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One of MotoGP's official commentators lends his voice to the official video game of the 2013 season. Developers filmed the recording session & caught up with Gavin afterwards for a quick interview.

The footage introduces the Baserunner, a workhorse armored transport vehicle, the backbone of the prospector's ground fleet. Versatile, tough and infinitely customizable, the Baserunner's size and power make it the ultimate vehicle for tearing across the rugged terrain of LM-27.

In a "Friday Follow-Up" segment that aired on her show, Katie Couric admitted that her recent show on video game violence that featured a "who's who" of anti-video game voices was one-sided. The show, "Are Video Games Ruining Your Life?" aired on April 29 and featured Daniel Petric, who cited video games as being a "catalyst" for shooting and killing his mother on October 20, 2007. It also featured Dr.read more

Target is currently offering the 8GB Wii U Basic at $239.99, one of the lowest prices if not the lowest price we've seen from a major North American retailer. Put your calculators away: that's 20 percent off the normal price of $300. Back in March, Best Buy put the Wii U Basic on sale at $250 for a couple of days. The Wii U fell below targets In Nintendo's year-end financials, coming in at 3.45 million shipped worldwide as of March 31. According to the estimates of Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, aka the Pachter-tron, the Wii U sold 55,000 units in the US last month.Wii U Basic going for $240 at Target originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 21 May 2013 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Some of the folks who pledged for the development of Star Citizen will be receiving an in-game ship that can be customized and inspected via a new mobile application currently in development. The team has created a video to show off the work in progress that is pretty awesome. Check it out!

The state of Rhode Island has announced that it will be selling off the assets from the now-defunct 38 Studios in an effort to recoup losses from the loan the company defaulted on last year. Of most interest to potential buyers are the assets from 38's only game, Kingdoms of Amalur.

Sony have had their big day, now it's Microsoft's turn. With just 3 weeks to go until E3, Microsoft are about to officially announce and reveal the next Xbox gaming console. You can watch the reveal yourself via Xbox.com, Xbox Live, Spike TV, or GameTrailers.com. Here's the expected timetable:This is an excerpt from the full story which was originally featured on gamrReview, read the full version here - New Xbox Announcement Coverage - Article

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has announced Freedom Wars, previously teased as “Panopticon,” a multiplayer action game coming to PS Vita in 2014. The game is set in the near future, where the world is in ruin and humans no longer live in the outside world. Mankind has constructed a city called “Panopticon,” where it is [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Mega has been priced and dated for its UK release, with the oversized 6.3-inch hand-filler set to hit shelves in July. The smartphone, announced back in April alongside a 5.8-inch sibling, will be priced from £459.99 ($697) including UK sales tax, and pack a 1.7GHz dualcore processor running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The 16GB version of the Galaxy Mega 6.3 will be available in black or white, according to UK retailer Clove, and each is due sometime in July. There’s currently no sign of the 8GB version Samsung also announced; the Mega has a microSD card slot to add to the onboard storage. As we’ve seen from Samsung smartphones before, the Galaxy Mega 6.3 is a somewhat odd beast. Although we’re used to large phones carrying the most impressive specifications, in fact the 6.3-inch giant has relatively mundane abilities. The display, for instance, runs at 720p HD resolution – far less than the Full HD panel on the smaller Galaxy S 4 – and uses an LCD TFT panel rather than the AMOLED Samsung favors for its high-end devices. The camera, meanwhile, runs to 8-megapixels, with a 1.9-megapixel camera on the front. Inside, there’s 1.5GB of RAM rather than the 2GB we’re seeing on other high-end phones. Although Samsung confirmed that the Mega 6.3 would launch with LTE support, that won’t be present in the UK it seems. Instead, the phone will get dualband (900/2100) HSPA+ and quadband GSM/EDGE, along with WiFi a/b/g/n/ac and NFC. Samsung is yet to confirm launch plans – if any – for the Galaxy Mega series in the US, though the phone is expected to begin its roll-out in Europe and Russia from this month. Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 gets priced up (but is still confusing) is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear. © 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

I’m pretty sure Bladeless‘ title is wrong. Based on the number of heads I saw fly (many of which were mine), I feel pretty safe in saying that there are, in fact, blades. Either that or they don’t build unnervingly silent samurai monsters like they used to. But then, in this economy… Anyway. Bladeless’ focus is on briefly telegraphed attacks and split-second reactions. It’s hardly the most original formula ever (Hello, Punch-Out, every game that’s ripped off Punch-Out), but Bladeless’ side-scrolling duel setup and utterly sublime feel put it head and shoulders above the rest. At least, until a lightning strike katana slice trims off those conveniently exposed extremities. (more…)