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Eidos, Warner Bros. Announce Batman: Arkham Asylum for 360, PS3, PC

“Why so serious?” That’s the question LEGO Batman is asking gamers in 2008. By reducing our favorite films to their most campy moments and those larger-than-life characters to diminutive LEGO mini-figs, Traveler’s Tales has made a business out of hero humor — and the only Batman game you’ll be playing this year is theirs. But in 2009, [...]

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E3 2008: Monster Lab

Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands! Now I know what it feels like to be God! Okay, so, maybe Monster Lab isn’t quite so fraught with moral dilemmas as your standard mad science story. We can still have a [...]

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E3 2008: Battlestations: Pacific Hands-On

It was somewhere around my visit to Eidos‘ booth at last week’s E3 that I started to realize just how many games are using the naming scheme “Something: Something Else.” This didn’t detract, thankfully, from my hands-on demo of Battlestations: Pacific, the sequel to 2007 WW2 RTS/action combat title Battlestations: Midway. I had a chance to [...]

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E3 2008: Tomb Raider: Underworld

At last week’s E3 Summit, we stopped in to visit Eidos, and check up on what Lara Croft has been up to since her anniversary. It would seem she’s staying active, which is nice for a franchise her age. Eidos treated us to a sneak peek at Tomb Raider: Underworld, showing us a few of [...]

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Age of Conan Collector’s Edition Sold Out Worldwide

What is best in life? When so many people want to play your game that the expensive super-premium collector’s edition has completely sold out in all available markets. Oh, and the lamentations, etc. Funcom is reporting that Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures will ship roughly 700,000 copies on day one, which just happens to be [...]

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Jordan Weisman Advocates “Planned Parenthood” for Games Franchises

Gamasutra has a very in-depth interview with Jordan Weisman, the founder of Smith & Tinker and FASA, discussing the responsibilities of a creator when making new universes. Weisman is one of the men behind my favorite tabletop universes (Shadowrun and BattleTech), so I have a great deal of respect for what he says regarding franchises. [...]

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Genre Breakdown: Car Combat

Over 40,000 people die every year in the United States in car accidents. That’s just a little over 100 people per day. And yet, somehow, people remain fascinated by cars and racing and the site of two cars smashing into one another like metal behemoths at war. I suppose it should come as no surprise [...]

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Remember Kane and Lynch? UK Bans Ad Campaign

In a stunning announcement months after the release of Kane and Lynch, the UK’s ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) has called a stop to one of the game’s ad campaigns.

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Eidos Brings Gauntlet to DS

Elf poked the food with his stylus!

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Eidos Introduces Physics-Based DS Adventure “Soul Bubbles”

In case you hadn’t heard, integrating physics into gaming is all the rage right now; but I typically think of physics calculations as having some serious silicon muscle behind them. That’s why this introduction to Eidos’ new title Soul Bubbles took me by surprise — it’s for the Nintendo DS:

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