All right, all right. Alice took Christmas off from HyTek Gamer. I know you guys missed me. So here are a few Quicky headlines from over Christmas. Dragon Age Gets New DLC, Steam Runs out of ‘Prey’, 8-Story Arcade in Japan is Dark and Dirty, Xbox Thief Gets Caught On Xbox Live Dragon Age: […]
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Blizzard’s upcoming Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty will feature a treat for Protoss fans in the single player mode: a mini-campaign. Single player play in Starcraft has almost always been totally dominated by Terrans, which is still mostly true for the upcoming sequel except for a Protoss mini-campaign featuring the sons of Aiur. Blizzard’s Stefanie
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Dark Void’s PC requirements have been revealed after a release setback from September ’09 to January 2010. Capcom has yet to release the recommended specs though. Processor: Intel 2.4Ghz or AMD 2.0 GHz Video card: GeForce 7900 or Radeon HD 3850 series DX 9 Memory: 1 GB RAM OS: Windows Vista/XP Hard drive: 10 GB
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The Pandaren has come a long way since its appearance as an April Fool’s Day joke in Warcraft III. The Pandaren Monk is available for purchase at the Blizzard store to be your little buddy in the game, and is now an exclusive action figure! The limited edition, Pandaren Brewster action figure is available for
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Zombie shooter sequel, Left 4 Dead 2 has sold over 2 million hard copies since its release on November 17, 2009, even in the face of controversy that it was being released too soon after the original. These numbers more than double the original Left 4 Dead, which released last year. According to an announcement
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One of two new roads in the city of Derby in the UK has a chance at being named after one of the most recognizable girl game characters, Lara Croft. Voting is underway through Derby’s city website and will go until January 31. Why Lara Croft? Derby is the home of the original studio behind
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Nintendo just dropped the price of the Wii, but it seems the holiday spirit is abound and Wal-mart will be offering a $50 gift card on Wii purchases next week. The $50 gift certificate offer will be good from Saturday, December 5th through Saturday, December 12th. Along with the Wii offer, Wal-mart will be reducing
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A man who turned off power to a Netherlands hospital while he thought he was playing Silent Hill, was found not guilty because he couldn’t know the true consequences of his actions. The 35 year old Jan H. thought he was playing Silent Hill as he wandered into the hospitals basement and turned off the
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While Infinity Ward is working on a fix for the exploited “Javelin” Glitch, Xbox Live policy director Stephen Toulouse stated that those caught exploiting the glitch in the game will face bans of 24 hours of more. PSN users can breathe a sigh of relief as a Sony representative stated, “I don’t believe we are
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In a little over two years, museum buffs will be exposed to the wonder of video games. The Art of Video Games will show the development of visual effects in video games from Atari to PS3, and also explore social influences and popular culture on video games. The exhibit will open in March of 2012
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