The trailer for Brutal Legend looks amazing. Its like Dethklok the game.

First Brutal Legend video is … well, it’s brutal - Joystiq

Wait a second, this game wasn’t designed by Tim Schafer at all. No, it was designed by the collective fantasies of every teenage boy who’s ever lived … Schafer’s just the tool they’ll use to see their vision writ large.

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Very nice.

Lit Fuse Films - Movies - Ignis Solus

Ignis Solus is latin, and roughly translates to “burn alone”. It is a bit of an experiment in improvised machinima, and as far as we can tell, also constitutes the first piece of Team Fortress Two machinima not created by Valve.

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Ordered.

Charlie Stross’s Halting State: Heist novel about an MMORPG - Boing Boing

Here’s the gimmick: Halting State opens when a virtual bank in a distributed, multiplayer world is robbed by a horde of orcs who march in and clean it out of all its prestige items and other loot, a direct frontal assault on the game-economy’s integrity. The losses run to millions, which triggers an insurance audit — led by Elaine, who’s not only a forensic accountant, but also a sword-swinging LARPer who likes her espionage alternate reality games.

She contracts with Jack, an extraordinary gamespace hacker who’s just been made redundant from his Edinburgh gaming company, to serve as her native guide, and finds herself working alongside of Sue, a lesbian mom detective-sergeant with the Edinburgh Polis who has been called to the scene with a report of a “robbery” and is now duty-bound to pursue the matter in compliance with the tenets set out in the ISO 9000 binder for police-stations.

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Wow!  That sounds lame!

Google ‘to test rival to Second Life’ - Times Online

Google is thought to be set to trial an online virtual universe based on its popular satellite imagery software that would rival Second Life.

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The Game play videos are nice, but I was hoping for more of the funny marketing videos like they did before.

Loads of new Team Fortress 2 vids - Xbox 360 Fanboy

GameVideos has posted a handful of new videos of Team Fortress 2 gameplay. In all, we get to see the engineer, spy, sniper, scout, and soldier doing their thing.

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Nice idea.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun - the PC gaming site

Launched yesterday, Drift City is a game from the madly named ijji (which is an awful lot of fun to say out loud, and also free). It’s a driving MMO-alike, very much like Test Drive Unlimited, except with cel-shaded graphics, and it runs via your browser.

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I like realistic, but I’m not sure if I see the fun from what they showed. Some things like the fire, and the environments seemed cool, but it almost felt too real.
Far Cry 2 - Shaky Cam

So I was a little indifferent to the Far Cry 2 announcements, and then I saw this shakycam footage from Leipzig:

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What?

Here’s a new four minute long trailer from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots which Konami is showing at the 2007 Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48616

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Wired sent an embedded reporter into the dangerous battleground of Penny Arcade.

Their nine-room office is a gamer’s paradise — Willy Wonka’s long-lost chip fab. There are dozens of Xbox 360s, a heaping carton full of Nintendo Wiimotes, an SNK arcade cabinet, a vintage Atari Lynx handheld. The walls are covered with blowups of their work and game posters autographed by the developers. There’s also a floor-to-ceiling stack of the latest videogames, sent by publishers eager to be mentioned in the strip. “We’ll throw them on sometimes when we’re looking for grist for the day’s comic,” Holkins says.

http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/15-09/mf_pennyarcade

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Really? Joust? JOUST?!

Hardcore Joust fans, your day of vindication has arrived.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48662

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