Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Retro The best thing about Japan's Club Nintendo? The occasional very cool branded merchandise, but, mostly, the exclus...

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, ActionPresenting Branching Dialogue, a weekly, wordy and often worryingly pedantic d...

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Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq) Wow, we're all pretty much playing (or wishing we could play) Left 4 Dead this weekend. We knew it was goi...

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 We would tell you all about PlayStation Home version 1.0, but then we'd have to kill ... ourselves. (Wow, that was dark.) Fortunately, no harm will likely befall us, since you...

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Filed under: Culture, PC, First Person Shooters They found him! The Large Hadron Collider is now under the vigilant protection of the world's least commu...

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 Amazon is at is again with its ker-azy pre-holiday "deal voting" promotion. Like last year, customers have the opportunity to choose from var...

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Filed under: PC, MMO, Business We kind of knew that Tabula Rasa's run wasn't going to end all that well. And it will end ... on Feb. 28, 2009. Th...

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Forgive me for saying so, but despite all of the exploring of caves and shooting of pistols and raiding of tombs, Tomb Raider just can't move beyond the core concept ...

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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 We've known for some time that Microsoft has been planning additional clothing and accessories to differentiate (and bizarre-ify) your New Xbox Exper...

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters Ubisoft has revealed a new batch of downloadable content for its incredi...

Continue Reading Far Cry 2 ‘Fortune’s Pack’ adds new vehicles, weapons, maps