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Microsoft: Buy A PC, Get A Free Xbox 360!

Microsoft really wants to shift some extra consoles before this generation draws to a close. Not content with offering an Xbox 360 for just $99 up front (paid back as a monthly subscription for two years) the company is now giving them away for free. There are a couple of catches, however. Firstly you have...
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Square Enix Launches ‘DvsD’ Website

Square Enix has unveiled a website teasing a new game titled DvsD. The site is in Japanese and the countdown timer is set to reach zero on May 24. So what’s it all about? Two capital D’s immediately suggested Dungeons and Dragons for me, but that appears to have been wishful thinking on my part....
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Minecraft On PS3? One Day, Perhaps

Just over a week ago Minecraft hit the Xbox 360 as an Xbox Live digital title that can be downloaded for 1,600 Microsoft points. The question now is whether it will ever make it to the PS3? There certainly seems to be a demand for it coming to the Sony console. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition...
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‘Marvel Avengers: Battle For Earth’ Announced

Ubisoft is working on a game based on The Avengers for Marvel. However, it’s to be based on the comic books rather than the recent movie which took more than $200 million in its opening weekend. It will also only be released for the Xbox 360 Kinect and Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii U console. So expect...
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‘Wolfenstein 3D’ Free-to-Play Online

If you’re a fan of retro games then this news will fill you with joy. Wolfenstein 3D, one of the original first-person shooters, is now available t play online, in your Web browser, completely for free. It’s like it’s 1992 all over again. It has been 20 years since Wolfenstein 3D was originally released. To...
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‘Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition’ Breaks Records

Minecraft is a phenomenon that I don’t understand, if I’m perfectly honest. Perhaps because I have never played this strange sandbox building and survival indie game. I really should because 5 million people surely can’t be wrong. That is the number of people to have bought the various versions of the game until now, but...
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Thatgamecompany planning next game release

Thatgamecompany is the developer behind three PSN classics. In Flow, Flower, and Journey we have seen innovative gameplay married with gorgeous visuals to create something beyond mere games. These are more like experiences. And the releases have got steadily better in quality too. Journey was rightly applauded on release and is likely to figure high...
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‘The Elder Scrolls Online’ Is Revealed

There have been rumors of an online MMORPG based in the Elder Scrolls universe for a long time, but no details have ever emerged into the wild. Until now. Unfortunately it’s still just a teaser of a full reveal set to come later this month. Game Informer has scored the exclusive first look at the...
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Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale Could (Should) Be Amazing

Sony is expected to announce a new title exclusive to the PS3 titled Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale. This is based on the news that Sony registered the domain, http://playstationallstarsbattleroyale.com/ OK, not based on just that, there have been rumors for many years as to a game that brings together the best characters to have ever...
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Nintendo Reveals Wii U Sales Estimate

The Wii U is expected to be released by the end of 2012. If it doesn’t land before the start of the holiday season then Nintendo has failed in its effort to launch at least a year before the successors to the PS3 and Xbox 360. Having sold 90 million Wii consoles to date, you’d...
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‘Borderlands 2′ Has Immense Campaign

Games developers and publishers seem to be focusing on one aspect of games more than any other these days: online multiplayer. Partly because it’s popular, and partly because it’s the one aspect they can lock buyers of used games out of. For now. The thing is there are many people out there, myself included, who...
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‘God Of War: Ascension’ Revealed For PS3

We kind of expected a new God Of War game to show up sooner or later, but most people didn’t foresee God Of War: Ascension. We have the first teaser trailer, which is embedded below, and, well, little else besides that. That’s enough though, surely?! What more could you want than a trailer of such...
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Wii U ‘Pikmin’ To Be Unveiled At E3

Pikmin and Pikmin 2 are genius games. They were two of very few titles I ended up buying for the GameCube when I finally succumbed to getting hold of one well into that generation of home consoles. And now it’s surely time for a sequel to hit store shelves. According to Gamatsu, Pikmin for the...
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‘The Legend Of Dragoon’ Comes To PSN

The Legend Of Dragoon is coming to PSN in North America on May 1, having previously been released in Japan. This is a game that many ignored but those who played it fell in love with. Originally released in 1999 on the Playstation, The Legend Of Dragoon was an ambitious game that in some ways...
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Epic Games Canned ‘Bulletstorm 2′

Bulletstorm was an attempt to change the shooter genre for the better, adding some humor and a little variety to the annual updates from more somber series such as Call of Duty and Battlefield. It scored high in terms of critical reviews, but only mildly well commercially. And it’s that second factor, the bottom line,...
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