Archive for March, 2011 - Page 14

River City Ransom 2 Coming To Japanese WiiWare This Year

After 22 Years River City Ransom Is Finally Getting A Sequel, Releasing In Japan On WiiWare This Summer & PC In 2012
Filed by on Saturday, 26. March 2011

It’s been nearly 22 years since River City Ransom’s Alex and Ryan went on a quest across River City to save Ryan’s girlfriend. They made countless punks from gangs like the Squids and the Cowboys barf along the way, ate their fair share of Merv Fries, and in the end, [...]

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Eidos Releases New Deus Ex: Human Revolution Gameplay Trailer

New Deus Ex: Human Revolution Trailer 'Three Ways To Play' Highlights Aggressive, Stealth & Adaptive Gameplay Styles
Filed by on Saturday, 26. March 2011

You may be stuck waiting until the end of August to play Deus Ex: Human Revolution (sad fact: if it hadn’t been delayed, you’d be playing it now), but thankfully Eidos has released another trailer so you can get your Deus Ex fix. This time, Eidos examines the different tactical [...]

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Walmart Offering Trade-In Credit Toward 3DS

Walmart Offering Up To $100 Off New Nintendo 3DS With Old DS Trade-In This Weekend
Filed by on Saturday, 26. March 2011

You’ve had some great times with your Nintendo DS over the years, but let’s face it: with the arrival of the 3DS this weekend, what you and your DS once had is lost. Luckily for you, Walmart has announced that you can sell your suddenly hideous and soon-to-be forgotten DS [...]

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Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition On Sale At Impulse For 50% Off

2009's RPG Of The Year Is Just $25 On Impulse, This Weekend Only
Filed by on Saturday, 26. March 2011

Dragon Age 2 is getting mixed review scores – so why not go back to Dragon Age: Origins, which you know is awesome? Impulse is offering the 2009 “RPG of the Year” (and probably my 2009 Game Of The Year) for 50% off the list price, at just $25. Considering [...]

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CTIA Keeps NTT DoCoMo's Booth Empty At Trade Show To Memorialize Japanese Earthquake Disaster

At Biggest US Mobile Trade Show, Organizers Honor Absent Japanese Colleagues By Keeping Their Booth Empty, Providing Flowers & Donation Information
Filed by on Saturday, 26. March 2011

This past week was the CTIA Wireless trade show in Orlando, Florida. It’s the biggest mobile industry trade show in the United States, and Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo had reserved a large section of floor space to exhibit their wares for the upcoming year. CTIA 2011 started on March 22nd [...]

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Valve Talks About Future Plans For Steam On Consoles

With Portal 2 On PS3 Supporting A Handful Of Steam Features, Valve Discusses Where They'd Like To Go With Consoles In The Future
Filed by on Friday, 25. March 2011

We already know that the PS3 version of Portal 2 will include support for some Steam features, including things like cross-platform chat, saving to Steam Cloud, and probably most importantly, being able to download the PC or Mac version at no additional cost. In a recent interview with GamerZines, Valve [...]

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The Top Seven Winners Of The 2011 CTIA Show

From Apps To Tablets To Various Cell Phone Companies, Some Things Clearly Looked To Win Out Over Others.
Filed by on Friday, 25. March 2011

As was the case with the Mobile World Congress, the end of a trade show usually puts me in the post-mortem state of mind. And the 2011 CTIA was no different, so I put together a list of the top seven big winners from the 2011 CTIA show. There were [...]

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The Weinstein Company Looking To Get Into Video Games

Weinstein Company, Owner Of Such Properties As Scream and Children Of The Corn, Starts A Gaming Division
Filed by on Friday, 25. March 2011

Now this one was a definite surprise: seems The Weinstein Company, who have been putting out movies for decades now, and hold a lot of major names in their collective stable, opened up a branch that deals in video games. They’ll be emerging for what is described by the company [...]

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Chrono Trigger Coming To Virtual Console In Japan

Chrono Trigger, Mega Man X Announced For Virtual Console In Japan, Will They Be Coming To Other Regions?
Filed by on Friday, 25. March 2011

Where you’re talking about classic RPGs, it doesn’t get much better than Square Enix’s Chrono Trigger. If you’ve been one of the many requesting its release on the Wii Virtual Console for pretty much as long as the Virtual Console has been around, then today is a good day, because [...]

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Kindle Set To Get Huge Influx of Audiobooks

Amazon's Audible Audiobook Subsidiary Is Set To Offer Up An Additional 50,000 Audio Book Titles
Filed by on Friday, 25. March 2011

As great as reading is, there are just some times when you can’t. I personally keep a stockpile of audio books in my car in a variety of formats (I have yet to find a replacement for my copy of Dave Barry’s A Complete Guide To Guys on cassette, of [...]

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