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Red Steel 2 Hands On: Now With Ninjas!

Ubisoft had a newly playable copy of Red Steel 2 at Gamescom, its cowboy-samurai western now full of ninja and 360-degree Wii MotionPlus-powered sword swingin’. And I nearly had my delicate wrist snapped off playing the thing.

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Gamescom’s Halls Of PC Hardware, Nintendo And Sad

You’ve seen the best of what Gamescom’s varied halls had to offer, now see the rest—the PC gaming focused Hall 9, where NCSoft, Razer and numerous MMO vendors set up shop, and Hall 8, featuring Nintendo.

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Final Fantasy Versus XIII Dev Time “Comparatively Faster” Than FFXIII

Sick of looking at these same Final Fantasy Versus XIII screen shots? Yeah. Me too. Well, the good news is that development on Final Fantasy XIII is doing wonders for that other Fabula Nova Crystallis entry, according to the developer.

Heavy Rain Eyes On: Meet Scott Shelby, Private Eye

Quantic Dream’s Guillaume de Fondaumièr offered us our third official look at the developer’s PlayStation 3 game Heavy Rain at Gamescom, showing us just a few of the many possibilities that await us in the hi-def choose your own adventure.

Final Fantasy XIII’s Paradigm Shift, Gestalt Mode & More

We’re just a few months away from Final Fantasy XIII’s release—in Japan anyway—giving Square Enix good reason to reveal more about the role-playing game’s battle system. We got a look at FF XIII’s goods this week at Gamescom.

Minis Impressions: Fieldrunners On The PSPGo

I am a Fieldrunners devotee on the iPhone, getting sucked into the Tower Defense game way more than I like to admit.

Modern Warfare Mobility DS: Guns, Tanks And Planes

New Modern Warfares aren’t just coming to the consoles this fall, the DS will also be getting a brand new first-person shooter from Activision.

Singularity Finds Inspiration In 80s Childhoods

Singularity was inspired by the childhood memories of Raven Software co-founders Brian and Steve Raffel. Not the protagonist’s ability to age people until they turn to dust or revert them into pre-human creatures, but the idea of exploration.

Video Gamers Get Their Woodstock

Cologne, Germany There were plenty of reasons to go to Cologne’s convention centre last week: jet pack flights, beach volleyball, ATV races, motorcycle stunts, performances by skateboarder Tony Hawk and German band Die Toten Hosen. But what really brought in the crowds were the video games.

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Sony’s Interest In Augmented Reality Gaming Expands

Sony’s interest in augmented reality gaming shows no signs of fading.

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