Saturday, September 13, 2008 - Page 2
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New Skate It Trailer

This trailer for the Wii version of Skate It shows off some of the exotic locations where It may be Skated. You got your London (red phone boxes – you don’t find THOSE anywhere else), Paris (or Blackpool — hard to tell at this resolution), Barcelona (no Gaudi grinding, sadly), Rio (sand) and Shanghai (chinese-looking benches).

The Wii version will let you use the balance board in conjunction with your Wii-mote – place your bets now for the first person to sue when they break it trying to do an Ollie.


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Atari Gamer’s Day Roundup

September is turning out to be a hell of a month. A hurricane is heading for my homestead, my dental appointment got pushed to the morning after the Atari event and Atari fell the day after the Guitar Hero event I’m not allowed to talk about until next week. Which happens to be right when I start Stanford.


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MotorStorm 2 Demo Invites Going Out Via Email

Looks like Motorstorm: Pacific Rift‘s pre-release demo isn’t strictly limited to the Qore subscribing elite. We’ve heard from many a tipster that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has been sending out invites for the demo version of the Motorstorm sequel, freeing it from its shackles as a strictly pay-to-play demo. That means you should definitely check your inbox, your spam filter and get in touch with your friends across the pond. They might have a spare for you. Thanks to everyone who sent this in — Philip took the first place tip spot and gets the Kotaku no-prize.


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Bungie Help The Make-A-Wish Foundation

Those nice chaps at Bungie are doing their bit to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.


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Game Tester Fired For Going On Record About Xbox 360 Defects

VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi recently published an exhaustive history of the manufacturing issues that have surrounded the Xbox 360, resulting in still unknown numbers of defective consoles and a $1 billion price tag for Microsoft’s games division. Hypersensitive readers who pined for the day when we could all just “move on” from the story weren’t the only invested parties who took issue with the exposé. One of Microsoft’s own contract employees was fired for his participation in the story.


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New Solid Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Trailer

We haven’t seen a whole lot of gameplay footage coming from the recent Sonic Chronicles trailers. Perhaps Bioware wants to keep a lid on it so not to spoil the story. Regardless, we have the newest trailer which gives us a glimpse of what we can expect come September 30th.

Sonic Chronicles: Bioware Developer Diary Sonic Chronicles Trailer Shows Combat


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Burnout Bikes Out On 18th

If you have ever played Burnout Paradise and thought, “Hmm.. Needs more bike.” then have I got the post for you!


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Hands On: Backyard Football 09

I’m not even going to pretend I play these kinds of games – and it’s not because I’ve got the double X-chromosome dislike of football. It’s because I can honestly thing of other things I’d rather be doing than watching the Muppet Babies version of pro football.


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Alice Cooper To Battle Sebastian Bach At Rock Band 2

Yes, he may be a golf-obsessed, card-carrying Republican, but Alice Cooper is still an officially-sanctioned Rock Legend and thus the perfect choice to tear the roof off Hollywood’s Viper Room with his undoubted Rock Band 2 skills, this Monday.


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Amazon Deletes All Spore Customer Reviews, Blames Site Glitch

Despite receiving generally favourable reviews from game critics everywhere, the Amazon shopping populace didn’t take so kindly to EA’s PC release of Spore. Slapped with a one-star rating out of five, the majority of complaints weren’t directed at the game’s quality — though some did take issue with the core gameplay mechanics, venting how underwhelming the game felt after years of hype. No, it was Electronic Arts’ implementation of digital rights management via Sony’s SecuROM copy protection scheme that angered the masses.