The formula for Lego games should be familiar by now: take a pop culture universe, render its characters and world with the titular Danish building blocks, add in a healthy dose of slapstick humor and as many collectibles as you can stuff on a disc, and ship it. That recipe …
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Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two offers a return to Wasteland, but it also offers plenty of side quests during your mission to save the world of not-quite-cartoons. Some involve finding hidden items, and some involve tracking down certain landmarks across the world. Some even have multiple paths to …
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If you bought Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for PC or Lego Lord of the Rings for Xbox 360, you might want to check your discs real quick. Users have reported some truly bizarre mix-ups for both games which left them with either demo versions or the wrong game …
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Who would have thought that a pirate-themed Disneyland ride could inspire so much more than just the desire to go on the same ride again? Designing a pirate-y adventure game was idea that creator Ron Gilbert had since 1988, and together with now-industry veterans Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman, The …
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PlayStation 3 gamers who haven’t met the Assassin’s Creed series’ renaissance man can become thoroughly acquainted for a reduced price in November. Sony announced the Assassin’s Creed Ezio Trilogy this week, a PS3-exclusive compilation of Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations, which will head to retail November 13 for $40. …
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Dragon’s Dogma will grow even more dogmatic next year with Dark Arisen, an expansion announced today. Capcom revealed a trailer and sprinkling of info for the expansion as well as details on two upcoming downloadable modes for its open-world adventure game. Details on Dark Arisen are scarce, and Capcom left …
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Tokyo Game Show is different from most other industry trade events due to it often giving us a chance to play games we might never see outside of Japan. Take the next entry in the Yakuza series. A monstrous hit in the island nation, the dedicated US/UK fans of the …
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Recently Hideki Kamiya, exec at critical darling Platinum Games and director of Okami (opens in new tab), made news when talking about Sony’s PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale (opens in new tab). To quote Kamiya (opens in new tab), “It’s just a rip-off.” And as someone who has given over roughly …
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The NPD Group (opens in new tab), as reported by MCV Pacific (opens in new tab), has unveiled the ten best selling games of 2012, where only three of which were actually released in that year. The remaining seven were all games of 2011, leaving only Max Payne 3, Mass …
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After Sega’s big Facebook tease that we dissected yesterday (opens in new tab), Sega fans’ dreams have actually come true. Saturn classic NiGHTS into Dreams is coming to Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC this autumn in full HD. We’ve got screens. We’ve got video. We’ve got… no idea …
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