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The Old Republic Wordier Than Entire Run Of The Sopranoes

11:20AM Brian Crecente | Still-in-development massively multiplayer online title Star Wars The Old Republic comes packed with voice acting, lots of voice acting. More »
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Holiday Greetings From Penny Arcade, Nintendo, Blizzard and Others

3:00AM Brian Crecente | I was out of town for the two weeks surrounding Christmas so despite my best efforts, I didn’t post all of the gaming greeting cards I received over the holidays. More »
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Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings Rated for Portables

10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | European video game content rater PEGI has just, well, rated what looks like a new Indiana Jones game for the DS and PSP. With the questionable title Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (woah!), the title is 16 and up, and Activision is publishing. We don’t have any other information about it other than that, but game site Siliconera wonders if this Staff of Kings game is that other “next-gen” Indiana Jones title that was shown a few years back — and then disappeared into the ether. Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings [PEGI via Siliconera] More »

Hands-On The Force Unleashed Impressions

3:21AM Brian Crecente | Going in to my time with Star Wars The Force Unleashed, I figured the best the game could do was recapture the fun of playing Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II on a console. While The Force Unleashed pushes the graphics and, to some degree, the AI, forward, the experience of playing Unleashed was, as I had hoped, fairly similar to the hours of time I sank into Dark Forces II. The game was enjoyable, at times a blast to play, but nothing that is going to shake the rock solid formula crafted by Dark Forces II. More »