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What's with the popularity of all those dancing games anyway? I mean, I loved playing the arcade game Spider Stomp when I was a toddler, but the thrill of stepping on colorful lights lost its appeal to me around the same time I began to learn the alphabet. If you think that it's real dancing, it's not. Get out of the arcade visit a club, find out that you really can't dance, and go back to your video games.

The latest in the trend is Dance! It's Your Stage. This one features the fully rendered avatar of Germany's top choreographer Detlef D! Soost. You can get right into it with the quick play mode, or select career mode to start as an eager young danger and step your way up... (Read More)

When making third person horror video games, why bother with anything else? Konami Digital Entertainment has announced Silent Hill 8 will be released in 2011. That's right, for anyone else who has lost count there are currently seven Silent Hill video games out, and the next will be available before you know it. Encounter puzzles, horrible creatures, and otherworldly terrors as you try to survive another Silent Hill Experience.

This game features an all new storyline as Murphy Pendleton. The inmate finds himself free and alone after a prison transport vehicle careens off the road. You must choose to fight or flee and engage a bizarre and frightening psychological... (Read More)

Steak and Jake is available now for online play at: http://www.flipline.com/steakandjake A bird and a cow team up to deliver milk! As far as partnerships go, this one is pretty unique. A color changing bird must use his powers to help his cow friend deliver milk! Doesn't sound weird enough yet? Add in milk bandits, cookie scouts, and the rival chocolate cow who wants to deliver chocolate milk to your customers, and you've got a pretty crazy and entertaining game.

Let's ignore the implications of having a cow named Steak, and look at the exciting gameplay. It's... (Read More)

So this one had my attention just because the main character's name is Razzle. I mean really: Razzle. I dare you to find a cooler video game character name than that. You can't do it, can you? That's because Razzle is awesome. Anyway Konami is announcing the upcoming release of Gormiti: The Lords of Nature, which features young Razzle who falls into a portal to another world.

Explore the mystical land of Gorm. Avoid the evil Gormiti Magmion, and team up with the five Lords of Nature who are charged with stopping Magmion's plans to destroy Earth. Who doesn't love games with awesome elemental powers running wild in... (Read More)

I remember the good old days where you paid for a game, you beat it, and then you bought a new game. Sometimes there'd be expansion packs; occasionally there'd be a good video game sequel. These days once you buy a game, you can keep paying for it forever. Bioware has announced the release of two new DLC releases for their most popular titles. Dragon Age: Origins will now have access to "Witch Hunt" exciting new content based around the character Morrigan. The DLC pack of Mass Effect 2 is "Lair of the Shadow Broker" which features Liara, a popular character from the original Mass Effect.

I see good and bad. I hate to have my bank account slowly whittled away by small additions... (Read More)

You know what's cool? Transformers. That's right, Transformers are cool. They're robots, but they're in disguise. One might even say, they're more than meets the eyes. Activision Publishing has announced that Transformers: War for Cybertron Map and Characters Pack 2 is now available for download on the Xbox 360. The new playable characters are Zeta Prime, and Dead End. I barely even know who Zeta Prime is, but I'm glad to see Dead End finally getting some well-earned respect!

There's just so much in the Transformer universe, it's hard to bring it all together in a single video game. But it's nice to see Activision trying! One... (Read More)

Anyone hear about Blizzard's Warden Client? It's not exactly new, but it's still a heavy topic of debate. Blizzard has over nine million players on World of Warcraft, plus a few million more who enjoy their Starcraft and Warcraft games. These days every game they produce comes with the Warden Client. Blizzard likes to call it anti-cheat software, while everyone else prefers just to call it spyware. Basically Blizzard servers are set up to automatically install this sneaky little program on your machine, and every fifteen seconds you've got World of Warcraft running it will scan you computer, supposedly for cheating software.

How can a company get away with doing this?... (Read More)

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA – September 7, 2010 – Leading video game developer BioWareTM, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today released new downloadable content for the critically-acclaimed games Dragon AgeTM: Origins and Mass EffectTM 2, throwing gamers back into epic battles with new stories revolving around key supporting characters in each franchise. The Dragon Age: Origins DLC pack, "Witch Hunt" ($6.99 on PlayStation® Network, 560 Microsoft points on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, 560 BioWare Points on PC) features a story that reconnects players with one of the series' original larger-than-life heroes, Morrigan. The Mass Effect 2 DLC pack, "Lair of the Shadow Broker" (800 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360, 800 BioWare Points on PC), centers around Liara, a popular character and squadmate from the original Mass Effect.

"Both 'Witch Hunt' and 'Lair of... (Read More)