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Gamers who have been looking forward to Street Fighter IV will be comforted by the fact that the title will appear on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on February 17, 2009.

As for the arcade circuit, however, Street Fighter IV will not place an appearance there, according to Capcom’s senior director of communications and community, Chris Kramer, as quoted by this article on Edge Online.

Of course, this news, while tragic, is not really surprising considering that…

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Microsoft is clearly doing whatever they can to make sure that gamers have the opportunity to witness their New Xbox Experience.

The company has announced that it will be conducting a sweepstakes that will reward prospective winners with Microsoft Points that can be used towards Xbox Live Marketplace purchases. The grand prize winner will obtain 500,000 points (US$6,247.50 value).

That amounts to having enough to purchase more than half the Xbox Live Arcade library and more than enough to attain every song from both the Rock Band and Guitar Hero series of games and still…

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Another year and another Video Game Awards show. Better known as SpikeTV’s VGAs, this will be the sixth year for the show.

Love it or loath it the show will go on in full spectacle that will include a performance by rapper turned-video game character, 50 Cent, and a “Gamer God” award for Will Wright.

The list this year looks fairly promising without too much of one game in your face like last year’s seven nominations for a certain alien-shooting game and a game about an undersea dystopia.

Click through for the full list of nominees…

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Microsoft has announced the latest Xbox game to be part of their “Originals” group, and it is Zapper, a game that features eighteen levels of controlling a cricket that can shoot lightning from his two antennae.

The game costs 1200 Microsoft points and will be available for players to purchase on November 17, 2008.

This news has thus far been met with surprise and cynicism, which is understandable considering that there are…

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Last year (2007), Hallmark released the Player 1 Christmas ornament, which was a pretty cool mini game controller with sound effects.

This year (2008), Hallmark is again releasing a game-themed ornament, reaching a little further back in time and producing a mini Pac-Man arcade machine complete with sound effects. The ornament,  which stands approximately 4.5 in. tall, retails for $18.50, is battery operated (batteries included), lights up and plays classic Pac-Man sounds. Wakka-wakka!

The cabinet is…

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When the original Prince of Persia saw release by Jordan Mechner in 1989, it managed to distinguish itself from other platformers at the time due to its real-time nature and punishing difficulty, the latter often frustrating novice players and really separating the men from the boys.

This classic adventure is now set to make its debut on the Playstation Network this Thursday (October 23, 2008). No additional features are known at this point, meaning that game may not come bundled with Trophies. However, it will provide players the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the Prince before…

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When Mortal Kombat II was released on the Playstation Network in April 2007, it was met with lukewarm praise from critics. While it was regarded as one of the best opportunities at the time for Mortal Kombat fans to engage each other online, flaws such as problematic execution of its online functionality and game’s emulation prevented it from reaching the zenith of internet-based competitive fighting desired by players.

Problems aside, the game was enjoyable in its own right, making its sudden disappearance from the Playstation Network all the more disappointing for Mortal Kombat fans…

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The 2008 presidential election is less than a month away and has successfully infiltrated the videogame world. We’ve seen billboards for Sen. Barack Obama inside Burnout Paradise as well as polls taken over Xbox Live. You can now make your own politically themed games thanks to Fryebug Inc. through the Campaign08Games website.

This site lets you pick the a type of game you want to create such as…

Click through and give our own Oil Whacker game a try!

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As one of the Playstation 3’s defining exclusive titles, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has long been the subject of multiplatform rumors that its creator, Konami’s Hideo Kojima, has consistently sought to deny by pointing to the game’s reliance on the PS3’s hardware and the Blu-ray disc format. And yet, the rumors continue.

Speaking with Japanese stock investment research firm Morningstar, a Konami public relations representative named Yoshitaka Arai has reportedly confirmed that the company is “looking into” an Xbox 360 port of the game due to…

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Trivia games are usually only as good as the questions. Get a game with questions that are either too easy or too hard and very few people will play the game more than once. Get the right level of difficulty and and a trivia game can be played until everyone has played so much, they inadvertently memorized the all of the answers.

Buzz! Quiz TV, a trivia video game wrapped in a hokey game show skin, not only offers an ample supply decently balanced questions but also promises to keep refreshing questions through online updates and user-created quizzes.

Click through for the full review…

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