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Trials Evolution U.G.C Trailer Shows off Creativity

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Trials Evolutions, the first game to receive a perfect 10 from Broken Joysticks, has a brand-new trailer promoting some of the great user generated content the game has to offer. There are some truly amazing pieces of DLC that you can get from the community that are available free of charge right now. From cramped city highways, to dreamlike floating islands to hellish levels filled with fire and brimstone it seems that the community has covered almost every conceivable angle. For a quick glimpse at what’s available check out the trailer in the embedded player below or if you own

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Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut Release Date Announced

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Jason Bassett

Have you been clamoring for a more extended ending Commander Shepard’s perilous story? Well you will be getting your chance to see the whole story on June 26, 2012. Players will be once again immersed in the story that pits Command Shepard in a heated battle against the Illusive Man and the Reapers and now Shepard’s story will finally get it’s fitting end. The Mass Effect 3 ending controversy has strung up a high debate on whether or not the Indoctrinate theory is correct or if another puzzle is left to be solved. Whatever the case may be, we will

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Clan of Champions Coming To PSN This Summer

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

NIS America, publisher of some landmark RPGS including the DIsgaea franchise amongst others, announced today that Clan of Champions will be released on the PlayStation Network later this summer. Sadly the game will not be available on the Xbox Live Arcade, as was previously announced. Champions is a multiplayer focused action game with fast based brawls that utilize both fighting techniques and magic spells. As you utilize different weapons you’ll game experience points that can be spent to unlock new weapon based skills.

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Amazing Spider-Man Stan Lee Trailer

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Spider-Man’s creator Stan Lee has appeared in every movie produced by Marvel Studios thus far but he has only appeared as a voice-over in the virtual realm. All of this about to change with the inclusion of the sunglass wearing creative master of a playable in character in The Amazing Spider-Man. if you’ve ever wanted to see Stan Lee lay the smackdown on enemies or hang by a thread you won’t want to miss this trailer.  While playing as Stan Lee you’ll look through his signature black shades when entering first person mode. Check out the trailer after the jump.

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Xbox Live’s ‘Summer of Arcade’ Detailed

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Jason Bassett

It’s getting warm outside and that can only mean one thing. It’s time to play some more video games! Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb aka: Major Nelson poured on the details of this year’s Xbox Live Arcade’s Summer of Arcade today. Want to know more? Here is the full list of when you can expect to grab these awesome games and what price they’ll be: July 18 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD – 1200 pts. July 25 – Wreckateer – 800 pts. August 1 – Deadlight – 1200 pts. August 8 – Hybrid – 1200 pts. August 15 – Dust: An Elysian Tail

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Doom 3 BFG Edition Release Date Announced

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Daniel Shannon

Bethesda Softworks has announced the details of Doom 3 BFG Edition’s release date. This re-mastered version of Doom 3 (which includes the Resurrection of Evil expansion, 7 new levels, as well as Doom and Doom 2) is, if all goes according to the Spider Mastermind’s plan, coming to North America on October 16. Europe will have to wait an extra three days. Most of the press release focuses on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 version. For example, there will be achievements, trophies, a check point save system, and “fine-tuned” controls that will “bring the intensity of the DOOM single

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Don’t Expect Starcraft Ghost Anytime Soon

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

A lot has happened in the past decade in terms of gaming, we’ve seen the launch and decline of the seventh generation of home consoles as well as Sony entering the portable space with the PSP and following it up with the PlayStation Vita seven years later. Perhaps no project, save Half-Life 3, has been as highly anticipated, and yet completely denied, as Blizzard’s Starcraft Ghost. Fans have waited anxiously for any update regarding the project since it was officially placed on hold in 2005. Speaking with Kotaku, Starcraft 2’s lead designer Dustin Browde says that the game is not

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Is This Halo 4’s Viral Marketing Campaign?

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Kirk Williford

From “I Love Bees” to “Iris”, the Halo franchise and Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) seem to go hand-in-hand these days — a trend that appears to be continuing with Halo 4, if a recent ad on ESPN.com is to be believed. Last Friday, a flash ad for Halo 4 begun appearing on the top of ESPN.com’s front page. The ad played a Halo 4 trailer, as one might expect, but here’s where it starts to get strange: after awhile, the ad appears to take over the entire screen, blasting tons of strange information ranging from hexagon symbols to raw code,

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Microsoft Won’t Have a Presence At TGS or Gamescom 2012

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Microsoft will be skipping out on both the Tokyo Games Show and Gamcom in Germnay this year in order to focus on smaller promotional events the hardware manufacturer announced today through Major Nelson’s blog. This leaves Sony as the only big manufacturer left to attend Gamescom, which is the largest public gaming convention in the world. Nintendo confirmed earlier this year that they too would also not have a presence this year at the show. Now that I think about it, Microsoft also pulled out of CES, this year. Their keynote at the Las Vegas show was unfortunately their last

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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Unveiled

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Andrew Minott

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, coming soon to XBLA and PC from Neocore Games, has a new batch of screenshots to show us what the game actually looks like. The game is a third person action RPG, very similar in presentation to Diablo but with a definite steampunk influence to the art direction. Neocore says the game features “larger-than-life heroism and snappy dialogues, with wry humor and various twists on the well-known Gothic cliches.” Check after the jump for the screenshots that Neocore sent out today:

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Optimus Prime: Heart of a Leader

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Andrew Minott

High Moon Studios has released short feature for their upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron featuring game director Matt Tieger and legendary voice actor Peter Cullen. Cullen, who has been the voice of Optimus Prime since the early 80’s, says about having played the role for so long, “although he’s consistent, doing a movie, and doing an episodic television series, and then doing a video game… although the character remains the same, there’s a different intensity and different approaches.” You can check out the trailer after the jump here:

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Broken Joysticks E3 Reactions #1

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Kirk Williford

E3 is over and now it’s time for our staff to share their thoughts on the show. First up executive editor Kirk Wiliford: Mark down E3 2012 as being one of the most boring, uninteresting and flat-out underwhelming E3s of all time. You know it’s bad when I can only recall one major new IP being announced, and although Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs looks absolutely fantastic, it wasn’t enough to save the show. From Usher concerts to TechDemoLand, there were lots of things to be concerned about going into the future of the E3 expo. Here’s just a snippet of what

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Babel Rising Launches On Xbox Live Arcade & PlayStation Network

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Ever wanted the power to smite an entire civilization? Ubisoft grants us all this power in their latest Xbox Live Arcade / PSN title Babel Rising. The goal in tower of Babel is to prevent the people of Babylon from building the ancient Tower of Babel, and in order to accomplish this players must use their divine powers, with either the PlayStation Move or Microsoft Kinect. The whole thing sounds like it could be very entertaining. Who hasn’t stood in front of their Kinect and asked themselves “Why can’t I hurl lightening bolts with this thing?”

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Mark of the Ninja Sneaks In New Screenshots

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Andrew Minott

2D stealth game Mark of the Ninja, coming soon to XBLA from Shank 2 developers Klei Entertainment, has five new screenshots that showcase the titular ninja’s sneaky shenanigans. From the official site: Observe… your enemies from the darkness, and use your agility to gain the high ground. Plan your line of action, and execute it before they discover you. Manipulate… You foes with simple yet versatile tools. Blow out lights with a bamboo dart, create a diversion with a child’s firecracker, and kill your prey with a deadly trap. Experience… The tension and thril of being a ninja — powerful but fragile, quick

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Pre-Order Persona 4 Arena And Receive a Free Soundtrack

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Persona 4 Arena the Xbox 360 and PS3 fighting game spinoff featuring characters from the Persona series just got a little bit sweeter with the announcement of a new pre-order incentive. By pre-ordering the game for either platform you’ll receive a limited edition CD featuring tracks from the game. Persona & Shin Megami Tensai composer Shoji Meguro arranged the tracks for Arena. Presumably this bonus will be available at all major retailers including Best Buy, EB Games/ GameStop & Amazon, who are taking pre-orders for the game but Atlus has said more information is forthcoming. Persona 4 Arena will be

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