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C-c-can they … can they do that? Apparently! Epic Games is enabling 6x XP forGears of War 2‘s multiplayer during E3 week. This is going down on Monday, June 14th at 9:00 AM EDT until Sunday, the 21st at 9:00 AM EDT, to be exact. If there was ever a time to go after those normally time-consuming Achievements for leveling up, next week will surely be it. I’ll likely be too busy worrying about whatever is going on withGears of War 3and the rest of the neverending supply of intriguing E3 games to take part, but man, I’m seriously tempted....

Between the recent additions ofBaldur’s Gate, Planescape: Torment, and nowIcewind Daleto Good Old Games, I have to imagine some of you are in RPG heaven right about now. Either that, or you are digging out your old CDs to find that they’ve been scratched for years now — we’ve all been there. $9.99 gets youIcewind Dale, the “Heart of Winter” and “Trials of the Luremaster” expansions, the Jeremy Soule-composed soundtrack, and other extras....

Unchartedis undoubtedly a huge franchise for Sony and I know a lot of you just can’t wait to get your hands on Nathan Drake’s latest adventure. We’re officially less than a month away fromDrake’s Deceptionhitting stores and developer Naughty Dog wanted to give us one last tease before the game’s release. I went hands on for the first time with the Chateu and cargo plane level and even got to check out the reveal of a brand new section, which you can watch for yourself above....

We knew that MonkeyPaw Games was workingon bringing over many of the Japanese PSOne games that we’ve been dying to get but now we’re getting some title names, and I’m even more excited. Why am I excited? Just from the titles we’ve heard so far, I know that former Hudson CEO Jon Greiner and I are on the same page. I’m one that gets tired of waiting for some of Japan’s best games to get licensed, so I acquire the games I want myself....

It is fair to say thatJoe Dangerwas an incredibly fun and addictive game. Our own Matthew Razakreviewedit last year and was just as impressed as I was. At gamescom, we had the chance to play the sequel,Joe Danger: The Movie, and talk to the developers. Actually, the whole team was around their tiny booth, which they set up next to publishing giants like Warner Brothers and Microsoft. We talked about their insane trip from England to Germany and what they’re doing to make a full sequel worth it....

In case you missed it, Activision is giving away five freeGuitar Hero World Tourdownloadable tracks to anyone who purchased the game and the new World Tour guitar. Yes, free songs! All you’ll need to do ishead over to the promotion Web site, enter some info, and you’ll have the choice to choose five of the following ten tracks: Blind Melon’s “No Rain”; Boston’s “Rock and Roll Band”; Foreigner’s “Hot Blooded”; The Killers’ “Human”; Nirvana’s “Silver”; Oasis’ “The Shock of the Lightning”; R....

It would be silly to create, or in this case, publish a World War II aerial warfare game without including pictures of damsels on the sides of the planes. Ubisoft is no clown. Aerial gameHeroes over Europeis slated to hitthis increasingly lonely Septemberand with it comes not only hot airplane action, but also steamy bombshell girls. In the header — and in the gallery below — is an image of one of a pin-up in the game, which has been conveniently resized for wallpaper usage (1280 x 800)....

Per a little article over atMCV, Kaz Kirai claims that PS3’s greatest problem was never the launch price point, but in fact meeting the supply and demand for the console. Here’s a tidbit from the original interview: “I think the original price-point was the right price-point,” Hirai stated. “This was evidenced by the issues we had at launch when we couldn’t supply enough units to consumers in the Japanese market and the North American market, and it was a huge challenge to try and meet that demand because of all the production issues we had....

Indie Nation is about independent games. You could have probably guessed that. To the best of my recollection, I’ve never played a game quite likeDrug Wars. After a remarkably turbulent, accidental release on Steam a couple of months ago, the game formerly known asMerchants of Brooklynhas finally been uploaded under a new title. And it’s awful. And it’sawesome. It has one of the most epic multiplayer modes I’ve ever seen from an indie title....

indiePub and Strange Loop Games have announcedVessel, a puzzle platformer revolving around liquid physics, for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC. It’ll be releasing this holiday season, but our first hands-on will be fairly soon: a playable demo is being brought to PAX Prime 2011 later this month. InVessel, you tackle puzzles by animating liquid (water, lava, chemicals, etc.) “into living machines called Fluros that retain all the properties of the liquid they contain....

It’s time for one of those “wow” moments that crop up in this industry so often these days. It would seem that Robert Bowling, community manager at Infinity Ward, is sick to death of Activision’s Noah Heller comparingCall of Duty: World at Warwith his own studio’sModern Warfare. So sick, in fact, that he has demanded Heller stopon his personal blog. If I see one moreCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfaregoogle alert come through my inbox, that ends up being aCOD:WaWarticle that is only showing up because YOU referencedCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfaremore times than you mentionWorld At War…...

The recentannouncement ofDungeons and Dragons: Eberron Unlimitedsurprised me. Studios don’t flip their MMO pay-to-play structures often. But that’s exactly what Turbine is doing. They’re replacing an old model with a hybrid: one that allows players to rock out inDDOfor free and buy optional stuff. When I spoke with three Turbine employees yesterday afternoon —DDOsenior producer Kate Paiz, director of communications, Adam Mersky, andDDOexecutive producer Fernando Paiz — I asked why Turbine put the game on its head....

In the future, hype’s Dictionary definition could be replaced with a box shot ofKillzone 2, and I’m pretty sure we’d all get the idea. There is no denying that thepressureis on for Guerrilla and its big PS3 exclusive, which launches at the end of the week. PS3 fans are expecting it to cure the sick, raise the dead and lead them to the promised land. They also expect reviewers to give it a 9/10 or lose their jobs....