NVIDIA’s first big computing/gaming event is about to kick off tomorrow in the capital of Silicon Valley (that’s San Jose, California btw). With preparations all under way, downtown San Jose has been turned into a green city. With the blessing of Mayor Chuck Reed proclaiming this "Visual Computing Week", NVIDIA is really pulling all the [...]

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I notice that my previous lists of these used to have "titles" instead of "releases", so to avoid/add in unintentional confusion, I’ll just relabel it as you see it right now. Alternate suggestions: ReleTitles, Titleases. Wait, that last one sounded like a term straight out of a gimp farm. Anyway, games, and there are lots [...]

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So what has enticed us to put up the controllers and play to death for the week, apart from button-mashing, Tower Of Souls-climbing and low-sweep exploiting in SoulCalibur IV? We have Bionic Commando: Rearmed and Braid up on tap.
Braid (XBLA, PC)

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The demo for Force Unleashed is now available for you to get your dark side groove on. We’ve been having fun force grabbing things to throw into storm troopers, windows, TIE fighters, droids and anything else that might explode if we crash something into it; which turns out, is pretty much everything.
The [...]

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Talk about standing out in the viral marketing video scene. A year ago, a YouTube poster uploaded a video of a glitch in Tiger Woods 08 where Tiger Woods’ polygonal avatar could tread onto water. EA responded with this. That’s brilliance for you.

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Slim & lite on top. Brand spanking new PSP-3000 below.
Alas, it is not the PSP2 we all desire, nor is it really all that different from the PSP slim & lite. Nevertheless, Famitsu has unveiled Sony’s latest PSP, which features a new LCD screen looking much improved over the old one, giving you a [...]

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Playstation.Blog has revealed that everyone’s favorite poster boy for violent behavior has started listening to his therapist, and is taking up Golf to deal with his anger management problems.  Kratos is available for download today to your PS3 for Hot Shots Golf: Out Of Bounds. The Hot Shots team worked closely with the God [...]

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To drown our tears from the wtfpwnage of King Onis, Shogun Battleships and Japanese school girls, GameAxis is dedicating this week’s Top Ten to the most overpowered characters in Video Game History.
10. Any Warlock (World of Warcraft) I’m saying this as a guy that played a Warlock. Overpowered. Maybe [...]

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We’ve been busy playing the online multiplayer beta of Red Alert 3 here at GameAxis. Fans of naval warfare will be pleased to see it features prominently in RA3. Fans of building armies of wtfpwnage units will be equally delighted. Fans of Japan will orgasm.
Overall, the game plays pretty much like every RTS [...]

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It seems like we’ve been waiting forever, but finally Will Wright’s baby, Spore, is ready to be birthed, screaming and kicking into the world. Be among the first to see what all the fuss is about at EA’s launch party for SPORE on 7 September 2008, Sunday at Level [...]

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