04/30/08
It's safe to say most consumers' first
, if not only, exposure to Jason Bourne was the series of Bourne films starring Matt Damon. Sure, Robert Ludlum may have written a few novels, but Hollywood reigns supreme when it comes to mass-media action, and, well, Matt Damon's version of Jason Bourne is 100 percent action. With that in mind, it's a bit disconcerting to fire up The Bourne Conspiracy for the first time on the good ol' next-gen console....
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04/23/08
Dead Space, a new survival-horror
franchise for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, is set to ship this Halloween, which means the development team is knee-deep in code and bug fixes. Amid the madness, the developers are updating gamers periodically via their blog -- and now, through DailyGame as well. In this exclusive article, EA has provided DailyGame readers a complete look at what they'll be posting in the next Dead Space blog entry. We know....
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04/14/08
Codemasters' DiRT, previously known as the Colin
McRae Rally racing franchise, has had somewhat of a stranglehold on the rally-racing scene for the past half decade. Other publishers and franchises have given it a go, from Microsoft and Rallisport Challenge to Sony and Motorstorm to Sega and Rally Revo, but nobody's succeeded in toppling Codemasters' game. Even the fabled Gran Turismo has included off-road racing, but that series....
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04/11/08
The most successful action games of late 
have featured characters and/or times of historical significance. Kratos (God of War) relied heavily on Greek mythology, for instance, while Altair (Assassin's Creed) jumped his way through the Third Crusade. But no characters or period is quite as universally recognized as the four horsemen and the apocalypse, which will provide not only the basis of THQ's action game Darksiders: Wrath of War....
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04/10/08
When we first saw Katamari
Damacy at E3 several years ago, nothing the PR reps said could have convinced us that the game was particularly compelling, let alone that its would be so successful that gamers would be clamoring for sequels as well as King of All Cosmos T-shirts. With that history as our guide, when we first heard about de Blob, a game that's part platformer, part action game and part color-mixing tutorial, we were puzzled but....
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04/08/08
It's quite an accomplishment to
go from "cute little GTA 3 clone" to "distinct open-world game that gamers are excited about," but that's exactly what THQ's Saints Row 2 has achieved. Before the original game's launch, Saints Row was viewed as little more than a "me too" title, an open-world gangster game unabashedly trying to capitalize on Rockstar's success with the Grand TheftAuto series. But as gamers actually played Saints Row, as they....
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04/08/08
When Crackdown shipped for Xbox 360, 
it proved that online co-op in open-world games was not only feasible but incredibly enjoyable. The crew at Volition and THQ were apparently taking notes, because amid all the improvements and additions to Saints Row 2 (read our hands-on Saints Row 2 preview), the team is also including hop-in/hop-out online co-op. This feature isn't just a simple tack-on addition, though; it's turning into as....
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04/07/08
With the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 hardware
, many developers claim they're finally able to achieve destructible environments. The thing is, Red Faction achieved it in 2001 on the PlayStation 2. With that background, it's not surprising to see Volition pushing the envelope once again with Red Faction: Guerilla, which ships for PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year. As the third game in the series, Red Faction: Guerilla marks a step forward for the....
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03/28/08
Dear diary, Having spent the past three days playing 
the Battlefield: Bad Company multiplayer beta with other Xbox 360 gamers, the Xbox Live connection issues had all been worked out, and the online fighting had grown more intense. People aren't exploring the levels anymore; they know where the hard and soft points are, and they're exploiting them left and right to make every battle much more punishing. With such intense....
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03/27/08
Dear diary, Can I just say that I love blue skies? It's such a relief from the sepia tone filters we have to deal with so many of today's games. Thanks, Battlefield: Bad Company. Connecting to the Battlefield: Bad Company multiplayer beta was a snap today, with no lag and no waiting around. We decided today to test the destructibility of the environments. We fixed grenade launchers and tossed a bunch of grenades, and sure enough, those buildings....
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03/26/08
Dear diary, So I was playing the Battlefield: Bad Company Xbox 360 multiplayer beta today. For some reason I woke up at 5:00 am and couldn't go back to sleep. Finally, after tossing and turning, I verified the time by checking the clock radio. It was now 6:00.
"Hmmm," says I, "'tis the 25th, and EA's Battlefield Bad Company beta servers are supposed to go live. Let's go see if those servers are indeed live, shall we? OMG they are up!" Thank....
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03/21/08
Faithful followers of ABC's Lost have had to wait 
more than three seasons for Ubisoft to release the first official videogame adaptation of the hit mysterious drama. As Lost: Season Four's climatic eighth episode's jaw-dropping cliffhanger approaches (c'mon, it's inevitable), the arrival of Ubisoft's Lost: Via Domus brings with it the promise of a new chapter in the Lost saga, seamlessly intertwined with the show's canon, characters and locations....
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03/11/08
Shown publicly at E3 2007, Echochrome
garnered buzz with its simple look and unique presentation. Echochrome is a puzzle game, but with a unique twist: each level has players controlling the level's perspective. Although this gameplay mechanic is hard to describe in words, it's visually understandable in seconds. Basically, imagine an M.C. Escher drawing that players can rotate and pitch, thereby altering the optical illusion to solve the riddle....
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01/30/08
The Devil May Cry series originally
spawned from taking the Resident Evil franchise in a new direction, with the director of Resident Evil trying out some experiments after RE2. These experiments soon grew into a game of their own, and a new and now-beloved franchise was born. The first Devil May Cry was good enough and warranted a sequel, but Devil May Cry 2 stumbled by most accounts. The series quickly regained its footing....
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01/23/08
For all the talk about Xbox Live Arcade and Wii 
Virtual Console simply re-hashing old franchises, it's funny to watch gamers get giddy about Capcom's announcement that it's updating Bionic Commando for the current generation of consoles. A 20-year-old, eight-bit game, being re-mastered for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC? Yep. And gamers couldn't be any happier. Capcom is bringing Bionic Commando....
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01/10/08
When SEGA slyly dropped not one but two demos
of Yakuza 3 on the Japanese PlayStation Network, we here at the DailyGame bunker brushed off that trusty Japanese account, gave Toro and Kuro the night off, and hunkered down for some Yakuza 3 game-playing and note-taking to bring to our readers on this side of the Pacific. If you're unfamiliar with the Yakuza titles, not to worry. The Yakuza are Japan's organized crime....
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10/28/07
Tetris has seen so many variations of itself that it can almost be called a 
template at this point. Its humble beginnings on the Gameboy has spawned a legion of sequels from 3D variations to new games featuring popular mascots. It's no surprise, though, because its simplistic gameplay is both addicting and fun and appeals to the masses like no other game. Tetris Splash literally changes nothing...
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10/11/07
The God of War series is synonymous with breathtaking vistas, 
epic boss battles, and fast-action button mashing. To bring that sense of scale to the PSP seems like no easy task, but Ready At Dawn seems to be on the right track with God of War: Chains of Olympus. You begin in the Battle of Atticus where a series of soldiers assault your character while an epic battle wages on in the background. It....
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10/10/07
It's a good thing the team at Infinity Ward is comprised
of honest-to-God gamers, because they were among the first to realize that the WWII shooter genre has been beaten to death. Twice. With Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the originators of the COD series are taking the franchise in an entirely new direction, one that's based on modern weapons and often feels like a Tom Clancy game on steroids. Of course, the irony of Infinity....
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10/05/07
When Guitar Hero 2 stalwarts cried foul on the game's
flimsy peripheral, Red Octane moved to re-engineer a new guitar that's shaping up to be one of the best game peripherals with which we've ever played. However, gamers also made it clear that Guitar Hero 3 needed to step up with a few gameplay enhancements, most notably in the areas of better balancing and online play. When Neversoft took the wheel for Guitar....
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10/05/07
When the first Guitar Hero received critical and social acclaim
, Activision naturally green-lighted a sequel and promised a few updates to the winning formula. Guitar Hero 2 once again struck commercial gold, but the most hardcore fans found several elements less than stellar, one of the most glaring being flimsy hardware. With Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, Red Octane hopes to fix that issue, and after spending several hours....
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10/01/07
With NBA training camps set to start this week, the time
seemed right to sit down and ask a few questions of the development team behind NBA 2K8. The game is on track to ship soon, so the developers are winding down just as NBA players are gearing up. Fans of the series are also gearing up, but in a different way: flexing their thumbs in preparation for the sim-likegame and its new slam dunk competition. For those rabid and casual fans alike....
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09/17/07
With Burnout Paradise not scheduled to ship until 2008
, gamers may be wondering how they'll scratch their itch for high-octane, car-based crashes. DiRT, Forza 2 and PGR4 are great for pure racing, but sometimes gamers just want to blow stuff up. When those destructive urges arise, they're not easy to ignore. Fortunately, the latest build of FlatOut Ultimate Carnage isn't easy to ignore either, and its mix of racing and over-the-top....
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09/12/07
The Burnout franchise is one of those guilty pleasures here at
DailyGame HQ. True story: after getting in a car wreck involving our Mini Cooper and a Subaru driven by two drunk-and-just-knifed-some-dude perpetrators, the DailyGame staff filled out the necessary police paperwork and headed immediately to turn on Burnout and purge our memories by unleashing some massive wrecks. So it should go without saying that....
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09/10/07
The Wii is often labeled as the "kiddie console," but more often
than not those claims are nothing more than empty insults thrown by hardcore gamers. It's ironic, then, that EA Playground is inspired by and features kids -- but has a good chance of appealing to both kids and casual gamers alike. EA Playground is essentially a collection of minigames wrapped in a role-playing "metagame" wrapper. This metagame....
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09/09/07
Say what you will about licensed games, but Electronic Arts
is giving The Simpsons a franchise-worthy outing this fall with its entire slate of The Simpsons videogames (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PS2, PSP and DS). But while the console versions are shaping up to be fun, the Nintendo DS version is flat-out astounding. In fact, pound for pound and pixel for pixel, there might not be a better gaming value this year. The Simpsons for....
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08/24/07
On August 27 at high noon, Infinity Ward and Activision 
will unleash a free playable multiplayer beta for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on Xbox Live Marketplace. Members of the media were given early access to the beta this past week so we could pass along our early thoughts and provide a sneak peek of what you can expect. As with Halo 3, the COD4 beta is strictly multiplayer via Xbox Live. The beta offers four match types: Team...
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08/16/07
The rush of classic arcade games on Xbox
Live Arcade will continue this fall with a host of old-school Atari titles, among them Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe and Tempest. Tempest is one of those original coin-op games that newer gamers might not "get," but that older gamers remember fondly while reminiscing about its dial-like controller. Fortunately, Atari is giving both types of gamers...
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08/12/07
I consider myself an "old school gamer," though 
I never did play Pong in its original state. Asteroids was actually my first videogame experience, and having recently played through a pre-release version of its Xbox Live Arcade counterpart, it's clear that the game was an equally early entry into the videogame arena. Like several "retro" Xbox Live Arcade titles, Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe come in two next-gen flavors: original and evolved. Ironically, the early versions we've...
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08/09/07
Eternal Sonata is a RPG about the final hours of composer Chopin's life as he travels 
through his own dream world. Your party consists of three generic archetypes. Your brazen hero, Allegretto, sports all the necessary features a standard melee happy character should. The healer, Polka, carries a cute parasol that seems absolutely worthless but generally deals sufficient blows on the enemies we came across. Finally, the gun wielder, Beat, seems well fit to attack from great distances as his defense is weaker than the other two. Overall, the group is...
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07/13/07
When LucasArts and BioWare released Knights of the Old Republic,
they probably didn't realize just how big a hit they had on their role-playing hands. When it came time for a follow-up, BioWare was employed elsewhere, which left Obsidian to take the reins for a sequel that turned out to be not quite as compelling. For BioWare's next hit-in-the-making, Mass Effect, Microsoft wanted to avoid that fate, signing the developer to create...
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05/21/07
Normally a videogame preview is fluffy, happy and espouses 
all things great about an upcoming game. People get excited about a game's premise, gameplay or graphics, and they want to share with their friends (or readers) what excites them so for the game's release. This preview for Tenchu Z will be no such article. "Microsoft and From Software" sounds like a great combination, a tandem of big-time publisher and a solid niche developer, but the execution of this...
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04/24/07
Hot Shots Tennis features brilliant visuals and fast-paced gameplay 
that showcases its detailed animations and realistic physics. The game incorporates an intuitive control scheme to emphasize shot direction and rallies, perfect for quick pick up and play action. Advanced players can utilize button timing and shot angles to further balance tennis strategy with character attributes such as speed and play styles...
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04/12/07
WarTech Senko no Ronde, an arcade fighter for Xbox 360, thrusts 
the player into a distant future where humanity has colonized countless new galaxies and Earth has become a planet mined for its natural resources. A violent war has erupted as nations struggle for world domination. Rounder Mechs fill the skies as the fate of the world is determined through aerial combat.
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04/05/07
For the first time, play as the Orc faction and recruit heroes,
build armies and manage cities as you explore and conquer legendary lands. Use tactics, skills and magic to outsmart fantasy armies while developing your heroes and unveiling the dark plot that threatens to tear the world of Ashan apart. Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East chronicles the final chapter in the epic struggle that began...
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03/22/07
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02/28/07
Namco unveils its upcoming tycoon title for the Nintendo Wii.
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02/26/07
02/24/07
Konami brings the card-battling franchise to another platform.
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02/22/07
From the makers of Blitzkrieg, comes another....tank game in WWII.
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02/20/07
02/19/07
The broom and flying monkeys are traded for big guns and tornadoes.
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01/07/07
So far it's a better superhero game than Superman. And you're a cop!
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11/02/06
The single-player aspects of the Xbox 360 shooter are impressive so far.
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09/13/06
We take a look at the budget-minded alien-blasting fun on PC.
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07/03/06
Steel Battalion it isn't, but it's still shaping up to be fun online.
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06/22/06
Let's go out to the ballgame in the PC's first baseball MMO.
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06/11/06
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05/22/06
Saying it's The Sims in space doesn't do justice to its scope.
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05/22/06
It's like Deus Ex on ecological crack. In other words: really good.
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05/21/06
The Prince of Persia's got nothing on this Crusading badass.
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05/21/06
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05/20/06
The original trilogy gets sassy and blocky at the same time.
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05/20/06
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05/10/06
Hands-on with one of Microsoft's standout next-gen trilogies.
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04/05/06
03/28/06
03/07/06
The next-gen version may be even better than the current outing.
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02/27/06
02/26/06
Criterion goes from pulling the e-brake to pulling the trigger.
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02/21/06
02/19/06
Stealth gameplay on a handheld? And good graphics? Sign us up!
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02/15/06
It's time to visit the original trilogy with our blocky friends.
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02/15/06
01/08/06
01/08/06
Best-looking videogame people ever. And it plays great, too.
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01/03/06
The PC shooter is making a faithful transition to the Xbox.
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10/18/05
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09/07/05
It’s looking like this game might set a new bar in the RTS genre.
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09/04/05
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Is it shaping up to be more of the same, or even more insane?
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08/16/05
Read how the updated Fable is looking for its Windows debut.
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07/18/05
You ain’t seen the "real" West until you’ve seen this game.
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06/23/05
06/19/05
Soviet spies mixed with nuclear armageddon in a tactical RPG.
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06/16/05
The thievius raccoonus is back, and his crew is craftier than ever.
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06/09/05
Warrior needs online play, badly. And now he's getting it.
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05/24/05
05/19/05
This time the series takes an arcade-like jaunt into battle.
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05/19/05
Hands-on with new games that really want to watch your body.
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04/13/05
04/13/05
03/28/05
02/05/05
The recent build of LucasArts' squad-based shooter looks good.
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10/29/04
09/01/04
Bring your best shooting game; the terrorists return to PS2.
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07/05/04
We behold multiplayer, and we do it hands-on. Get us a towel.
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