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One Confusing Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers Trailer

Crystal Bearers looks like Final Fantasy meets James Bond meets Psychonauts meets SSX Tricky meets Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball. No, I ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 6, 2009

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Sony Sued Over PS3-Destroying Firmware 3.0

Sony is being served with a class-action lawsuit over its poorly-received 3.0 firmware update, which is said to have “irreparably damaged” thousands of ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 6, 2009

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Batman: Arkham Asylum Was a “Rhythm Action Game”

Sure, Batman: Arkham Asylum was awesome, but we could have gotten a very, very different product: It could have been a “rhythm action ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 6, 2009

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Sony’s Tretton: PS3 Winning is “Best For Industry”

Sony boss Jack Tretton thinks that the PlayStation’s “worldwide” appeal means that an eventual PS3 victory in this generation of the console wars ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 6, 2009

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Get Down With the Full DJ Hero Track List

Activision has revealed the full list of 93 songs aspiring DJs will be able to mix and scratch their way through when DJ ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 6, 2009

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UPDATE: Thousands of Hotmail Passwords Leaked to the Internet

If you use a Hotmail account as your primary email service, you might want to consider changing your password sooner rather than later, ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 6, 2009

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PSPgo Gets Limited Price Cut in UK

In what may be the quickest price cut in recent memory, several UK retailers have slashed the price of Sony’s new PSPgo to ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2009

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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Director: “Every Man Loves Tits”

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 director and producer Yosuke Hayashi is very forthright with Team Ninja’s core design philosophy: “Every man loves tits.” The ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2009

View From the Road

A View From the Road: Confessions of a Virtual Transvestite

There were five of us logged into Aion that day, ready to get started and level up together in-game. We had tanks, we ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2009

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Final Fantasy XIII‘s TGS Trailer, Now In English

Did you like the ridiculously pretty Final Fantasy XIII trailer from the Tokyo Game Show ’09 that showed off the game’s characters (and ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2009

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Microsoft Warns About Modern Warfare 2 Beta Scam

If you receive a message about entering a top-secret Modern Warfare 2 beta, remember that things that seem too good to be true ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2009

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DJ Hero on Expert Actually Looks Pretty Cool

If you’ve been feeling skeptical about DJ Hero thus far, watching these songs – including MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” vs. Vanilla ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2009

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