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You're browsing in compact mode. Expand all stories Digital Comics for PSP code hits; a look at the reader 8 The last PSP firmware update added the option to download the Digital Comics reader app. One minor problem, though. There weren’t any digital comics to download at the second it was offere... Ten Minute Taste: 1 vs. 100 Season 2 9 Chris Cashman’s smooth voice blasted into over 22,000 people’s ear holes last evening during the live debut of the second season of 1 vs. 100. I was one of those in attendance, liste... Zombies were discussed for Modern Warfare 2 23 Looking to go unconventional with the narrative, the team behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s innards tossed around several fantastic ideas before settling on the series’ familiar... PS Store Update: adhocParty and Peggle 7 The cure for a problematic blank screen, a messy desk, and the urge to answer a phone while it’s ringing is Peggle. I’ve been using it for years to avoid doing what I’m supposed... Go Internet with PSP multiplayer: AdhocParty app hits 20 Late this afternoon, SCE made it possible to compete in Internet multiplayer matches while on the toilet. And it was as easy as offering US PSP owners a downloadable app that works around ad hoc ... Dragon Age expansion 'Return to Ostagar' announced 26 The Dragon Age: Origins Twitter account doesn’t spread lies like your standard, filthy Elf commoner. Something “cool” was announced this afternoon relating to Bioware’s la... PSA: PSP firmware 6.20 now available for download 10 A new PSP firmware update is available for download. Get happy, people!The latest update (v6.20) doesn’t snap neck ligaments with head-turning blockbuster additions, but it does add a hook ... Ten Minute Taste: MAG beta 43 The other afternoon I asked myself (via the Internet of all places) why I wasn’t participating in the MAG beta. Like most of my peers with a soft spot for lead and things that fire said le... Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 5 hitting in December 3 Tales of Monkey Island draws to a close this December with the release of the final episodic chapter on the 8th of next month. Dubbed “Rise of the Pirate God,” Telltale Games has said... Dragon Age: Origins-related announcement coming soon? 24 Something Dragon Age: Origins-related is going down soon.One of the most recent tweets from the official Origins Twitter account is teasing that something “cool” is happening on the m... Story: Dante's Inferno has one 17 If I was a bad dude, the last damsel I would choose to distress is one who pals around with a large guy named Dante, who just happens to carry around a scythe composed of bone and sinew all hour... A look at Mad Catz' PS3 MW2-themed wireless headset 15 Mad Catz’ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2-themed PS3 communicator doesn’t harness the power of the throat like its Xbox 360 counterpart does. This one is just a light, wireless Bluetoo... PS3 Facebook firmware update drops today 40 The next big PS3 firmware update -- v3.10 -- is today’s big firmware update.In a recent interview with 1UP, SCEA’s Eric Lempel apparently revealed that the teased 3.10 update launches... Tony Hawk: RIDE is out, #tonyhawktuesday 12 If I was a game I wouldn’t dream of debuting on the same morning two mass marketed follow-ups to unique and successful IPs did. But I’m pretty sure if I was game, I wouldn’t ha... Assassin's Creed 2 launch trailer confirms AC2 launch 20 Word on the street is that a little game called Assassin’s Creed 2 snuck onto retail shelves this morning alongside Left 4 Dead 2. A quick look at the launch teaser for the successor to th... New Mass Effect 2 cover art is not the best we've seen 85 Take a gander at the worst cover art this side of the galaxy.Just kidding. I’ve long believed that excellence in cover art wretchedness belongs to whoever was doing the stuff for fantasy au... Peggle Nights add-on hitting LIVE on November 18 12 Two days from now, PS3 owners are getting their chance to sniff the Peggle-powder with the planned release of Peggle and the paid add-on Peggle Nights over PSN. The simultaneous release of Peggle... Activision says Modern Warfare 2 not banned in Russia 20 The official word from Activision is that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has not been “banned” from store shelves in Russia, but whether or not the game has been pulled as reported be... Borderlands soundtrack hitting in December 22 The Borderlands soundtrack is a thing that is happening this December.In a press release sent last afternoon, Sumthing Else Music Works announced plans to sell the Borderlands original soundtrack... Rumor: Pandemic Studios to close soon 64 If sources have it right, then EA is to make Pandemic Studios no more after this afternoon.According to a Kotaku report, several unnamed sources have said that the studio responsible for Mercenar... Future PS3 firmware update to add Facebook support 38 In the most recent official PlayStation blog post, SCEA teased future additions that build on what Microsoft plans to unleash upon its Xbox LIVE masses tomorrow.The next big PS3 firmware update -... SSFIV: Watch Juri rock T-Hawk and Deejay and latest vids 31 I’ll admit that I was turned off by the announcement of Super Street Fighter IV. I suppose I’ve become a bit update-expectant in this age of downloads. But after reading a few previe... Borderlands: best week one sales of any fresh IP in 2009 48 Borderlands -- the fantastic end result of an FPS that was impregnated by an RPG with a rusty instrument -- had an impressive October debut, taking third place in the October NPD results with ov... The lack of flesh in Origins was an 'artistic choice' 53 The oddest thing I’ve seen in the last few weeks -- other than the return of a special someone in another new game -- is the Dragon Age: Origins’ romance scene with Morrigan. Watching... A look at Mad Catz' MW2 Xbox 360 Combat Controller 30 If you’re seeking a clear Modern Warfare 2 advantage, the Mad Catz game-themed Xbox 360 controller won’t give you one. Customizable button configurations are no substitute for a turbo... A look at Mad Catz' MW2 Throat Communicator 25 I’ve yet to test a third-party console communicator that I’ve liked. The audio and voice quality never measures up to the two products Microsofts makes available for its platform at a... 1 vs. 100 Season 2 Achievement list revealed 7 The second season of Xbox LIVE Primetime launch show 1 vs. 100 is kicking off in a few days from now. On November 20th, we’ll be participating amongst the digital crowd believing once again... Co-op may be a threat in future Mass Effect and DA titles 20 Bioware isn’t opposed to the idea of adding a cooperative element to later Dragon Age and Mass Effect games. In a recent interview, part lord and master of the RPG stronghold, Dr. Ray Muzyk... Ten Minute Taste: Military Madness: Nectaris (PSN) 11 Military Madness: Nectaris is 3D turn-based downloadable strategy game. Similar to SEGA’s Shining Force, except with shell-spewing tanks instead of steel-coated armadillos and dragons, I&r... Madden NFL Arcade hitting November 24th and 25th 7 EA plans to release Madden NFL Arcade during Thanksgiving week.The downloadable casual Madden experience hits the PS Store November 24th and then Xbox LIVE Arcade on the 25th. But the price of no... Las Vegas Convention Center to host BlizzCon? (Update) 7 If the Las Vegas Convention Center Web site can be trusted, then it appears as if the Sin City complex will be the next host of developer Blizzard’s massive community event, BlizzCon. The W... One million units sold: Uncharted 2 has done this 34 At the recent “Digital Entertainment Conference” in New York this afternoon -- which created a number of stories on the site right now -- it was revealed that PS3-exclusive Uncharted ... PS Store Update: Braid and Star Trek D-A-C 11 We’ve been neglectful, PS Store. We should have continued posting what was new on you over the last few months, but things happened. People changed, man. But no more! We shall resume showin... 'R3' pops up as a project on artist's profile 6 We’re pretty sure Resistance 3 is a thing that is happening. The above leaked set picture from sci-fi flick Battle: Lost Angeles is convincing enough, but now we know at least one person re... Take-Two thinks discs are going to stick around for a bit 26 If you’re one of those “I must have a disc” kind of persons, its time to let out a deep, satisfying exhale. Take-Two’s CEO Ben Feder isn’t buying the speculation tha... Unreal Engine 3 toolset being used by over 50,000 people 10 If we knew how to turn numbers into massive and visceral space marines, we’d probably be fiddling with the Unreal Development Kit. Announced last week, it gives anyone with non-commercial i... Avatar: The Movie: The Game guided Navi campaign vid hits 4 I won’t pretend to know what James Cameron’s Avatar is all about. If you pay close attention, you'll notice that the movie’s title has neither the words “Terminator&rdquo... Dante's Inferno animated flick has blood, screaming 9 EA Visceral’s take on The Divine Comedy won’t be confined to just the videogame Dante’s Inferno. Hitting alongside the title this February is an animated epic creatively dubbed... $1 million and counting: Dragon Age DLC selling well 40 Despite offering several boxed sets and a single pre-order edition of Dragon Age: Origins that all included most of the game’s day-one DLC, Bioware and EA still made a good bit of coin thro... THE Xbox LIVE system update hitting November 17th 18 THE big Xbox LIVE System Update is dropping on November 17th according to Web site Fast Company, who reportedly received launch confirmation from LIVE general manager Marc Whitten.This is the upd... Torchlight hitting retail in January 23 Runic Games’ digital download Torchlight is indeed hitting brick and mortar. Earlier this afternoon, Encore Software announced an agreement with Runic that will give the Diablo-esque videog... A new Final Fantasy XIII trailer hitting Home real soon 16 I didn’t see much going on in PlayStation Home when I last visited, but things do happen in Sony’s digital dance party simulator. Case in point: this argument I witnessed last week. U... Mythic exec says studio will continue to support MMOs 3 Despite the recent EA layoffs and reorganization, Mythic Entertainment has assured its MMO fan base that the studio will continue to deliver the same level of “content and service” as... Borderlands 2: Hey, it could happen 36 At various points during the later stages of Borderlands I found myself thinking about the possibilities of a sequel, hoping that the game sold well enough to warrant a follow-up. The fact that I... MW2 may have had the biggest entertainment launch ever 55 Seems like the early morning analyst wasn’t too far off the mark regarding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s day-one sales. Activision internal estimates have pegged worldwide launch d... Gyromancer team considered using Peggle or Zuma 7 Before Bejeweled Twist became a part of Gyromancer, the Square Enix team responsible for the PopCap Games-powered downloadable considered using Peggle and even Zuma as its puzzle foundation. In a... Mass Effect 2: Legion, enemies, and Garrus oh my! 10 If you’re hot for Mass Effect 2 media, chances are you’ve already seen what’s in the gallery. A total of nine screenshots that accompanied a previewable build of the game hit th... Analyst believes a lot of people bought Modern Warfare 2 35 The other day a GameStop employee told me that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 had the “biggest launch in the history of entertainment.” I didn’t put much stock into what the emp... Bioware talks 'sword porn' in latest Origins dev video 14 You can eradicate a Dark Spawn’s head with a flourish and mount an Ogre with crimson-coated steel in Dragon Age: Origins. But before that fun stuff can happen you must first enter into com... Take a peek at Modern Warfare 2's Team Deathmatch mode 20 We’ve talked a lot about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on this glorious day. First, we hit you with a Ten Minute Taste, featuring as always, the first ten minutes of the game -- all the l... Ten Minute Taste: Call of Duty: Classic 31 Infinity Ward’s downloadable version of the original Call of Duty, dubbed Call of Duty: Classic, is now available over Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network. Do try to keep from wetting your p... Modern Warfare 2's controversial airport terrorist attack 100 [Warning: Spoilers McSpoilersons] A video of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s mission “No Russian” was leaked a few weeks prior to the game’s release. Featuring a civilian... Ten Minute Taste: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 53 The console versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launched this morning. Hundreds, probably thousands of retailers did a special midnight release in celebration of the billions of sales sure... Dragon Age: Romancing Morrigan (NSFW) 58 Romancing Morrigan in Dragon Age: Origins is an easy thing to accomplish if you’re a bloodthirsty dark fantasy arsehole like my character is. I just slit a few peasant throats, made some u... Ten Minute Taste: Numblast 3 Numblast is a game we’ve explored before when it was announced a few nights evenings ago. Developed by Japan Studios, it’s an odd puzzle game with a focus on numbers. The core goal i... Ten Minute Taste: Dragon Age: Origins 43 Dragon Age: Origins is an RPG-ass RPG. As such, the first ten minutes of the game aren’t packed with playable action; rather, developer Bioware orients the player with the game’s uni... The Reapers aren't done, influencing enemies in ME 2 18 While the galaxy was able to experience a moment of triumph, the Reaper problem wasn’t solved in the original Mass Effect. In its sequel, these massive constructs are making a bit of a ret... Mass Effect goes half price on Steam 23 Mass Effect enters into the news cycle for the second time today with this precious little announcement via Valve: the original PC version of ME is now available on Steam for 50 percent off as pa... Rock dudes like Cap America: MUA 2 demo hits LIVE 7 Those of you interested in chuck a star-adorned shield at uninspired enemies in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 take note: the demo for the follow-up is now available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, accordi... Rumor: Halo: Reach weapon pics leaked 58 The first Halo: Reach images might have been leaked this afternoon via the MLG message board. 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