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The Underachiever #5: Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

By Ryan Kuo | Xbox 360 Articles | Jul 9, 2010 7:00 PM | Comment

The building is a puzzle -- like the town, like the entire game. It's a matter of finding a way up. But that's where the similarities end between the Agency Tower in Pacific City and the videogame factory in Showdown Town. Read More »

The Underachiever #5: Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

The Perfect Arcade, Part 2: From Sawdust to Space Invaders

By Julian Murdoch | Articles | Jul 9, 2010 6:20 PM | Comment

In Part 1 of this series, I touched on the factors that led me to make a life-changing decision -- to rebuild a 1980s-era arcade machine in my basement. Before I jumped into the actual cutting of wood and ordering of parts, I went through the critical phase of deciding how big a screen I would use (I settled on a 32" widescreen LCD TV), and what my controls would look like (a little bit of everything, using a modular format). All that remained was to actually build the thing. Read More »

The Perfect Arcade, Part 2: From Sawdust to Space Invaders

Civilization V Special Edition Invades Your Wallet, Conquers Your Budget

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Jul 9, 2010 2:17 PM | Comment

If you're going to plunge back into the depths of just-one-more-turn dependency, you might as well do it in style. If that train of thought is to your liking, publisher 2K Games and developer Firaxis have just the trick for you: the $100 special edition of Civilization V. Read More »

2K Announces Special Edition Civilization V

BioWare Kicks Star Wars: The Old Republic into Light Speed, Announces Testing Sign-up

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Jul 9, 2010 1:39 PM | Comment

It's a trap! Well, not really, but it must feel like one to gamers hoping to become among the first to play Star Wars: The Old Republic. BioWare announced it has opened sign-ups to test the highly anticipated MMO, an announcement that has generated so much traffic to the game's web site, actually getting into the sign-up page is about as easy as taking out the Death Star. Read More »

BioWare Announces Star Wars: The Old Republic Game Testing Sign-up

Are Those Acid Shooting Nipples? And Other Questions Sony Should Have Asked About Queen's Blade

By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Jul 9, 2010 12:42 PM | Comment

When PlayStation Store senior manager Grace Chen promoted the first episode of TV-MA anime "Queen's Blade" as one of PSN's free deals of the week this morning on the PlayStation Blog, she must not have actually watched the giant, naked breast-filled episode. More on Sony's free anime boobies after the jump. Read More »

Sony Posts Free, Breast-Filled Anime Episode on the PSN Store

The Week of Reveals is Over, Now the Fun Begins with the TF2 Engineer Update

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Jul 9, 2010 12:03 PM | Comment

After a week of reveals featuring new weapons, maps, and achievements for the Engineer, Valve's largest single-class update ever for Team Fortress 2 is now available for download. Hit the jump for details. Read More »

Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update Ready for Download

Blizzard Retracts Controversial New Forum Policy

By Ryan Scott | PC News | Jul 9, 2010 11:25 AM | Comment

Blizzard recently announced their intention to require players to post under their real Earth names on the official Battle.net forums, which understandably led to a flurry of controversy and some very, very upset fans. Now, it looks like Blizzard is (wisely) having second thoughts. Read More »

Blizzard Retracts Controversial New Forum Policy

The Ten Most Irrational Videogame Endings

By Evan Hoovler | Humor | Jul 9, 2010 9:00 AM | Comment

Sometimes, a game's writer throws a cheap shot-to-the-junk after the bell has rung. I'm talking about endings that take the characters in new and horrible directions, completely out of the player's control. We've called out 10 classic games for taking the storyline to a final twist which spits in the face of story arcs. Read More »

The Ten Most Irrational Videogame Endings

The Third-Person Cover Shooter Gets a Boost of Speed When Vanquish Drops in October

By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Jul 8, 2010 4:27 PM | Comment

Shinji Mikami's next big project finally has a release date. Sega of America announced today that the Resident Evil and Devil May Cry creator's frenetic sci-fi shooter, Vanquish, is set to ship on October 19. Read More »

Sega Dates Vanquish, Details Preorder Bonus

Civilization V Studio Firaxis Confirms Layoffs, Realignment

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Jul 8, 2010 12:07 PM | Comment

Civilization V is set to ship in September, but according to the developer, not all of its creators will make it to the release party. Firaxis confirmed rumors today that approximately 20 of its employees were laid off yesterday and the studio is now realigning. Read More »

Firaxis Confirms Layoffs, Realignment

Fantasy Dream Team Set to Reveal Project Mercury at San Diego Comic-Con

By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Jul 8, 2010 11:30 AM | Comment

Spawn creator and comics artist Todd McFarlane, best selling fantasy author R.A. Salvatore, and the lead designer of Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and IV: Oblivion Ken Rolston. If ever there was a team destined to create a legendary role-playing game, it's this one. And on July 22, we'll finally get to see what they've been working on when Project Mercury is officially unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con. Read More »

38 Studios Set to Reveal Project Mercury at San Diego Comic-Con

Red Dead Redemption's Open World About to Expand, Rockstar Announces Series of DLC Packs

By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Jul 8, 2010 9:18 AM | Comment

You've played through John Marston's epic campaign, you've free-roamed to your heart's content, and you've conquered the co-op missions. Just when you think you've finally played all of Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar has revealed it's not done with you yet. The developer announced today its plans for a series of ongoing downloadable content for the open-world Western. Read More »

Rockstar Announces Red Dead Redemption DLC Series

Learning About World Culture Through Xbox Live

By Justin Massoud and Nathan Birch | Xbox 360 Humor | Jul 8, 2010 9:00 AM | Comment

Throw away your textbooks and cancel those travel plans -- if you want to learn about other cultures, all you have to do is log into Xbox Live... Read More »

Learning About World Culture Through Xbox Live

New Visual Style, Combat Mechanics, Storyline in Dragon Age II

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Jul 8, 2010 8:25 AM | Comment

There are rare occasions as a journalist when you just can't help but throw your integrity out the window and provide a completely biased view on a particular topic. This is one of those times: BioWare has officially announced Dragon Age II and the gamer in me has pushed the journalist aside to say, "Woot!" Opinion-free details after the jump. Read More »

BioWare Announces Dragon Age II

Create and Customize the Ultimate Club -- Appearance, Attributes, Kits, and All -- in FIFA 11

By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Jul 8, 2010 7:31 AM | Comment

After it detailed Personality+ for FIFA 11 last month, EA Sports said that was just one of many new features being added to its soccer franchise. Yesterday the developer made it clear there are, indeed, a host of new goodies on the way for footy fans when it announced the ultimate FIFA customization tool, the Creation Center. Read More »

Creation Center Announced for FIFA 11

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