|  FEATURED GAME: Donkey Kong - The classic arcade game starring Mario. Can you save the princess from kong? Watch out for the barrels! |
 |  Hang Stan - It's hangman with a pig and a hungry farmer, kind of like a child's worst nightmare.
 |  Bubble Trouble - Stab the bubbles with the spears. Good times! Use the spacebar to throw your spear.
|  Road Trip - Can you beat this fun driving game? We did. The van transforms into a boat, then a plane.
|  Sexy Football - AKA Sexy Soccer. Use 'M' to shoot and 'N' to pass. Choose your difficulty level.
|  Very Funny Texas Holdem - For all you Texas Holdem Fans. Good little Holdem game from TBS. Are you in?
|  Fulltime Killer - We killed Mr. Wang. Can you? The game is only one stage, but still a damn good time.
|  Park Soccer - Can you beat our score of 39? It's kinda like the Kick Ups game. Click your mouse to kick.
|  Ten Pin Bowling - Hey Kingpin! Strap on your glove and shine your balls. Let's see if you can bowl a strike.
|  Lego Racing - Cool 3D RC racing game from Lego. Do sweet stunts as you unlock all 5 challenges.
|  WRAX - Cool somewhat addictive little puzzle game. Shoot your balls at the balls that look like your balls.
|  Overrun - Basically, you're Legolas defending the castle from the orcs. Tip: release mouse button over the orc.
|  Moon Patrol - The arcade classic full of helicopters, barrels, and ditches ...those damn ditches.
|  Fly Girl - Just imagine you're a girl in A Night at the Roxbury. Double jump for combo points.
|  Bush Shootout - GW says: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.
|  Roulette - Place your bets and spin the wheel. Think of it as the Campushopper Casino.
|  Megaman Project X - Cool flash Megaman game. Inspired by the Capcom classic. Spacebar to fire.
|  Turbo Racer - Race through Lizzie's bedroom, a school hallway and more. Collect points, boosts, etc.
|  Frogger - The classic arcade game. Beware of the gators, eat the flies, and get your hop on!
|  Simon - Watch the colors light up, then repeat the pattern. You remember this mind game, don't you?
|  Pepsi Pinball - Cool western themed pinball game from Pepsi. Can you get the ball into the Saloon?
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Command & Conquer series discounted this weekend on EA Store |
Are you one of the three PC strategy game enthusiasts who refrained from picking up StarCraft 2 earlier this week due to a lack of cash-on-hand? EA's offering a way to console yourself with some retail therapy: It's reduced the price of a handful of Command and Conquer titles on its online store.Continue reading Command & Conquer series discounted this weekend on EA Store  Command & Conquer series discounted this weekend on EA Store originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Vietnamese government implements restrictions on online games |
Citing increased real-life criminal activity originating in the online space, the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communication has placed a number of tight restrictions on massively multiplayer titles. These include bans on any and all advertisements for online games, as well as regulations forcing ISPs to shut off service to gaming cafes and retailers after hours.
More drastic is the Ministry's decision to stop allowing any additional online games to come into the nation until further legislation on the matter can be considered. Man, that's harsh! Why can't they follow China's example, and just regulate the content of these games instead of -- oh, wait. Vietnam is doing that as well. Awesome.Vietnamese government implements restrictions on online games originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Video: Two Worlds 2 gets all serious |
After the surprisingly funny Sordahon's Journey videos, it's disappointing to see SouthPeak return to a more traditional style for its latest Two Worlds 2 trailer. Sure, you might actually learn something about the game -- the fact that it looks worlds better, for example -- but where's the fun in that?Continue reading Video: Two Worlds 2 gets all serious Video: Two Worlds 2 gets all serious originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Zynga shutting down Street Racing game, offering credit for in-game purchases |
 Casual giant Zynga is shutting down its Street Racing game on August 2, immediately rendering void all the in-game items players bought with real money. Zynga offered no explanation in the announcement, simply suggesting that players try other Zynga games. Naturally, people whose fake worlds have crashed around them are upset, starting a petition in Zynga's forum to stop the game from disappearing.
Zynga told Develop that it wouldn't be offering refunds on the money spent in-game, opting instead to give credits equivalent to the cost of any purchase made in the last 90 days, plus an extra 100 units of virtual currency, all usable in other Zynga games. Which is really going to satisfy the people planning to stop playing Zynga games when Street Racing goes away.Zynga shutting down Street Racing game, offering credit for in-game purchases originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Readers pick best webcomic: Off Track |
Yeah, now that we think about it, Princess Zelda in Spirit Tracks wasn't exactly the most flattering portrayal of the titular heiress. In Ocarina of Time, she masqueraded around as this badass ninja, in Twilight Princess, she was a killer with a bow and arrow -- heck, in Wand of Gamelon, you actually get to play as Zelda. As Awkward Zombie points out in last week's Wrapup-winning comic "Off Track," all she can do in the series' second DS outing is follow a dotted line, often into a wall, obstacle or slavering jaws of a hideous beast.
Second and third place went to Digital Unrest's "Incognito" and Penny Arcade's "Planting a Flag," respectively. If you've got a strip you'd like to see in tomorrow's Wrapup, make sure you drop a link in the comments, or send in a tip!Readers pick best webcomic: Off Track originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Ferrari: The Race Experience steers towards Wii and PSN |
System 3 has announced yet another Ferrari-licensed racing game, Ferrari: The Race Experience, presumably a follow-up to last year's Ferrari Challenge Deluxe. Like System 3's previous efforts, this will be hitting both Wii and PlayStation 3. However, PS3 owners will only be able to find the game on the virtual shelves of the PlayStation Network. Why? System 3 explains that it's become too costly to deal with retail. "The vast amounts of money required in securing a decent in-store presence through co-operative marketing [makes it] easy to see why some games are doomed before they start. By going down a download only route, System 3 is quietly confident that it can service consumer demand directly and efficiently."
While many of System 3's future releases will be exclusive to download platforms, the company did admit that it can't give up on retail altogether. "Obviously we are not moving away fully from boxed product as we are committed to maximising our games across all formats and Wii games, for example, are still only released as physical product."Ferrari: The Race Experience steers towards Wii and PSN originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011 is about more than just shooting animals |
Shake off that sense of deja vu. We're talking about a different Cabela's game here: Activision has just announced Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011, the next installment in its iterative series of hunt-em-down-and-shoot-em-ups. It's set to stalk retail shelves "late fall" and will be available on the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and DS systems. Every version sans the DS installment will come packed with the Top Shot Elite controller, a wireless gun peripheral created by the same people at Activision who brought you the Guitar Hero controllers.
Activision is apparently putting a lot of production value into this latest Cabela's title, tapping Brad Santos, screenwriter and creative director, to pen the tale of Cole Rainsford, who has joined his estranged father in the African safari to hunt dangerous animals terrorizing local villages there. See, kids? Hunting is a noble pursuit.
Feel free to track some screens from the upcoming game (and the controller) in our gallery below. If you prefer your game a bit more lively, then head past the break for a teaser trailer.
Continue reading Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011 is about more than just shooting animals Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011 is about more than just shooting animals originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Square Enix registers European trademark for 'Gun Loco' |
If we were to place a single bet on what we thought Square Enix's recently filed European trademark for "Gun Loco" would end up being, we'd almost certainly be proven wrong within a few months. Instead, we've got three hypotheses, which we've ranked below in order of likelihood. Now all our bases should totally be covered.
- Gun Loco: A stylish, fast-paced shooting game. Features over-the-top gunplay and comedically bad voice acting.
- Gun Loco: A psychological thriller about an evil scientist who invents a laser capable of driving ordinary people into irreversible fits of insanity.
- Gun Loco: An FPS in which the hero locates a gun capable of shooting entire freight trains at enemies. (Please, please, Square Enix -- let it be this one.)
Square Enix registers European trademark for 'Gun Loco' originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Visit scenic Nar Shaddaa in Star Wars: The Old Republic |
 The Star Wars: The Old Republic website reveals a new world for the MMO: the "smuggler's moon" of Nar Shaddaa, orbiting the Hutt homeworld. It's a huge city full of fugitives and other criminals, and is host to an ongoing war between the Hutt Cartel and the Exchange Syndicate -- you know, the kind of thing that a Jedi pays no attention to because he's too busy bringing down the government of the whole galaxy. It also kind of looks like something out of Phantasy Star Online.
Have you ever noticed how in science fiction, entire planets will just have one defining feature? Like in Star Wars: Hoth is an ice planet, Dagobah is 100% swamp, Coruscant is one enormous city, and this place is a different planetwide city. Based on all the planets we've lived on (pretty much the one), that doesn't seem like how it works. Of course, the Star Wars universe is the one with lightsabers and Wookiee best friends, so there's definitely value to its interpretation of civilization.Visit scenic Nar Shaddaa in Star Wars: The Old Republic originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Analyst: Call of Duty Online could make $100 million in its first year |
Rumors have been flying around about a subscription-based Call of Duty game for some time now -- Activision boss Bobby Kotick loves the idea, because he loves money, and the company's other subscription-based game, World of Warcraft, is quite the cash-printing machine. So why not go down that road?
Many still believe Activision will, including Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey. With the publisher's plans to break into China and Korea, Hickey told IndustryGamers he sees Call of Duty as the perfect platform for accomplishing that goal and strengthening ties with NetEase, the online powerhouse of the Chinese market. "We expect the Company [NetEase] could extend their relationship with Activision Blizzard, by establishing an additional license to operate Call of Duty Online in China and Blizzard's unannounced MMO, which will likely leverage their Battle.net platform," he said. "The eventuality of COD in China could bring an additional +$50 to +$100 million in sales and +$0.15 to +$0.30 in EPS in its first year of operation." EPS, to clarify, is short for "earnings per share."
Who knows what's in store for the future, but for now, rest assured: you won't ever have to fork over extra cash to play Modern Warfare 2 online.Analyst: Call of Duty Online could make $100 million in its first year originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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