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February 7, 2013

Skylanders surpasses 100 million toys sold

Children everywhere are surrounded by tiny monsters, but there’s no cause for alarm – unless you’re a parent on a budget, that…

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Super Joystiq Podcast 038 Live: Castlevania, DMC, Antichamber, The Last of Us, win a Razer Sabertooth [update: Watch the recap!]

Update: The live show is over. You can watch the recorded broadcast above. The Super Joystiq Podcast is a grab bag of…

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Warren Spector dials back the panic in DICE speech

The recently unemployed Warren Spector, former head of Disney’s shuttered Junction Point Studio, dialed back the panic today at DICE. He’s looking…

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MLB 13 The Show’s Franchise Mode Gets Personal

Franchise Mode has been a big part of MLB The Show ever since its induction, and we’re confident that this iteration is…

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Dark Farce: The Perils of Self-Aware Video Games

What good is satirizing bad design when it merely leads to more bad design?…

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New Nintendo eShop releases: Ken’s Rage 2, Mega Man 2, Etrian Odyssey 4 demo

With the delay of Rayman Legends, today’s release of Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage would be the Wii U’s only…

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Gabe Newell’s DICE keynote: Steam Box price point ‘much, much lower’ than living room devices

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell didn’t drop any major announcement bombs during his DICE keynote address, but he did provide insight into Valve’s…

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David Cage Refuses To Grow Up, Says Man In His Chair

David Cage has been speaking again. And that means he’s been talking about how games need to grow up, that they’re too…

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Ratchet & Clank Update: Full Frontal Assault and Deadlocked

As many of you know, when Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault launched for the PS3 system this past November, we announced…

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The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct gameplay trailer

It looks a bit better than that fan-compiled footage……

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TA Plays: ‘After Burner Climax’ – A Port Of An Arcade Aerial Combat Game

This morning, Eli and I gave After Burner Climax [$2.99] a shot. It’s an aerial combat game that tasks you with blasting…

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Star Trek Into Darkness Releases Suspenseful New Photos (Updated)

Upcoming sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness has released a set of new photos exclusive to Entertainment Weekly’s current cover story on the film….

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Activision and Nickelodeon team up for 3 TMNT games

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have a new home in video game publishing. Previously in the hands of Ubisoft, the Turtles now…

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Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation moves ‘close to 600,000’ units [Update!]

Assassin’s Creed 3’s PlayStation Vita companion piece, Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation, has either shipped or sold “close to 600,000” units, Ubisoft announced…

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Halo 4 Spartan Ops ep. 9 trailer is a librarian rodeo

You don’t often hear the words ‘librarian’ and ‘rodeo’ close to each other, but this trailer for the ninth episode of Halo…

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No One Mention The “Mass Effect 4″

See – because it rhymes with “war”, and that’s a reference to a thing a man said in a TV show 37…

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Aliens: Colonial Marines’ Bug Hunt DLC set for March

Walmart has outed the Bug Hunt DLC for Gearbox’s upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines, due out next week.Astute consumers on Gearbox’s forum have…

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Final Fantasy performance by London Symphony Orchestra in May

The first live video game music performance from the orchestra……

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