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Blizzard Previews Ulduar

Blizzard has released a preview for Ulduar, the upcoming raid dungeon for World of WarCraft. It’s set to arrive on patch 3.1 and it looks like that Blizzard has put a lot of effort into this one. Speaking of effort, players will have to make sure they’re geared properly before they can jump in to [...]

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Street Fighter 4 Femme Fatale DLC Now Available

The Femme Fatale pack is now available for download for 300 MS points. It will feature alternate costumes for the female fighters in the game. As you can see from the preview, you’ll spend a lot of time looking at Cammy’s posterior if you use or fight her a lot. It’s funny how she’s wearing [...]

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Nintendo DSi Trailer Released

You’re looking at one of the Nintendo DSi launch trailers. You’ll see that there’s a heavy emphasis on the new hardware. The camera, the recorder, the web browser and every other upgrade available are all showcased. What’s missing is how all this will affect DS games overall. It probably won’t matter with the existing ones, [...]

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Review: Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Puzzle Quest is the puzzle/RPG hybrid that proved to be a hit among casual and hardcore fans. The premise was ridiculously simple: match gems like any other casual game out there and you get your points. The RPG element adds a nice twist to it by giving you a character to work with. You can [...]

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Review: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War 2

Dawn of War 2 has a lot to live up to. The original and its expansions have all been critically-acclaimed, raising the bar for RTS games. Its emphasis on squad-based tactics brought gameplay down to infantry units instead of a heavy reliance on tanks and vehicles, but that doesn’t mean that machinery were completely out [...]

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Review: Street Fighter 4

We’ve been previewing it for months. One of the highly-anticipated titles of the year is finally here. Street Fighter 4 is out. Here are excerpts from a review: LovedControls It only takes a moment with the game, a decent stick in hand, to know that this is a Street Fighter returned to its roots. A [...]

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Guild Wars 2 Delayed

The highly-anticipated sequel Guild Wars 2 has been delayed, according to a finance briefing document from NCsoft. The release date is estimated to be between 2010 and 2011. Since it’s only February 2009, it’s going to be quite a long wait for fans of the game. The original Guild Wars made waves back in the [...]

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Xbox 360 Red Rings “A Thing Of The Past”

Hardcore gamers will go for either the Xbox 360 and the PS3. For all the good things about the Wii, it’s clearly designed for casual gamers so it’s probably going to be a second choice console for the serious gaming crowd. Between the X360 and the PS3, the former clearly has an advantage over the [...]

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Review: OneChanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball is among the top guilty pleasure games out there. It’s a prime example of the questionable genre, but it’s there to appeal to male gamers everywhere. Following its footsteps is OneChanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, a hack-and-slash action game that pits underdressed heroines against hordes of zombies. Is it any [...]

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World Of WarCraft Game Director Leaves To Work On Another MMO

World of WarCraft game director Jeff Kaplan has left the popular MMORPG and moved to work on Blizzard’s other MMO. Details on what that game is are not available at the moment, leaving every Blizzard fanboy speculating on what it is. The members of Blizzard’s trinity of games are WarCraft, StarCraft and Diablo. Considering that [...]

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