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Close Your Eyes And BioWare Will Give You A Big Surprise
11:30AM Owen Good | Well, you might want to open your eyes, too. Sometime “next week”, a surprise will go up on the official Mass Effect 2 website. Whatever could it be? More »
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Yes, Mass: We Pray Was More Dante’s Inferno Schtick
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | That Mass: We Pray trailer posted earlier this week? Totally Dante’s Inferno marketing. And well done too, as numerous sites both within and outside the video game coverage space posted it as genuine. More »
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How Nintendo Is Selling New Super Mario Bros. Wii In Japan
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Hey, it’s Nozomi Ohashi, that girl who sings the Ponyo song! And she’s wearing some sort of tutu, sitting in some sort of abstract white environment and playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii. More »
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Evony Ads Go From Bad To Worse To Awesome
6:00PM Luke Plunkett | You live on the internet, so we know you’ve seen them: ads for Evony, pathetic attempts at enticing people to play an online game run by shady types by using boobs. Least, they were pathetic. Now, they’re hilarious. More »
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The New Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Trailer Has A Secret
6:00AM Mike Fahey | The new trailer for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles on GameTrailers has a secret. A secret so horrifying that we can’t even embed it here. More »
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Where Tony Hawk Ride Controllers Come From
10:40AM Michael McWhertor | Skateboard controllers aren’t born of the brilliance of executives and market research firms. No, like the Tony Hawk Ride skateboard controller seen in the above video, they’re the product of inanimate objects having sex with each other. More »
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Trials Dev Pirated Its Own Game To Drive Interest
2:40PM Owen Good | RedLynx, the developer of the well received downloadable title Trials, said that it seeded pirate torrent sites with neutered copies of the game in order to stoke interest in the title. More »
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The Second Left 4 Dead 2 TV Spot
6:00AM Mike Fahey | Valve’s $US25 million Left 4 Dead 2 ad campaign isn’t just good for trucks as seen in the second TV spot here featuring the song “Electric Worry” by the band Clutch. More »
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Let The Walmart Modern Warfare 2 Trash Talking Start
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is just around the corner, and retail giant is kicking off a series of ads for the title that feature dudes talking about MW2. More »
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11:00AM David Wildgoose | Ashes Cricket 2009 came out on in August. But the Wii version didn’t. It’s now set for release next week and former Test cricketer Glenn McGrath has been signed up to promote it. More »
Wii Cricket Game Almost Brings Glenn McGrath Out Of Retirement
11:00AM David Wildgoose | Ashes Cricket 2009 came out on in August. But the Wii version didn’t. It’s now set for release next week and former Test cricketer Glenn McGrath has been signed up to promote it. More » 
