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Guy Snaps Arm Practicing Splinter Cell Move

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A guy is claiming that he and a pal were practicing the Tomoe Nage move on the long jump track at his school. The move, made popular in the latest Splinter Cell game, involved one guy lying on his back and then hurling his friend over his head, with the use of his legs, like a human missle.
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Silver Playstation 2 Coming


They may not have a new console launching this year, but Sony does have a new color launching nuff said. OK, maybe not quite enough said. Sony announced today that they will be selling a silver PS2 in the UK, with a black DVD remote control. The move is an apparent effort to boost sales of their console. Come on guys, at least come out with a Hello Kitty version. More »

Evil Dead Regeneration First Pics Evil Dead Regeneration looks to be a boomstick of gaming goodness. I mean, it's got Bruce Campbell voicing a chainsaw-toting Ash, it's got an undead midget, it's got evil what more could you want?

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Age of Empires 3 Hands-On

GameSpy has an excellent write up of Age of Empires III over on their site. They call the real-time strategy game, "graphically the most ambitious RTS ever developed" and say that its design is exceptionally tight tight like a tiger. More »

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Nintendogs the Second Coming

electric slide.jpgNintendogs is an official phenomenon in Japan. The game just launched over there and one analyst is estimating that the combined sales of the three versions is already nearly 200,000 copies. Famitsu decided to have four reviewers look at the game, all of which scored it a perfect 10. I hear the game can also cure syphilis, so that's really can to tap into the whole so-far-unexplored VD market. Maybe I should have tacked a copy of this game on to my order of Electroplankton, boogie-woogie-woogie. Though the order is still floating around somewhere near the Sea of Japan.

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Scarface First Look


Gamesblog got a chance to check out some footage from the Scarface game. It sounds like a rip-roaring, gun-shooting, coke-snorting good time. The footage showed a game that leans heavily on the GTA open-ended genre. More »

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MTV Games Launches with Exclusive Lara Pics

Well, the cat's out of the bag. MTV just launched their new Games section. First, things first, I need to tell you I will be writing occasionally for the section. I'll be sending them feature stories every once in awhile. I was going to be doing news items, but that apparently fell through. Now that that's done, lets dig into the site.
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Guild Wars: A Beautiful World of Mirrors

I spent far too long playing Guild Wars last night. My right eye is throbbing like someone hit it with a hammer, and I'm desperately behind on my posts. The upside is that I now have a pretty good sense of the game's basics. More »

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Fox, Universal, Paramount Going UMD?

Three movie studios are considering releasing their films on the Playstation Portable UMD format. Fox, Universal and Paramount are all playing around with the idea, according to Games Industry. Fox looks like it may be the first to commit, putting out Dodgeball, Napoleon Dynamite, I Robot, Super Troopers and Predator on the mini-discs. Universal is next in line with a possible launch date of this summer. And Paramount, the laggard of the bunch, is apparenly still scratching its head over this new-fangled format. More »

First PS3 Screenshots...of the Dead Games Radar has posted a clutch of screenshots for a forthcoming PS3 game called Possession. The real-time strategy game has you turning the citizens of a city into zombies, then manipulating them into destroying their own town.

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Win a Special Edition GBA SP


This is your second to last day to enter our contest for a chance to win a special edition GBA SP and copy of Mario Party Advance. Check out the details and enter now. More »

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Halo 2 World Championship

Gamestop and Bungie are kicking off a worldwide Halo 2 tournament. Twenty-four finalists will be selected from two dozen regions, and then fight each other for the championship. More »

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Game Centers Celebrate Guild Wars


iGames is kicking off a more than month long celebration of Guild Wars on Saturday. On April 30, participating iGames centers will host a premier party for the massively multiplayer online role playing game from NCsoft. On May 7, the centers will have an all-night WAN and then from May 9 through 22 players will get a chance to sample the game with 14-day trial periods. ArenaNet, the game's developer, will also be hading out hundreds of free headsets as prizes during the festivities. The full list of events and participating centers can be found at the official site. More »

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Madden 06 Full GameCube Preview

GameSpot apparently posted a preview of Madden 2006 for the GameCube a wee bit early. Fortunately for everyone—save for GameSpot—Madden Mania grabbed the post and put it on their site. Screw copyright infringement, I want my facts now! More »

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Jaws, Aeon Flux Games at E3

Majesco looks like they will be showing off some interesting stuff at E3. The list includes 10 new PSP and DS games, some cool new TV Arcade sticks, new 90-minute movies for the Game Boy Advance and some hot new titles including Aeon Flux, Jaws, Advent Rising and The Darkness. More »

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First Prey Screenshots

Brazilian game site Final Boss has a half dozen images from the upcoming first-person shooter Prey. I had upped some of the shots on Kotaku, but 2K Games contacted me and asked that I take them down because they were scans from PC Gamer. More »

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Surviving E3

As E3 nears and my blood pressure skyrockets, it's time to start making serious plans for exactly how to survive—er, cover—the big show. Computer Games Magazine has a short guide on what to expect at the expo. More »

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Paraphernalia peripherals?

A Circuit City is either being very innovative with their game sales or has an unfortunate typo on one of their games. If they are selling Donkey Kong Jungle Beat with a Bong, I hope it comes with coupons for free Cheetoes. More »