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Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:23 am by Deathwhitch

Normal mode will take about 12 hours, realistic mode also included.

Splinter Cell: Conviction creative director Maxime Beland wants people to finish his game. Accordingly, it looks like Sam Fisher's latest adventure will be clocking in at around 12 hours.

"I want people to play my games and finish them," ...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:20 am by Deathwhitch

With the advent of online play, unlockables are no longer necessary, he says.

Buy Street Fighter IV or Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and what's the first thing you have to do? That's right, unlock stuff. Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada, however, considers that process outdated.

"Why we locked ...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:16 am by Deathwhitch

It's either "roast duck or no dinner," says Eidos president.

The past two holiday seasons have not been kind of Eidos Interactive. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men and Tomb Raider: Underworld received lukewarm reviews at best, with sales to match. Eidos president Ian Livingston...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:13 am by Deathwhitch

DICE's downloadable followup to Battlefield 1942 is coming to consoles next week.

EA set a date for their downloadable World War II shooter Battlefield 1943 this morning, and it's coming a lot sooner than you may have predicted. The Battlefield 1942 followup should be arriving on the Xbox Live Marketpla...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:06 am by Deathwhitch

Horde mode will also see massive Ticker increase during the event.

The Gears of War 2 Title Update 4 is almost here, and Epic wants players to know it. To celebrate the new update -- as well as the long weekend -- they will be holding a Double XP weekend starting Friday.

Anyone on the publish playlist is eligible. ...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:03 am by Deathwhitch

A teaser website suggests the demon-fighting samurai franchise is about to get new life.

Last week, Capcom jumped into the increasingly trendier pastime of posting a teaser website for upcoming announcements. But they didn't go with a simple countdown (that's so cliche); rather, there was simply a number: 1560. Now, there are thr...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:34 am by Deathwhitch

Hino, Mizuguchi, and Suda on the massive event.


Are these two guys, pretending to be an elephant for the sake of their Project Natal overlord, the future of home video games? At least three people think so -- Grasshopper Manufacture head Goichi Suda, Level-5 boss Akihiro Hino, and Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi. All ...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:32 am by Deathwhitch

The director playing a "support role."

The excitement that coursed through the LA Convention Center when Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was (re-)revealed at Konami's press conference was palpable. "The entire conference hall trembled," as Weekly Famitsu put it. "That's no exaggeration at all. The crowd's in...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:27 am by Deathwhitch

Title was originally slated for September, seemingly pushed back.

Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners looking forward to the next edition of Vandal Hearts will have to wait a little longer. Previously scheduled for September, the title appears to have been delayed.

In a release touting "new details and new scre...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:14 am by Deathwhitch

Skateboard championship due next week for $3.

The News: EA will be releasing more Skate 2 downloadable content, this time in the form of the Maloof Money Cup on July 9, reports Kotaku. It's the largest purse available in professional skateboarding, and the DLC will include both online and offline events for 2...

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Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:12 am by Deathwhitch

"Demons of the Badlands" will be the first of three downloadable add-ons for Volition's highly-destructible shooter.

Like Saints Row and Saints Row 2 before it, Red Faction Guerrilla will be receiving plenty of post-release support from developer Volition. A trio of DLC packs were announced for the explosive open-world ...

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Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:06 am by Deathwhitch

Major Nelson hints at the "performance enhancements."


It's been a while since we've heard about dashboard updates for the Xbox 360, but the next one promises to speed up the sometimes-sluggish menu flipping of the New Xbox Experience. Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) spoke on his podcast about what to expect from t...

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Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:39 am by Deathwhitch

Long troubled franchise reboot gets pushed into next year.

Things haven't gone smoothly for Namco Bandai's Splatterhouse revival, and it seems the trouble has caught up to the title. GameSpot reports that the game has been delayed from its original release later this year, and will now come out some time in 2010.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:03 am by Deathwhitch

Ballmer says there is "no news" to be gleaned from his comments.

Following a week of twists and turns, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stepped up to clarify his comments regarding Natal. IGN got word from the man himself accepting responsibility for being unclear. "I confused the issue with my poorly chosen words,&qu...

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Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:00 am by Deathwhitch

Grab the high resolution remake of Capcom's classic 2D fighter for just 10 bucks this week.

During a year that was absolutely packed with superb Xbox Live Arcade releases, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was among the greatest. Quality doesn't come cheap, however, and if excessive wallet strain has thus far prevented you f...

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Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:15 pm by Deathwhitch

"Management... feels that digital growth and brick and mortar growth can co-exist," analyst says.

The last time GameStop decided to talk about digital distribution, they predicted that full games wouldn't be digitally distributed until roughly 2020. Now they're back, citing a new study that says that digital distributio...

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Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:56 pm by Deathwhitch

Despite broken street dates, download codes bought at retail will not work until next week.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:12 am by Deathwhitch

Get the lowdown on everything that was -- and wasn't -- at Microsoft's E3 press briefing.

Microsoft's press conference ran nearly two hours and saw members of The Beatles take the stage, microphone issues, game announcements, Xbox Live improvements, and so-called "historic" announcements all come together to formally ki...

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