Winners Announced 1st Wickerman, 2nd Anuban, 3rd Da JAP
DigitalBattle is holding a contest for those who like to comment on our stories, it’s to celebrate 1 million visitors to the site since it started over a year and half ago. From this week on, we’ll pick the best 3 comments each week and award each [...]

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If the above scary-looking Wii appeals to you, then you are welcome to join the Manhunt 2 sweepstakes. Rockstar is giving away a 50″ plasma screen TV and the above Wii, which looks like a regular Wii splattered with blood in keeping with the game’s violent themes.
The re-rated game is due out on October [...]

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Unreal Engine 3 has been very profitable for Epic, as it is now used for almost every good-looking game in the wild. For those wishing for it to show up on the Wii… keep on dreaming, as Mark Rein does not think there’s much “money” in the platform.
“What we’re doing is the really high-end, [...]

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To celebrate the release of MySims in the UK, EA has commissioned four of the country’s hottest fashion designers to create a dual purpose capsule collection based on the core attributes of the game - Self Expression, Customization, Creativity, and Collectability. Below’s the whole deal:

Giles Deacon ? Eek Wii-mote/Bag talisman ? based on Giles? [...]

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The second (and announced to be the last) entry in the Penumbra series has gotten itself an official story line. The upcoming psychological horror experience, subtitled Black Plague, will focus on the adventures of Philip as he goes on a search of his dead father.
A letter from a dead man.A secret buried beneath frozen [...]

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“The Zune isn’t playing Halo 3 anytime soon,” says J Allard, the bald dude who has now taken over the Zune department at Microsoft. He revealed to Reuters that games aren’t in the pipeline for the company’s media player, though considering the company’s pedigree, it should.
“I love games and maybe for someone with a [...]

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It appears Bizarre was only the beginning, according to this MCV report. Activision’s European chief has revealed that the company “won’t turn down the chance to acquire another key developer” or even build a new studio on its own, if the opportunity arises.
Apparently, the publisher is “always looking at opportunities,” according to Joerg Trouvain. [...]

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It was announced today that Pirates of the Burning Sea will launch worldwide on January 22, 2008. This pirate-themed MMO allows players to choose between four factions - Pirate, English, French and Spanis - and vie for dominance of the seas. As expected, players will have to battle over ownership of the game’s numerous [...]

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Contra will be back to kick some alien ass on November 13 when Contra 4 hits stores on the DS. It was revealed through a scan of the game’s retail one-sheet on NeoGAF.
According to the sheet, a dedicated website for the game should launch later this month. As the title implies, the game is [...]

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EA and NBA send word that they have united to hold a second tour of NBA Europe Live, where they bring some of the world’s best basketball action to fans in Europe. The event has already begun on October 1 and features the Memphis Grizzlies, Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves in training [...]

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As revealed through his LiveJournal, psychedelic game creator Jeff Minter announced that he will release Gridrunner++ on Xbox Live Arcade. The game is already available on PC and Mac, with demos of the respective versions up on the official Llamasoft website.
Minter is known best for Space Giraffe (Xbox Live Arcade) and countless music visualizers [...]

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Shacknews reports that programmer-turned-musician Jonathan Coulton will have one of his songs included in the upcoming Orange Box from Valve, which includes Half-Life 2 Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and Portal.
“I am delighted the Valve design team selected me to help make the surprise single a success. If it’s not every geek’s dream to [...]

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Fans of Jerry Seinfeld can now download a demo of Bee Movie Game from Xbox Live, offering a sample of the game-movie tie-in to the upcoming kids movie. The demo features one full level from the game.
The full game is expected later this Fall for PS2, Wii, DS and Xbox 360.

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen such beautiful tattoo work, let alone a game tattoo. This one is on a woman (no less!) who got her full back covered with gaming stuff ranging from Pac-Man to Resident Evil, along with a NES controller labeled with “Leave Luck to Heaven.” Instant classic.

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After saying there’s a possibility of Crysis coming to consoles (see the post below), Crytek boss Cevat Yerli (pronounced “Chevat Yarli”, in case you didn’t know), says that Halo and console FPS games are years behind their PC based counterparts.
Here’s what he had to say about Halo 3:
No. I don’t want to talk bad about [...]

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