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Halo: Reach Boasts New Tech, Bigger Battles

4:30PM Luke Plunkett | It’s easy to think of Halo: Reach and yawn, imagining yet another Halo game using the same old Halo formula and the same old Halo tech. Listen to Bungie detail the game, though, and your optimism may come sneaking back. More »
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A Little Background On The World’s First Ever Video Game Magazine

4:00PM Luke Plunkett | If you’re stuck with spare time on your hands this holiday week, you should sit down with this excellent interview with Arnie Katz, one of the co-founders of the world’s very first video game magazine. More »
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WoW’s Official Magazine Finally Breaks Cover

3:00PM Luke Plunkett | The official World of Warcraft magazine, which has been coming for what feels like years now, still isn’t out. That’s the bad news. Good news? The mag’s site finally gives us a good look at the publication. More »
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The Fall And Fall Of Duke Nukem Forever

6:00PM Luke Plunkett | The latest issue of Wired has a great piece by Clive Thompson on the death of Duke Nukem Forever, and the development studio it took with it. More »
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Dead Space 2: Multiplayer, Bigger World, Space-Floating

10:30PM Luke Plunkett | That Dead Space 2 issue of Game Informer has hit people’s mailboxes, and it’s full of proper details on the game. Like the fact Isaac will now speak. Let us all take a look, yes? More »
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Shooting A Nintendo DS Through A Wall

5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Throwing a controller/handheld to the ground in frustration is for pussies. You really want to vent some steam, you load the offending peripheral or console into a gun and you shoot it through a wall. More »
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First Brief Details On Heavenly Sword Dev’s Next Game

10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Ninja Theory, the team behind the PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavenly Sword, has made quite clear its intentions to go multi-platform with its next title, a game that will be published by Namco Bandai. That game is Enslaved. More »
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Muramasa T&A Hits The Big Time

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Savvy marketing, this. For the September issue of play magazine, Ignition entertainment managed to get gorgeous Wii side-scroller Muramasa top billing on the front cover. Bottom billing, too. More »
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EGM Might Be Back By December

6:30PM Luke Plunkett | It’s been a rollercoaster few months for readers of former flagship gaming mag EGM. First it died, then we heard it’d be coming back… differently, and now owner Steve Harris has announced a tentative return date. More »
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French Game Mag Needs An English Version

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | When it’s not perched too high upon its high horse, Britain’s Edge magazine is a good read. How many other mags do we read? Uh… none. We would, however, read Amusement. If we could. More »