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New Video Game Releases for the Week of 5/8: Crafty Games Edition
Posted 5/8/12 12:05 pm EST by Charles Webb in News, PC, PS3, Release Dates, Xbox 360
It's Official: 'Adventure Time' Is Coming to the DS and 3DS This Fall
Posted 5/8/12 11:02 am EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, News
Adventure Time™: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?! is the first retail game from the hit Cartoon Network TV show.
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New Dead Space and Need for Speed Due by Q1, 2013
Posted 5/8/12 9:30 am EST by MTV Video Games in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
By Jeffrey Matulef
EA announced in an earnings call that new titles in their Dead Space and Need for Speed franchises will be released before March 31, 2013. The upcoming Need for Speed title is pegged for Q3 of fiscal year 2013, which equates to around October this year. Meanwhile, Dead Space 3 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2 leaked on South African retailer, BTGames website last month. It was this same retailer that leaked The Jak & Daxter HD Collection a month prior to Sony's official announcement, so the source seems credible enough.
'EVE Online' Still Nuts, Here's How the 'Burn Jita' Event Went Down
Posted 5/7/12 7:15 pm EST by Charles Webb in mmo, News, PC
A bunch of players in the PC MMO decide to crash a major trade hub in the game's economy. And they nearly succeeded.
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Op-Ed: How The Walking Dead Nails Inhabiting a Defined Character
Posted 5/7/12 6:30 pm EST by MTV Video Games in Mac, Op-Ed, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
By Jeffrey Matulef
[Warning: This piece contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Episode One.]
There's a moment in The Walking Dead game where an attractive reporter mentions that she was rescued by a chubby nerd named Doug. "That guy rescued you?" protagonist, Lee Everett asks, incredulously, before remarking that you never know who's going to be the hero in these situations.
That you don't know how people will react in an emergency is key to The Walking Dead's identity. On the surface, it's about a bunch of survivors in tense situations. Do you throw a little boy out of a hideout because he looks like he's been bit? Should you save the able bodied teenager or the small boy? What about giving a recently infected girl a gun, so she can blow her brains out before turning zombie? These are tough situations with no right answer. How people act during them can be completely incongruous to who they ordinarily are.
'Lollipop Chainsaw' Will Earn Its M-rating
Posted 5/7/12 6:00 pm EST by Charles Webb in News, PS3, Xbox 360
The game's ESRB rating outs partial nudity, gore, and drugs. Hopefully not all at the same time.
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Jane Jensen Hints at a New Gabriel Knight Game
Posted 5/7/12 4:45 pm EST by MTV Video Games in News, PC
By Jeffrey Matulef
Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen recently suggested in an interview with Polygon that her long dormant globe-trotting archaeological mystery series may resurface sometime soon.
The Binding of Isaac's 'Wrath of the Lamb' DLC Due May 28th
Posted 5/7/12 4:00 pm EST by MTV Video Games in News, PC
By Jeffrey Matulef
The previously reported Wrath of the Lamb DLC for Ed McMillen's peculiar blend of humor and horror, The Binding of Isaac, has an official release date of May 28th on Steam. The DLC will cost $3 and its exact contents are detailed here. As for now, check out its spectacular new trailer with creepy Brothers Quay-esque animation that's more unnerving than anything in Dead Space, Resident Evil, or recent Silent Hill.
Peter Griffin of Earth 2: 'Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse' Is The Next 'Family Guy' Console Game
Posted 5/7/12 2:50 pm EST by Charles Webb in 3DS / DS, News, PS Vita, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360
Activision teams up with Fox to produce a console Family Guy game based on the 2009 dimension-hopping episode of the same name.
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