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Do Some Rubbing and Racin’ With Days of Thunder: Arcade (Xbox 360)

Do Some Rubbing and Racin’ With Days of Thunder: Arcade (Xbox 360) 

Players Will Compete for Top Standings Against the Film’s Iconic Drivers and Take On Up to 11 Players Online This news is a few weeks old but for the Tom Cruise fan in all of us, I figure it’s worth mentioning. Paramount Digital Entertainment and Piranha Games have announced the development of Days of Thunder: [...]

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XBLA Party Shooter Rocket Riot Released For Windows Phone 7

XBLA Party Shooter Rocket Riot Released For Windows Phone 7 

After the immense success Rocket Riot experienced on the Xbox 360 last year, the colourful pixel loving party shooter has made its way onto Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. The initial WP7 phones decked out with the new operating system were made available in stores on October 21st, across a variety of countries in Europe [...]

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*Update* – Monday Night Combat Halloween Unmasking and Free DLC News

*Update* – Monday Night Combat Halloween Unmasking and Free DLC News 

Uber Entertainment’s Executive Producer and all around bacon aficionado, Chandana Ekanayake, took to the Uber forums and company blog this morning to release some tasty tidbits about Monday Night Combat‘s Halloween Unmasking Week. The week long event will serve as a reveal for new information and a chance to show off some pristine content from [...]

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Good News, Bad News For Upcoming Scott Pilgrim DLC

Good News, Bad News For Upcoming Scott Pilgrim DLC 

Well, the Ubisoft news train keeps on trucking here at DDGW. Third post in a row, I apologize but there is just so much going on with Ubisoft right now. At their 2010 Digital Day event yesterday they announced that DLC for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game should be hitting the digital marketplace [...]

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Blade Kitten Available On PSN, XBLA And Windows PC, Right Meow

Blade Kitten Available On PSN, XBLA And Windows PC, Right Meow 

Side Scrolling Action Adventure Game Now Available for Download Atari Europe and Krome Studios announced the release of  Blade Kitten yesterday, the epic action adventure title starring Kit Ballard, based on the comic book series by creator Steve Stamatiadis.  Blade Kitten features side-scrolling gameplay mechanics, intuitive “scramble style” exploration, fully voiced dialogue, dramatic narrative and [...]

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XBLA Wednesday: Shank and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Hump Day just got a little better with the release of two games that are full of epic epicness. Scott Pilgrim vs The World was released on the PSN earlier this month and has finally kicked, punched and headbutted its way onto XBLA. Joining Scott Pilgrim on this fisticuff-filled Wednesday is EA and Klei Entertainment’s [...]

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Amazon.com Dropping Direct Sales of XBLA Titles.

About a year ago, Amazon.com broke new ground in the digital download gaming industry by listing, for direct sale, exclusive titles from the Xbox Live Marketplace. We thought this was a great idea and took on an affiliate program with Amazon to make those titles available through our site as well. In that time, less [...]

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Highlights from the Toronto Microsoft X’10 Event

Post E3 can be a bit of drought in the video game industry. It’s a time when many studios and gamers take a step back, enjoy the summer, maybe even go on vacation or check out Comic Con. So after several weeks of relatively uneventful breaking news in the video game market, Microsoft’s X10 press [...]

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Double Fine Announces Partnership with THQ for Two New Downloadable Games

The Wacky Worlds of Award-Winning Game Designer Tim Schafer will soon come to life on XBLA and PlayStation Network Award-winning game designer and founder and CEO of Double Fine Productions, Tim Schafer, has teamed up with THQ to bring two new wacky titles to XBLA and the PSN. THQ announced today that Costume Quest, the [...]

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Castlevania Harmony of Despair Now Available on XBLA

KONAMI ANNOUNCES CASTLEVANIA HARMONY OF DESPAIR NOW AVAILABLE FOR XBOX SUMMER OF ARCADE As Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade continues to roll into its third week, gamers can beat the hot muggy weather by staying cool and comfy on the couch and purchasing this weeks arcade tittle: Castlevania (fresh air is overrated anyway). Released today, Konami [...]

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