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Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition Review: Fighting Like It’s 1999

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Adam Woolcott

If you are a casual fan of fighting games, it would be understandable if you saw the jump from Street Fighter II to Street Fighter IV as a little confusing. After all, while Street Fighter II is considered one of gaming’s most important jewels, Street Fighter III seemed to be something of a ghost. Releasing after the peak of fighting game mania, SFIII only saw a console release on Sega’s ill-fated Dreamcast, severely limiting the audience compared to, say, the PlayStation or the PlayStation 2. However, thanks to Xbox Live Arcade, Street Fighter III is getting a chance to appeal to a brand new audience. Dubbed Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition, this release is designed to finally bridge the SFII and SFIV gap for the people who barely knew the third game existed. (more…)

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Daily Scoop: September 5, 2011 – Day of Laborin’

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Nicole Kline

So, it’s an American holiday, which means I’m awake and doing laundry. Something about that doesn’t seem quite right, but hey – sometimes you just gotta wash the towels, if you know what I’m sayin’! It’s made better by this amazing Zelda Reorchestrated website Ryan Littlefield found. Zomg.

Amazon doesn’t have any daily deals today, but they do have their new weekly deals up:

Ript‘s “See Transylvania First” is severely testing my willpower right now: (more…)

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CoD Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition contents confirmed

Posted on September 3, 2011 by John Scalzo

Everyone that attended the first ever Call of Duty XP festival will receive a coupon good for a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3‘s “Hardened Edition” when it releases on November 8. For the rest of us, Activision has confirmed exactly what will be included in the “Hardened” steel packaging. It’ll include…

  • The aforementioned SteelBook packaging.
  • A One-year subscription to Call of Duty Elite.
  • Call of Duty Elite in-game bonuses including emblem, playercard, weapon camouflage, clan XP boost and more.
  • Exclusive PS3 “Animated Timeline” theme.
  • Exclusive Xbox 360 “Spec Ops Juggernaut” Avatar outfit.
  • 100-page field journal with military sketches and written entries detailing the Modern Warfare saga.
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 game disc with exclusive artwork.

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 “Hardened Edition” is available to pre-order now for $99.99 at online retailers everywhere including Amazon.

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Find Makarov sequel premieres at Call of Duty XP

Posted on September 3, 2011 by John Scalzo

Activision’s two-day Call of Duty event, Call of Duty XP, is just about coming to a close in Los Angeles. During the two-day festival celebrating COD, the publisher unveiled a sequel to the awesome Find Makarov fan film.

Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish was created by We Can Pretend, the same production team behind the first fan film. Although, now that they have Activision’s blessing, it’s not really a fan film anymore, is it? Three other companies assisted on the Soap-centered tale: Meteoric, The Junction VFX, and Stealing Time.

You can check it out above and hopefully we’ll get more of these videos as part of Activision’s new Call of Duty Elite TV initiative.

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Call of Duty Elite Premium features detailed

Posted on September 3, 2011 by John Llewellyn Martin

Call of Duty XP is in full swing and fans are being treated to a host of unique experiences such as the chance to run through Modern Warfare 2‘s “The Pit” training course and play paintball in a replica of the “Scrapyard” map. But accompanying these activities is some fresh Call of Duty news, like the detailed features of a premium Call of Duty Elite membership.

Should you opt to pay $49.99 a year for Elite status (or jump on the Hardened Edition of MW3, which includes a yearlong subscription to Call of Duty Elite), you’ll be able to access:

  • A year’s worth of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC available monthly during the “nine-month DLC season”
  • Daily competitions for in-game/real-world prizes
  • 24/7 Competition calendar
  • Clan Competition
  • Up to 24 minutes of HD gameplay video capacity
  • Call of Duty Elite TV videos including Ridley Scott’s “Friday Night Fights” and DumbDumb’s “Cocked Hammers” and “Noob Tube!”

These are just some of the premium features that were detailed at Call of Duty XP. For a full list of what the free and premium plans have to offer, as well as a comparison chart, visit CallOfDuty.com.

The Call of Duty Elite free and premium memberships will launch with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on November 8, 2011.

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New Releases: Resistance 3, Dead Island, Star Fox 64 3D, More

Posted on September 3, 2011 by John Scalzo

The calendar has turned over to September and we know what that means… the stingy Summer of games is over and the Fall release rush is finally here! This week’s new release slate blows away almost everything we’ve received in the last three months. There’s truly something for everybody:

Check out the full list of the rest of this week’s new releases after the break. (more…)

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Three Persona titles on the horizon including P4 Vita, Persona 5 and a fighter

Posted on September 2, 2011 by John Llewellyn Martin

Atlus is set to shower us with more Persona love and will be porting Persona 4 to the PlayStation Vita as “Persona 4: The Golden“. This remake will contain a host of new features including a new character, a new opening sequence with new music from Shouji Meguro, and more voice work than the original PS2 version.

Atlus has also announced that it will release a 2D fighting game called Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena. And though its title says “Persona 4”, it will also feature characters from Persona 3. This student/persona brawl will be the product of a partnership between Atlus and Arc System Works, the makers of fighting games such as the BlazBlue and Guilty Gear series. Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena is scheduled for a Summer 2012 release (in Japan) on the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Persona 5 has also been teased and some details, such as the game’s staff, have been revealed. The regular team, including Director Katsura Hashino and composer Shouji Meguro,is returning, but no other details (including which systems it’ll land on) have been mentioned. I’m personally hoping that it’ll come to PS3 and expand on the magic I felt from stumbling around drunkenly in a bar.

[Source: Andriasang]

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Rock out with Johnson and the Shadows of the Damned soundtrack

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Chris Urie

Shadows of the Damned was a unique game to say the least. It was chock full of memorable characters and weapons. I quite enjoyed the demon harmonica player. But the most striking thing about the game was that it eschewed the expected heavy metal soundtrack in favor of a more haunting and melodic blend of nylon string guitar, horns, and reverberating drums.

Now you can experience the music of Shadows of the Damned in a brand new way with the release of its stellar soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka. He set out to do something a little bit different with the release of this album.

“I wanted to craft a soundtrack that was more than just a collection of the most popular songs from Damned. I set out to create an experience that would take players back to the game, as if they were ‘watching’ a movie,” Yamaoka said.

The music certainly does bring back the macabre atmosphere of the game. All you have to do is close your eyes and you can watch the whole story unfold once again. The famous rock band The Damned even make an appearance on the album. How appropriate.

You can purcahse the Shadows of the Damned soundtrack now at the Grasshopper Manufacture WebStore. But you better hurry, it’s limited to 1,000 copies.

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