Sony has declared that it expects sales of Guerrilla Games' upcoming Killzone 2 to match if not surpass those of Hideo Kojima's critically acclaimed stealth/action title, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
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The Orlando Science Center is hosting the fourth annual Otronicon event January 16-20, 2009, featuring video games, simulators, art displays, workshops, film festivals, weddings and more.

What: Video Game Competition & Tournaments | Otronicon
When: January 16th to 20th
Where: Orlando Science Center
Website: http://www.otronicon.org

There is more info on the website: http://www.otronicon.org
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The hero of the piece, CID is thrust from the dull drudgery of his every day life into an exciting mission to rescue Mia. CID is a Crash Impact Dummy, one of millions created by the Professor B.M. Werken's company to ensure that every product available on the market is safe for humankind. He diligently crashes, smashes, checks, re-checks and re-re-checks everything from lemonade to escalators. Like most of us at one point or another, CID thinks that there must more to life than just work. He's happy enough to put up with it, but he can't help thinking that there's something... else.
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Following yesterday's unveiling of a Resident Evil 5 hardware bundle for the Xbox 360, Sony and Capcom have come through with a similar bundle for the PlayStation 3. The PlayStation 3 Biohazard 5 Premium Limited Box will include a copy of Biohazard 5, an 80 gigabyte PlayStation 3 system, and two Dualshock 3 controllers.
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PS3Trophies.org have just published the latest trophy list, this time, SOCOM: US Navy Seals Confrontation gets some trophy love.

There are only 37 trophies in the list but they seem to reward the regulars rather than the trophy addicts. It may also be worth pointing out that it seems like someone at Sony forgot to release the caps lock when inputting this bad boy. TALK ABOUT CAPS!!
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Last year, Nintendo got the likes of Liv Tyler, Nicole Kidman and other female celebrities to promote the Nintendo DS. While those ads did nothing for non-casual gamers, it did at least get the point across that the DS can be accessible to anyone.

This year, Nintendo has started a new promotional campaign staring Fred Willard, one of the Bob's from Office Space and a few other actors that may or may not really be Fred Willard's friends in real life to promote the DS and Personal Trainer: Cooking. This seven-minute long ad is full of awkward jokes, cringe worthy moments and some real bad acting.
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A comprehensive list of the differences between Pokemon Platinum and Pokemon Diamond/Pearl has been compiled.
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Spong Write: She's like Abraham Lincoln you know.

Debra Taylor Tate has resigned from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - the US government agency charged with "regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable".

Debra who? Yes, we thought you'd ask that. Last year she stated that we might all, "find it alarming that one of the top reasons for college drop-outs in the U.S. is online gaming addiction - such as World of Warcraft - which is played by 11 million individuals worldwide."

Yes, Ms Tate blamed computer game addiction for college drop-out rates. She did so in a speech with no actual facts or studies to back her up. Her resignation speech was almost as revolting as that lack of responsibility - but in more of a nausea inducing manner. Although you can read the full speech here... you might not want to based on the following extract.
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Relic has revealed the system requirements for Dawn of War II, its highly-anticipated real-time strategy game, on the game's community web site. Posted below are the minimum and recommended technical specifications:

Minimum Requirements
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
* P4 3.2 GHz (single core) or any Dual Core processor
* 1 GB RAM (XP), 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
* A 128MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) - Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI X1600, or equivalent
* 5.5 GB of Hard Drive space

Recommended
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
* AMD Athlon 64×2 4400+ or any Intel Core 2 Duo
* 2 GB RAM (XP and Vista)
* A 256MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) - Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900, or equivalent
* 5.5 GB of Hard Drive space

In addition to releasing the system requirements, Relic also announced that it would reveal how players can get access to the Dawn of War II beta on the game's web site come January 6.
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Gamerdeals.net writes:

"For a limited time if you purchase Far Cry 2 on Xbox 360 or PS3 you can get 50% off an additional game from Ubisoft over at Amazon.com.

Far Cry 2 has an open ended single player experience, but also supports 16 player online multiplayer."
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