Toymaker Hasbro and Activision are teaming up to make a new game based on the Hub TV series Transformers exclusive to Nintendo platforms. More information and a trailer after the jump.
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Now It's 'Transformers Prime' Getting A Game From Activision
Posted 3/15/12 12:30 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, Wii
New Video Games For the Week Of 3/13: Doctors and Gangsters
Posted 3/13/12 2:30 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, News, PC, PS Vita, PS3, Release Dates, Video, Wii, Xbox 360
Most of you are probably still playing Mass Effect 3 on your game machine of choice, but just in case you've finished it (or simply in need of a break from saving the known universe), a couple of smaller releases are out this week to tide you over.
Find out what you can be playing this week after the jump.
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'Kid Icarus: Uprising' Gets A National Tournament From Nintendo
Posted 3/13/12 11:51 am EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, News
Event photo provided by Nintendo
With its release date a little over a week and a half out, Nintendo is taking their Kid Icarus revival on the 3DS across the country for a multiplayer tournament. The first two events in San Francisco and Orlando have already gone down, but Los Angeles and New York are next up on this bracket-style competition.
More details about the tournament and how New York gamers can score a copy of Kid Icarus: Uprising a day early after the jump.
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'Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]' Enters The Grid In New Screenshots
Posted 3/12/12 2:50 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, News, Role Playing Games, Screenshots
With Tron: Legacy joining the playable worlds in the latest Kingdom Hearts release for the 3DS, Square Enix has passed along new screenshots featuring Sora and the Legacy cast in-game. So light cycles are obviously confirmed.
Hit the jump to see Jeff Bridges in an RPG.
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GDC 2012: Game Developer's Choice and Independent Game Festival Winners
Posted 3/8/12 12:03 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, Awards, GDC, News, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
Fez, Dear Esther, and Antichamber were some of the big winners at GDC's Game Developer's Choice and Independent Game Festival awards, while Skyrim and Portal 2 grabbed some of the major honors among game developers.
Find the complete list of winners after the jump.
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Non-Gaming Game News For the Week Ending March 9th: 'Mass Effect' Comic Roundup
Posted 3/7/12 2:45 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, Non-Gaming Game News, PC, PS Vita, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
As you dig into Mass Effect 3, you'll find the game has quite a few call-outs to events that happened between the second and third games in Bioware's sci-fi trilogy. Conveniently, these events happened in the Dark Horse-published comic tie-ins and more conveniently still, we've got details on the three trades after the jump.
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GDC 2012: New Details On 'Amazing Spider-Man,' 'Avengers' Games
Posted 3/5/12 5:00 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, PC, PS Vita, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel's Vice President of Games Production for Marvel, TQ Jefferson talks about the comic company's break with Sega for future tie-in games, and how the acquisition by Disney has changed how future Marvel superhero properties will translate into games in the future.
More information after the jump.
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Marvel Comics Legend Stan Lee A Playable Character In 'The Amazing Spider-Man'
Posted 2/29/12 5:38 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, News, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
True "fact," prolific and beloved comic creator/eternal Marvel movie extra Stan "The Man" Lee invented the hero sandwich. Okay, that's not actually a "fact," in the strictest sense of the term, but he was responsible for (or instrumental in the creation of) many of the most iconic characters in the Marvel Universe, and after half a century in the superhero-making business, he finally gets to play one in a game.
Find out more info after the jump.
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New Video Games For the Week of 2/28: Respite-d
Posted 2/29/12 3:28 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, News, PC, PS3, Release Dates, Video, Wii, Xbox 360
After the flurry of new titles last week as well as the official PS Vita launch, this Tuesday sees a slight downtick (is that a word, because "uptick" certainly is) in major new releases. In terms of major titles, we've got Sega releasing its first squad-based shooter with Binary Domain, while EA brings back the SSX name after a couple of years in storage. More Pokéman on the Wii, while Atlus has something for you RPG obsessives with Devil Survivor 2. Let's make this short and easy, because we've still got a pile of reviews coming your way.
Info and videos featuring this week's new releases after the jump.
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The Rhino Crashes Into Activision's Upcoming 'The Amazing Spider-Man'
Posted 2/24/12 11:58 am EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, PS3, Screenshots, Superheroes, Trailer, Video, Wii, Xbox 360
Until fairly recently in the comics, Spider-Man villain the Rhino (a.k.a. Aleksei Sytsevich) more often than teetered somewhere between being a dim-witted heavy out to make a buck or comic relief for our hero. The joke was that he was as strong as his namesake, but maybe not as smart. But around two years ago in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man, writer Dan Slott kind of gave the character a rethink, in a move that could have been disastrous, showing us how this con who used to have this rock skin suit grafted to his body was trying to get his life together found love and happiness only to have it all come apart in his hands, and it was one of the more heartbreaking characterizations in recent memory. Read More...
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