As advertised , Namco Bandai brought a prototype of its new Pac-Man Battle Royale to the 2010 Amusement Expo. Arcade Heroes captured some off-screen footage of the multiplayer arcade title (posted after the break), revealing a cross between the GameCube’s Pac-Man Vs

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Pac-Man Battle Royale: competitive Pac-Man for omnivores
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Have you seen those Dos Equis commercials, with the “Most Interesting Man in the World?” He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, he prefers Dos Equis? No?

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3D Dot Game Heroes trailer satisfies thirst for adventure
Square Enix is sure hoping that the recent release of its long-in-production RPG hasn’t caused you to forget about its other long-in-production RPG: The PSP-exclusive Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep . The company recently sent a jolt through the series’ dormant U.S

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Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep to be born unto the U.S. this summer
We were busy ogling the suitable-for-framing cover art of the May issue of GamePro just posted by mag boss John Davison when we noticed a title we didn’t recognize: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions . Considering how well-informed and handsome we all are, we were understandably stymied. Unfortunately, Activision declined to comment so we don’t know any more than you do about it at the moment, though we have to assume this is the previously-announced upcoming Spider-Man game, which supposedly won’t suck

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Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions teased by GamePro
When EA DICE decided to release some downloadable armaments in the original Battlefield: Bad Company , it proved to be a fairly unpopular decision .

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Battlefield Heroes gets decked out in Bad Company 2 gear
Say you were to jump a sweet speedboat off an even sweeter ramp, then climb onto that speedboat and shoot a rocket at a dude in a tower (which is a real thing that happens in Just Cause 2 ) for 15 to 20 hours. Afterward, if someone asked you how much more time you wanted to spend doing things like that, we imagine the answer would be “a lot.” Perhaps it’s no coincidence, then, that that’s exactly how much DLC lead designer Peter Johansson tells Eurogamer is coming to the Just Cause 2: “a lot.” And that’s on top of all the content already on the game disc, which, by all external signs, is pretty darn imposing

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You can expect ‘a lot’ of Just Cause 2 DLC
If there’s one thing Dante’s Inferno lacked, it was originality. Lacking the “holy sh-” impact of God of War III , Visceral Games’ hack-n-slash felt incredibly pedestrian. That changes with “The Trials of St

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Hands-on: Dante’s Inferno: The Trials of St. Lucia (DLC)
There are a lot of totally awesome things in the God of War III launch trailer above: skydiving demigods, mountain-sized Titans, giant blue scorpions, and, of course, everyone’s favorite chained antihero, Kratos — to name a few.
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God of War III launch trailer reveals violent tendencies of the PS3
The 2010 Game Developers Conference welcomed 18,250 industry professionals , many of whom also moonlighted as alcohol professionals during the evenings, to San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center for another round of the annual meet-up. The record number surpassed last year’s total of 17,000 attendees
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GDC breaks attendance record: 18k geeks in da house
We don’t yet know precisely what to make of Rockstar’s upcoming L.A. Noire (not that that’s necessarily a bad thing), but after poring over a new Edge piece on the game, we think we may be getting a clearer picture.

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L.A. Noire isn’t your ‘average adventure game’