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Microsoft launches Mission 4 Miracles

Giving begins at the console? It could be, as Microsoft launches Mission 4 Miracles, a new fund raising and awareness initiative for Children’s Miracle Network on Tuesday.  Gamers will be able to use their Xbox Live points to donate money to the network of 14 children’s hospitals via the 360. In return the generous player will get access to exclusive content, including exclusive GamerPics and themes created by graffiti artist Patrick Thompson.  Additionally, there’ll be chances to  participate in special “Game With Fame” events throughout the summer.  If you’re not…

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A Visual Guide To The Role-Playing Game

Last week Kotaku posted a very cool, and informative, infographic about RPG video games – In case you needed a quick primer on the who’s who and what’s what of the role-playing genre, or just want something pretty to hang on the fridge, here’s The Kotaku Genre Guide to Role-Playing Games. Consider this a round-up of some of the key info you need to know to stay abreast of the role-playing game genre. You’ve got the top-ranked games, a field guide to RPG sub-genres, and a look at some of…

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Crackdown 2 hands-on and interview

When the original Crackdown came out, it came with a code to access the early beta of Halo 3. At the time, some considered Crackdown to be the bonus game you get when your buy your early access pass to the beta.  Some complained that this was just a crass marketing ploy to move more copies, which it undoubtedly did.  If you look past those meta arguments though, Crackdown was also a bright, vibrant, open world superhero sandbox which in many ways still holds its own against the newer entrants…

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Toronto Hand Eye Society Social Tonight

The Toronto Hand Eye Society, a “not-for-profit coalition of projects and people in support of Toronto’s videogame communities”, is holding their third social of 2010, at Unit Bar, 1198 Queen West. In addition to having a presentation by Brandon Boyer, founder of Offworld, contributing editor of Boing Boing & newly appointed IGF Chairman, the Society just announced that indie game artist Mark Essen will also be attending: Mark Essen Hoffman aka MESSHOF, a bona fide indie videogame rockstar & educator, will be rocking Unit Bar this Thursday alongside Mr. Boyer….

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A Brief History of the Modern Pixel, 8-bit Heroes, and more…

Simon Cottee, animator of the pixel art cartoon Rule (created in Sleep is Death, see it after the jump) has put together this short documentary on pixel art, where he talks to SiD creator Jason Rohrer, chiptune musician Dot.AY, and Studio Joho, creators of the Dan the Man video (also after the jump) Ars Technica also recently posted a great pixel art article, 8-bit heroes: Ars explores the resurgence of pixel art. They talked to some of the field’s best artists and developers, such as Gary J. Lucken (Army of…

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Rock Band 3 brings keytar, 80’s cheese to the mix

Green Day fans who downloaded the 2 song demo of Green Day: Rock Band got the first nugget of a hint that keyboards keytars would be coming to Rock Band 3. At the end of the demo, the RB3 image splashed onscreen, that included the four classic instruments as well as an icon for keyboard. The microphone icon was also changed to show three mics, which suggests that Harmonix is going to be bringing, er, harmonics, to the third installment of the rhythm game, though that’s less of surprise since…

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Ubisoft Toronto to make next Splinter Cell game

Gamasutra has a great article up taking a look at the new Ubisoft Toronto studio, which includes moving development of the next Splinter Cell chapter there, as well as the challenges and opportunities inherent in going big in launching a new location. “It’s a really nice position to be in,” she explained. “Instead of starting a studio and working on small projects, Nintendo DS or portables, we’re starting out of the gate with triple-A only.” “The reason that I think that’s the right strategy is that it allows us to attract…

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Crackdown 2 animated miniseries launches, so far Orb free

The server switchover had kept us preoccupied here at the rgb HQ, so what better way than to get caught up in all the latest gaming news? In what’s becoming an increasingly popular way to keep your game on the forefront of gamers’ minds when a release date is imminent, the gang from Ruffian present a 5 part animated miniseries that takes place in Pacific City. For those who’ve played the first game, the familiar voice of the Agency is back to narrate the tale in his unique way. The…

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Halo: Reach release date announced

Now that the beta for Halo: Reach has run its course, Bungie has announced that the full game will be coming out September 14, 2010. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bungie collected a LOT of debugging information during the beta, either. In less than 3 weeks, the beta run saw over 2.7 million users log 16 million hours and 1.1 billion kills. That’s over a kill a minute, if you’re curious. “It’s exceeded our expectations,” said Bungie Studios community director Brian Jarrard. “Our only real perspective going into this was…

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Fable III adds Windows to its world

It seems there’s a lot of news coming out of Peter Molyneux and Lionhead Studios regarding Fable III recently. The latest is that Fable III will be available not only on the Xbox 360, but the PC as well. On the 360 there will be both a standard and the limited edition for the hardcore fans of the franchise. On the PC, it will be available both at retail and as a download via the awkwardly named Games on Demand on Games for Windows – LIVE. I’m not knocking the…

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