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Konami E3 2008 Press Conference

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Capcom E3 2008 Press Conference

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Ubisoft E3 2008 Press Conference

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Watch the entire Ubisoft E3 2008 Press Conference here.

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Activision 2008 Press Conference

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Although they didn’t attend E3 this year they did have a press conference presenting their upcoming games. Watch the Activision Press Conference in it’s entirety.

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Watch the entire event and the recap of EA’s press conference last night at E3.

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Violence Fight video

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In two recordings:

Inspired by bare-knuckle style fighting matched held in the early 1950s, one could say that this game was one of the earliest to use the setup since immortalized by Street Fighter, particularly the even more classic second game. It’s also very tricky to play, including the bonus […]

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Brief taping of Final Blow

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This was a boxing game where you need to try and down your opponent at least 3 times - depending on if they manage to revive themselves - in order to win each round given here. Not bad.
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Sessler’s E3 Essentials

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In this week’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam goes over some of the games that haven’t gotten the attention they deserve going into E3.

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Real Bout recordings

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Following shortly after Fatal Fury 3, SNK decided to use the name they’d initially considered for the games, Real Bout, and add it to the beginning of the titles they’d use on at least three more entries they’d do for this series. First came Real Bout Fatal Fury, of which we have […]

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Here’s a news clip about the sequel coming out:
NEW YORK (Billboard) - “Guitar Hero” won’t be the only music videogame to launch its sequel in time for the holidays.
MTV and Harmonix will release “Rock Band 2″ in September exclusively for the Xbox 360, and for other consoles before the end of the […]

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Gaiapolis video

Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
In four recordings:

This excellent RPG has you travelling across a magical planet seeking special keys to a kingdom, and to defeat an evil tyrant. There’s even some special assistants you can gain along the way, and many great powerups. It’s one of the best of its genre. Simply marvelous.
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Lode Runner recording

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This is the Commodore 64 version of a most famous game first made in 1983:

The object here is to collect the special icons in this ladder and pole filled space while avoiding the enemies constantly trying to catch up with you. You can dig special holes in which to […]

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I went online to play Battlefield: Bad Company and noticed that my rank, upgrades and stats were gone. The people I spoke with online all had the same issue, even those who bought the “Gold Edition” had the five weapons that were initially unlocked unavailable.
WTF!

Thankfully this was only temporary and has been […]

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In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino speaks with video game recruiters from Bungie, LucasArts, BioWare, Ubisoft, THQ and FullSail about the hiring process, what they look for in a candidate and some insiders’ advice on how to break into the industry.

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Aerosmith version of Guitar Hero

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Here, let us serve up an article about the Guitar Hero entry that’s specially dedicated to Steve Tylor’s rock group:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Aerosmith fans can finally get their chance to step into the shoes of Steven Tyler and Joe Perry as video game developer Activision Inc released its […]

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Blizzard announces Diablo 3

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Blizzard announced Diablo 3 at their 2008 Worldwide Invitational yesterday, check out the following highly polished CG debut trailer of the anticipated sequel.

Nearly 20 minute video demonstrating Diablo 3’s various classes:

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Sessler Previews Left 4 Dead

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In this week’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam previews the highly anticipated co-op FPS title ‘Left 4 Dead’ from Valve.

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Brief Blast Off recording

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This is the sequel to Bosconian, and it certainly does have some impressive looking weapons available. The larger viewpoint you have here when inside the enemy base is interesting too.
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Brief taping of Xenophobe

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This was a game where you’re tripping around a spaceship dealing with goofy aliens, and the arcade version of this was certainly meant to be a parody-style game. So, if only I could actually find a recording of the arcade version, then we’d be getting somewhere, […]

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Simpsons map for Quake III Arena

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The amount of detail in this recreation of The Simpsons hometown Springfield is amazing. Watch the video below to check out a nice tour of this Quake III map.

If you would like the .pk3 file here is the download. Enjoy.
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A taping of Two Tigers

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This is an airplane dogfight-style game, and was unique in its time for being a game that two people could play together.
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Indie game designers

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An article about independent game developers:
NEW YORK (AP) - In the second grade, James Silva didn’t just play “Mario” and “Zelda” on his Nintendo but drew pictures of new levels and cooked up ideas for future games. While other kids dreamed of becoming an astronaut or president, he felt destined to be […]

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720 degrees on the ramps

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One of the most innovative sports games produced, 720 is all about skateboarding. Here’s some recordings of it here:

It’s probably the first skateboarding game ever made, and pretty difficult. You’ve got to jump over plenty of special water pools, curves, tricky ramps and also avoid passing cars and pedestrians […]

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Some videos of Aero Fighters 2

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Here’s 5 recordings of the sequel to the first great shoot-em-up, this one made for the Neo-Geo MVS:

Unlike most other host hardware systems, when it’s the Neo-Geo you’re hosting a game like this on, you get a wider screen than what most other games of this genre usually have. […]

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The Denjin Makai games

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Here’s a special post for the games of the Denjin Makai series, which is anime-inspired. Strangely enough, I cannot find any recordings for the first official game. Luckily, I can for the other two. First, we have Ghost Chaser Densei, which was made for the SNES, and may very […]

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