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“Behind the Scenes” with Shoot Many Robots

Demiurge Studios first original title, Shoot Many Robots, is a 4 player co-op “run’ n gun RPG.” In a similar fashion to GoW 3 arcade mode, you’ll play cooperatively while trying to best your friends’ scores throughout each level. As the game progresses you’ll find and equip different weapons and armor, each with their own unique attributes. As for the RPG elements of the game, I believe the website itself describes it best : Killing robots...

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Final Fantasy Origins Available On PSN

One of the longest running console RPG franchises bring us back to it’s roots with a new distribution of Final Fantasy Origins. Containing both Final Fantasy and the follow-up, Final Fantasy II, it’s a great deal at $9.99. I remember seeing this particular disc in game stores for $60 and up, I also remember thinking “I need this game!” This package of games is completely reworked from their original forms on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and is...

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Crusader Kings II: Greed in the house of the king

Following the tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins trailer series, Paradox Interactive has released another satirical video. The  flailing king featured in every trailer is slowly becoming head-canon  as he endearingly fails at everything he does. I believe he survives through an aura of sheer luck, but I have no proof of that. This particular trailer recreates one moment of gameplay which I experienced and it plays out almost exactly the same. There may have been more...

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So, You Got A New iDevice?

So you got an iDevice? If so, congrats! You’ve just entered what I consider to be the elite group of those who own Apple products. But knowing you, you’re a gamer aren’t you? And you would hate to have to answer “Uhh…. Err… I have Angry Birds…” when posed about what games you have. Just like we helped you with Xbox, here we are to tell you some of the best iDevice games. (All these games available on iPod Touch, iPad, and...

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Unlock Special Items for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and Mass Effect 3

With the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Demo set to release on January 17th and the Mass Effect 3 demo coming not too far behind it, 38 Studios and Bioware have teamed up. Announced today, that playing both demos will unlock special items you will obtain nowhere else, except from playing these demos. These items will also be influenced by the demo they are unlocked from. Example, By playing the Mass Effect 3 demo, you’ll unlock Omni-Blade like daggers for KoA:R By...

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Xbox Live Arcade House Party 2012 Line-Up Revealed

Microsoft announced it’s annual House Party line-up recently. The new game extravaganza begins February 15th, with a new game releasing each week. While the house party normally has two or three “wow” games with one “meh” game in the bunch, this year is certainly an exception.   Starting off the house party is Alan Wake American Nightmare. Developed by Microsoft Studios, this is one of the most hyped games by the Xbox community and the...

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Minecraft Pocket Edition Getting A Big Update

Minecraft Pocket Edition is being rewritten to add more depth to it. What you can expect in the upcoming update are animals, new blocks, and doors. What you can not expect to see is all the work Mojang is doing on the back end to set the game up for a survival mode update. Mojang has stated that “We have read tons of comments and feedback and it seems like we made a huge mistake. You wanted monsters, resources, animals and more different blocks.” It is good to know that...

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Sesame Street Kinect is Awesome

At CES today Microsoft revealed a partnership that finally has me sold on Kinect, “Kinect Sesame Street TV.” What this is has still yet to be well defined but what we were shown at CES looks amazing. Remember when you were a kid and the shows would ask you to say or do something, then they would pause for you to do it? Well imagine if the shows knew whether you did that action or not and rewarded you accordingly. That is exactly what Kenect Sesame Street TV is. This has...

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Microsoft Announces Kinect for Windows

Microsoft announced Kinect for Windows 7 & Windows 8 today at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas today. The device will be for Windows machines running Windows 7 and 8 and using the Kinect SDK. Kinect for Windows will.. Utilize Kinect skeletal-tracking, sophisticated microphone array, and other sensor technologies Link computers to Kinect devices running Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview Run applications built with the Kinect for Windows Commercial...

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Xbox 360: 66 Million Sold, 40 Million Online

Earlier today before Microsoft’s CES press conference, Microsoft announced it had sold a whopping 66 Million Xbox 360 console’s and of those, 40 Million gamers signing into Xbox Live Daily. Additionally, 18 million Kinect sensors have been shipped in the past year. Xbox has truly come a long way in the past ten years. Interested in watching CES? Tune in here.