CG In Video Games Expand With Plastic Wax
(via Cinema Blend Games) - The company may not sound awfully familiar to most gamers, but it doesn’t mean that what they do isn’t extremely important in the process of making games. Plastic Wax is expanding their business ventures, and this can only mean good things for the gaming industry, and an equally good thing for gamers.
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Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant Now Available For Xbox 360, Wii
(via Cinema Blend Games) -- That pesky bandicoot is at it again. At one point Crash was the official mascot for Sony’s PSX. But now he's been prostituted out to different consoles with meager success. You can prepare for another of Crash’s exploits in the recently shipped, Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant.
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Lucasarts, BioWare Prepare to Announce New Title
(via Cinema Blend Games) -- Lucasarts and BioWare are spreading the word that they'll be announcing a long-anticipated joint project later this month. It may be the sorta-secret Knights of the Old Republic MMO -- prepare yourself for a new black hole of productivity.
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Fable II Will Have DLC
(via Cinema Blend Games) -- Lionhead Studios honcho Peter Molyneux continues to talk up his company's forthcoming RPG Fable II. The newest boast? The game will have downloadable content. Besides the online co-op patch, he means.
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Get Area 51 For Free
(via Cinema Blend Games) -- While Blend Games is usually able to smell free games with bloodhound-like precision, this one slipped by us. As of last Monday, Midway has been offering their 2005 first-person shooter Area 51 for free. Completely free? Well, minus a small annoyance.
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Top 10 Reasons Hardcore Gamers Fear Casual Gaming
(via Cinema Blend Games) - It’s not just that casual gamers aren’t good gamers, it’s that they happen to be attached to a casual trend for diminishing the hardcore market, sometimes without even knowing it. Nevertheless, we feel it’s our duty to list the reasons why hardcore gamers may fear casual gamers and the casual gaming uprise.
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DSi To Be Region-Locked After All
(via Cinema Blend Games) -- Importing a DSi? Not so fast. Unlike the previous versions, Nintendo's new handheld will in fact be region-locked. A Nintendo VP recently said otherwise, but according to news today, the hardware and software will both contain locks.
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Nintendo Announces Wii Speak Channel, Finally Makes it to 2005
(via Cinema Blend Games) -- Nintendo has announced a release date for their special brand of chatroom, the Wii Speak Channel. Finally, everybody's dream of being able to communicate with your friends via the Wii and the Wii Microphone add-on will finally come true.
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Spectrobes II: Beyond The Portals Warps Into Retailers
(via Cinema Blend Games) - Disney Interactive’s amazing looking RPG-adventure for the Nintendo DS has finally been shipped to retailers and is now available. We’ve followed the game for quite some time, and have seen how it has become a cool looking title with some fairly unique features. But the good part is that the wait is now over.
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Cliffster Doesn't Like Developer-Swapping
(via Cinema Blend Games) -- Both Gears of War games have been developed by Epic Games. If it's up to GoW designer Cliff Bleszinski, the series will stay with Epic for good. He's not fond of all the developer swinger parties going on.
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Nintendo Boss: Gamers Are Insatiable
(via Cinema Blend Games) -- A game company like Nintendo likes it that you buy a lot of games and hardware. But there's such a thing as being too good of a consumer, according to Nintendo of America prez Reggie Fils-Aime.
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