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Four things to watch for on day one at Comic Con

The day-one Comic Con schedule is up and loaded with video game-related events. From game reveals to familiar acts, here are four things you won’t want to miss at San Diego Comic Con this month.
12:30-1:30 City of Heroes Going Rogue: Reinventing a Superheroic MMO
What they’re talking about: City of Heroes’ next big expansion adds a [...]

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Rockstar reveals four upcoming Red Dead DLC packs, including a zombie-themed mode

With millions of players purchasing the retail version of Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar is hoping that many of them will want to continue their adventures through premium DLC, as the company revealed the first in-game paid content for the game today.

The first pack, due in early August, will be called the “Legends and Killers Pack” [...]

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Dead Space 2 prequel coming to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network

Dead Space 2 may not be due out until 2011, but the franchise will still be headed to consoles in 2010, as EA has announced a downloadable game entitled Dead Space Ignition for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
No assets for the Ignition have revealed as of yet, but EA’s official announcement promises an “interactive [...]

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BioWare and EA announce Dragon Age 2

Making good on the @dragonage Twitter promise that “2morrow will be a great day for BioWare fans,” Electronic Arts and BioWare have announced an official sequel to last year’s critically acclaimed Darkspawn-slaying role-playing game in the newly unveiled Dragon Age 2 for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
Set to make a vast departure from it’s [...]

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OpenFeint moves on to Android phones with games from Hudson, others

Google’s got a lot of work to do to catch up to Apple’s robust App Store — nobody knows this better than game developers. OpenFeint, the company behind several iPhone games’ social network capabilities, makes a little easier with a new push onto Android phones.
To start, OpenFeint plans to launch Android social networking service for [...]

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Daily (Stale) Bread: The news we didn’t post July 7, 2010

With half the world watching today’s Word Cup match between Germany and Spain, it’s no wonder not much news came our way aside from a cluster of studies. We only ran two of them, but read the news we didn’t post to find out just how many there were today.
07/07 — Viva Espania!
Irrational wants you [...]

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FrontierVille extends 4th of July poop quest to July 12

Just in case you didn’t spend your Fourth of July weekend playing FrontierVille, developer Zynga decided to expand the in-game promotions to July 12. Among other things, this means you have more time to collect animal feces to the purpose of making fireworks.

Yeah, we thought it was sick weird, too — but the Fireworks quest [...]

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Penny Arcade signs a deal to stay in Boston for 3 more years

The Boston Herald reports that the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and Penny Arcade Expo organizer Reed Exhibitions signed a three-year deal to keep PAX East in Boston. Penny Arcade’s Robert Khoo explains a few details to GamePro.

First, he says, there is no way the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center — the new East Coast venue [...]

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EA Sports predicts FIFA World Cup 2010, picks Spain to win UPDATE

EA Sports let us know this morning that they think Spain will win the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, based on a game simulation from the engine behind EA Sports’ 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa video game. Here’s what else they predict:

World Champion: Spain
World Cup Final: Spain 3 Brazil 1
1st team to be [...]

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Voting open for The Tester Season 2

Sony’s competitive reality show, The Tester, returns to PlayStation Network sometime fairly soon after what the company called a “successful first season.” As of today, the gaming public gets a say in which of the applicants will become one of the 11 contestants competing for a job as a Sony QA tester.

An open casting [...]

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