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Remember that teaser image I showed a while back?  After weeks of rumor across dozens of gaming websites and blogs, Mass Effect 3 is set to launch globally in holiday 2011 on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC — this marks the first time the Mass Effect franchise will launch on all [...]

It was an interesting weekend for video games as several new titles debuted at the VGA’s.  Perhaps the one I was most interested in was Bethesda Softworks’ announcement of The Elder Scrolls® V: Skyrim™, the next installment in the award-winning Elder Scrolls series and follow up to the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls [...]

Quake Arena Arcade is coming to Xbox Live Arcade next week.  It introduces the definitive, competitive first-person shooter to a new generation of gladiators.  Frag up to fifteen of your friends in six game types over Xbox LIVE, including ‘Deathmatch’, ‘Capture the Flag’, and ‘Harvester’ modes. Experience QUAKE like never before with over thirty classic [...]

Developer: EA Canada Publisher: Electronic Arts Rating Guide: How I Review Games Review: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!  HE’S HEATING UP!! Those lines were music to my ears years ago when NBA JAM first hit the scene.  I’ve never been much to revisit classic games but I had my eye on this particular remix.  Everyone knows about the turmoil [...]

I’ve seen some pretty cool incentives for contests in my day and this is perhaps one of the coolest yet.  Who doesn’t want themselves (or their creation) immortalized as an action figure?!  I know I do!  THQ and WWE are staging a Create-A-Superstar contest for the best creation in WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 that [...]

Remember that Doritos Unlock Xbox challenge a while back?  Well that last two contenders have just released their games to Xbox Live Arcade and they’re free sucka!   Harm’s Way and Doritos Crash Course are available in the Xbox Live Arcade right now at that marvelous price of 0 Microsoft Points.  That’s again, free for [...]

EA’s game label boss, Frank Gibeau, is seriously putting a fork in my potatoes.  In an interview with Develop, he says that the multiplayer aspect of games is where the innovation and action is.  “I volunteer you to speak to EA’s studio heads; they’ll tell you the same thing,” Gibeau continued, “They’re very comfortable moving [...]

All hail the mighty Floridians right?  Well, perhaps not but you’ll find a good bit of interesting tidbits about one of our resident Florida community members! Tell us how you came to be known as x352x pH. Well I live in Ocala, FL (slOcala to us natives ) which is in the area code 352.  Now the [...]

Twylyght Myst is back in the saddle again and she’s unleashing a new Showcase for you boys and girls to read! Tell us what your life is like when you’re not gaming. Well right now I am an engineer by trade living in San Diego, CA.  I’ve worked as a systems engineer and I’m currently [...]