Saturday, July 18, 2009 - Page 2
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EA Brings Ten Titles To Comic-Con

Electronic Arts will show strongly at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, armed with ten games and plenty of panels. It may be your first chance to go hands on with games like Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age: Origins.


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Effort Begun To Remove Trademark Troll From IGDA Board

Tim Langdell’s not really a developer – “litigator” might be a better job description – but the Lord of Edge is really on the IGDA board. Now someone’s started a petition to remove him.


Can’t Wait For Diabolical Box? Here’s A Professor Layton Movie Trailer

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box isn’t due Stateside for another month or so, but this full theatrical trailer for the movie that’s not coming out in North America should tide you over.


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Fat Princess Developer Holds Court

If there was ever anything you wanted to know about Fat Princess — aside from her exact dress size — now’s the time to ask.


In Real Life

Screenwriter Believes Halo Is “Our Generation’s Star Wars”

Stuart Beattie, responsible for big screen adaptations of Pirates of the Caribbean and G.I. Joe, is a big Halo fan, having “read every book, played every game, every graphic novel.” Proof? His unsolicited Halo: Fall of Reach screenplay in 2007.


Killzone 2′s Napalm & Cordite Dated, Trailered

Guerrilla Games will “radically alter the Killzone 2 multiplayer dynamic” next week with the release of the Napalm & Cordite Map Pack, offering two new maps and two new weapons, seen here in action for in this brief trailer.


What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Kotaku AU

Military games rarely manage to generate much enthusiasm in this gamer. But there’s something about ArmA II that’s urging me to give it a chance.


Tapping Into The Power Of Collective Gaming

With the number of gamers playing online, why don’t more video games tap into that millions-person collective to achieve something interesting, socially grand or just fun?


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NPD Top 20 Home To Ghostbusters, Nintendo Dominance

Yesterday, the NPD Group released its estimates for U.S. video game sales for the month of June, with Activision’s Prototype and THQ’s UFC 2009: Undisputed topping the list of bestsellers. That list was missing a few key releases.


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Brütal Legend Adds 4v4 Multiplayer Skirmish To Set List

When we spoke to Double Fine Productions’ Tim Schafer at E3, he teased the reveal of Brütal Legend‘s then unannounced multiplayer modes. Consider (one of) those multiplayer modes a secret no more, thanks to the ancient tomes of Xbox.com!!