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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Impressions

4:20AM Stephen Totilo | With the subtlety of a tank, EA is making it clear: Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the company’s contender to Call of Duty’s throne. More »
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Mass Effect 2 Impressions: Looks Better, Shoots Differently

8:00PM Stephen Totilo | Freeze-bullets. Framerates. Interactive cut-scenes. Even old friends from other Mass Effect games (yes, plural). These are some of the things, new or improved, that I recently saw in Mass Effect 2. More »
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Darksiders Is “Akin To Zelda” But Way Bloodier

11:00AM AJ Glasser | We’re exactly three months and one day away from Darksiders’ ship date and I’m still waiting for Battle Chasers #10. More »
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Russia Gets A Whole Lot Bleaker In Metro 2033

12:40PM AJ Glasser | At the rate video games are going, the future Russia is in danger of becoming stereotyped as some Chernobyl-like irradiated, mutant filled wasteland. More »
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The First Hour Of… Dragon Age: Origins

1:00PM David Wildgoose | Bioware has been working on Dragon Age for about six years. What began as a PC-only successor to their Baldur’s Gate series is now also coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Here’s my take on the first hour of the game. More »
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Polite People Can’t Say Name Of Matt Hazard’s New Difficulty Level

7:00AM Stephen Totilo | The profane, not-for-children-to-see-or-your-boss-to-read name of the hardest difficulty mode in the next Matt Hazard video game can by abbreviated as FTS. More »
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Hands-On With Ace Combat Xi

6:40AM Brian Crecente | Arcade flighter Ace Combat is going mobile later this month with the iPhone and iPod Touch release of Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion. More »
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New Xbox/PS3 Madden Was Born On The Wii

4:40AM Stephen Totilo | What the Wii makes, the Xbox (and PlayStation 3) takes, at least in the case of some cartoon football. More »
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Prince Of Persia Trailer Impressions — Please, Ben Kingsley, Don’t Mess This Up

5:30PM AJ Glasser | Yesterday afternoon, Disney and OnePR treated games journalists to the first ever screening of the Prince of Persia film trailer. More »
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Carving A Virtual Pumpkin

8:30PM AJ Glasser | An enterprising indie developer pointed me toward his 3D pumpkin carving game on Xbox Live Indie Games called Pumpkin Chop. More »