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Cardboard RoboCop , alien ear muffs and sci-fi pimped rides

The downloadable cases released so far for L.A. Noire have all been short, but they’ve nonetheless taken us to some interesting places. Nicholson Electroplating gave us the destruction of a small chunk of Los Angeles, and culminated in a huge shootout in the Spruce Goose’s hangar. The Naked City and …

If your idea of enjoying the outdoors this summer primarily involves locating the shadiest spot to plop down and bust out your PSP, it’s understandable that you might be feeling the itch for a few new distractions to fill the hours – especially since the system’s retail release schedule is …

Sony has announced a pro-indieinvestment plan which will see $20 million dollars go toward funding the development of exclusive PSN titles over the next three years. Revealed today over at theUS PlayStation Blog (opens in new tab), the cash will be split amongst Sony’s cabal of first-party developers and its …

Merriam-Webster defines a ‘paradigm’ as an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype. A ‘paradigm shift’ refers to a change in assumptions as detailed in American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. But c’mon! You know what a paradigm shift really is. It’s what you do …

Legendary Frank Miller origin story gets the animated Batman makeover, with Eliza Dushku as Catwoman

Somebody’s relaunching an invasion of Earth

As we’ve seen with Canvas Curse, Mass Attack andEpic Yarn, Kirby excels at trying new things. But what about the classic Kirby gameplay the series is most well-known for? What if sometimes all we want to do is inhale a bunch of enemies, absorb their powers, and float around like …

Back in 2009, Splosion Man was a surprisingly fresh downloadable that harkened back to a simpler time of 2D platforming. It mixed retro style with an irreverent, meat-based sense of humor to make it one of the year’s best on XBLA. Now the sequel, the cleverly titled Ms Splosion Man, …

Price: $3.99Size: 34 blocksFirst released: August 1992 Before he could swallow enemies and copy their powers, Kirby was a fairly unremarkable puffball. In this inaugural game that kicked off one of Nintendo’s most popular franchises, Kirby lacks his usual Mega Man-like trait and instead attacks by sucking down baddies and …