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Taking a break from a steady stream of AAA titles, we thought of trying our hands at an indie game called Blast Off. This game is developed by Australian studio Halfbrick and is available as digital download on XBL Marketplace and the PSN Store for PSP. Blast Off is a physics-based puzzle game in which you take control of a rocket ship tasked with rescue of stranded astronauts. The astronauts are rescued by simply touching them with your rocket ship; however, there are several ob [...]
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Last in the line-up of EA games we got to sample is arguably the most anticipated of the lot – Mass Effect 2. Once again, the build on showcase is the demo from this year’s E3. This was a very short demo with about 20 minutes of game play, which included a couple of NPC conversations and an enemy encounter.
   
The demo starts off with Shepard and his crew just outside a pub on what appeared to be an alien planet. Traversing through the location, you even [...]
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Square Enix has released what could very well be the final (ahem) trailer before the Japanese launch of Final Fantasy XII, this December. The trailer mainly features pre-rendered cinematic with all the drama and fanfare that the fans have come to expect from FF games—the video also has small bits of in-game battle sequences thrown in for good measure.
 
Embedded on this page is a lower resolution version of the video, followed by a link to download the same trailer in full-resoluti [...]
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In interview with Edge, Eidos studio manager Stephane D’Astous mentioned that pre-rendered cinematic for Deus Ex 3 will be created in Tokyo by Square Enix.
 
In the same interview, he mentioned “…people in Tokyo are just so glad to work on it; this is the first project for them that is a non-Final Fantasy title”. If this is true that means the guys working with the studio will get a break from Final Fantasy after over 20 years!—probably they would be more [...]
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