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New releases for the Week of February 19th, 2012: Syndicate, Touch My Katamari, other portable rehashes of games you’ve already played

February 22, 2012

Syndicate (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC) The new first-person shooter very loosely based on the game of the same name released in 1993. The original syndicate was a strategy/tactical isometric action game where the player ran a futuristic megacorporation and controlled a squad of four cyborg agents on missions against rival corporations to gain supremacy [...]

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Xenoblade Chronicles coming soon to the Nintendo Wii

February 20, 2012

Nintendo has started promoting a new trailer for the upcoming American release of Nintendo Wii RPG Xenoblade Chronicles. Xenoblade Chronicles is probably best known for almost not getting a North American release- despite the fact that it had already been fully translated into English, voices and all, for release in the United Kingdom- and for [...]

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New trailer for upcoming Xbox 360 version of The Witcher II: Assassins of Kings

February 13, 2012

There’s a new developer diary video out for the Xbox 360 version of The Witcher II: Assassins of Kings, the RPG released for PC last May by Polish developer CD Projekt RED, that is well-worth watching for anyone interested in the game or in RPGs more generally. The game is a sequel to The Witcher, [...]

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Demos coming to the Nintendo 3DS

January 18, 2012

Nintendo 3DS users will now be able to download free demos of some games for the system through the Nintendo eShop. The first demos, available tomorrow (January 18th) , will be for Resident Evil Revelations and Cooking Mama 4. Other games with planned demos include Konami’s Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, something called Rhythm [...]

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Armored Core 5 coming to PlayStation3 and Xbox 360 this March

January 13, 2012

Namco Bandai has officially announced a release date of March 20th for Armored Core 5, the newest entry in the long-running series of mecha combat games. The game will be available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. As with previous games in the Armored Core series, the player is cast in the role of a [...]

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown announced by Firaxis Games

January 6, 2012

Some very exciting news for fans of classic strategy games: Firaxis Games will be creating a new version of the beloved 1994 turn-based strategy game X-COM, entitled XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Like a lot of fans of the original X-COM, my hopes were briefly raised when I heard that 2K Games- which Firaxis’ is a subsidiary [...]

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WoW With A Wii-mote

January 3, 2007

The video is in Norwegian, so do not expect to understand the how, but the results are pretty special. Joystiq says this crosses the line from geek into official dorkdom, but I am impressed nonetheless. Woot for bluetooth.

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Wii For Your PS3

December 27, 2006

I know how much I want a Wii (anyone know of any deals?), but I was surprised to learn there are a number of people interested in trading their hard-won PS3s for the sweet little Nintendo Wii. We decided upon looking in some of the hottest cities on craigslist: Austin, New York and San Francisco. [...]

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Sony and Zipatoni Stand To Lose A Great Deal

December 18, 2006

The fake blog and fake YouTube videos that Sony and Zipatoni saddled all of us with this christmas may be more damaging to them both than they currently realize. Next Gen was able to get a comment from Sony on the whole sordid affair: Next-Gen contacted SCEA PR boss David Karraker who answered a couple [...]

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