3ds first look from Cnet

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Elder Scrolls V :Skyrim...again

by Matt Bertz on January 28, 2011 at 02:10 PM In a game as large as the open world RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comprehensive menus are a necessary evil. Though they may not be pretty, players need a way to easily manage items, review skills, and map out directions to their next dungeon crawls. The menus in Oblivion functioned, but they were essentially a cumbersome medieval equivalent to Excel documents. For the sequel, Bethesda is striving for a friendlier user interface. Rather than refine the pre-existing menu system from Oblivion or Fallout 3, Bethesda decided to toss them on the scrap heap and develop a new, streamlined interface. Searching for inspiration, the team kept coming back to Apple, and for good reason. Over the last decade...

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Call of Duty: Black Ops new maps Feb 1st

COThe first release of downloadable content for Treyarch’s mega-blockbuster ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ is scheduled to arrive on Xbox360 this Tuesday, and gamers’ mouths are watering. This release will include four new multi-player maps usable in both online and local play, and one new level for the ‘zombies’ game mode. The downloadable content release will not only provide players with more virtual square footage to play through, but will also introduce new game play dynamics such as a functioning zipline and a collapsible bridge. These features are unique to the new multi-player maps and have never been seen in any of the  previous ‘Call of Duty’ installments. Some of the maps were inspired by sections of the single player campaign mode...

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Gamestops tax saving season

GameStop has started a “Tax Season Savings” sale for select games and accessories on the Nintendo Wii, PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Some of the highlights include $10 off of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dead Rising 2, God of War III, Read Dead Redemption, StarCraft II and more. You can also get $15 off of a DualShock 3 with a purchase of LittleBigPlanet 2. You can check out the numerous deals from GameStop in the following link: Tax Season Savin...

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Now, that is a gun!!!!

by Kyle Thibaut on January 29, 2011 Tags: handguns, wtf Next time someone gives you the “You talking to me?” speech, you might be able to respond with a confident, “yeah.” This massive shell shooter, dubbed “The Raging Judge,” offers a very pragmatic approach to settling disputes — even .57 Magnum dualers will shake in their boots. The Judge creator, the Brazilian armsmaker Taurus, recently revealed the 28 gauge firearm. Don’t expect to see it anytime soon. In fact, Taurus pulled it from their booth at the SHOT show is Las Vegas, and said they weren’t going to make the superfluous handg...

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PlayStation 3 to Allow Saved Games in the Cloud

Kotaku has learned that earlier today, Sony informed developers of a new feature for the PlayStation 3: the ability to save games in the "cloud". Cloud storage means that, rather than just keeping your save game data on your PlayStation 3's hard drive, users will be given the option to upload their saves remotely to a server. The advantage of this is that not only does it save the user space on their hard drive, but since it's tied to a PlayStation Network account, it can be pulled down to different consoles whenever and wherever the user desires. First rumoured all the way back in 2009, there is of course a catch: it'll only be made available to PlayStation Plus subscribers, not the great unwashed. Actually, there are two catches: Sony bundled...

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Portal 2 Co-Op Hands-On

By Jane Douglas, GameSpot UKPosted Jan 24, 2011 1:15 am PT We take on lethal team-building tests in Portal 2's co-op campaign. If you thought GLaDOS might go easier on robots than treacherous, squishy humans, you'd be wrong. The two robot stars of Portal 2's cooperative offering--one tall, with an egg-shaped body and orange eye, and one short, with a blue eye in its spherical body--are no better off than the human heroine of the single-player campaign. They face a series of lethal test chamber puzzles in the game's co-op mode, as well as the unhinged snark of Aperture Science's AI overseer. The test chamber doors are arranged around the Hub, a towering room of platforms and bridges, navigable via the portal guns with which the two bots are...

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Dungeon Siege III – Hands-On Opening Acts

By Maxwell McGee, GameSpotPosted Jan 28, 2011 8:00 am PT The venerable Dungeon Siege series is ready for a comeback, so we go hands-on to see how this latest incarnation stacks up against its past.Since its initial release back in 2002, the Dungeon Siege series has always been about two things: exploring dungeons and collecting loot. It was a series revered for accessibility, addictive gameplay, and cooperative multiplayer. After getting our hands on Dungeon Siege III, we are excited to see that developer Obsidian isn't deviating from the elements that made this series great. You see eight bandits; he sees eight piles of treasure. Our demo began in the shoes of intrepid adventurer Lucas Mont Barron. As an orphan, Lucas has finally come of...

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Shippin' Out Jan. 30-Feb. 5: Earthrise, Black Ops DLC

By Eddie Makuch, GameSpot Posted Jan 30, 2011 5:08 am PT Light release schedule led by Masthead's MMORPG, first map pack for Treyarch's latest Call of Duty entry; Rock Band Country Pack 2 also out.Last week Issac Clarke and his plasma cutter frightened retail with the release of Dead Space 2. This week's focus, however, is on post-apocalyptic settings and first-person shooter action. Leading the week is Masthead Studios' massively multiplayer online role-playing game Earthrise. The first project from Sofia, Bulgaria-based Masthead, Earthrise is set in a world in the wake of civilization-leveling World War III, which nearly eradicated Earth's human population. The earth rises this week on PC. Now, a tyrannical corporate government has...

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If You Think You Need This $825, Biometrically Secured Wallet, You Have Paranoia Issues

Look, maybe you've had your pocket picked a few times and are really paranoid about losing your wallet. But you're not Julian Assange and I doubt anyone is coming after you, so you probably don't need this biometrically secured wallet. The Dunhill Biometroc Wallet combines a biometric finger reader with a bluetooth alarm and carbon fiber frame to ensure noone can crack into it without destroying it. If you have the Bluetooth alarm activated, the wallet will sound an alert anytime it is more than five feet from your phone.But the damn thing costs $825 and it's not even that great looking. The beat-up slab of leather in your back pocket will do just f...

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Regret the past and fear the future: Ars reviews Dead Space 2

Ben Kuchera |  Isaac Clarke, the hero of the Dead Space series, began the first game as an engineer sent to rescue a ship that seemed to be having problems. Once there, he tangled with an ungodly strain of mutated humans and the mind of an eldritch relic that had inspired a Scientology-style religion. He escaped that situation with his life, but how much of his mind came with him? Like Ellen Ripley of the Alien films, he's now defined by his experience of fighting something he barely understands. The second game picks up directly after the first... we think. We see everything through Clarke's eyes, the camera peering over his shoulder. He's an unreliable narrator, forced to make sense of where he is and what he's doing, using...

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Nintendo 3ds pricing

By Casey Johnston | Last updated 9 days ago The Nintendo 3DS will be on available starting March 27 for $249, Nintendo announced at a press event today. Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo's president, described in detail the features and launch games for the glassesless 3D handheld at the event. The 3Ds will initially be available in two colors: aqua blue and black. The game card slot on the back will accept both 3DS and DS games, and the 3DS will come a 2GB SD card and charging cradle. A home button under the bottom screen will allow players to pause whatever they're doing and change applications, and a 3D slider lets them set the depth of the picture. A light on the top left corner will communicate various statuses on the 3DS—for instance,...

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Sony sues hackers

When a delay in the trial of Sony versus the hackers responsible for jailbreaking the Playstation 3 was announced, it looked as  if Sony might have some problems with their case. That changed today with a small victory in the form of a temporary restraining order against George "GeoHot" Hotz and the team members of fail0verflow. The temporary restraining order prevents Hotz and fail0verflow from linking, distributing or helping in anyway with the hacking or jailbreaking the Playstation 3 or the Playstation Network. The order also requires that all computer equipment used to create the jailbreak be turned over to the authorities but it isn't clear yet if that will actually happen. While this is a win for Sony it truly is a case of too little way too late. The jailbreak is out and has spread...

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Sony's next PSP, codenamed NGP

By Vlad Savov posted Jan 27th 2011 1:27AM Breaking NewsBetcha didn't think this day would come, but it finally has. Sony has just come clean with its next-generation PlayStation Portable. It's actually codenamed NGP and will revolve around five key concepts: Revolutionary User Interface, Social Connectivity, Location-based Entertainment, Converging Real and Virtual (augmented) Reality. It will be compatible with the PlayStation Suite and is backwards-compatible with downloadable PSP games and content from Sony's PlayStation Store. Specs include a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 5-inch touchscreen OLED display with 960 x 544 resolution, dual analog sticks (not nubs as on the current generation), 3G, WiFi, GPS, a rear-mounted touchpad, the...

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Gears of War 3

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Fantastic death????

Death Comes to Marvel's First FamilyThe Fantastic Four scribe answers our questions about the death of an icon.January 25, 2011Share414Level 5by Joey EspositoLATEST IMAGESView all 243 images »The secret is out: Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch, perished in the pages of Fantastic Four #587. Johnny's death in this issue concludes the "Three" story arc, and marks the second-to-last issue of Marvel's ongoing series that has been in publication since 1961. So what led to Johnny's death, and how are the remaining members of Marvel's First Family going to deal with the loss? We talked with writer Jonathan Hickman about today's big finish.  IGN Comics: Jonathan, thanks for taking the time to talk to us today;...

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Batte LA

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73153 I think you're going to like th...

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Call of Duty the reason?!?!

Russian media links airport bombing, Modern Warfare 2By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot Posted Jan 25, 2011 11:46 am PT State-sponsored Russia Today channel says Call of Duty game "mirrors" Monday's suicide bombing outside Moscow.On Monday, tragedy struck outside Moscow when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Domodedovo airport, killing 35 people and injuring 180. In the wake of the massacre, no parties have come forward to claim responsibility, although Chechen separatists, which have mounted similar attacks in the past, are likely to be blamed.Russian state media is speculating that Modern Warfare 2 may have inspired a real-life attack.Sadly, though, it appears the Russian media has found something else to blame--video games....

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