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‘Should have bet on Duke…’ – Duke Nukem Forever actually to be finished, released!

Seriously…  Not 2-3 months ago, placing money on Duke4Ever actually being released could have probably netted you a large amount of money! Anyway, Duke’s back, Gearbox are in the driving seat and there’s a provisional multi-platform release date of ‘Early 2011’. Boobs, bombs and bitching badassery seems to be the order of the day (as […]

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New Xbox 360 controller announced – Happy Chibi Ken is happy

The guy to the right is Ken. He fights streets or something… He is also very happy at the moment!  “Why?” I hear you ask..? Well, Microsoft have just announced that there’s a new wireless controller for the Xbox 360 on the way. Key changes include rejigged concave bumpers, shiny chromed silver accents, fiddled analogue […]

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Kinect to retail for £130, new Arcade unit revealed.

Microsoft have announced that the Kinect will launch in November for a RRP of £129.99. It comes bundled with Kinect Adventures – so the initial hit isn’t too bad but it’s still about £30 more than it really should have been. Microsoft also confirmed that the new Arcade equivalent will go on sale on the […]

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“A Note from Aperture Science” – Portal 2 E3 event cancelled

Dear Subject Name Here, Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we […]

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F.E.A.R. 3 Co-Op First Look – **Live Action Video Warning**

We know F.E.A.R. 3 is coming, the promotional box art is stupid, John Carpenter is directing live-action cutscenes and Point Man still has no name, but compensates… with a beard! Obvious we will have to wait until release to see if the problems of F.E.A.R. 2 have been stamped out, but in the mean time, […]

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Retrospective – F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

On the eve of F.E.A.R. 3’s release, Andrew Bryant sinks his teeth into the previous entry into Alma’s world.

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M0th3r = Exp3ct1ng – F.3.A.R. 4nn0unc3d 4 PS3, PC n Xb0x

Don’t worry…  It’s actually officially F.E.A.R. 3…  F.3.A.R. is just on the box art. Still, when will ‘marketing’ learn that putting txtsp34k in our titles doesn’t make the game more ‘hip’ or ‘cool’…  It just makes the people who made the decision look like fucking tools! Anyway, F.E.A.R. 3 has been announced for Xbox 360, […]

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Vietnam(?) Black – Call of Duty: Black Ops announced, teased

Despite the debacle at Infinity Ward (26 employees and counting), Activision have pushed on with Call of Duty: Black Ops, in development at Treyarch. The seventh entry in the astronomic series ‘could’ be set in Vietnam, the Cold War or somewhere else – We’re honestly not sure and the trailer doesn’t really give enough away […]

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Retro Fangasm – XCOM coming back

XCOM is coming back *happyface* There is no hyphen in the name *sadface* 2K Marin are developing it with assistance from Irrational 2K Australia *curiousface* There’s a strange (almost retro) screenshot below and a press release after the cut *happyface* It’s a FPS.  *over-reactingface* More as we know it!

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SOS New York – Crysis 2 Teaser Trailer *UPDATED*

EA premièred a teaser for Crysis 2 in Time Square meaning, predictably, at least one of the Internet’s vast contingent was available to film it and post it to YouTube. The trailer currently links to www.sosnewyork.com, which just has a timer (presumably counting down to some HD/expanded trailer goodness), but watch this space! Lets just […]