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Prepare to Go Megadeaf Thanks to Next Week’s Rock Band Music Store Update

Friday, February 17, 2012 No Comments

I’ve got Mustaine on the brain! Harmonix announced today that next week’s Rock Band Music Store update will feature the first track pack from thrash metal mavens Megadeth (it’s cool if I call them mavens, right?). The icons of heavy metal will be bringing a small selection of their major hits from the 90s and [...]

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ZEN Studios Combines RPGs, Pinball

Thursday, February 16, 2012 No Comments

This week, ZEN Studios announced the release of a new title that combines the role playing and pinball genres into one, called Epic Quest. Officially speaking, this is a new table for the Pinball FX 2 and ZEN Pinball platforms, but the ZEN team prefers to think of it as a genre-blending title that makes [...]

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Ubisoft Hits the Playstation Vita Launch Hard, With Five Titles

Thursday, February 16, 2012 No Comments

There’s something to be said about a company throwing its weight behind a product, and I’m quite sure that Ubisoft’s lineup of launch titles for the Playstation Vita counts as one such declaration, essentially saying “This is a good product”. Alternatives to that statement would be “We think this is cool”, or, more importantly, “This [...]

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Nintendo Pumps Up the Beats with Launch of Rhythm Heaven Fever

Monday, February 13, 2012 No Comments

Simple to play, but hard to master. That was certainly one of the mantras of the beat-keeping Nintendo DS title, Rhythm Heaven. With this week’s launch of Rhythm Heaven Fever, players can now take the beat-keeping from tapping and sliding on a small and portable touch screen to pushing buttons on their Wii Remote and [...]

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Rock Band Rick Rolls Your Heart With Next Week’s Music Store Update

Friday, February 10, 2012 No Comments

Harmonix is doing it up this Valentine’s Day, with a track pack to get you all emotional coming in next week’s Rock Band Music Store Update. And since Valentine’s Day is on a Tuesday this year, the update nicely looks as if they’re not trying to capitalize on the whole commercial effort of the day [...]

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Jak and Daxter Get Collected

Thursday, February 9, 2012 No Comments

As it has been doing with its major Playstation 2 titles for quite some time now, Sony announced the release of its latest high definition remastered collection this week, the Jak and Daxter Collection. Originally created by Naughty Dog, who later went on to create a Playstation 3 franchise of which you may recall the [...]

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Classic The Simpsons Arcade Game Comes to Consoles

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 No Comments

Today is an exciting day for Simpsons fans and, I’d like to think, classic arcade game fans as a whole, because FOX is celebrating the upcoming 500th episode of the long-running cartoon series. As such, Konami, in partnership with Gracie Films and Twentieth Century Fox’s Consumer Products branch officially released a home console port of [...]

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Harmonix Packs On A Few In This Week’s Rock Band Music Store Update

Monday, February 6, 2012 No Comments

This past Friday, (yes, I know this is late) Harmonix announced that this week’s Rock Band Music Store update will feature a new three track pack from London alt. rock outfit Bush. Yes, the band that’s Better than the Rest (we’ll see if you got the reference later) will be bringing three hit singles from [...]

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GameMill Makes Gogo’s Crazy Bones Interactive on DS

Thursday, February 2, 2012 No Comments

Do you remember Crazy Bones? I sure do. No, I never collected or played with them. I was lucky enough to spot that fad as it hit. Not like Pogs. Darn Pogs… Anyway! GameMill Entertainment announced today that it’s bringing yet another toy into the video game world, Gogo’s Crazy Bones. These new types of [...]

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Microsoft Releases New Kinect for PC Developers

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 No Comments

Microsoft announced today that it has now made Windows versions of its Kinect hardware and software available to businesses and developers in 12 countries around the world, including Canada, the US and Mexico. This new hardware and software package was initially made available to a group of 300 early adoption companies – including American Express, [...]

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