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Infinity Ward have already teased that they are working on a follow up to their smash hit Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare but this time is for real. Activision announced today that the developer is hard at work on Modern Warfare 2 (notice the lack of CoD in this title) for [...]
It’s time now for more Mugen!
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
It’s been such a long time since I posted any videos of the best, most exciting and even the funniest tapings made of the special program for creating your own fighting game universe, that being Winmugen! So now, here come a couple more dandies I’ve compiled, all for your [...]
Some videos of Aliens Extermination
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At the turn of the century, there came another Aliens-based shooter, not unlike what Sega came up with in 1993. Here are some recordings of it, beginning with the following, that shows the demo screen in an arcade center:
Here’s another showing some scenes during play:
And here’s a third one [...]
Experimental games at Frisco conference
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At this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, experimental productions were a leading focus:
SAN FRANCISCO – Not every video game creator was musing about how to sell more hardware or craft more realistic virtual weaponry at the this week’s Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, [...]
The making of Conduit
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This article tells about a new game for the Wii that’s yet another battle with aliens:
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - High Voltage studio’s Matt Corso says videogame lovers that think Nintendo’s family-friendly Wii consoles are for seniors and little siblings are in for a big surprise in June.
That is when [...]
Short tapings of Spinal Breakers
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First, click here for a video featuring the boss battles.
And here’s one short video featuring the cutscenes and ending.
This is a clone of Cabal, though with more story elements included, and a few cast members too.
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Rating 4.00 out of 5
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Wii System Menu 4.0
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Available for download right now is Wii System Menu 4.0 update that enables the Wii to work with memory cards larger than 2GB, all the way up to 32GB. This update adds a new SD Card menu and should solve storage issues for anyone with growing libraries of downloaded WiiWare and Virtual Console [...]
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
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Watch the new trailer of the upcoming Zelda adventure for the DS.
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Rating 3.00 out of 5
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A new console company called Zeebo
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There is a new company putting out a console that’s called Zeebo, and is using technology provided by Qualcomm:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A startup called Zeebo Inc. is betting that people in emerging markets want to play good video games just as much as people in the U.S., Western [...]
Wii tops the 50 million
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In this report on how well Nintendo’s new legend is selling:
TOKYO - Japanese game maker Nintendo Co. said Thursday global sales of its popular Wii video game console have topped 50 million since it went on sale worldwide in late 2006.
Nearly 50 percent of the total sales of the [...]
LGJ: Serious Games with serious regulations
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This week’s LGJ is a look at serious games and export controls. It doesn’t necessarily apply to all serious games, but the closer you get to certain applications for the games, the more relevant it becomes.
Read on!
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First two games for the DSi
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The first two products to be hosted on this new handheld Nintendo console will be WarioWare and Moving Memo.
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Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Pipi and Bibis multimedia
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In four recordings:
This is like a variation on Elevator Action combined with Mappy, only you aren’t invulnerable to enemies when jumping on the trampolines when trying to make your way to upper levels while trying to fulfill the objective here of programming the computers to “explode” after you make [...]
Zero Punctuation: Resident Evil 5
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Resident Evil 5.
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Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Need for Speed: Shift
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After last years lackluster Undercover, EA has decided to make some changes for this year - Shift focuses on simulation racing - not just the realistic movement of cars, but also driver behavior - oh yeah and less baggy jeans and hip-hop. Need for Speed: Shift is much more hardcore game [...]
Game Developers Conference stays aware of recession
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According to this article, the conference for game developers is being amid the gloomy reminder of the economic slump:
The video game industry is holding up, but the gloom of the recession will be on the minds of thousands of people at this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, [...]
Peter Moore talks about upcoming EA Sports titles
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Watch Ryan from Giant Bomb interview EA Sports’ Peter Moore regarding upcoming titles for the Wii, PS3 and 360.
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Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Crusin’ Exotica clip
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The third game in this particular series.
It was this game that served as a precursor to what could be found in The Fast and the Furious, what with the super-flips and heli-spins, for example, when Eugene Jarvis and several other former employees at the now bankrupcy-ridden Midway broke off [...]
S.P.Y: Special Project Y
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Here’s a video of an interesting beat-em-up game combined with rail shooter:
This is almost like a combination of Konami’s Devastators and their GI Joe game combined with Contra and James Bond allusions, if you’ll note how it switches between at least 2 modes. There’s even a touch or two [...]
Short clip for Round Up 5: Super Delta Force
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A game that was inspired by Chase HQ, the object is to capture 5 terrorists escaping by car on the highways across the US. The difference and what makes it more difficult here is that the criminals have a convoy of motorcyclists accompanying them who can [...]
Riding Fight clip
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Click ahead to see.
A wild ride where you battle baddies on a surfboard. Man, this sure looks cool.
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Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Tennis and Vs. Tennis
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First, here’s a clip of one of Nintendo’s earliest entries in the tennis genre, called simply Tennis.
And then, here’s a link to a taping of Vs. Tennis (the embedding code was disabled), which must’ve been an expansion of the same game for arcades. It’s another great early sports venture.
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Vs. Baseball tape
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One of the oldest sports games in Nintendo’s output.
And one of the greatest too. It uses a few different perspectives depending on where the ball and players are on the field. Play ball!
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Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Posting for Tekken 2
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The second game in the series. Here’s an intro clip from the PSX version.
In the second game, Heihachi is out for revenge against his son Kazuya, who’s practically become a devil by proxy this time. One of the new players here is Jun, who would become Kazuya’s wife later [...]
Road’s Edge multimedia
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Right after the leap.
This was another of SNK’s first ventures into the seriously 3-D department, at the time they came up with the Hyper Neo Geo 64, and one of the not too many games they made using a driving cabinet with a steering wheel. (Speaking of which, I [...]
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