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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Secret Weapons Guide By Ian Miles Cheong
Final Fantasy XIII-2 is more than just a follow-up to the original FF13. It offers everything from capture-able monsters to character customization well beyond anything the first game had to offer.
In addition to various forms of customization, you can equip your characters with a variety of armaments and weapons—some of which are 'secret'. These secret weapons are a lot more difficult to acquire than regular ones and require that you perform certain actions in order to get them.
Here's a... More »
How to Capture Rare Monsters in Final Fantasy XIII-2 By Ian Miles Cheong
Final Fantasy XIII-2 is finally out and unlike its predecessor, it's a much more open ended game. Offering large, open spaces instead of cramped hallways, the sequel is everything the original game should've been.
Every large open space in the game is populated with monsters, some of which are rare, all of which the player must do battle with. These monsters—both rare and normal varieties—can be captured by the player. They can then be summoned in future battles as allies. To first capture... More »
Video Game Characters In Real Life on Facebook
Ever wondered what the facebook pages of Video Game Characters would be like? More »
Stephen Toulouse Resigns as Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement Director By Josh Harmon
Stephen "StepTo" Toulouse, director of Xbox Live policy and enforcement, has announced that he'll be resigning his position on February 15.
Toulouse, known to millions of Xbox Live hackers as "that guy who wouldn't unban me," has spent nearly 18 as a Microsoft employee, beginning at the spry age of 21 back in 1994. He worked as head of communications for their Security Response Center before joining the Xbox Live Services division in 2007.
In a post on his personal blog, Toulouse... More »
Soul Calibur 5 - All Character Critical Edges By Ian Miles Cheong
Soul Calibur 5 is out, and far from looking like some generic fighting game, it's full of style and flair thanks to its medieval-inspired aesthetics.
Every fighter in the game has a speical attack called a Critical Edge, all of which can be seen in the video above, which was taken by LANDAN2006 on YouTube. These special attacks are visually astonishing and make full use of the game's graphics engine.
Among the fighters featured in the video are Ezio Auditore, who doesn't look out of place in the... More »
Memorial Service: Remembering Alan Wake
By Seb Wuepper 
Gaming has long since moved into the space of releases where, just like with movies, classics (well and those titles that wish they were) are being re-released on different, new platforms some years after their initial releases with some tweaks and updates. God of War came first, being re-released in HD for the PlayStation 3, as did a number of Ubisoft games.
Now there's another title coming up for a PC release, a game that spent quite a while in development hell before being released for the Xbox360 exclusively... More »
Mass Effect 4? Don't Throw Away Your Mass Effect 3 Saves, Bioware Has Further Plans By Ian Miles Cheong
Both Mass Effect 1 and 2 have save games to be carried over to the next game. Each of these saves contains various flags—such as "Wrex is alive" and "Council was saved" to be read by the proceeding game which determine the events that happened in Shepard's past. The events of past games are reflected in the new game, where they alter the course of the story.
Speaking to GamerZines, Bioware associate producer Mike Gamble said "it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep your Mass Effect 3... More »
GTA 5 "Most Important Franchise" to Take-Two By Ian Miles Cheong
Speaking at an investor call, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick boasted that the company has "never been in better shape" and referring to the likes of Grand Theft Auto V, that it "never had more important franchises."
Zelnick stressed that the company was ready for next-gen development, but cautioned that it had to be thoughtful about how it managed its portfolio with new platforms due to the low install base.
He compared the birth of new platforms to the process of natural... More »
Watch 15 Minutes of Street Fighter X Tekken Gameplay By Lyle Smith
Capcom's Channel on YouTube has released 15 minutes of gameplay for its upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken and I must say, it looks pretty damn good.
Sony platforms will feature exclusive characters, such as Cole MacGrath from Infamous, Sony mascots Toro and his rival Kuro (who disguise themselves as Ryu and Kazuya respectively), Pac-Man (who pilots a mech); and Mega Man, who takes the appearance of his character on the US box art for the first game.
There will be no exclusive characters for the Xbox... More »
THQ has 6 Unannounced Games, 2013-2014 Release Schedule By Ian Miles Cheong
Speaking at an investor call, THQ chief Brian Farrell said that the company has at least half a dozen games planned for release in 2013 and 2014.
In spite of reports that the company had somehow canceled its entire 2014 line-up, THQ's CEO Brian Farrell said that games like Dark Millennium Online (the Warhammer 40K MMO) were still on scheduled for launch in "fiscal 2014 and beyond," along with Guillermo del Toro's inSane, Homefront 2, and a new FPS from Turtle Rock, the developers of Left 4 Dead.... More »
Facebook your Final Fantasy Adventure By Mat Growcott
A new update to Final Fantasy XIII-2 allows you to share your achievements in-game with you friends online via Facebook. If you're feeling especially brave and don't mind taking flak from people who hate it despite never having played it, this is absolutely the best way to prove what a badass you are.
Simply turning on SNS messaging within the options will give you the opportunity to share your capture of monsters, your collection of rare items and rare events with all the people on Facebook. It's... More »
Is Populous due for a Revival? By Mat Growcott
One of the most influential games of the late eighties, early nineties may be getting a revival, at least if a leaked listing on an internal EA wiki is anything to go by. Discovered by French site HardGamers, the internal wiki also reveals an unannounced game from former Resistance developer Insomniac Games called Outernauts.
Populous, the God-sim that put Fable lead Peter Molyneux on the map, was the beginning of the golden age of Bullfrog strategy games and would evolve into Theme... More »
Official Max Payne 3 Site Relaunched, Now Packing Heat By Josh Harmon
Rockstar has announced a snazzy redesign for the official Max Payne 3 website, complete with new gameplay footage, screenshots, and details on the game's backstory.
To celebrate the launch, Rockstar has kicked of a new series of in-depth interactive features. The first highlights the game's massively powerful 608 Bull revolver. You can watch a brief (but oh so flashy) clip of the gun in action and explore a 360-degree render of the gun, both assembled and broken down into its individually modeled... More »
Mass Effect 3 Weapons and Upgrades List By Josh Harmon
A user on the BioWare forums has posted an allegedly complete list of weapons and upgrades from Mass Effect 3. Though unofficial, the list appears genuine and is accompanied by a leaked screenshot of the game's loadout screen.
As you can, the screen is divided up into five slots, two on Commander Shepard's back and three on his belt. Each weapon you add to your loadout will increase the weight meter, which in turn increases the recharge time on your biotic abilities. That means that biotic-heavy builds will be... More »
