Valve Calls Portal 2 Their ‘Best Single-Player’ Game

Apr 13, 2011 - By

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Portal 2 is thankfully on its way, though if you were impressed with the first installmnet–and if you played it at all, odds are that is the case–you can be forgiven for wondering whether or not the sequel could possibly live up to its predecessor. We won’t know the answer to that until we get the opportunity to try it our on our own, but in the meantime, GamingBolt has word from Valve that they thing Portal 2 is “absolutely the best” single-player game they’ve made.

Interesting.

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Weekday Roundup: Wii Price Cut Coming May 15th, Dead Rising 2 Gets a Reboot, 10 Confirmed Fighters for Street Fighter X Tekken

Apr 13, 2011 - By

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It’s midweek and that means you might’ve missed some recent news. Let’s get you up to speed by starting with a Wii price cut coming soon to a retail store near you. We’ll move on for a remake of Dead Rising 2 featuring the camera-touting Frank West then we’ll end with a list of the first confirmed ten fighters for Street Fighter X Tekken.

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Hello Brand New Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Screens that Features a Still Living Leon S. Kennedy

Apr 12, 2011 - By

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Four player co-op with players taking on the role of Umbrella Security Service soldiers launching an operation in Raccoon City in 1998. Are we stoked? You bet and who’d ever guess we’d all get see Resident Evil 2′s Mr. X once more?

Oh, and a living, breathing Leon S. Kennedy too.

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Rise of Nightmates to be Released in June?

Apr 11, 2011 - By

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The technology of Kinect is definitely impressive–if you don’t think so, you haven’t been looking it up on the internet enough–but as of now, you could be justified for being reluctant to pick one up; there just aren’t enough games available yet to make it truly revolutionary.

Thankfully, we have games like Rise of Nightmares to look forward to, and according to G4 it may finally have a release date.

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Another Batman Title in Development?

Apr 11, 2011 - By

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Batman: Arkham City looks as though it will be at least as good as its surprisingly stellar predecessor, but according to G4, we have reason to believe that there may be yet another Batman game in the works.

This conclusion was arrived at when it was discovered that Warner Bros. has registered a few interesting domains, with names like BatmanHush.com, and, more interestingly, BatmanHushGame.com.

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Analyst: 3DS Sales Have Slowed, Nintendo Might Slash Wii Prices

Apr 11, 2011 - By

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The initial sales of the Nintendo 3DS looked really strong, the new handheld sold over 750k in the United States just in five days. Now, it appears that the 3DS isn’t the success that we all thought it would be, and the Wii might also need to cut prices to maintain competitiveness in the console market. Are Nintendo’s days of console and handheld dominance over?

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David Cage: Developers Should Approach Gaming like Poetry or Painting

Apr 08, 2011 - By

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Not too long ago, video games varied in genre, but in recent years the industry is gearing up for an all out assault on our love for explosions and multiplayer in the form of Battlefield and Call of Duty. Quantic Dream head David Cage wants developers to try something new.

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PS3 Splinter Cell Trilogy packs HD Graphics and 3D support

Apr 07, 2011 - By

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Before Ubisoft’s other hit, Assassin’s Creed, players trekked the world as Third Echelon agent Michael Ironside, uh, Sam Fisher. Now, Ubisoft is bringing the original trilogy back to gamers in the form of a trilogy package that includes HD graphics and 3D gaming. Players might also be surprised about a huge unadvertised feature in the PS3 edition of Splinter Cell Trilogy collection.

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L.A. Noire Trailer Number Three Looks Impressive, as Per Usual

Apr 07, 2011 - By

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L.A. Noire is going to be a good game. Sure, in instances like this it may seem foolish to call it before the title has even been released, but everything we’ve seen so far, coupled with the fact that Rockstar Studios tends to, ya know, do a pretty decent job with the crime genre, has us convinced that this will be an instant classic.

If you’re still not sure, take a look at the third trailer.

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