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On Monday, Housemarque will push out a patch forDead Nationon PlayStation Network. It’ll provide some much-needed functionality, like voice chat for online cooperative play, checkpoint saving, and the ability to copy save files. At least in the case of the voice chat, the studio wanted to have it in the game at launch, but didn’t have the necessary time for such implementation to occur. Housemarque also suggests “even further surprises” in itsPlayStation Blog post....

Sony has announced that Housemarque’s top-down zombie slaughtering PlayStation Network title,Dead Nation, will be available on November 30 for $14.99. Housemarque is probably best known to PS3 owners as the developers behind the awesome twin-stick shooter,Super Stardust HD. Think ofDead Nationas a grittier, darker version of that game and you’re on the right track. As much about getting a high score (based on kill multipliers and such) as it is about surviving,Dead Nationseems like a good time for fans of arcade-style action and flesh eating ghouls....

Death Road, simply put, is a “futuristic racer” set to hit the Xbox 360 (probably XBLA) at some undetermined time in the, erm, future. While we’re short on official paper description, we aren’t on video. After the break, you can watchDeath Roadin motion. It hasF-Zeroflavor, which makes me a very happy man. Surprisingly, there isn’t a single death in the video. But the roads, at least, look evil. Check out that color....

There comes a time in every person’s life where they get the inclination to lop off an arm, replace it with a kick-ass bionic one, and save the world. Luckily for the mothers of arm owners everywhere, Capcom has been providing a safer alternative to these desires in the form of theBionicCommandovideogame series. Beginning in the late 80s, and garnering sequels (sort of) and a very classy remake, the originalBionicCommandohas been in the gamer’s eye for over twenty years....

WhenSega Superstars Tenniswas announced, I was as cynical as anybody else. Cramming Sonic the Hedgehog and all his forgotten friends into a tennis game reeked of commercialism, and yet as a former lover of all things Sega, I really wanted to check it out on the off chance that it was good. After all, nobody complains about the myriad Mario spin-offs, so why shouldn’t Sega try and tug our nostalgic heart strings?...

user:sXeAngleWing1991 current mood:histrionicmusic:something corporate – punk rock princess sometimes i just don’t know why i’m still here. i know it’s because i’m too young to actually leave, but i swear, as soon as i turn 18, i’m outta here. this town just doesn’tget me, y’know? it’s like sometimes i’msocreative that it actuallyhurts, and the hicks in this town just don’tget that. they can’t even look at my lip ring without sneering or trying to hide their children fromreality....

Looking forward toDiablo IIIthis year? Have you always been so optimistic? Following the release of the game’s beta, Blizzard has decided the long-craved roleplaying game won’t be ready in 2011, and has confirmed an “early 2012” date. Note that Blizzard has never officially slated the game for 2011, it was simplyhopingto release this year. It’s not so much a delay as a case of Blizzard giving up on a very admirable goal....

If you’ve never playedDisgaeabefore, I’m not sure whether to pity or envy you. It’s a fantastic game with a great sense of humor and addictive gameplay. However, the game has robbed me of so much of my life, developer NIS could be responsible for murder. Nevertheless, Nintendo loyalists will soon have their chance to see what all the fuss is about when the game gets a DS release. BothDisgaeaandRhapsody: A Musical Adventureare heading to the DS, and they will be hitting Europe in the coming months....

According to a report by theWashington Post,Brütal Legend’s developer Double Fine has filed a countersuit toActivision’s legal attemptsto prevent the game’s Roktober release. The countersuit contends that Activision filed the suit in an effort to not only hurt the company and the game, but in an effort to protect the sales ofGuitar Hero. Activision’s intent, the countersuit claims, “is not only to cancelBrütal Legend, but to kill it completely so thatGuitar Herowould not have to face the competition....

It looks like TikiGame’sInterpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaosis coming to Xbox LIVE this week for 800 Microsoft Points. Interpol is pretty simple in design, essentially a glorified “photo hunt” game that has you picking out hidden objects from crime scenes using an on-screen magnifying glass. It’s all wrapped in a narrative that has you traveling around the world as hunt down the evil Dr. Chaos, finding “clues” in locales like San Francisco, Hong Kong, and more....

What if the competitor to your favorite videogame issued you a challenge: Check out its game, and if you don’t like it, they’ll give you your money back and then some. Now what if that game were a free-to-play online MMO, and instead of “money back,” the game’s developer offered you virtual cash. Well, that’s essentially what publisher THQICE is doing for its free-to-play online MMO,Dragonica Online, in what it’s calling the “Side-Scroller Showdown....

ThatDuels of the Planeswalkersexpansion— which may or may not be called “Duel of the Dragons” — has been dated, priced and detailed by Wizards of the Coast. According to official release, the expansion is slated to drop onto Xbox LIVE Marketplace on October 21st and will cost eager spell-slingers a meager 400 Microsoft Banana Dollars. The expansion will add three playable decks, and three unlockable cards for each of the downloadable title’s original decks....

Thanks to anearly leak, it looks like the long-in-production Kojima gameLords of Shadowsis actually a — gasp! —Castlevaniatitle … and it’s headed to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2010! This whole concept is surreal to me right now, but as the pieces are slowly coming together, it looks like all this information could turn out to be true! Of course, we will know if this is, indeed, fact when Konami has its press conference later on this week....