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#japan The Japanese version of Call of Duty: Black Ops is different. The game was retouched to tone down torture and graphic violence. That's not all. More »

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GOG adds yet another RPG timesink: Icewind Dale 2 Complete

Posted by Joystiq Nov 04 2010 16:00 GMT in Gaming News

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It seems that digital games retailer GOG isn't just content with abusing your trust -- now it's turning its sights on abusing every last second of your free time. The site recently added yet another gargantuan RPG to its catalog: Black Isle Studios' Dungeons & Dragons 3E-inspired RPG, Icewind Dale 2. The game comes in its "Complete" edition, which also includes the aptly named "Adventure Pack." As far as we can tell, it contains a metric ton of undiluted adventure.

The game will run you $9.99, creating yet another terrifying playtime-to-cost ratio. Seriously, with $50 and 10GB of free space, GOG downloads could occupy your leisure time until the end of days.

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Gran Turismo Awards' 'Best In Show' Winner Joins a Distinguished List of Vehicles in GT5

Posted by IGN Nov 04 2010 15:02 GMT in Gran Turismo 5

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Eighth Annual Awards Ceremony at SEMA show recognizes the Best of Car Design and Innovation.

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Microsoft Says Kinect Won't Invade Your Privacy

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 14:40 GMT in Kinect

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#xbox360 Microsoft's new Kinect device will put an advanced sensor array in the living room of millions of people, an Internet-connected set of machine ears and eyes capable of capturing voice, recognizing faces and tracking body movement. More »

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Larry Bond's Harpoon – Ultimate Edition Now Available

Posted by IGN Nov 04 2010 14:50 GMT in Harpoon

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20 years of Harpoon – this is Harpoon - Ultimate Edition.

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Ubisoft Announces Imagine Fashion Stylist is Now Available at Retail

Posted by IGN Nov 04 2010 14:43 GMT in Imagine: Fashion Stylist

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Time to dazzle.

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Hulu Plus available on PS3 without PlayStation Plus next week

Posted by Joystiq Nov 04 2010 15:30 GMT in Gaming News

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The PlayStation Plus requirement for the PS3 Hulu Plus app will go away next week, allowing all PSN users to download the app. And you'll be able to use that app, since Hulu just made it so that you no longer have to be invited to subscribe to the $9.99/month service. The Hulu Plus service remains in "preview" while the company works to add more features and more devices -- like new Sony Bravia TVs, which Sony also announced.

The app you'll be able to download next week, according to Hulu, "incorporates some of the feedback we've received to date" from users of the (already nice) app that's been available through PlayStation Plus since July. Hopefully that includes the feedback about wanting to watch all the same shows on our PS3 as we can on the computer. We ... we just wanted to see Top Chef.

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3D Gaming Phone Ready To Battle Nintendo 3DS

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 14:00 GMT in Gaming News

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#japan The Sharp Galapagos is an upcoming 3D smartphone. And it's getting a handful of games that mean it might just give the Nintendo 3DS a run for its money. More »

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Poker Night at the Inventory adds to your Team Fortress 2 inventory

Posted by Joystiq Nov 04 2010 15:00 GMT in Team Fortress 2

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People don't just play poker for fun -- they play it to accrue piles of wealth. Telltale is providing similar, if small-scale, motivation to buy and play its crossover poker game, Poker Night at the Inventory, in the form of Team Fortress 2 items. You'll get one, the Heavy's poker visor, for pre-ordering from the Telltale Store, and you'll be able to get more from special Item Rounds within the game.

The items you'll be able to win from the game's other characters include Max's Lugermorph handgun for the Scout and Engineer, and a Freelance Badge that everyone can wear; an Enthusiast timepiece (Penny Arcade's infamous watch) for the Spy from Tycho; Strong Bad's Dangeresque shades, usable when the Demoman is gonna have to jump!; and from the Heavy, an Iron Curtain gun, for ... the Heavy. Not much of a loss on his part, then?

Check out a new trailer after the break. We'll warn you -- you're going to hear Tycho's voice (not the real Tycho, but a voice actor for the character), and it's going to be weird. Like seeing a radio DJ's face for the first time after hearing him, but in reverse.

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Hulu Plus Soon Available to All PS3 Users

Posted by PlayStation Blog Nov 04 2010 14:00 GMT in PlayStation Network

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As you may have already seen, today Sony announced the availability of the Hulu Plus service on 2010 BRAVIA HDTVs and BRAVIA Internet Video Link via the BRAVIA Internet Video platform and will soon be available on Blu-ray Disc players, Blu-ray Home Theater Systems, Network Media Player and DASH. But, perhaps the most exciting news for all of you PlayStation fans is the upcoming availability of Hulu Plus to all PlayStation 3 users in the United States who enjoy free access to PlayStation Network and its variety of online content.

Beginning next week, Hulu Plus will lift the invitation-only availability of its service, which was previously exclusive to select PlayStation Plus subscribers, and open it up to all PlayStation Network members, making the PlayStation 3 the first and only console dedicated to gaming to offer the service.

The Hulu Plus subscription service offers full current season runs of hit TV programs from major broadcast programming studios and will add to the more than 27,800 movies and TV episodes already available on the PlayStation Store, providing the most exhaustive catalogue of entertainment content to PlayStation Network members.

We’ll have more to share next week, so make sure to check back in for details on where you can find Hulu Plus on the PlayStation Network.

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The Many Reviews of Kinect and Its Games

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 13:17 GMT in Kinect

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#reviews The Xbox 360's Kinect launched today with more than a dozen games. We played through half a dozen of them. More »

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Future Kinect Games Need More Than Your Body

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 13:00 GMT in Kinect

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#microsoft Microsoft's Kinect slogan is "You are the controller". One day, that could change to, "You'll need the controller, too." Besides game-pad-free gaming, Microsoft is also working on ways to combine the controller with Kinect. More »

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Sonic Free Riders review: Board to death

Posted by Joystiq Nov 04 2010 14:00 GMT in Sonic Free Riders

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On paper, Sonic Free Riders probably sounded pretty cool. Actually, on second thought, it probably sounded like a cheap and easy way to make a Kinect launch game. I can see the instructions to the developer: "Hey guys, you know that third game in the universally panned Sonic Riders series that we shelved a few years back? Well, take it, make it work with Kinect just well enough to get past Microsoft, and get it out the door by November 4th. But don't, and we can't stress this enough, put any work into making it worthwhile."

Or at least that's what one would imagine transpired after devoting, as I did, entirely too much time to this mind-numbing mess of a game.

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Cops Nab Man For Sharing New Pok

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 12:30 GMT in Gaming News

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#pokemon On September 1 at approximately 8:00pm, 27-year-old Makoto Sekiguchi from Yokohama uploaded images of unrevealed characters in the new Pokémon game Pocket Monsters: Black & White via his mobile phone. He is now in police custody. More »

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360 Gets Old-School Role-Playing For A Buck

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 12:00 GMT in Gaming News

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#indie "West" is a new indie game for the Xbox 360 that looks right up the alley of anyone who has ever played (and enjoyed) games like Pokemon or Mother. More »

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Setting Up and "Tuning" Your Xbox 360 Kinect

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 11:00 GMT in Kinect

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#clips Setting up your Kinect array of cameras and microphones doesn't take too long, but it's much more involved than setting up the Wii or Playstation move. More »

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Square Enix releases two free Facebook games, one with chocobos

Posted by Joystiq Nov 04 2010 12:00 GMT in Gaming News

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So, you've tired of your life as a virtual mob boss/vampire/pirate/zombie/wizard/other thing while playing your favorite Facebook games? Square Enix has two new social titles that might tickle your fancy. The first, Knights of the Crystals, is a Mafia Wars-esque RPG, in which players spend recharging Action Points to complete quests, and in turn, earn XP, gold and new classes, which drastically alter player stats. It's a game genetically engineered to addict, and we are absolutely terrified of it.

The other new game, Chocobo's Crystal Tower, is cut from a similar cloth, albeit with a lot more feathers. In addition to raiding towers for untold treasures, players are tasked with breeding and raising chocobos, which will do all the aforementioned raiding. Any Gil money earned can be used to customize your ranch or chocobos. It's FarmVille meets Final Fantasy -- and we might be even more scared of this one, which we didn't think was possible.

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Video Game Ads Were Better In The 1930s

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 10:30 GMT in Gaming News

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#advertising One of the best things about early 20th-century transportaton was the advertising. Cruise ships, airlines and car companies all used bold, iconic ads to sell their vision of the future. It's a vision that transfers easily to classic video games. More »

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Five Games That Were, And Should Be Again

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 10:00 GMT in Gaming News

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#wolfire Wolfire, the charitable types developing kooky PC action game Overgrowth, don't just make games. They imagine what it would be like if people went and remade someone else's old games, making them as awesome in 2010 as they were originally. More »

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IGN UK Fable III Competition

Posted by IGN Nov 04 2010 10:07 GMT in Fable III

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Five copies of the Fable III Limited Collector's Edition, plus Fable III Xbox 360 controllers up for grabs.

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Kick-Ass gets 'New and Improved' on PSN next week

Posted by Joystiq Nov 04 2010 11:00 GMT in Kick-Ass

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Perpetually startled developer WHA Entertainment has announced that a free update for its licensed PSN beat-em-up, Kick-Ass, will go live next Tuesday, November 9. The patch will introduce a new mission, a few new enemies and some new special moves for the game's un-superpowered protagonists, while adding a few intangible fixes, like better AI balancing and so-called "improved Trophies." Are they shinier this time around? We're lost.

The patch is apparently so potent that WHA now refers to the game as "Kick-Ass New and Improved," which ... is not the best title we've ever heard. How about "Kick-More-Ass," or "Kick-Assier?"

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In Two Years, Gears Of War Might Chainsaw A Phone

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 09:30 GMT in Gaming News

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#iphone Donald Mustard, creative director of Chair Entertainment (Shadow Complex), sees a bright future for gaming on a mobile phone. One so bright that in 2-5 years we'll be playing Gears of Wars on something that fits in our pockets. More »

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9 Days With Kinect, My Video Diary

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 09:00 GMT in Kinect

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#clips One man lives with a Kinect for nine days. What happens? How does his mind change? What are the surprises? And where in the world does the guy go on Day 7? This is my Kinect Diary, in video. More »

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Well, at least Blanka has a fallback career

Posted by Joystiq Nov 04 2010 10:00 GMT in Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition

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It would seem that Blanka's pre-Street Fighter years living in the jungle have provided him with a set of skills valuable to today's parking attendant work force. At least, that seems to be the case based on this video courtesy of Dorkly, just past the break

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Club Mario Makes Us Want To Forget The 1990s

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 08:30 GMT in Gaming News

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#thehorror It's easy to forget these days with Nintendo trying so hard to look all adult and stylish, but in the early 1990s, the company was anything but. More »

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Beat The Foreign-Looking Dude With A Japanese Name

Posted by Kotaku Nov 04 2010 08:00 GMT in Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

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#pressplay Soccer franchise Winning Eleven (AKA Pro Evolution Soccer) is facing increased competition from foreign-based developers. The game's latest television spots also show heavy competition from a sauve non-Japanese-looking fella with a Japanese last name. And they're some of the most popular ads on Japanese television. More »

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