Noteworthy Releases:

PS3:

-Demon’s Souls; Release Date: 10/06/09 (Scoring roughly 90 on metacritic a PS3 exclusive in the action RPG genre) - Preview Post: http://www.megatonik.com/2009/08/under-marketed-end-of-the-year-video-game-gem/

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“Here we are again with another cash cow being brought out to graze.   Is it a bad thing?”

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Straight from The Behemoth’s blog, we can expect to see it soon (at Microsofts’ discretion, I’m going to gander the release will be around the 27th - one year since the initial release).

Hit the jump for more details, the posted image is the new content.

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We’re simply waiting on more Pro models to be phased out.   At work today I took a look at the new box for XB360 Elites, it DID NOT include the Pro model on the side table any longer nor did we get shipped any additional XB360 Pros (Also, the Elite will no longer come with HDMI cables…just AV).

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If only trailers could always be of the caliber portrayed on Bioware’s Dragon Age site.   As they have produced a spoof trailer which essentially features live-action-roleplaying.   While the game in its’ own right is extremely promising the spoof trailer linked after the jump is worth at least a watch as it’s the sort of thing that’s ‘awful’ enough that much humor can be found.  Hit the jump for the rest of the article and follow the link to check it out especially if you have ever enjoyed watching ‘C’ movies or otherwise.

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Quite simply -  A list of exclusive downloads for each current generation console that you should at the very least, look into. (Excluding remakes, and multi-platform titles)

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We may be poor college students/unemployed college graduates and thus unable to go to E3, but through the magic of the internet we can see the big press conferences IN REAL TIME! Thus, like every other gaming site on the internet, we will be live-blogging the big press conferences. Why watch our liveblog instead of a so-called “professional” site’s? Because we’ve got Nate Gamer, dammit.

Here’s our liveblog schedule:

Monday, June 1st:
Microsoft’s Press Conference: 10:30 am PST (1:30 PM EST)
EA’s Press Conference: 2 pm PST (5 pm EST)

Tuesday, June 2nd:
Nintendo’s press conference: 9 am PST (12 pm EST)
Sony’s Press Conference: 11 am PST (2 pm EST)

Omigodomigomigodomigod! *ahem*…So, anybody a Mass Effect fan? I mean, I dabble. Played through it once or twice…then 18 more times. Oh lordy, I’ve got the sickness!

Virtually everyone who has access to Xbox Live or a DS has had a chance to lose hours, and in most cases their soul, to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. The gem-shifting puzzle game is returning in the form of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, albeit taking a turn from fantasy to sci-fi and trading in their old columns-and-rows system for hexagonal gem-based challenges.
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Well, ok, second best. The best video game related trade I ever made was when I traded my cousin Will a bunch of beanie babies for his Dreamcast. I almost feel bad for swindling him so hard. But, this is about my second best trade ever, which was trading in Fable 2 straight up for Grand Theft Auto IV. Because, even though I made a 2-hour round-trip to get Fable 2 at midnight, stayed up ‘til 7 A.M. playing it, and let it consume my life for about two weeks, I have now come to loathe Fable 2. It has nothing to do with the game’s genre or any of the technical aspects of the game (its control scheme, meh graphics, HORRENDOUS load times, etc.); from a technical aspect I pretty much enjoyed the game. No, my main beef with Fable 2 is how it fails so utterly and completely at one of its highly promised intangible features: the ability to emotionally engage a player.

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