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  • Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Play in the UK at the Grimm Up North Festival

    The scariest game on Nintendo Wii, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, will be playable at horror film festival Grimm Up North.From 30th October till 1st November horror fans from across the UK will converge on Manchester to enjoy the greatest and latest horror films that the movie industry has to offer.

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    3D Dot Game Heroes being localized by unknown 3D game publishing heroes

    “No need to import,” the ‘SonyPlayStation’ Twitter account reports. “3D Dot Game Heroes for PS3 is DEFINITELY coming to NA! Spread the word, more to come.” And here we are, spreading the word.From Software’s gorgeous, retro-inspired action-RPG will be released in Japan in November, but until now, we’ve heard nothing about localization. And as Zelda fans and (shameful) Spelunker fans …

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    Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]

    Welcome to Bobby Kotick’s nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless, a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air guitar future! In reality, this technical demonstration of muscle-computer interfaces, as shown at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, looks far less precise, far more finger straining than playing with traditional plastic

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    Metro 2033 dev focused on story, skipping multiplayer

    Much to my delight, we’ve seen a lot of games in recent times delve into the subject matter of life in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. What we haven’t really seen, however, is such a theme taking place in Russia.Enough with the same old “everything blew up, so therefore everything looks utterly brown” scenario for just a minute, guys. 4A Games upcoming PC and Xbox 360 title Metro 2033 has mutated beings and a world covered in snow (trailer here)

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    Majesco publishing DSi augmented reality game ‘Ghostwire’ in late 2010

    Ghostwire, A Different Game’s DSi-only title that uses the camera to fill players’ real surroundings with virtual ghosts, looked quite promising when it was unveiled. The only problem: without a publisher, it was nothing but an apparition of a game. Today, Majesco announced that it is publishing the augmented reality title (which was originally intended for Nokia phones) with a projected late 2010 release date, under the title Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal.Using the mic and camera on the —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.

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    Majesco Announces Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal For DSi

    Majesco has just announced Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal, a unique and interesting game coming to the DSi that gives gamers a look into the world of the Paranormal.In Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal, players are challenged to find and capture apparitions trapped within their own environment by using the Nintendo DSi Camera —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.

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    ‘Splosion Man Avatar awards unlocked; delicious steaks to be distributed

    We’ve got good news all around for fans of Twisted Pixel’s ‘Splosion Man, as well as advocates for tender red meat. The developer has announced that a title update has fixed laggy online multiplayer sessions and added those unlockable Avatar awards to the highly combustible Xbox Live Arcade platformer. To unlock all four shirts seen above (two for female Avatars and two for males), you must accomplish two feats: break a single pane of glass (easy!) and beat the entire co-op campaign —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web

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    PAL PSA: Black Wii bundle now available for pre-order, discounted in UK

    We’ve got some welcome news for European readers who somehow don’t already own a Wii — or for those of you who already have one, but just can’t resist the temptation of the new black model. Amazon.uk has opened pre-orders for the new Wii Sports Resort bundle, which includes a Wiimote, a Nunchuk and a MotionPlus all dressed in black, along with both Wii Sports-es games

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    Capybara talks its ‘next game,’ Zombie Tactics

    Earlier today, GamerBytes found a document from the Ontario Media Development Corporation that detailed a title from Capybara Games (the folks who brought you Critter Crunch on PlayStation Network and iPhone) called Zombie Tactics.Although a few months old, the document was revealing, detailing Zombie Tactics as “a mixture of strategy gameplay elements into the horror genre, dropping players into the heart of a devastating zombie apocalypse with nothing but their wits to get —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.

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    Line Rider now lets you torture two riders at once

    Despite being released in retail form for PC, Wii and DS as Line Rider 2, the Flash version of the original Line Rider is still being tweaked by developer Sparkworkz to provide the most casual and simply obsessed of players with the optimal “drawing stuff, then dropping a sled on it” experience. The company just released beta 3 of the Flash game, which adds … a second rider.Players can now choose the “Dual Rider” mode and set a starting point for a second rider

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    The HAWPcast: Tarantino and Zombies

    Yeah, it’s called the HAWPcast now. “Hey Ash, Whatcha Podcastin’” is so three-to-six weeks ago.In this episode, Ash and I talk about nonlinear plot and characterization in videogames (the dialogue in Left 4 Dead, for instance), the death of the “hangout movie,” and, subsequently, Quentin Tarantino’s entire filmography.There’s a bit at the very end of the podcast where I yell “wait” before getting cut off by Ashly’s cruelly indifferent decision to hang up —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts

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    First Assassin’s Creed: Lineage episode is surprisingly great

    We weren’t surprised when the first of three episodes in the Assassin’s Creed: Lineage miniseries, created by Hybride Studios, exceeded our expectations. These folks did the effects for 300 and Sin City — so of course we knew it would look great. Our surprise simply came from the fact that Lineage is a promotional, game-based short film; and nearly all of the words in that phrase seem contrary to high quality

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    First Brutal Legend DLC Free On PS3 [Downloadable Content]

    The age of downloadable content dawns in Brutal Legend next month, when the Tears of the Hextadon map pack goes on sale for 400 Microsoft points – or completely free for PlayStation 3 owners. The Tears of the Hextadon map pack consists of two new maps for Brutal Legend’s completely non-real-time strategy online multiplayer mode. The Circle of Tears map is completely surrounded by water, while the Death’s Fjord map takes place in an icy mountain path, where players must brave wide open spaces —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.

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    The Legend of Vraz Preview

    Zatun has shared their upcoming game with us, a side-scrolling arcade-style platformer for PC called The Legend of Vraz. The young prince Vraz is in love with Princess Avi, and to win her hand in marriage he agrees to undertake the five tasks set out for him by Avi’s father, the Maharaja of Kund.The five tasks that Vraz must complete are to collect the biggest and brightest red rose, a diamond-studded heart, a traditional horse and a sword; and to earn 100,000 coins for the wedding.read more —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts

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    Modern Warfare 2 To Feature Third-Person Mode

    Activision and Infinity Ward’s highly anticipated shooter Modern Warfare 2 has been officially confirmed with a new play mode, which will have players playing in a Third-Person prospective.According to Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling:“Third-Person is a new playlist mode in Multiplayer, So you can play your favourite playlists [or] game types, like Team Deathmatch —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts

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    Is this a Modern Warfare 2 level about (SPOILER)?

    Possible SPOILERS, first of all.Secondly: what you see above may be a leaked gameplay video from Modern Warfare 2. We’re currently awaiting comment from both Infinity Ward’s PR guys and the community manager, Robert Bowling. Before one gets one’s panties in a twist about the subject matter, do keep in mind that this could be fake.If it isn’t, however, you’re evidently looking at footage of a Modern Warfare 2 level in which the player is put in the shoes of a terrorist

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    Gamasutra breaks down console sales in light of price cuts

    Source: NPD Group; via GamasutraIf you’re like us — and, we figure after all these years we’ve been secretly brainwashing you, you are — then the recent console price cuts were met with your curiosity over how these discounts would affect the vast gaming sales landscape. Fortunately, Gamasutra has posted a chart (using NPD figures) that measures how the price cuts altered two factors: each console’s average sale price during the month of September and its year-to-date sales (through —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.

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    Crave Does Games Like They Do On The Discovery Channel [Game Announce]

    Two of Discovery Channel’s most popular shows are getting the video game treatment courtesy of Crave Entertainment, who will be developing and producing titles based on Man vs. Wild and The Deadliest Catch. This will be the second video game adaptation of crab fisherman show The Deadliest Catch, with Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm having been released just last year on the Xbox 360.

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    Review: Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360)

    When Forza 2 hit store shelves back in early 2007, it was a surprise success.  No one had ever taken on Gran Tursimo before and held their own, but the developers at Turn 10 had clearly pulled it off.  Combining great simulation gameplay with a selection of more than 300 cars and some insanely detailed custom design options, Forza 2 was the talk of the season.  It was even enough to push Microsoft’s other racing franchise, PGR, out of the limelight later that year.But I was a PGR fan through —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts

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    ChipTuesday: MIDI-Syncing LSDJ

    The MIDI protocol was designed to allow for two-way communication between devices.  Thanks to this forward thinking (the protocol was designed in ‘82), musicians can now daisy chain an ass-ton of devices and have them all communicate with each other.  But what does this have to do with chiptunes?  The Game Boy only has a standard audio output (or a patch cable output if you get a Pro Sound mod), so it can’t communicate with MIDI instruments, right?  Actually, with the use of a converter box, it —- link GamePad: The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts The Best Video Gaming Blog Posts From Arond The Web.

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