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Q&A Reveals Half-Life 2: Aftermath Details
Robin Walker, a designer for Half-Life 2: Aftermath, spilled the beans about the expansion in a recent interview with Gamespot. Walker disclosed that many H-L2 characters will return in one form or another and that the expansion would spend more time developing characters than in Half-Life 2. More »
Xbox 2
PGR3 Photo Realistic Screen is Real
You know you have a good game on your hands when you can't convince the public that a screen shot isn't actually just a photograph. Last week, Bizarre Creations posted a screenshot of Project Gotham Racing 3 of a street scene. The image was so realistic that many dismissed it as a fake. Today, the company released the wire frame of the same image, and another photo realistic in-game screen shot and wire frame. More »
Advertising
N-Gage Finally Wins Something
Charged with the inenviable task of marketing gaming brick the N-Gage, a braintrust came up with the only good thing to ever come out for the portable gamer—an ad campaign. More »
Gossip
Toshiba Developing Xbox HD-DVD Player?
Here's an interesting tid-bit: Toshiba was showing off their Fall line-up the other day and demoed a HD-DVD that was being created in conjunction with Microsoft. This, of course, was well before the official Xbox software announcement, but now attendees are starting to wonder if references to the device's ability to download games and play them may be tied into the Xbox software deal. More »
Mobile
Etch-A-Sketch The Game
It doesn't have white knobs or a clunky, red plastic frame and you don't need to shake it to erase the picture, but Etch-A-Sketch is coming to the cell phone. The cellular version will use the number pads to drawn line art and can store up to three of your crappy creation in the phone's memory. Man, all I could ever do with my Etch-A-Sketch was draw big rectangles and produce monster lumps on my friends' heads. More »
Humor
Video: Gamer Yells at Mom on Xbox Live
Take one punk kid, add one mother who doesn't know how to deal with him and throw in a healthy dose of Xbox Live and Rainbow Six and what do you get hilarity. More »
Cross-platform
Ecko Talks Getting UP
MTV.Com's Stephen Totilo recently spent some time with Mark Ecko checking out the pop culture icon's graffiti game Getting Up. Ecko hopes the game will become the first in a three part series of games that tell the story of anti-establishment street artists taking on the Man.Totilo's write-up is a little light on game play details, but he does say that Getting Up is a nice blend of a wide variety of classic gaming actions. It sounds a bit like Grand Theft Auto, only with cans of paint spray instead of guns. More »
Advertising
More Leaked Nintendo Revolution Ads?
The last time we told you about Nintendo Revolution ads all we had to offer was a projected release date (thanks, minimalist ad!). Apparently the folks at RevoGaming have come across a few more pieces of the puzzle. One shot shows an added Metroid graphic and another with a projected release date of August 2005. More »
Xbox 2
PS3, Xbox 360 About the Same
The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 have been thumping their chip-laden chests since they both were officially announced earlier this year. The epic pissing match culminated with both Sony and Microsoft claiming that their respective consoles would be 20 to 30 times faster than previous iterations. More »
PSP
Lord of the Rings: Tactics Details
A little mole took pity on me and dropped me a line about the Playstation Portable's upcoming Lord of the Rings game. Lord of the Rings: Tactics, due out in November, will be a 3D role playing game that blends the best of several top games of its kind including Fire Emblem, Tactic Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics. More »
New Releases
Thursday's releases
Cloven Crania Meadow [PC]: A battle strategy game that combines the territorial lust of Risk and the intense battles of Warcraft. Excellent for aspiring generals and strategy-heads alike.Screenshots More »
Only in Japan
Import Game Price Search Engine
GameBrink is a new game price comparison search engine that focuses on imports. You just type in the game you're looking for and it returns a list of the sites that are selling it and how much it costs. GameBrink also has a Top 20 and hot pre-orders. This site is a must have for all of you impatient gamers PSP and DS owners out there. More »
Nintendo Revolution
Analysis of Nintendo's Next-Gen Strategy
Gaming-Age forum member Chittagong has posted a surprisingly thought-out and coherent take on Nintendo's next-gen console strategy. It's just an opinion, but it's a unusually thoughtful one, especially for a topic that tends to turn even the most rationale person into a raving fanboy. More »
Cross-platform
Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike Box Art
Just got a nice shot of the final box art for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike. The stand-alone expansion pack is due out in August and will include 24 multiplayer maps, 24 mulitplayer game modes, 15 new weapons, new character skins and more tactical approaches for each mission. More »
Oddities
The Fashion World of Soul Calibur
Costume Get reports on Soul Calibur III's character create function, which allows players to either commit atrocities of fashion on their characters or just deck them out in some rack-ready fightwear. Oh, you can also chose different sets of moves for your characters. More »
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