Before the US Navy Seals, before the British SAS, there were ninja. The super sneaky tactics of these masters of espionage and stealth flew in the face of feudal Japan's philosophy on honorable warfare, leading to their conspicuous absence from much of the country's official historical records. Since then, the mystery surrounding these clandestine clans of nighttime warriors has given rise to an exaggerated image of the ninja's frightening supernatural talents - which we'd like to think was ...
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6 Aug 2007

The sexy babes of BlizzCon

PS3 News | Sexy Ladies

Blizzard's BlizzCon is the place to be if you have any love for the publisher's popular franchises, including World of Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo. As usual, Blizzard showered their most ardent fans with a flurry of announcements and activities for their amusement with word of a new World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, additional details on the much anticipated StarCraft II, and news about their upcoming film based on the World of Warcraft universe. But besides that, ...
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6 Aug 2007

Rock Band sales hit high note on PS3, Xbox 360

PS3 News from N4G | Rock Band

PS3 - Rock Band - Rock Band sales hit high note on PS3, Xbox 360

Sales for EA's Rock Band title scared over the weekend as consumers pre-ordered 200$ box sets of the new music tilte for Microsoft's Xbox 360 ans Sony's PS3.

The Xbox 360 Rock Band Special Edition rose 29.680 percent in sales by sat. evening. As of Mon. morning the tile had beci=ome the #4 best selling item at Amazon.com's Computer & Video Games division.

Sales for the PS3 Rock Band Special Edition increased by 4.586 percent by sat. evening. It's currently ranked # 74 in the Coputer & Video Games division.
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6 Aug 2007

Prototype Revealed: Crackdown Killer?

PS3 News from N4G | Prototype

PS3 - Prototype - Prototype Revealed: Crackdown Killer?

The latest entry in the free-roaming blast-em-genre has been revealed in the pages of UK Official Xbox Magazine.

Dubbed Prototype, and from Scarface dev Radical, it'll put you in the demented shoes of Alex Mercer, a genetically engineered hoody who can, among other things, slash baddies in half and climb up the side of skyscrapers.
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6 Aug 2007

Prototype revealed: Crackdown killer?

PS3 News | Prototype

The latest entry in the free-roaming blast-em-genre has been revealed in the pages of the Official Xbox Magazine. From Scarface dev Radical, Prototype will put you in the demented shoes of Alex Mercer; a genetically engineered hoodie who can (among other things) slash baddies in half and climb up the side of skyscrapers. Put him in the middle of bustling New York (which looks almost as pretty as GTA IV's Liberty City) where a human-mutating virus has caused a battle between mutants and the ...
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6 Aug 2007

PS3 Unreal Tournament III gets mouse and keyboard...

PS3 News | Unreal Tournament III

It has finally been confirmed that you won't have to buy a thousand-pound PC to play Unreal Tournament III with proper controls because the PS3 version will support mouse and keyboard. Get in! Epic's all-knowing Mark Rein confirmed the good news on the official UTIII forums. "I checked with Steve Polge [the lead designer] and he said that YES we are supporting keyboard and mouse in Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3," he firmly stated. "He is confident we are doing it in a way that will be balanced ...
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6 Aug 2007

EXCLUSIVE Lair video

PS3 News | Lair

Weve just dismounted our dragon, that we've affectionately named Puff, in order to bring you this exclusive footage from Sonys fantasy blaster. And it's not all about soaring around hundreds of feet in the air. Taken from the game's first few stages, the footage shows that although there were some aerial scraps to be had, we also got the chance to land our scaly beast on the ground and unleash some fiery breath onto hordes of enemy troops. Escort missions of some much-needed supplies and an ...
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6 Aug 2007

Fallout: The original vision

PS3 News | Fallout 3

With Fallout's rabid fanbase, it isn't a surprise that chief among the requests voiced to Bethesda about the upcoming Fallout 3 was: "do not screw it up." And it'll sound familiar to anyone who chanced upon the official forum site. But fans shouldn't fret. From day one, as executive producer Todd Howard reveals, Bethesda has been working from the original Fallout design - using the Fallout Vision Statement, created when the first game was just a twinkle in an old mans ...
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6 Aug 2007

First footage of id's new shooter

PS3 News | RAGE

Developer id, in case you don't know, is effectively the father of the modern FPS - having forged the blast-heavy genre through landmarks like Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake. Now id is trying something a little different, with brand new title Rage. The first footage, shown last weekend at a Quake convention, suggests a mix of popular FPS action styles and other types of gameplay. There's the traditional shooting in store, of course. But watch for some Condemned-type upclose violence, the ...
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6 Aug 2007

Devs don't have rumbling Sixaxis, says Sony

PS3 News | PlayStation 3

Sony PR spokesman Dave Karraker has denied reports to GamePro that new rumble-enabled Sixaxis prototypes have been sent to developers. Dev's have been sent revised controllers, but Karraker assured: "we have not added rumble and have no announcements regarding this feature." He went on to clarify: "From time to time, we make minor enhancements to the controllers for our platforms. We recently sent out to the development community some new prototypes that have a slightly enhanced sensitivity ...
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