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Nintendo Network Announced

  Nintendo released its Corporate Management Policy Briefing/Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing and they saved the best for last after assessing the outlook of the company for the next fiscal year they introduced firm details of the new Nintendo Network.  This will leverage of the “community” network options available within MarioKart 7 but will integrate micropayments [...]

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Best Buy Advertising and Website Slate Diablo 3 for Feb. 1st Release.

It would appear that, even though there is no confirmation from Blizzard, Best Buy has let the release date for Diablo 3 into the wild via an in-store advertisement (complete with countdown timer and all) and its website. A Joystiq reader sent in a photo of an in store display counting down to the game’s [...]

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Mojang Listens to Gamers’ Woes, Fast at Work Updating Minecraft: Pocket Edition.

Daniel Kaplan, Business Developer for Mojang, stated in a blog post a few days ago that Mojang’s plans for Minecraft: Pocket Edition varied greatly from customer hopes and expectations. The current app allows players to build structures, such as those that have become popular on YouTube and other sites, and share them online with friends. [...]

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Mass Effect 3 Special Forces Multiplayer Trailer is Dramatic – Actiony

Bioware is attempting to appeal to the Gears/Battlefield/Warfare fans in us with it’s new trailer, showing off the multiplayer mode’s classes in a series of machinima-esque close ups of close combat, psi and tech powers, and execution. The trailer is fast paced, and makes the combat look intense and gratifying. I dare say that, while [...]

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Ubisoft Releasing Rayman Origins on PC – March 30th with no DRM.

The critically acclaimed Rayman Origins is not only coming to PC in March, it is coming for about half the price. Also, while digital copies will have a one time activation upon installation, retail copies will be DRM free. As primarily a PC gamer, this excites me to no end. I grew up on console [...]

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SlayerS takes first game of 2012 GOMTV Team League

Team SlayerS has taken a win off of opponents FXOpen to advance to the GOMTV Team League semi finals. SlayerS‘ ace player, SlayerSMMA, took two games from FXO‘s premiere players, FXOz and FXOLeenock, to assure his teams advancement. While Leenock showed some great mid-game mechanics, running circles around MMA’s forces with the mobility of zerglings [...]

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FFXIII-2 gets DLC featuring variety and Lightning

In less than a week Final Fantasy XIII-2 will take us all back to good old linear environments and ‘X’ pushing for hours of FFXIII. Thankfully this will not be the case as FFXIII-2 has built greatly upon the original game and added many new features that should keep the franchise fresh as well as [...]

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Jak and Dexter are collected in HD hits PSN Feb 7th

Jack and Dexter one of the most fun series on the Playstation is finally getting bumped up to HD glory as the collection of the 3 games is being re-released as highlighted on Playsation’s US Blog.  Along with the up-scaling to 720p the game will also feature over 100 trophies and have a retail price of $39.99. The [...]

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Nintendo sees an annual loss blames 3DS

This week has seen winners and losers in the annual postings and unfortunately Nintendo was not one of the winners for 2011 according to Reuters the company is expected to cut its 3DS production in order to compensate. The creator of the Super Mario franchise dominated the video games industry for years with its DS handheld [...]

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ESA profits again from failed game bill $950,000 this time!

The ongoing battle within the United States against video games has been a long and futile battle but the ESA has gained another win over California as it collects yet another cheque for the legal fees from the 2008 case. “Senator Yee and Governor Schwarzenegger wasted more than $1 million in taxpayer funds at a [...]

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Steam now on your mobile devices

Steam it is on your computer, your work computer, your school computer and now its on your mobile devices.  Steam has launched a new mobile app that is supported on both the iOS and Android platforms.  You may be wondering what benefit this would have for the average gamer? Well it appears to be a [...]

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