by Rainier on Jan. 8, 2007 @ 2:29 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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EA's NDS exclusive Theme Park allows players to create, manage, and develop their own fun-filled park, packed with amazing rides, enticing shops and engaging sideshows, all via an intuitive Touch Screen interface.
by Rainier on Jan. 8, 2007 @ 1:18 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Sony Online Entertainment announced it has licensed the rights from Midway to develop and release six classic Midway games for the PS3, which will be available for digital download through the PlayStation Network starting early 2007.
by Rainier on Jan. 8, 2007 @ 1:04 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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During his keynote speech Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' CES unveiled IPTV on Xbox 360, which will bring TV services into your home over broadband networks based on the IPTV Edition software platform. IPTV on Xbox 360 is expected to be available by holiday season 2007.
by Rainier on Jan. 8, 2007 @ 12:53 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. provides players with dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, where you are to oppose smart & dangerous enemies, a large set of diverse weaponry, possibility to control machinery, detailed and interactive game world, story-driven single player with original team gameplay, and multiplayer with numerous modes.
by Rainier on Jan. 8, 2007 @ 12:37 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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The celebrated arcade-style football franchise is back and better than ever with a new treatment of America's most popular sport. Blitz: The League exposes the harsh and troubling, behind-the-scenes stories of a fictional professional football league. Midway has released a 1.3 Gigb demo allowing you to try out part of its football based sports game, currently available on Xbox Live Marktplace, only for Gold members
by Rainier on Jan. 7, 2007 @ 8:55 p.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Hinted at by Epic a few weeks back, it is now official. Microsoft will be releasing two new Gears of War multiplayer maps, sponsored by the Discovery Channel's new show Future Weapons, which will be available for download via Xbox Live Marketplace Wednesday, Jan. 10.
by Rainier on Jan. 7, 2007 @ 8:08 p.m. PST | Filed under
        
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While the CES in Las Vegas is mainly a technology and peripheral convention, it decided to cash in on the E3 demise and add a gaming section, so did SCEA's senior vice president Peter Dille's keynote speech, revealing that the electronics giant has now shipped, not sold, more than one million PS3 units. SCEA's VP put the bar even higher for early next year claiming that it would ship 6 million PS3s once the new console launches in additional markets such as Europe, Australia, Africa, Russia and the Middle-East.
by Rainier on Jan. 7, 2007 @ 5:42 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Hellgate: London is an RPG set in the immersive first-person perspective. With a completely randomized world that offers a unique experience every time you play, Hellgate: London introduces a demon-ridden place where the last survivors of the human race must meld science and magic to survive.
by Rainier on Jan. 7, 2007 @ 5:30 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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gEasy is not only working on Soldner 2, but it is still supporting the original Soldner: Secret Wars (and its Marine Corps expansion). This v33675 patch adds a new game mode (frontline), optimizes old maps while adding 4 new ones, as well as several balance vehicle & weapons tweaks.
by Rainier on Jan. 7, 2007 @ 2:27 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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With the success of its online toy drive and dinner auction, the gamer-supported 
Child’s Play Charity reached an all-time high of $1,024,400.31 in its fourth year of bringing games and other entertainment to sick children around the world.
by Rainier on Jan. 7, 2007 @ 2:17 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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FIFA Manager 07 is getting an expansion to its already extensive 2,000 clubs and over 20,000 players. The Extra Time expansion adds new stadiums from all over Europe, new features such as ability to sell advertisement, start as coach, half time screens with commentary and plenty more..
by Rainier on Jan. 7, 2007 @ 2:04 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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A few days ago 
reports surfaced that EA's The Lord of the Rings: The White Council, an RPG project featuring an original storyline derived from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novels, got cancelled. While there has been no official comment, 
further confirmation comes from another anonymous EA source claiming executive producer Steve Gray is no longer with the company, and that the project was scrubbed due to management issues and lack of sufficient development progress.
by Rainier on Jan. 6, 2007 @ 1:18 p.m. PST | Filed under
        
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They thought you were dead, but Tony Montana don’t die so easy. Sosa took everything you had. Now you’ve got nothing, but that never stopped you before. You’re back with a vengeance, ready to reclaim your turf and rebuild your empire. After the German, Aussie and US version, its now up to the rest of Europe to get their v1.00.2 patch, fixing and improving various graphical issues, as well as squash a few bugs.
by Rainier on Jan. 6, 2007 @ 6:45 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Talk show host Myra Stump has gone berzerk! Sam & Max head down to the WARP TV studio to find out why she's holding her audience hostage. But getting onto Myra's stage isn’t going to be easy. First the Freelance Police will have to prove they're worthy of fifteen minutes of fame. Sam & Max Episode 2 - Situation: Comedy is 
now in stores, and here is the demo...
by Rainier on Jan. 6, 2007 @ 6:44 a.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:
- Crysis - Gameplay Trailer
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - Creating The Zone Trailer
- SSX Blur [Wii] - Trailer #2
- Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors [Wii] - Trailer
- The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar - Trailer
- Culpa Innata - Trailer
- NCAA March Madness 07 [PS2/X360] - Trailer #4
 
 We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...
by Rainier on Jan. 5, 2007 @ 11:30 p.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Lost Planet is a sci-fi action shooter set within the merciless frozen tundra of a hostile planet, humans struggle for survival as conflicts arise between man, the surrounding indigenous creatures and the monstrous beings that have invaded.
by Rainier on Jan. 5, 2007 @ 6:46 p.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Kingdom Elemental is an action game featuring ten unique heroes, including pirates, monks and druids, dozens of unique monsters, as well as various spells and a narrated tutorial. This demo lets you try out part of the game...
by Rainier on Jan. 5, 2007 @ 6:45 p.m. PST | Filed under
        
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NCAA March Madness returns for the 2007 season, offering custom playbooks for each team, an enhanced Dynasty Mode, and other new features.
by Rainier on Jan. 5, 2007 @ 2:44 p.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Reminiscent of the Gears of War debacle, Germany's ESRB equivalent USK (Unterhaltungssoftware Selbskontrolle) has refused to give Microsoft's GTA-like 
Crackdown game an age rating (same goes for Eidos' Reservoir Dogs). This results in Real Time Worlds' open ended action to not be publicly sold or advertised, not sold to minors and can only happen in person, no online ordering. Germany's USK has strict rules on violence in games, especially in light of the recent fatal high school shooting.
by Rainier on Jan. 5, 2007 @ 2:29 p.m. PST | Filed under
        
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Virtua Fighter 5 raises the bar for console fighting games including all the features fans know and love plus enhanced gameplay mechanics, additional characters and new fighting styles, as well as newly redesigned 3D environments.