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It may be time to take another look at Last Chaos. Aeria Games has just announced a massive update to its free-to-play, massive multiplayer online game that offers new character, pet, item and adventuring options. There are so many new and exciting things being added into the game that players who may have left due to boredom or apathy might find themselves lured back in. (After all, no matter how amazing an MMO is, once you’ve reached a certain level or point, it doesn’t have the same appeal.)

There are quite a few striking additions with the potential to alter how you play the game. The first is that Phoenix characters will now be available in the game, and will have special abilities, be stronger and also have unique equipment to help differentiate them from normal characters. Strayana has a new, high level dungeon for experienced players, filled with new items. A new crafting system

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Ah, squirrels. They’re rodents, and can be considered vermin, and yet they still manage to secure a cozy spot in our hearts thanks to their adorable gestures and incredibly fluffy tails. Happy Nutz Studio must agree that there is something endearing about the creatures, as Momo the squirrel is the star of the company’s latest Mac and PC game, RotoAdventures Momo’s Quest.

Poor Momo has been separated from his one true love, a little girl who happens to be his owner. But Momo isn’t the kind of squirrel to let that get him down. He’s going to find his owner, and go through over 20 different areas to get back to her. You control Momo using the mouse in the game, choose whether to go through light or dark areas, earn different Momo’s Quest wallpapers depending on how well you do and even see different endings based on what choices you make for Momo. It really sounds quite well-rounded.

There’s an official RotoAdventures Momo’s Quest trailer as well, which does a wonderful job of showing just how beautiful this game looks…

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Big Blue Bubble Inc, who brought us the wonderfully addictive Home Sweet Home games, has just released its hidden object mystery game Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion. If you’re expecting another cute, lighthearted adventure, look elsewhere. Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion is a serious, realistic casual scavenger hunt game where you must assist Detective Carrie Chase and find out who’s behind the murder of a fashion designer.

You have to find over 500 objects throughout the game in realistic environments, while also having to make use of different forensic tools to get a better look at items and clues. There are also mini-games and other brief puzzles thrown in, just to keep things interesting. I was pleased to see that a magnifying glass is among the tools you can use - I hate it when hidden object games with elaborate scenes don’t have some sort of zoom feature to help you out.

There’s a whopping 67.4mb demo available…

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We’ve all been in a situation in which we had to choose which one of our electricity powered devices would be plugged in and which one would go wanting. We’ve resorted to using bundles of extension cords and power strips that can may not be so easy on the eyes when company comes over to watch a movie or play games.

The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is expected to show off the first products that have done away with all of those troublesome cables once and for all, according to The Observer.

Products such as digital picture frames, speakers and forms of lighting will show off what “WiTricity” is all about.

These aren’t just plain wireless products. WiTricity is the idea of gathering electricity wirelessly, similar to the way WiFi internet…

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If you own Bugdom 2 for your iPhone or iPod Touch, you may want to stop by the iTunes App Store sometime today. It turns out that Pangea Software, while incredibly pleased with Bugdom 2, has decided that it could make the game even better. So, today (January 5, 2008), the game has been updated to version 2.0.

If you already own Bugdom 2, you’ll be able to update your version of the game for free. It turns out that this update completely revolutionizes the control scheme already in place in the game, and adds in a virtual game pad that players can use to help Skip the grasshopper retrieve his backpack from Bully Bee. If you’ve never played before, then you can pick it up for the first time and experience the most refined version of the game.

Bugdom 2 is only $3.99 on the iTunes store, and is good for players ages four and up. You can even test drive the game…

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On January 6, 2009, a music legend is going to be making his debut in Rock Band 2. The first Roy Orbison track pack is going to be released tomorrow on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. It will eventually be on the PlayStation Store as well, but not until January 15, 2009.

The first Roy Orbison Rock Band 2 downloadable content pack (dlc) is going to be packed with hits. “Oh, Pretty Woman,“ “Claudette,“ “In Dreams,“ “Ooby Dooby” and “You Got It” are the first six releases. I think it would be some sort of crime if “Oh, Pretty Woman” wasn’t included. There’d probably be riots if it wasn’t…

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Nielsen’s latest top ten list for 2008 has revealed something that most Sony fans already know - the PlayStation 2 is still a hot commodity. It is so hot, in fact, that Nielsen is saying it was the most played console in 2008. I guess Sony really knew what it was doing when it made the PS2.

Nielsen Wire reported all the official figures from Nielson concerning the top seven consoles. The PS2 game in first in terms of use, followed by the Xbox 360, Wii, Xbox, Playstation 3 and GameCube. There was also an ambiguous “others” given for seventh place, likely refering to all older consoles that alone didn’t have enough usage minutes to achieve a ranking.

I bet Sony is disappointed to see the PS3 come in fifth place. The original Xbox even beat the PlayStation 3…

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While there are undoubtedly a multitude of gamers who are proud of their Playstation 3 purchases, Sony business executives are not as confident, considering that their choice gaming console remains consistently behind the competition and possesses a negative stigma as a product with features that fail to justify its high cost.

Unfortunately, regardless of the current state of the Playstation, Sony business executives have more considerable issues to consider, if this report from the UK Times is any indication.

That publication’s report mentions that Sony is due for “sacred cow-slaying measures” which will…

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While I may not have owned an Xbox, its value to the gaming industry can’t be overstated. It was, in fact, the first system at the time to debut with a fully-featured internal hard drive and the first to introduce online competitive video game playing to the masses. Along with these distinctions, gamers owe the Xbox a significant debt of gratitude for the introduction of notable franchises such as Halo, Jade Empire and Ninja Gaiden.

These factors have undoubtedly endeared gamers to their Xboxes, a loyalty that has since been extended to the 360. However, gamers who are still interested in expanding the libraries of their original system are now pinched for time. Gamestop recently announced that after February 9, 20009, the store will no longer accept or stock any items related to Microsoft’s initial entry into the console wars.

In other words, if you were interested in…

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The big game for this week is Silent Hill: The Escape. While I don’t know much about the game, placing the world of Silent Hill into a first-person arcade shooter seems off to me. I mean, here you have a subject normally filled to the brim with a gripping storyline and tense atmosphere and somehow Konami thought it would be a good idea to make it an iPod Touch game. I know there was that arcade version of Silent Hill, but is that basically what this is? 

Oh, don’t forget Apple fanboys, Macworld starts this Tuesday (January 6, 2008) and despite no keynote from the man himself (Steve Jobs), I’m sure they will have something worth announcing. *crosses fingers* Come on Macbook Nano...

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