It is one of the most memorable lines in movie history. As the air around him is rent by explosions and the whiz of bullets, Colonel Kilgore stands nonchalantly with hands on hips, sniffs the acrid breeze and declares: ‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning.’

Now actor Robert Duvall’s famous scene from the Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now could be re-enacted in millions of...

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PlayStation Home Online Community Specialist Locust_Star broke news today on an enormous update that will be heading to Sony's PlayStation Home.

To quote: Locust_Star here dropping in to give you the straight truth on what new goodies to expect in PlayStation Home this week. Simply put, this is one of the biggest content updates in the history of Home – and we think you’re...

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At GDC 2009 today Saturo Iwata of Nintendo has announced that the Virtual Console will be expanded to arcade games, as well as showing a new Zelda game called The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Track which is slated for release later this year.

To quote: The arcade games will include Space Harrier, Mappy, Star Force, Emeraldia, Return of Lishtar. Six games will launch in Japan, North...

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From the day when video games developed the graphic capabilities to simulate cleavage, women in games have been designed mostly from the blueprints of a horny 13-year-old boy's fantasy.

If a female character wasn't in need of rescue - yes, we're talking about you, Donkey Kong - she seemed designed specifically to reinforce negative body images.

But there have...

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Apparently, the geniuses at Sony Santa Monica have done it again. The studio managed to create a God of War iteration that has made David Jaffe proud.

The studio released some pictures of the game recently and it looks phenomenal. However, the big question on everyone’s mind is - does it play well?

God of War III (GOW3) may be one of the most anticipated games on...

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Researchers at Durham University have modified a video game and turned it into a fire drill simulator.

The team used The Source Engine, the 3D game engine used to drive Half-Life 2, and created a virtual model of one of the university's departments.

Developers plan to use it to examine people's behavior in a fire and to train people in good fire practice. The...

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Team RamRod's Mike Skinner shared the following today via PS Blog:

Hello everyone! We hope you have been enjoying High Velocity Bowling (HVB) online over the past few months. For those of you who have never played before, HVB uses your SIXAXIS controller to simulate a genuine bowling swing.

Challenge one of 8 unique bowlers in our single- player mode, or play...

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The past five and a bit months have been hard on fans eagerly awaiting news and developments regarding Final Fantasy 13 and Final Fantasy Versus 13. News has been few and far between, and not to mention in desperate need of deciphering. Here is the wrap on all the game-related information from 2008 so far.

January - January saw the brunt of the news in regards to Final...

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Third-party peripheral maker The Ant Commandos today announced that its “V Shaped Double Range Guitar” is now available for purchase at retail with an MSRP of $59.99.

Ranging in color variants from flame red to jet black, the wireless guitar controller touts “100% compatibility” with both Rock Band and the entire select of Guitar Hero titles for the PlayStation 2 and...

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Bald Space Marines have become something of an Xbox stereotype, but it's hard to deny that few developers do them better than Epic Games. Gears of War was a smash hit both at the cash register and online in 2006 and through 2007, so the sequel has its work cut out for it.

So the question is – how's it looking? And the answer is – pretty damn good.

Of...

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