Thursday, December 18, 2008 - Page 2

Mafia II Also Has A New Trailer

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We have a confession to make. When we wrapped up all the new trailers unveiled at the Spike VGAs, we kinda forgot something. So, sorry Mafia fans, sorry 2K Games, and most of all, sorry dear readers.


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Spore Now Graciously Allows You To Reinstall Your Own Game

For many of you (not many of everyone, if you look at the sales charts), Spore’s iron-fisted DRM was a big turn-off. Well, after promises, now EA have delivered, freeing up the game’s installs.


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Far Cry 2 Patch Enables Hot, Sweaty Widescreen Action

Far Cry 2 launched on PC sans widescreen. Considering everything else on the PC version was superior to the console iterations (quicksaves!), that was an odd move. Nevermind. It’s fixed now.


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IGN AU Crowns Its Console Of The Year

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Our friends over at IGN AU continue their fanboy-baiting objective analysis of the software performance of the three current-gen consoles. So far, they’ve assessed the exclusives, specific genres, and the download services, which saw the PS3 scoop two categories to the 360′s one. But today it’s the big one… the Best Overall Console for 2008. Let’s find out who won…


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So Dead Space Was Banned, Well, Nowhere

In September, something smelled fishy. EA went out of their way to say that Dead Space had been “banned” in Germany, Japan and China, when really, nothing of the sort had transpired.


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Your Favourite Moments From 2008: #3

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The submissions are now pouring in withyour tales of awesome gaming moments from this year. Keep ‘em coming! Unsurprisingly, GTA IV has proven popular, so here are three entries all about good times in Liberty City.

Oh, and if you want to your favourite gaming moment of the year immortalised on a videogames blog, send it this way.


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Patapon To be Released In ‘Early 2009′

Enjoying Patapon 2, Japan? Bet you are. Game’s been out there since last month, but as of yet, us Westerners have been kept in the dark. Least, we were until today.


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Top-Sellers? Bah, Let’s Look At The 10 Most ‘Engaging’ Games

It’s easy to track the biggest-selling games. You can track them with sales numbers. But how do you track the most-engaging games? That’s harder. But Networked Insights reckon they’ve got the answer.


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Is Kevin Rudd A Gamer?

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Any excuse to run this photo again. But seriously, we now all know Kevin Rudd wants us to buy consoles, so the obvious follow-up question is: “Does Kevin Rudd himself own a console?”


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Wii Is A ‘Viable Platform’ For Mature Games, Says Take-Two

Mature games? On the Wii? From Take-Two? With over 15 million of the things in the United States, you better believe the publisher has dollar signs in its eyes. But what kind of “mature” content?