [...]

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Review: Castle Crashers

Castle Crashers is great fun. If you like the classic, simple fun of side-scrolling beat-em-ups, you’ll enjoy this game. If you like the frantic hilarity of a cooperative/competitive four-player romp like Gauntlet or Four Swords, you’ll enjoy this game. If you like the inimitable, tongue-in-cheek, grin-inducing art and humor of The Behemoth from Alien Hominid [...]

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Rock Band Delays Rush in Cruel Name-Based Irony

Rush fans who have been waiting eagerly to play along with Moving Pictures in Rock Band since last week’s announcement are going to have to wait a little longer. When the new downloadable content failed to arrive yesterday, Harmonix cited a “technical difficulty,” hoping the album would be able to arrive soon thereafter. This afternoon, [...]

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GameCyte Geometry Giveaway: YOU’RE WINNER!!

A few weeks ago, we reviewed Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, a game centered around the strange satisfaction that only a truly high score can provide. Thus, when we found ourselves with an extra copy of the game to give away, we knew it had to go to the right person — a competitive, dedicated, [...]

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Free Team Fortress 2 Weekend This Weekend

It’s not that we don’t appreciate your readership, but what the hell are you doing here?! Don’t you know that you could be playing Team Fortress 2, for free, right now? Valve is allowing everyone to download and play TF2 for the entire weekend, to let folks drop in and sample the all-new Heavy Update. [...]

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Moving Pictures Now Actually Confirmed for Rock Band DLC

So, we already knew this would happen, but it’s nice to have official confirmation, and all. Harmonix has formally announced that Rush album Moving Pictures will go on sale next week as DLC for Rock Band. If you count the fact that YYZ was in Guitar Hero II, the reappearance of Tom Sawyer and Limelight [...]

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Rock Band Announcing Six New Full Albums by End of August

G4TV had a rather lengthy conversation with Harmonix’s PR Coordinator yesterday, during which a rather large number of revelations were made public. Virtual virtuosos (I’m growing fond of that term) can look forward to exciting news and features for the electronic ensemble experience (I should write ad copy). Among the new announcements: Harmonix will be [...]

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EA Studio Showcase: Burnout Paradise

At last week’s EA Studio Showcase, GameCyte had the opportunity to sit down and try out the impending update to Burnout Paradise by Criterion Games. With EA’s Kevin O’Leary acting as our helpful GPS navigator, we were able to sit down and get some extended hands-on play with the game’s new motorcycles, and get answers [...]

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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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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - Homestar Ruiner

I will fully admit that, as a longtime Homestar Runner fan, I was predisposed to enjoy Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People long before I had occasion to actually play it. Now, the game has finally been released for PC and WiiWare by the episodic eccentrics at Telltale Games, and I've finally been able to explore the full experience from front to back. Is it everything we hoped it would be?

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