When Rock Band 3 ships this holiday, you’ll be able to immediately play nearly all of your existing song content, from the stuff that shipped on discs to that Miley Cyrus song you bought while you were drunk last week. But since the folks who author this content have families and lives, don’t go anticipating [...]
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Mixed martial arts fighter and actor Quinton “Rampage” Jackson might be getting his own videogame soon. Rampage MMA, Jackson’s multimedia company he started back in 2007, recently filed a trademark for “Street Soldier: The Video Game.” Rampage MMA had previously trademarked “Rampage Street Soldier” for use with sporting events, loose leaf binders, computers games, and [...]
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I’ve got perfect pitch and the voice of an angel, but the reality is, everyone who steps up to the microphone to play Rock Band is not me. That’s where iZotope technology comes in. Besides just being a silly name that my word processor keeps trying to auto-correct to “isotope,” the technology will offer real-time [...]
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Time is screwed now that the Raving Rabbids have a time traveling washing machine … machine. Players will go through time and decide if the past needs fixing or leave things the way the Rabbids have modified history as they play through the party-games. Up to four-players will be able to work together online or [...]
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After reviewing Transformers: War for Cybertron, I wasn’t going to bother writing about Transformers: Cybertron Adventures, as I figured it would be more or less the same game with downgraded graphics and remote-supported aiming. It’s a testament to how little promotion Activision has done of this Wii version, then, that I was shocked to discover [...]
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Most developers and publishers have entrenched themselves in expectation of a lengthy generation, with many believing we still have another five years of Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3
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Fire up your World wide web Argument Machines — the nominations for Game Critics: Best of E3 2010 have been revealed today! You can find the full list after the jump, but first a few notes. id Software’s Rage received the most nominations across multiple categories (five), including “Best in Show.” It’s followed closely by [...]
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Using the spoken word to communicate what makes a Kinect game more fun than a non-Kinect game is an uphill battle. For one, it’s not terribly easy to find someone in the gaming press that likes Kinect all that much, and if you do, they might not have more to state beyond “Movearaoundalot! Movearound! Goooooood!“ [...]
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Let’s get this out of the way because I know it’s the first thing that popped into your mind: no, this isn’t as cool as double-handed Ikaruga or countless bullet hell videos made possible only through years of dedicated training. It just isn’t — plain and easy. You have to look at this video of [...]
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Maybe two-thirds of what we saw at E3 involved 3D technology. Hell, Sony even had us wearing 3D glasses at their press conference! There was 3D racing, 3D platforming, 3D shooting and even 3D portables with “3D” in the name. Following this year’s also 3D-heavy Consumer Electronics Show, it seems that the gaming world is [...]
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