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Nevin Dravinski Provides An Inside Look At UFC Undisputed 2009

THQ set up shop in a $25,000-a-night Fantasy Suite at The Palms Casino in Las Vegas to debut their first offering in the five-year exclusive video game licensing deal with UFC. The new PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game, UFC Undisputed 2009, which ships in spring 2009, was shown to a packed house of video game, MMA and mainstream sports reporters. On hand for the festivities was UFC president Dana White, light heavyweight champion Quinton Rampage Jackson and his opponent in this weekend’s fight in Las Vegas, challenger Forrest Griffin.

“I’m not a big video game player,” said White. “I’m old school. I played games like Pac-Man. But we’re really excited about this game because everyone knows the first one really sucked. That was a deal that we were locked into when we bought the company. With THQ, we’re building the best fighting game ever created. We want our fans to enjoy this game and forget that the first one ever existed.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Hands On Time With Too Human

With a botched initial E3 showing to going more or less underground this past March, Silicon Knights has finally released a preview build of their upcoming action/RPG Too Human. Getting to play a quick demo version of the game during GDC isn’t always the easiest way to tackle a deep experience such as Too Human, so I put the preview version through its paces in both single player and cooperatively to see how well Silicon Knights has progressed. Read the rest of this entry »

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Black Rock’s Jason Avent Talks Some Pure

When it comes to taking all the beauty earth has to offer and crushing it beneath some knobby vulcanized rubber, few developers have more experience than Black Rock Studios, creators of the ATV Offroad Fury and Moto GP franchises. Now owned by Disney Interactive Studios, the team at Brighton in the United Kingdom have been given carte blanche to push the action even further with Pure, their latest off-road racing title for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

“After working on sim racers for so long, we had a lot of ideas that didn’t fit within the framework of those games,” explained Jason Avent, director of the game at Black Rock Studios. “The premise of Pure is that four wheel ATVs are fun, they’re light and they handle like cars, but they also open up a whole new world of tricks and stunts.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Hands On With PixelJunk Eden

Sony is working on some pretty Zen shit. At least that’s the feeling I left with from a hands on demo of Q-Games upcoming PSN title PixelJunk Eden. When I say “Zen shit” I mean that in the most positive way possible. Read the rest of this entry »

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