E3 2008: Tomb Raider Underworld Hands-On
(via Gamespot) -- Lara Croft drops the hammer, Thor's Hammer, this fall.

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5 months ago 

Last E3 Feedbag Ever
(via GiantBomb) - Here’s your last chat post for E3. Next E3, if there is a next E3, we’ll have a real video game site where we can post serious content with computers instead of iPhones. Well, it probably won’t be serious. We’re seeing a ton more companies today. I can’t really remember what we’re checking out but the [.

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5 months ago 

News: E3: Tales of Vesporia tries for best looking RPG award
(via OXM) -- Not that such an award actually exists but hell, if it did, then we'd know who would win it... Namco Bandai has shown off Tales of Vesporia to the world and it's looking really nice.

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5 months ago 

Rock Band Extense - Extension Cords for Rock Band
(via DCEmu) - News from Divineo USA (http://www.divineo.com/php/affstart.php?affcode=arboretum&prod=) Remember those old telephones that had the springy springy cable that would stretch out when you used it? Yeah, we didn't like them either. And we don't like it on the bass drum pedal of the Rock Band drum kit.

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5 months ago 

GameTap Thursday: Robotron 2084, Metal Slug, Space Invaders, Root Beer Tapper, King of Fighters
(via Gaming Today) - Once again it is Thursday and it is time to give you the goods on the latest additions to the GameTap library. This week, the following free games were welcomed into the Game Player fold: Robotron 2084: If ever a game defined run-n-gun, it’s Robotron: 2084. There’s no need for deep thought here — heck, there’s not even time for it.

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5 months ago 

Live from E3: Tomb Raider: Underworld
(via Ugo) -- It's no Tomb Raider: Underpants, but it's darn close.

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5 months ago 

News: E3: First trailer for I Am Alive
(via OXM) -- We promised you a trailer for Jade Raymond's next project, so here it is. As promised, here's the first ever trailer for Jade Raymond's new project, I Am Alive.

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5 months ago 

Has Sony given up winning in this generation?
(via LazyGamer) -- A story did the rounds before the Sony press conference at E3 about whether or not Sony may have given up in this generation? The original story was based on Sony not going for another price cut this year which has turned out to be partially incorrect. The 80GB PS3 is going to be selling

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5 months ago 

News: FFXIII opens doors for 360 in Japan
(via Eurogamer) -- Microsoft VIP Shane Kim optimistic.

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5 months ago 

E3: Bioshock PS3 footage
(via Xboxyde) -- 2KGames picked out a great week to release the first footage of Bioshock on Playstation 3, planned to be released in October.

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5 months ago 

E3 08: The Who rock the Rock Band 2 party
(via 360 Monster) - The Who! That's right, the 1960s awesome rock band were at E3. And we missed it. I received a few texts about it while it was happening, making me quite jealous. I'd heard hints from people who were down there but didn't actually think it would happen. And I can't believe I missed Mark Rein from Epic Games totally rocking out.

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5 months ago 

Harmonix Party: Rock Band owns LA with Who concert
(via Arts Technica) -- While Activision had a decent show, Harmonix and MTV Games show E3 how it's done with the party of the show. Special guests? The Who.

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5 months ago 

E3: Guitar Hero WT trailer
(via Xboxyde) -- Activision released this long trailer of Guitar Hero : World Tour detailing all the features of the hardware and of the game itself. The drum kit looks really nice, but I'm wondering how much this will cost...

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5 months ago 

E3: Megaman 9 trailer
(via Xboxyde) -- The rumor was right, and Megaman 9 has been announced at E3 for Wii Ware but also PSN and XBLA. And surprise, it's using the sprites from the old NES games, and it looks like it will be a really challenging game.

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5 months ago 

E3: Video and trailer of Flock
(via Xboxyde) -- Capcom announced a new XBLA and PSN game at this E3. It's called Flock, and it's a quite humorous Puzzle game with physics. You'll understand better (or not) what this is all about with this trailer and a quite crazy gameplay video.

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5 months ago 

E3: Tomb Raider Underworld images
(via Xboxyde) -- Eidos didn't release a new trailer for Tomb Raider: Underworld for this E3, and that's a bit strange, but at least we get these nice new screenshots.

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5 months ago 

Stuck In My Head: Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
(via GiantBomb) - E3 is over, which means I can turn my attention back to the site behind the site. But I’ve been thinking a lot about Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe all day today, so I felt I had to quickly get some info on the game out of my system. Using our development server’s built-in page editing tools, I quickly whipped up some new info on the game for what will eventually be our MKvDC page.

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5 months ago 

Xbox Live brings Jade Empire to Xbox Originals next week
(via QJ) - This certainly took a long time coming but aren't you glad it's now here? Yes, ladies and gents. The rumor that circulated the webs some six months ago regarding Jade Empire coming to Xbox Live has finally, finally been confirmed.Finally showing itself over at Xbox.com, BioWare's Jade Empire is revealed to be arriving on Xbox Originals on July 21, 2008.

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5 months ago 

The Last Guy trailer
(via Xboxyde) -- If you have never heard about The Last Guy before, take a look at this trailer. Now this is what I call wackiness! To be released on the PSN in the near future.

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5 months ago 

Video - Giant Bomb Entertainment Show: Day 3 or 4
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5 months ago 

E3 2008: Fable 2's main storyline to yield 12 hours of gameplay
(via QJ) - Those who are itching for more Fable 2 news from Lionhead Studios (can't get enough of the past E3 announcements on Fable 2, eh?) will be either disappointed or forgiving with the latest tidbit that we managed to scrounge up. Apparently, Fable 2's main quest will be about 12 hours long - that's without delving into the side quests, wooing, and other gameplay aspects present in the RPG.

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5 months ago 

Detente at E3 2008
(via Major Nelson) - E3 2008 is over, and I am headed back to Seattle. I hope you’ve enjoyed the coverage on Inside Xbox and Xbox.com. All of the videos on Inside Xbox are now on (the U.S. versions) Xbox.com if you are not near your console (or outside the U.S.) Today was a pretty exciting day as both Reggie and Shigeru Miyamoto came by to check out the Xbox 360 booth.

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5 months ago 

E3 08 - Velvet Assasin Preview
(via Squad XP) - Inspired by the real-life story of Violette Szabo, a British secret agent during World War II who undertook two missions into German-occupied France before being captured and executed at the age of 23, Velvet Assassin is a stealth game that tries to recreate the danger of her life.

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5 months ago 

Don Mattrick: 'I'm claiming to have invented avatars '
(via Xbox Scene) - John Schappert, the head of Microsoft Live's entertainment and devices division, and Don Mattrick, the head of all things Xbox, were interviewed by canada.com (http://communities.canada.com/shareit/blogs/gamesnews/archive/2008/07/17/xbox-head-i-invented-avatars.aspx ): "We're not claiming to have invented avatars," Schappert said at some point, "but at the same time, it's a logical extension of our gamer card, of our gamer tag.

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5 months ago 

E3 2008: Ubisoft Unsatisfied With Current E3 Format
(via 1Up) -- Executive director says current dates and venue are "not appropriate."

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5 months ago 

Details on the New Xbox Experience: search, hard drive play, alerts, themes, pics
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 Here are a couple interesting takeaways from our tour of the New Xbox Experience: "There's nothing to announce" right now regarding a keyword search for the Marketplace. Let's hope they either a) add one in or b) drastically improve how we find things Playing games from the hard drive will work fine for multi-disc games; in fact, you can pick which discs you want to rip (for example, we're superstitious and we'd only rip odd-numbered discs).

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5 months ago 

Coming To XBLA: My Frequent Death, Castle Crashers Xbla
(via Kotaku) - Even though we as game journalists play a metric ton of games across a wide variety of genres, each of us has our Achilles' Heel — one genre, sort or stripe of game that we are just no good at. It's like a huge void in the repertoire, one particular area of the landscape that just doesn't register on the radar.

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5 months ago 

Live from E3: Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II Impressions
(via Ugo) -- It's Hammer Time in this new real time strategy game.

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5 months ago 

Wanted film getting video game treatement
(via Xboxer) - Summer Blockbuster Wanted's due to get the videogame treatment, with news that Bionic Commando developer Grin is doing the honours. The OK-ish film loosely based on the comic of the same name features loser office worker Wesley learning he has superpowers and joining a group of assassins.

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5 months ago 

E3 2008: PSP with a Hard Drive Not Out of the Question
(via Gaming Today) - Sony president Jack Tretton will readily admit that UMDs have struggled, particularly as a movie format. As a result, Sony has been thinking about the potential of packing in a hard drive, or some kind of internal storage, Tretton revealed yesterday at E3. “I think we definitely thought about it,” he said.

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5 months ago