Hardly a week goes by that doesn't see a stack of new releases cluttering up the desks and bookshelves at 1UP Manor. To help you figure out which ones are best for you, we present Shelf Life, 1UP's weekly feature where we let you know what games to expect this week and point out what we've said abou...
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Time to hit that PlayStation Store icon on your XMB, because there's been another heaping helping of new content as indexed by the PlayStation.Blog. The PlayStation 3 and PSP demos for MLB 08: The Show hit yesterday to get you primed for the baseball season, while Twisted Metal: Head On ($14.99) is ...
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UPDATE: RedOctane contacted 1UP to let us know that Neversoft is, in fact, developing the 360 and PS3 versions of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. The story has been changed to reflect this. ORIGINAL STORY:Last month EGM's Quartermann made a bold prediction about the future of the Guitar Hero franchise: four...
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New Rock Band DLC announcements have nearly become weekly tradition, but this update is a little different. ScoreHero.com forum member "laconic" claims to have cracked open a .bin file hidden in the bowls of the latest "(Arguable) Punk Pack" release, which held a huge list of una...
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Those who long to spend their days in Narnia will be able to revisit as old heroes return 1,300 years later and a new hero must rise. Disney/Walden Media's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian video game will be released at retail stores throughout the United States in time for the film's May 1...
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Disney Interactive Studios this week announced Pure, an off-road ATV racer for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Expected to launch this fall, Pure promises "photo-realistic real-world locations" and 16-player online matches, developed with input from professional rider Wes Miller, foun...
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Santa Monica, CA – February 15, 2008 – Fire up the fret board, crank the amp to 11 and get ready to rock this way with Activision, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the first game built around the legendary music of America's Greatest Rock 'N Roll Band: Steven Tyler...
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The Xbox 360 port of PC real-time strategy hit World in Conflict, originally announced for a fall 2007 release -- then rescheduled to this spring -- will now ship this fall, alongside a freshly announced PlayStation 3 version. Both versions are being ported from Massive Entertainment's original PC p...
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Representing The 1UP Show at the annual DICE conference, Shane Bettenhausen and Cesar Quintero ambush industry celebs on the red carpet. Then, Jen Tsao, Jeremy Parish, and Michael Donahoe get a giant brain-workout thanks to Professor Layton and the Curious Village while Ryan O'Donnell, Greg Ford, D...
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Burnout Paradise may be fresh into the hands of gamers, but that doesn't mean Electronic Arts isn't already thinking about the future. In an EA presentation to industry analysts (chronicled in detail by GameSpot), EA president Frank Gibeau stated that both Burnout and new franchise Skate would "...
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Need for Speed ProStreet gives you free tracks, free cars and more! Available now, at the PlayStation Store, gamers will be able to expand their ProStreet experience with the no-charge, Energizer Lithium Extender Pack. The pack features two new tracks (Leipzig Test Track & Tokyo Expressway) and ...
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Last week's 2008 D.I.C.E. Summit was the first major game industry trade show of the year. In the slim three days that the event ran, a number of wild news stories popped up, so we thought we'd bring together everything you need to know, along with some random quotes we heard while wandering around ...
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Electronic Arts has announced a partnership with Hasbro to create a series of games based on the company's popular brands of toys for consoles, PC and mobile platforms. Interestingly, while the press release made no mention of a G.I. Joe video game -- the one Hasbro toy line most gamers would probab...
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Gamers awoke on Valentine's Day to find Electronic Arts has a completely different shade of red in mind with the announcement of the next edition of the Red Alert RTS franchise. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 brings gamers back to a world where history went a little differently thanks to time-tr...
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They're serious about cracking down on game violence in the Land Down Under -- and not just for gratuitously messy paramilitary stuff either. Word's now come down (via IGN Australia) that the Office of Film and Literature Classification -- Australia's ratings agency -- has just denied an MA 15+ rati...
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With the power of the internet, we've spent the last few weeks learning bits and pieces about Street Fighter IV, from new character Crimson Viper to some returning favorites. Today we have word on another newbie to join the cast thanks to Famitsu (via Kotaku). The new character, named Abel, has &quo...
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There have been hints and rumors of online multiplayer being featured in Grand Theft Auto IV for a while now, but today Rockstar Games at last confirms it to be true -- in a very roundabout way. The affirmation comes by way of clarification. Kotaku reports that during Larry "Major Nelson" ...
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The AOU 2008 Amusement Expo just kicked off in Japan, and our crew is on the show floor, delivering trailers and gameplay footage of Street Fighter IV in action. We'll be updating this page as the clips come in, so stay tuned and leave some reactions in the comments! Guile vs. Zangief: Viper vs. A...
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January sales numbers from the NPD Group are in, and while post-holiday sales are down across the board, there are some interesting trends for the first calendar month of 2008. While all of the active hardware platforms sold between 200k-300k units, the Wii took the top spot with 274,000 units sold,...
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Lair's often-unwieldy motion controls bewildered the gaming masses when it launched last fall, leading to a muted reaction that fell short of what many projected for the PlayStation 3 exclusive. We even picked the game as one of the Top 10 Turkey Games, largely due to those control issues. Is it pos...
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