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Charlie Daniels, the man who wrote and performedThe Devil Went Down to Georgia,has hit outatGuitar Hero IIIfor perverting his song and allowing the Devil to win. Daniels is angry because the song is “supposed to be a lighthearted novelty about a fiddling contest between a country boy and the devil and the devil always loses. That is not the case with theGuitar Heroversion which comes complete with a horned, guitar-playing devil who battles the player and very often wins....

Poking fun at the console RTS is like kicking a sick puppy. We’re all aware that controls, camera and gameplay are significantly weaker on a console than it is on the PC. Despite popular knowledge, it’s still entertaining to observe what each console RTS developer will be trying to do differently with their game. In an interview withCVG,Halo Warslead designer Gaeme Devine said he observed the aforementioned issues with console RTSs and purposefully designed a game to avoid them....

You may recall me telling you aboutHanuman: Boy Warriorlast week, a PS2 title that got the The Universal Society of Hinduism all pissed off because it makes light of the adventures of Lord Hanuman, a monkey god who the Hindu venerate. Society president Rajan Zed now claims that Sony has agreed to investigate their claims, perGamePolitics: Replying to the communiqué of Bhavna Shinde of Forum for Hindu Awakening, Keita Sanekata of Sony Electronics Inc wrote, “We will review this issue, and get back to you as soon as possible....

Activision’s pulling out all of the stops for its “Call of the Dead” zombie map that will ship along with the “Escalation” downloadable content forCall of Duty: Black Ops. The publisher has announced that a Hollywood “dream-team” will compose the playable undead-killers: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Michael Rooker, and Danny Trejo. The map takes place on a remote Siberian island, and is “inspired by” the Godfather of the modern zombie, George A....

Yesterdaywe told you about a 3D remake of the original NES gameBionic Commando, and now IGN has details and footage on this PSN and XBLA title, namedBionic Commando Rearmed.The downloadableBionic Commando Rearmedrevisits the classic, and as you’re able to see, everything has been revamped in gorgeous 3D. IGN spoke with Ben Judd, producer at Capcom Japan, and found that the story of the original NES title has been fleshed out forRearmed....

THQ’s upcoming alternate-future shooter,Homefront, has been delayed by the publisher. The title will now be releasing in the United States on March 15th and the UK on March 18th. The announcement comes by way of the officialHomefrontTwitter account. A week isn’t too long to wait to shoot North Korean occupants, I don’t think. I’ve been curious about playingHomefrontever since first seeing it at E3back in 2009, mostly because of the “Drama Engine” which I can’t say I recall hearing too much about after that point....

Ah, case mods. As much as I like my self-built gaming rig I can’t but think how muchmoreI’d like it if, rather then its sturdy yet plain case, it was housed inside a scale replica of the Outlaw Star, complete with functional grappler arms. Yeah, that’d be pretty awesome, but seeing as how I unfortunately lack any sort of skill with hand tools it probably won’t be happening any time soon....

While inVegaslast week, one of the newMidway titlesI was lucky enough to take for a test drive was the Xbox 360 exclusive World War II shooterHour of Victory –– coming out this summer. Was it generic? Do we need another WWII first-person shooter? Does the gimmick the game uses set it apart? Find out after the jump. Using the Unreal Engine 3,Hour of Victoryhas the beautiful visuals — even in the early stages of development....

The newAce Combatis not titledAce Combat 7for good reason; it’s a big departure from the previous games in the franchise. Perhaps because the audience for these kind of games has dwindled on the consoles, Project Aces has adapted its formula to fit a more shooter-oriented audience withAce Combat: Assault Horizon. The new cinematic Close Range Assault system gives dogfights a more visceral feel, but don’t we play these games to shoot four AMRAAMs at long range followed by a couple of AIM-9X missiles when we’ve closed the distance to enemy planes?...

Only a few weeks after we first heard aboutTerraria, it wasreleased on Steam. And by that I mean one day, it just appeared on the digital distribution service out of the blue — and then proceeded to skyrocket straight on to the top sellers list. It’s still there today. Word spreads fast. Especially if you’re a budget-priced independent game, it would seem; Arrowhead Game Studios’ ownMagickahad asimilarly successful launch. Maybe in this case, the strong sales were a result of the comparisons toMinecraft....

I’ve held back on highlighting this week’s game for quite a while, now. I’ve been playingMount and Bladefor a couple of years, since it was in the very early stage of development. As the husband-wife creative team have added and subtracted things at the requests of their community, I didn’t want to jump the gun and suggest buying a version that might be drastically different from the “completed” version ofMount and Blade....

The indie games movement seems to be growing faster than ever. In 2011, I’ve made it a personal goal to become more aware of what’s going on in that wild frontier and report back what I find. A new project relating to that goal is Indie Quickie, a series of short video reviews intended to sum up whether a game is worth your time in under a minute. The first game featured in Indie Quickie isVorpal, a shoot-em-up currently available on the Xbox Live Marketplace....

French indie developer Streum on Studio is still working onE.Y.E., an FPS/RPG hybrid built with the innards of the Source engine. A little bitDeus Exwith a splash ofSystem Shockand perhaps evenF.E.A.R., the title aims to please those with an appetite for experience points, destruction and covert action. And just to be clear, this isn’t a mod — despite being small, the studio’s plans forE.Y.E.are gargantuan.As of the release of the press materials — which are rather dated — we’re seeing plans for a full-featured game led by an outlandish sci-fi narrative....