During the holiday shopping season, it’s more important than ever for games to stand out… in a good way. Here are the covers of this week’s releases and how they fared in our weekly box art reviews…

“Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars” (Wii)
What the Box Tells Us: A pair of mouthless, weapon-wielding mushroom men make their [...]

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Filed under: News

Edge Online has posted an article examining the Xbox 360’s recent success in Japan. You may recall the console’s recent sales surge, which saw it surpass the Playstation 3 in sales for weeks on end. Edge, unsurprisingly, points to the recent spate of games aimed at Japanese audiences as the reason for the [...]

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Filed under: X3F Features

Another Black Friday, another WRUP about stuffing ourselves with turkey and being very, very sleepy. Well, Xav is Canadian, so his Thanksgiving is long gone, though is his very sleepy for entirely different reasons. In fact, both Dustin are Xav are so sleepy that their entries have been written for them. Consider [...]

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Filed under: News
With Fallout 3 releasing this week, all eyes have been on Bethesda. They commented that a new Elder Scrolls game could be on schedule to release in 2010, for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, but not on the Wii. “At the moment we’re not that interested in the Wii,” said Paul Oughton, [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm

If you’re interested to see how Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour’s 16 shared songs match up to one another, look no further than YouTube. While there are certainly others (and undoubtedly more to follow suit), user Gurra100 has a playlist of [...]

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Filed under: PC, First Person Shooters

Alma just won’t be contained in a box. Warner Bros. sent word that the recently renamed F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin will be released over both Valve’s Steam and IGN’s Direct2Drive digital distribution services on February 10, 2009.
If that date sounds familiar, it’s the same day the survival horror FPS [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360

On the eve of Fallout 3’s launch, Bethesda VP of Public Relations and Marketing Pete Hines has sent an email to our sister site Big Download, Shacknews and presumably others. Game Videos no longer has the trailers, although other gameplay clips still remain; as of this writing, [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure
Presenting Branching Dialogue, a weekly, wordy and often worryingly pedantic discussion of video game genres, trends and err … stuff I didn’t think to put in this introductory line.

With the debut of a brand new IP and the return of an over-the-hill franchise taking place [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Joyswag
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Sam Warman! Congratulations to Mr. Warman who won the votes of our esteemed judges panel with his costume’s “surprisingly good detail” — “that’s a lot of stuff!” observed one of the judges on his scoring card. Also, Sam’s last name is “War-man,” which is totally [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action

Saints Row 2 Associate Producer Dan Sutton reveals that Volition is already at work on another sequel in the urban sandbox series. Speaking with Play.tm, Sutton states that the recently released SR2 ties up loose ends from the original game and that SR3 will go in [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Rhythm

Despite promises to the contrary, the PlayStation 3 Guitar Hero: World Tour drum set doesn’t seem to be working with Rock Band 1 or 2. Many users on the RB forums have noticed that the game is recognizing the wireless set as a microphone, and unfortunately, the mic isn’t being [...]

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Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Business

So sayeth the immortal Pete Burns, “You spin me right round baby, right now, like a record baby, round, round, round, round.” In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime has hinted that, yet again, the supply for the Nintendo Wii might not meet the demand [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Online

Media Molecule switched on the LittleBigPlanet servers today and just like that … went right back to work on the sequel. The team has already begun development of a follow-up title, according to BBC, and is looking into broadening the franchise — we’re talking cartoons, comics, action figures, the works. [...]

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Filed under: Arcade, Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting

The first rule of Street Fighter Club is: you do not talk about Street Fighter Club.
In spite of that ominous rule, we have no choice but to talk about Capcom’s incredibly well-orchestrated community event last Friday night. It’s rare to see a games company reach [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Metareviews

It may have gotten lost in the pre-holiday hubbub for some of you, but, judging by the bulk of reviews that have dropped, Far Cry 2 is an experience you don’t want to miss. We’ve spent some quality time with it, and if [...]

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Reader DarthMetalHope was scanning boards in advance of picking up Guitar Hero: World Tour today, and notices that for those who already have it, some are seeing sensitivity/operability problems with the drum kit. Enough that it’s raising a big stink, and Activision has noticed.
One PS3 gamer on IGN’s boards says:
I went and started the drum [...]

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So. Remember I was haggling with my boss the past two weeks for some awesome consumer electronics? Right, my dayjob company had, sitting in the break room, a big 47-inch panel TV and a PlayStation 3 — the discontinued 20 GB console sitting in a box for going on two years now, as unawarded sweepstakes [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Casual

Those who’ve been anxiously awaiting their chance to virtually mingle with fellow PS3 owners in Sony’s much-anticipated Home, but have been unable to procure an invite to the closed beta would be well-served by checking out the November issue of Qore. The sixth edition of the “interactive magazine” will not [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting

Midway is in desperate need of a best-selling blockbuster, as any industry analyst will tell you that the 50-year-old company is circling the drain. While Midway is likely banking on the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe to fill that role, an increasing amount of violence within [...]

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Just like Microsoft in Europe, Sony Japan are going bananas for hardware bundles this holiday season. With Gran Turismo 5: Prologue and LittleBigPlanet deals already in place, they announced over the weekend a third bundle, this time for Pro Evo 2009 (or, as it’s known there, Winning Eleven 2009). It’ll include a new (for Japan) [...]

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This is it! Monday. The last day for entries for the Fracture contest. The good news is that we’ve only gotten a handful of entries. So if you enter, the chances of you actually being a finalist are much higher. And if your chances of being a finalist are higher, then your chances of actually [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3

PlayStation 3 owners with Grand Theft Auto IV can now (virtually) carjack with more purpose. Rockstar has released the Trophy patch for GTAIV tonight, technically a few hours earlier than expected. The Trophies are not retroactive, meaning you’ll have to play through the game again to earn them all. Between this [...]

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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

As we’re sure you, dearest readers, already know, Sony had a killer week in the hardware sales arena (the PS3’s diminishing sales notwithstanding) thanks to the release of the scanlinetastic PSP-3000 (or, as it has been cleverly monikered, [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs

Do you find yourself with a good quarter-hour to kill this Sunday evening? Do you have a relatively fast internet connection? Are you curious about the mythos of the Fallout universe — curiosity spawned from excitement over Bethesda’s upcoming entry into the franchise, Fallout 3? Do [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Peripherals, Rhythm

Many of us will find it easy to imagine the following scenario, having lived it a little over a year ago with the release of an alarmingly similar title — hordes of rhythm game junkies returned home last night from midnight [...]

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To: Luke From: Owen
Plus 100 crimebucks to the first commenter who provides the next line of the Frank Sinatra/Stevie Wonder duet. And the line after that, if you’re feeling brave.
So my living room got a little more multiracial this weekend. No, not the black/white thing, the fact that I now own an imported Japanese PS3. [...]

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Ten years of waiting come to an end Tuesday for fans of Fallout. The third installment of life in post-nuke America finally arrives on the big boy platforms. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 also stops flapping its yap and comes to PC. Those with the Wii can play FIFA and PS3 gamers can grab [...]

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It’d be interesting to find out just how well Qore is doing for Sony, because it seems as though the only times we ever hear about it is when the latest issue comes packed with a cool bonus. This time around, the November issue of the downloadable “hi-def gaming lifestyle show” will contain invitations to [...]

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At last, LittleBigPlanet has been patched in North America, (v1.02) making it safe, harmless and inoffensive forever. Also, we keep getting flooded with tips about LBP’s servers being down. That’s on purpose. While the game is available for play, official word is that the servers come online the week of Oct. 27. That’s tomorrow [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters

There’s been a number of pleasant surprises that have come out of Treyarch’s upcoming installment in the wildly lucrative Call of Duty franchise — such as the inclusion of Jack Bauer, and its uncanny resemblance to the previous, well-received chapter in the [...]

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