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King of Fighters XIII gets King of Soundtracks pre-order bonus

Atlus’ announced pre-order bonus for next month’s The King of Fighters XIII is a doozy. Spanning four CDs, the immodestly-titled King of Soundtracks ’94-XIII aims to live up to its self-bestowed regal status by collecting more than 100 tracks (101 of them, in fact) from the series’ 15-year backlog of …

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Gabe Newell: Piracy is an issue of service, not price

When Valve’s Gabe Newell isn’t overseeing the creation of GlaDOS sequels, Team Fortress 2 hats, or everything else but Half Life: Episode 3, he can usually be found imparting his business wisdom to anyone who will listen. And yes, there are a lot of people who will listen; people like …

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Bond 23 axes the action, targets an Oscar

Is that little bald statue stroking a white cat? It wouldn’t be a surprise if it was, given the news that Bond’s next big challenge is to take down an Oscar. Bond, James Bond has pulled off some tricks in his career but if the rumours are true that director …

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Microsofts HoloDesk prototype is a Trekkies dream

While we’ve been toying around with motion controls and touch screens, the lab whizzes at Microsoft Research have been developing the next, next big things in interactive entertainment. In this, their latest futuristic tech demo, the group shows off a prototype of an interactive 3D HoloDesk; a technology which could …

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Sonic Generations contains the original Sonic as unlockable bonus

Sonic fans looking forward to the upcoming Sonic Generations can now be assured the game will contain the most authentically old-school Sonic experience short of physically digging out your old Genesis. That is to say, the game will contain that console’s original Sonic the Hedgehog as a bonus unlockable, meaning …

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Minecrafts Xbox 360 outing playable at MineCon

(opens in new tab) Microsoft shocked the gaming community when it took time out of its highly-publicized E3 presentation to show a trailer for an Xbox 360 port of the popular indie PC hit Minecraft. Since then little has come out about the game, but in just a few short …

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New World of Warcraft expansion announced: Mists of Pandaria

At the BlizzCon opening ceremony, Blizzard officially announced the next expansion to World of Warcraft, and it looks like it might be the weirdest yet. It’s called Mists of Pandaria, and it adds the Pandarens to the game. Yeah. That’s right. Pandas. Let’s do this. Blizzard says that this expansion …

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