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Something AJ really, really wants at Comic Con

San Diego Comic Con is home to many show-exclusives like limited edition toys, clothes, and trinkets that gamers and non-gamers alike troll eBay for even years after the Con at which they were featured. This Street Fighter vs. Tokidoki shirt is definitely worth the hunt.
Tokidoki, for those of you who don’t know from fashion, is [...]

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Red Faction SyFy movie plot details

Don’t worry, we’re not printing spoilers — but THQ did send out some scant details for its upcoming collaboration with the SyFy Network on a two-hour TV movie. Look for it in March 2011.
The movie, called Red Faction: Origins, was penned by Andrew Kreisberg (Warehouse 13, Fringe, Vampire Diaries and Boston Legal) and conceived of [...]

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New video game endurance Guinness World Record set

Did you play a lot of games this past weekend? Odds are, a group of six Dutch game enthusiasts have you beat, as the team broke the previously-set 40-hour record by notching over 50 hours with Red Dead Redemption.

The team consisted of a half-dozen gamers from throughout the Netherlands, all of whom will share the [...]

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Sony partners with IndieCade creators to bring indie games Home

PlayStation Home Director Jack Buser announced a new partnership with IndieCade creators — now called Codename — today that expands the indie games scene on Sony’s virtual world/game platform. Among the first indie devs on the service are The Odd Gentlemen, The Peanut Gallery, and Lazy 8.
You’ll remember The Odd Gentlemen from their smash hit [...]

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Plants vs. Zombies infecting Xbox 360 via download and through stores

After spreading from computers to Apple’s portable devices, Plants vs. Zombies is shambling to the Xbox 360 this September with new modes and a unique retail configuration. Read on for more details regarding both.
Eschewing a PlayStation Network and WiiWare release for the time being, Plants vs. Zombies is due out on the Xbox 360 on [...]

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Microsoft Prices Kinect At £130, $150

Microsoft has confirmed that motion sensing camera peripheral Kinect will retail for £129.99 / $149.99 / €149.99 when it launches this November. It will come bundled with one free title, Kinect Adventures.
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Canada’s First Female Owned Dev Studio Opens

Games industry veterans Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes have opened Canada’s first female owned and operated videogame development studio, Vancouver-based Silicon Sisters Interactive.
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New Fight Night Game Announced

EA Sports has unveiled the fifth iteration of its Fight Night boxing series, Fight Night Champion.
"The most user-friendly title in the franchise’s history" is set for release on PS3 and Xbox 360 next year, developer EA Canada told IGN.
It will feature between 60 and 65 boxers and introduce "Full Spectrum Punch Control", which is described [...]

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Legal Problems Continue For SouthPeak

UK bailiffs have seized two trucks worth of stock owned by SouthPeak Interactive following the firm’s alleged failure to settle debts owed to ex-publishing partners.
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Big Fish Clears One Billion Game Downloads

Seattle-based Big Fish Games has announced that it has distributed over one billion casual titles from its popular gaming portal, a milestone it describes as “an industry first”.
Since forming in 2002 the firm has built up a catalogue of more than 2,500 games available through PC, Mac, retail, iPhone, iPad, Facebook and DS.
Promising a new [...]

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