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Wield divine fire as Anjali in last Dungeon Siege III character reveal

Travis Bruno
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First we saw a woman that wielded magic firearms and then we saw a magical warrior fighting to get revenge for his family. After that we saw a genius mage who could bend the forces of nature to his will. But that doesn’t hold a candle to the last character to be revealed for Dungeon Siege III. Literally. Anjali is a legend come to life as she is an Archon, a spirit of fire given flesh.

Anjali was raised by a group of people who were sympathetic to the struggles of the Legion, but due to her upbringing she has no idea how she even managed to come to the world in which she lives, nor does she realize how powerful she really is. Anjali can change to her elemental fire form and throw fireballs at enemies from afar as well as inflict area damage with fire. Oh and did I forget to mention that she can also summon a Fire Jackal to attack her enemies too?

Disgaea 4 Super Premium Edition figures revealed alongside Fuka reveal

Travis Bruno
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Just a little bit ago NIS America announced two different special editions of Disgaea 4. One was a Premium Edition while the other was a Super Premium Edition. Now both of these editions come with the game itself, a soundtrack, art book and a figurine of one of the main characters, Fuka. Now originally the Premium Edition contained a box that showed a Nendoroid figurine that was like the one released in Japan. However, after contacting NIS America we were told that this would not be the figure included in the pack. Since then the image has been updated to feature the figurine that will be included in both packages which you can see to the right.

Now the Super Premium Edition was announced to contain nine additional figures besides the Fuka figurine and we were shown a picture that only showed some of these figures. NISA has since released an image that contains every figure that will be included in the Super Premium Edition. You can see the whole collection below which features Prinny, Fallen Angel Flonne, Flonne, Axel, DESCO, Emizel, Fenrich, Valvatorez and Vulcanus. There still has not been a price tag placed on these two versions of the title but the prices will most likely be released in June when pre-ordering become available.

This Child of Eden trailer will lighten your mood

Travis Bruno
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Ubisoft’s Child of Eden can arguably be called one of the most beautiful looking games coming out this year. Sure there are more realistic looking titles obviously but nothing can hold a candle to the way that Child of Eden looks so far. Ubisoft knows this and has released a brand new trailer that they are calling “Mood.”

This trailer shows off plenty of gameplay as well as some of the great audio that players will be treated to when the game is released on June 14th in the US on the Xbox 360. The game will require the use of the Kinect for 360 owners but those who own a PS3 may be a bit depressed to know that the PlayStation 3 version of the game has been delayed until September. Whether it is implementation of the Move system or other problems has yet to be said.

New Batman game – rappelling to XBLA soon?

J. Bradshaw
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New Batman game – rappelling to XBLA soon?

Warner Brothers has registered a couple of web domains called BatmanImpostors.com, BatmanRedHoods.com and BatmanHushGame.com.  A couple of United Kingdom stores have also listed a new Batman game, supposedly called Gotham City Impostors. Reportedly, these new findings indicate that IF a new Batman game were to to come out, it would be exclusive to XBLA.

Nevertheless, the registration of the the above could mean a variety of other things that could even relate to the upcoming Batman Arkham City.

Impostors was a plot line from the series, Detective Comics, and Hush is an infamous repeat offender in the Bat’s universe.

Must have games for Windows Phone 7… coming soon

J. Bradshaw
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After an initial outburst of great, licensed games on the new Windows 7 mobile platform, Xbox Live gaming has fallen a bit to the wayside on the smartphone.  It is comforting to hear that Microsoft plans to rectify the situation in the coming weeks.  Check out the trailer below for the hotness soon to be coming your way.

Whats that?  Oh, you just want to read what they are going to release.  Ok then, first up is Plants vs. Zombies.  Then comes Hydro Thunder GO! (get it, ’cause your racing, ON THE GO!  You got that right?)  Lets round off the list with Doodle Jump, Geo Defense and the most popular game ever… (drum roll, please), Sonic the Hedgehog 4.

Who I am I kidding?  You all knew it was Angry Birds.

Chinese man dies after gaming marathon

Kellie Wallace
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We can all admit we have spent more than a few hours playing our favourite game, often finding an hour has turned into three.

However, a Chinese man has died after spending three days straight on a gaming binge. The unamed man in his thirties, had not slept, had hardly eaten and rarely moved from his computer when he collapsed and slipped into a coma in late Feburary, at an internet cafe near Beijing.

The man had reportedly spent more than 10,000 yuan ($15,00 AU) on internet gaming over the course of the year. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later.

Police ruled out homicide and removed several computers from the cafe for investigation.  The incident highlights China’s increasing number of internet addicts, which according to researchers has risen to more than 30 million.

Support Japan with Sega’s New Dreamcast Theme for the PS3…

Dustin Spencer
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It is always great to see anything release reflecting on the greatness that was the Dreamcast, and now an awesome theme for the PS3 has now been given out by Sega due to the amazing response for the underway charity auctions on eBay for the support of Japan. Sega have now raised over $20,000 for relief efforts with these auctions and are rewarding the theme you see above to any fan who wants some nostalgic bliss to spice up their Playstation’s menus via a new post on their official blog.

There are two themes available for download, European Dreamcast Blue and North America Dreamcast Orange which were designed by Maher and Souha Al-Samkari of modus Productions and each can be easily applied by following these instructions with a flash drive (copied from the blogpost):

1. Change the files you download to add a .p3t extension. To do this, click the filename to highlight the name of the file, then add the .p3t to the end. The themes WILL NOT WORK without the p3t Extension! More info on changing file extensions within windows can be found here.

2. Create a directory within a flash drive with the following in UPPERCASE

PS3\THEME\(themefile)

3. Pop this into your PlayStation3, copy to the system, and there you have it – a really cool new theme!

While the new theme is awesome, I should note that these auctions are still continuing as I write this and there is still time right now to get in on grabbing some rare Sega swag while helping out Japan in the process. You can visit Sega’s official ebay listings by clicking HERE.

Duke Nukem Forever trailer shows that Duke still has everything fans loved

Travis Bruno
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How awesome is Duke? Well why don’t you watch the below trailer and find out. But before you do be warned that the trailer is NSFW, meaning that if you aren’t old enough to play an M-rated game then you shouldn’t be watching it anyways. The reason for the NSFW isn’t due to violence but the fact that there is a pair of something walking right towards you.

Either way it is good to see that after all these years, and people being more concerned than ever about video game content, that Duke Nukem hasn’t changed too much. I remember in older Duke Nukem games when you could literally pay the strippers. Either way though Duke Nukem Forever certainly talks the talk but can it walk the walk? We’ll find out when it is released this June.

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZbiM30uSks[/pro-player]

Conduit 2 Available Everywhere; Launch Trailer Released…

Dustin Spencer
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With the heavy hitters such as Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat being released earlier this week, Conduit 2 may have fell off the radar just a tad for many of you Nintendo Wii owners anticipating High Voltage’s follow up. Conduit 2 released this past Tuesday and hits stores in Europe as of today and with that news comes a launch trailer that shows that this beast of a shooter is ready to take the spotlight and seeing as this is one of the biggest releases for the Wii in years, I think the clip fully does the game justice in just about every department.

The visuals are some of the best I have seen on the Wii to date and the game looks action packed through and through and features 10 different multiplayer modes, achievements, improvements, and battles across top notch maps. So if you have been needing a reason to dust off that Wii during this little drought of few releases, The Conduit 2 is definitely the choice shooter to get. Check out the new trailer below for yourself and we should have a review coming soon so keep an eye out for that.

The call of the Forge gives us a behind the scenes look of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge

Travis Bruno
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Hunted: The Demon’s Forge may not sound very impressive if you just glanced at it. But over the past few months as more trailers and developer diaries were released, Bethesda’s take on dungeon crawling certainly looks like it will be an amazing experience. Developers at inXile give us a behind the scenes look at some of the development and features that Hunted will have.

They also talked about the characters and although they may appear to be your standard run of the mill action characters, they are far from it. Rather than the elf girl, E’lara being calm and collected, she is the most bloodthirsty of the pair and often gets the more level headed Caddoc into difficult situations. Maybe that is how he got all of those muscles? Either way Hunted: The Demon’s Forge looks to make a serious impact into the dungeon crawling world on May 31st in the U.S. and June 3rd everywhere else on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

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