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The 2008 America’s Video Game Expo (VGXPO), which will take place November 21‒23, 2008, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA (USA), next month, will expand upon its predecessors with a number of additional attractions including: a retro gaming convention, an anime festival, TV and film screenings, a series of robotics competitions and an evening program that will incorporate music and late night gaming.

The news, delivered via press release last week (October 10, 2008), follows Lunar Tide Communications’ previous announcement of the East Coast Games Summit — a bonus event aimed at those looking to begin a career in the game industry which will…

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One of the most alluring things about the Tokyo Game Show besides getting an early sneak peak at video games in development is the abundance of booth babes.

Nearly every exhibitor’s booth at the TGS has their slew of booth girls each outfitted in a unique costume. The sole purpose of the existence of booth girls at these types of conventions is to attract attention to the exhibit they represent through the powers of seduction and cuteness. The outfits that these girls wear are usually attractive and revealing, meaning that most of these girls wear crop tops showing off their midriffs coupled with a mini-skirt showing off their long legs.

Out of all the booth girls this year, I would like to choose Level 5’s outfit as my personal favorite…

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Check out the gallery: Tokyo Game Show 2008 Booth Girls

Joystiq reports that our worst fears have been hinted at. When asked, “Will Battle.Net remain free?”, at the Diablo III gameplay panel at BlizzCon 2008, Blizzard’s Julian Wilson gave Blizzard fans a startling answer: “We are looking to monetize Battle.Net so that we get to keep making these games and updating features, we kind of have to.”

This news comes especially dark seeing as how Blizzard recently announced it is breaking Starcraft II into…

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The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) hosted a panel discussion at the BAFTA venue in London earlier this week (October 9, 2008) during which a series of church and charity leaders discussed the ways in which video games can be a “force for good in today’s society.”

Mike Royal, the national director of the Lighthouse Group (a charity that specializes in helping young people who have been, or are at risk of being excluded from the school system), noted that games are useful in educating children about “boundaries” and the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.

Martin Houghton-Brown, The Children’s Society’s deputy director of new business, explains that children in the United Kingdom now see gaming as a…

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Namco Bandai Games has confirmed that Tekken 6, the latest installment in its popular Tekken fighting series, will be coming to the US for both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 in Fall 2009. The game was originally launched in Japanese arcades last year (November 26, 2007).

According to a recent press release, Tekken 6 will boast the “largest character roster” of the series to date. Although a full character cast has yet to be to detailed, you can find a list of the 39 characters that appeared in the arcade version of the game on…

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A new trailer for From Software’s Ninja Blade for the Xbox 360,was unveiled at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. The trailer features an individual with dual swords and a grappling hook traversing a monster infested city.

While this may cause gamers to immediately think of Ninja Gaiden, From Software has enough experience under its belt as the developers of titles including…

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There is no doubt that Resistance: Fall of Man has remained one of the Playstation 3’s stand-out titles. This popularity can be attributed to its large-scale environment and the ingenuity of the game’s developers at Insomniac Games. With Resistance‘s sequel due this holiday season (2008), and a side story for the PSP titled Resistance: Retribution expected later in the year, players will have ample opportunities to defeat the Chimera at their own game.

Players who choose to purchase both games will have the opportunity to “infect” their copies of Resistance: Retribution through the connection of their PSP systems to their Playstation 3 consoles…

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There were many games available for play at this year’s Namco Bandai booth but there were a particular few that caught my eye: Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo, Taiko no Tatsujin, Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2, and The Idolmaster SP.

Click through for a hands-on look at all four games…

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Blizzard promised us five classes for the upcoming Diablo 3 and now we know three of them. The newest class is the Wizard class, which will now join the Barbarian and Witch Doctor classes previously shown off earlier this year (2008).

While little is known about the Wizard class, a press release posted in the Joystiq article describes the class as: “A wielder of the elements and a master manipulator of time, the wizard can hurl environment-shattering lightning bolts, channel explosive arcane energies, and…

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How epic is the Starcraft 2 single-player story? How about so epic that Blizzard will be releasing it as a trilogy.

At BlizzCon 2008 (October 10, 2008), Rob Pardo, the executive vice-president of game design for Blizzard, announced that indeed Starcraft 2 will be released as a trilogy rather than one giant game for Mac and PC in 2009. That means that eager Starcraft fans (me) will have to purchase the main game and the two “expansion packs” in order to find out what happens in the highly anticipated sequel.

The first of the trilogy will be the the Terran campaign subtitled Wings of Liberty. The second will be…

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