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- February Game Informer will have Screens from Telltale’s Jurassic Park
- Snag Mafia II for $20 on Buy.com Today
- Capcom Arcade on iPhone Adds Ghosts n’ Goblins
- 10 Best Kinect Hacks So Far (LIST)
- Get in on the Civilization World Alpha
- Walkthrough Weekend: Lost in Shadow, Ilomilo, Dead Rising 2: Case West, and More!
- Microsoft Plans to Support Kinect for PC – Sometime
- Mindjack Viral Video: “Be Careful What You Jack”
- Looking Back at Gaming in 2010
- Dragon Age 2 PC Requirements
- DC Universe Online BludHaven Trailer
- Earn EverQuest II Rewards in New Facebook Game
- Panda Rampage. Panda Rampage. Panda. Rampage.
- January Xbox Live Deals, New Content Get Details
- Total War: Shogun 2 System Requirements
| February Game Informer will have Screens from Telltale’s Jurassic Park Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:17 PM PST
Telltale Games’ Twitter account confirmed that readers of the February issue of Game Informer will get a look at its upcoming Jurassic Park title, complete with screenshots and some exclusive information about the game. Meantime, we won’t know what the game looks like until the magazine hit newsstands. Maybe it’ll be a little like the image above. But probably not. Telltale just recently put out the first episode of its Back to the Future licensed game, which has a somewhat cartoonish art style that actually matches up quite nicely with the atmosphere of the story (see below). I wouldn’t be surprised to see Telltale take some liberties with the look of Jurassic Park as well, although since it’s decidedly darker, the direction will likely be decidedly darker than what we’re seeing in that game. According to Telltale’s original press releases from last summer, Jurassic Park is going to be released episodically the same way Back to the Future is, and will appear on likely appear on PC, Mac, iPad and the Playstation Network, same as BttF.
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| Snag Mafia II for $20 on Buy.com Today Posted: 07 Jan 2011 05:11 PM PST
Buy.com has a great deal on Mafia II today: $19.99 and free shipping for the Xbox 360 version. That’s $20 off Buy.com’s listing and $10 less than the game is listed for on BestBuy.com. You can also stop get the PC version of the game for about $26, although there’s no mention of the Playstation 3 version on the discounted Xbox 360 listing. Both are great prices, and especially since Buy.com’s budget shipping is comped. We pegged Mafia II as one of 2010′s Funniest Games and as having one of 2010′s Coolest Protagonists — so yeah, we liked it. See the listing here.
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| Capcom Arcade on iPhone Adds Ghosts n’ Goblins Posted: 07 Jan 2011 04:43 PM PST
Capcom Mobile’s Twitter account just clued us into an addition to its freemium iPhone app, Capcom Arcade (which is a lot like the title of the same name for the Wii). The game just got Ghosts n’ Goblins added to its virtual arcade, filling out the roster of old-school games supported by the app to six. You can play Ghosts n’ Goblins today through an update to the app, plus Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II: Championship Edition, 1942, Ghouls n’ Ghosts and Commando. Capcom Arcade is freemium, which means it’s free to download but includes in-app purchases. Each day, you get three free “tickets” that allow you to play a game for free with one ticket. You can also purchase tokens in the app to earn more plays — kind of like a virtual arcade on your iPhone. Here’s the iTunes listing for Capcom Arcade. And if you want more Ghosts n’ Goblins, you can find its protagonist, Sir Arthur, on the fight roster for Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
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| 10 Best Kinect Hacks So Far (LIST) Posted: 07 Jan 2011 04:27 PM PST
The greatest thing about Kinect and its 8 million sales/ships/whatever isn’t that it plays cool games (though hopefully that’s going to change in the near future): it’s that hackers are going nuts with the device, showing off all the cool things it can do, and putting it on YouTube. Whether it be giving robots the facilities to hunt and destroy all humans or pushing the limits of breast-based physics, people are making their Kinects do some pretty cool, non-petting-virtual-animals-type things. We’ve compiled a list of our favorites below. 10. And there was light. And it was good.Using some dimmer hardware and a string of LED lights, plus some other, more technical stuff, here we have gesture controls turning on and off lights in real time. 9. Ivy Needs a Sports BraThis one gets a mention if for no other reason than that someone actually sat down and made it. 8. A Keyboard AnywhereApparently, Kinect lets you re-enact that scene from Big, or start a synth band without actually needing to have a synthesizer. 7. Acrobatic Yoga and Multiple RealitiesTwo women show the kind of things you can do when you overlay multiple stretching, handstandy-type realities on top of one another. There’s definitely potential here. 6. Awesome 3D TetrisI think we have 3D Tetris already. It’s called “Packing a Small Car to Move Across the Country,” and I have played it extensively. 5. We are going to pump [clap] you up!I am Hans, and this is my robot Franz. Action starts at about 1:30. 4. Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAKE!Optic camouflage is real, provided you can cover yourself in a TV screen and have a Kinect hooked up somewhere nearby to look at you. 3. Next step: Johnny CabThat’s a Total Recall reference. Go look it up, and while you do, consider how much drinking you could do if you had a Kinect robot waiting to drive you home at the end of the night. 2. Skynet Hunter-Killer Version 1.0Listen, and understand. That Kinect is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever — until you are dead. 1. At-Home Virtual RealityThe No. 1 Kinect hack comes out of Japan, and you might want to turn down the volume on your PC speakers, because some of the audio choices here are a little grating. That said, this video is pretty amazing, melding the 3D tracking of the Kinect with a head-mounted virtual reality display, without those pesky latex TRON suits.
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| Get in on the Civilization World Alpha Posted: 07 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST
Civilization World — formerly known as Civilization: Network — isn’t launching for real for real for a while, but Sid and Co. are launching a closed Alpha next week. The game is basically Civilization as we know it but you play with and/or against your friends, and games do eventually end. Now, if you wanna get into the closed alpha, you have to have a team of bros and broettes with with you can play; no singles allowed. You can have anywhere from five to 50 folks on a single teams. That’s for the alpha only; obviously you won’t need a group to play once it actually launches later this year. You should try to sign up soon; they start picking folks on Monday. For a longer version of what I just said straight from the keyboard of Sid Meier, go here. To skip all that and just sign up, go here. Have fun, children.
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| Walkthrough Weekend: Lost in Shadow, Ilomilo, Dead Rising 2: Case West, and More! Posted: 07 Jan 2011 03:04 PM PST
2011 has begun with a couple of clever indie offerings, in the form of Lost in Shadow and Ilomilo, which will test your platforming acumen and your puzzling wits, respectively. We’ve also got a full walkthrough for Case West, the big-budget DLC follow-up to Dead Rising 2. Sharpen your gaming fingers! Walkthrough Weekends is a recurring feature, so check back every Friday to read all the most useful hints, tips, guides and lists from the previous week. That way, you’ll be prepared when work ends and fun begins. Don’t spend your free time staring at loading screens! Lost in Shadow Walkthrough
Ilomilo Walkthrough
Dead Rising 2: Case West Walkthrough
Infinity Blade Game Guide
Tron: Evolution WalkthroughTron FilesAbraxas Shards
Epic Mickey WalkthroughPinsFilm Reels
Splatterhouse Walkthrough
Donkey Kong Country Returns Walkthrough
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood WalkthroughRift Locations and Puzzle SolutionsFollower’s LairsSide Quests and RewardsCheat CodesMetagame and Shop Quest RewardsUnlockable Outfits and CapesPaintings and PortraitsArtifactsFeather Locations
Call of Duty: Black Ops WalkthroughIntelCodes
James Bond 007: Blood Stone WalkthroughIntelligence
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| Microsoft Plans to Support Kinect for PC – Sometime Posted: 07 Jan 2011 02:38 PM PST
Kinect is a big freakin’ deal on the Xbox 360 (even if it does cause Red Rings of Death — maybe), with Microsoft having shipped something like 8 million of them across the globe. Those are some huge numbers, and the little gesture control device has programmers hacking away at it, doing some really amazing thing with the technology. So with all the attention paid to Kinect, the question is, when is Microsoft going to start supporting it on PCs? The answer to that is, apparently, all in good time. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the BBC in an interview that Microsoft is going to support a PC Kinect. In fact, he said the company would “support that in a formal way at the right time. We found out this week that the company that makes the Kinect, PrimeSense, is making a gesture controller for multimedia on PCs, and gesture gaming controls are in development or already finished from third-party peripheral makers. So if Microsoft’s “right time” isn’t “right now,” it ought to be. Via KinectHacks.net.
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| Mindjack Viral Video: “Be Careful What You Jack” Posted: 07 Jan 2011 01:51 PM PST
What is Mindjack? It’s a third-person shooter from Square Enix and feelplus, the Japanese developer behind the upcoming No More Heroes PS3 port and who worked with Mistwalker on Lost Odyssey. The game comes out in a week and a half (January 18) on PS3 and 360. It looks very Japanese, as the image above demonstrates. That’s pretty much all I know about it. Meanwhile, here’s a little viral video that explains what “mindjacking” actually is. Enjoy.
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| Looking Back at Gaming in 2010 Posted: 07 Jan 2011 01:34 PM PST
Boy, 2010 was a strange year. We had our Battlefields and our Call of Dutys, but there were also some wild cards thrown in there. Medal of Honor reappeared, Rockstar made a cowboy game, and Duke Nukem Forever got an actual release date. In case you were gone over the holidays, we rounded the GameFront crew to get their best (and worst) moments of 2010 for a variety of topics. Check out these articles, tell us where we’re right, tell us where we’re wrong, and let’s see what 2011 brings for gamers! GameFront’s 2010 Retrospective
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| Posted: 07 Jan 2011 01:30 PM PST
It’s like PC System Requirement Day out here. (Much better than Cam Newton Day [s my c], to be sure.) But yeah, Dragon Age II is out on March 8th, and if you’re the type of gamer to eschew consoles in favor of PC (aka The Real Deal) then this post is for you, which you already knew because as a PC gamer you know how to read and you used that skill to read the headline. And so here are your specs: Minimum: Recommended:
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| DC Universe Online BludHaven Trailer Posted: 07 Jan 2011 01:16 PM PST
Sony Online has released a new trailer for DC Universe Online. This trailer features just over two minutes of footage showcasing the zone BludHaven. You can download this video here or watch it below.
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| Earn EverQuest II Rewards in New Facebook Game Posted: 07 Jan 2011 01:13 PM PST
Wouldn’t you like to spend your time on Facebook earning things so that you can spend less time in EverQuest II earning them? You would? Well, great — there’s now a game for you. Fortune League is available now in an Alpha version as a Facebook application, and includes the nice feature of awarding you with nice in-game prizes for your EQII account. The game, a joint venture between Sony Online Entertainment and developer Fastpoint Games, is some kind of competitive social game where the player primarily is concerned with buying and selling “heroes” with various stats, who automatically get up to some text-based trouble. As you form a party of heroes, you’ll change members in and out to earn points — it seems basically like a stock exchange game, with different heroes’ value rising and falling based on what people are purchasing. Each week is a “quest,” and certain heroes are better suited than others for each one. The idea is to purchase heroes you need for quests ahead of time when they’re cheap, then sell them later. Having fired up Fortune League for a few minutes to get a sense of it, I can say that it seems…complex, at least at first. Why couldn’t SOE just do Bejeweled with a flux capacitor behind it, like Tell Tale? Here’s what the official press release has to say:
So like I said: a stock exchange game, but with your stocks potentially going off and doing things. This must be that innovation Gabe Newell was talking about. Here’s a screen:
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| Panda Rampage. Panda Rampage. Panda. Rampage. Posted: 07 Jan 2011 01:09 PM PST
There’s nothing much you can say about a Flash game called Panda Rampage except that it is called Panda Rampage, and that just might be the greatest name for a game ever conceived. The concept is simple: take control of a hungry Panda with a taste for human flesh and a voracious appetite in need of constant attention. Unleash him in (what they’re calling) Hyde Park. Eat everything you can. Avoid stuff that might kill you. Kill all humans you see. Oh, and you can also relieve your Panda’s bodily waste. Because nothing gets across the true, fearsome terror of the wild Panda like reminding people that even cute, cuddly animals have to poo. It’s really, really easy and insanely fun. I just spent 45 minutes playing Panda Rampage before I realized I had just spent 45 minutes playing Panda Rampage. Check out the trailer and see for yourself: You can download a copy of your very own here. Don’t feel like downloading? There’s a browser based version too. Enjoy the rest of your Friday, and remember to keep an eye out for deadly Bamboo-eating monsters.
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| January Xbox Live Deals, New Content Get Details Posted: 07 Jan 2011 12:24 PM PST  Major Nelson from Xbox Live just threw down a list of Deals of the Week and new content coming to Xbox Live for the rest of the month, and good news: the first few items are all zombie-related, culminating in Plants vs. Zombies getting knocked down to 800 points for the week of Jan. 17. The blog post also hints at two big DLC sales this month: one concerning Activision, starting Jan. 11 and running until Jan. 18, and the other for Electronic Arts, starting Jan. 18 and going until Jan. 25. Both will have 25 pieces of content on sale for up to half off — the Activision sale will include Call of Duty map packs and Guitar Hero tracks, and both sales will have Xbox Live Arcade games on sale, as well. No more details are available than that, though: the major says we’ll get further details on our Xbox dashboards the days the sales start. If you’re not an Xbox Live Gold Member, you miss out on a lot of this stuff, but Microsoft is offering a three-day Gold upgrade to all members from Jan. 28 to Jan. 31, basically as a free trial. Here’s the list of the rest of the content hitting Live: Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week** :Week of January 10 – Zombies…Back from the Dead: Zombie Apocalypse, 400 Microsoft Points The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, 400 Microsoft Points Zombie Prop Avatar, 160 Microsoft Points
Week of January 17: Plants vs. Zombies, 800 Microsoft Points **Special pricing available for Xbox LIVE Gold Members Xbox Games On Demand:January 4: Crackdown 2 January 11: Need for Speed SHIFT January 18: Transformers: The Game January 18: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen January 18: Dante's Inferno Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace:January 6: New Year's Resolution January 6: Food Fest January 6: Burton January 13: Dinosaur Pets January 13: Xbox 360 Gear
Xbox LIVE Arcade:January 12: Zeit2 (Ubisoft) 800 Microsoft Points
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| Total War: Shogun 2 System Requirements Posted: 07 Jan 2011 12:08 PM PST
Minimum Specs (Required for playing Total War: Shogun 2): - 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor, or AMD equivalent (with SSE2) Recommended Specs (Recommended for optimum game play of Total War: Shogun 2): - 2nd Generation Intel® Core™i5 processor (or greater), or AMD equivalent I think I can pull that off on my rig, but I don’t hit the recommended, which is sad because I use a 40″ HDTV as my monitor and games that run at full spec look quite nice. But that’s OK.
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