Thursday, February 25, 2010 - Page 2
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Split/Second Hits This May

Part racing game, part blowing stuff up, Black Rock Studio’s Split/Second hits May 21 in North America, Disney Interactive Studios announced today.


The Misadventures Of P.B. Winterbottom Micro-review

The puzzle’s the thing in The Odd Gentlemen’s time-twisting, brain-teasing platformer The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, a pie-collecting adventure made fascinating by the eponymous Winterbottom and his superhuman ability to clone himself.


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What Your $US60 Really Buys

Seven dollars of a $US60 video game purchase covers expenses for games never even sold. That’s according to a breakdown of retail game cost by an on-demand games service.


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Mile Marker 15: Cogs

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Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace – and so we can judge them. Today, Cogs.


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Black’s Creator: Modern FPSes Are Eff-Star-Star-Star-Ing Boring

Stuart Black, he of the eponymous 2006 FPS for Xbox and PS2 (that would be the game called “Black”, not “Stuart Black”) has caught on with Codemasters and now declares he “can’t be bothered” by the slow-pace of cover-based shooters.


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The Settlers 7 Box Art Gets Extremely Kirby-ed For America

Ubisoft’s real-time strategy city building game experiences The Kirby Effect during its trans-Atlantic trip, as seen on NeoGAF. (Xtreme version for North Americans follows.)


Meet The Women Of Red Dead Redemption

It’ll be another 12 years before they get the right to vote, but in Red Dead Redemption, the womenfolk will have their say in how the West was run.


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SEGA Releasing Violent Wii Games Bundle

Kotaku AU

Just as the R18+ discussion submissions process draws to a close, SEGA Australia reminds us that they’ve released a few violent games for Wii under MA15+ in recent times.


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Killer Whale’s Violent Past Includes Deadly Attack On Ultima-Obsessed Drifter

The whale that apparently killed a trainer today in front of a horrified SeaWorld audience was also connected to the death in 1999 of a drifter so obsessed with Ultima Online that he once wandered into Richard Garriott’s home.