Archives for June, 2009

Pachter: Crysis via OnLive like ‘playing on a fully-optimized gaming PC’

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Pachter: Crysis via OnLive like ‘playing on a fully-optimized gaming PC’

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Rare happy to have Molyneux raising its profile

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Rare happy to have Molyneux raising its profile

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Last.fm on XBL: free to gold subscribers, 3 hours per month for others

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Last.fm on XBL: free to gold subscribers, 3 hours per month for others

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Screenshots: Clamp’s new costume for Jin in Tekken 6, new PSP screens

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Namco Bandai has crammed in a lot of extra content for the console versions of Tekken 6, among them some extra costumes. We’ve already seen Penny Arcade’s Cardboard Tube Samurai costume for Yoshimitsu, so now let’s take a loot at the one that Japanese manga group Clamp designed for Jin.

Screenshots: Clamp’s new costume for Jin in Tekken 6, new PSP screens

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Pachter: PS2 software sales to become ‘almost irrelevant’ in 2009

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Pachter: PS2 software sales to become ‘almost irrelevant’ in 2009

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Zip.ca CEO ‘would love’ to bring new streaming service to Canadian console owners

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Zip.ca CEO ‘would love’ to bring new streaming service to Canadian console owners

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Band of Bugs to Support Avatars

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NinjaBee, the creators of the first fully-enabled Avatar game on Xbox LIVE Arcade, A Kingdom for Keflings, announced today that beginning July 8, Band of Bugs will include Avatar support. In addition, NinjaBee will be releasing Tales of Kaloki, a new, game-changing DLC for Band of Bugs.

The added Avatar support will allow gamers the option of replacing the original storys hero, Maal, with their custom Avatar as they play through the main story mode. Players will also be able to engage in hand-to-hand combat and spell casting in eight-player Spider Hunter mode.

Spider Hunter, one of several multiplayer modes, allows players to battle with or against their friends over Xbox LIVE to survive an onslaught of deadly spiders, mosquitoes, centipedes and more.

Band of Bugs to Support Avatars

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Rumor: Taiwanese firms awarded PS3 Slim manufacturing contracts

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Rumor: Taiwanese firms awarded PS3 Slim manufacturing contracts

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Tigon’s Ian Stevens: For Hollywood, ‘making video games has been the same thing as making action figures’

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Tigon’s Ian Stevens: For Hollywood, ‘making video games has been the same thing as making action figures’

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Wii Sports Resort sells over 350k copies in four days

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Wii Sports Resort sells over 350k copies in four days

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