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Activision's DJ Hero: gaming's next phenomenon?

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MTV News has learned the publishing giant Activision, responsible for the cash cow Guitar Hero series, is developing what it hopes will be the next big thing: DJ Hero....  read more

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New Buffy video game coming out in MMORPG form

Although it's no replacement for the show, Fox and the Multiverse Network may have found a new way for Buffy fans to obsess over their favorite universe. John Landau, producer and "Advisor to Multiverse," announced the game during his keynote speech at the Virtual World Conference and Expo....  read more

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Watch the trailer for Midnight Club: Los Angeles

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Bad drivers, car aficionados and the speed-obsessed alike, time to rejoice: your latest fix, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, is coming to stores in a few short weeks. The game’s developer, Rockstar San Diego (whose last title was the critically lauded Xbox 360 title from 2006, Table Tennis), has just debuted the latest trailer for the fourth installment of their popular high-octane racing franchise (for your viewing pleasure below)....  read more

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Clueless, Pretty in Pink and Mean Girls go video game

[Above: A screenshot of Clueless]In a frillier round of movies being made into games, Legacy Interactive has announced it will make three nostalgic classics—Clueless, Pretty in Pink and Mean Girls—into video games for girls. The movies, all nine years apart, will borrow story elements and will be downloadable in December....  read more

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Suda 51 and Shinji Mikami creating a game for EA

When Electronic Arts started out, it was one of the good guys of third-party game developers.  Not only was the company into original IPs, heck, the word "arts" was even in its title to tell you exactly what the corporation was trying to do. During the past decade, though, what's now the world's second-largest developer has developed a bit of a reputation for squashing creativity in favor of tossing out another version of Madden every year and seeings its profits rise....  read more

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Doom 4 promises beautifully-rendered descent into hell

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If you grew up in the mid-'90s, odds are you had some kind of exposure to the seminal computer game Doom. Maybe you were one of the kids who spent countless afternoons roaming the demon-infested hallways of the UAC laboratories, shooting up hellspawn and absorbing improbable amounts of return fire (possibly while listening to metal.) Or perhaps you were turned off by the game's hyper-violent ethos, which ruffled the feathers of more than one member of the U.S. legislature....  read more

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The Dark Knight video game is on the way

[Above: a screenshot from the Batman Begins video game]We hope it's not spoiling anything if we admit to squirming in our seats a bit while watching The Dark Knight last week. Perhaps you, too, felt there were a few decisions you might have changed, a few lives you might have tried to save. Or maybe you just want to try your hand with the new gadgets Christian Bale wielded in IMDb's new #1 movie....  read more

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Chuck Norris to fight communism on your phone

Think you have what it takes to fight he who can sneeze with his eyes open, kill two stones with one bird, and has legs named Law and Order, respectively?If you answered "yes," you best sleep with one eye open for the rest of your life. Chuck Norris doesn't like to be disrespected....  read more

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Rock Band 2 set for September release

Who hasn't gone to an awesome live show and thought, "I want that! I want to rock that hard!" only to quickly realize that the last instrument you attempted to master was the recorder in third grade. (We're shaking our fists at you, "Frere Jacques.")...  read more

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