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Gears of War 3: RAAM’s Shadow

The much-praised shooter series, Gears of War, has captivated fans since its inception back in 2006. With the conclusion to the trilogy now long over, Epic Games is happy to announce a brand new campaign adventure unlike anything we have ever seen before. Now available on Xbox LIVE for a meager 1,200 Microsoft Points, the second major game add-on for Gears of War 3, RAAM’s Shadow, will extend the value of this already very addictive game.

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Review
Super Mario 3D Land

Remember: all pics here are 2D representations of 3D. Don’t complain or I will ground pound you.

It is always challenging to review Super Mario titles; while there are a whole whack-ton of them, they are all just so damned good. Of course, there is a big pile of expectation placed on our plumber friend’s shoulders due to the fact the his latest adventure, Super Mario 3D Land, is a first party title on a relatively new platform (that has some less-than-stellar titles available for it since launch). Of course, there are other great titles available already; but there is just something about Mario that brings out the best in Nintendo hardware; it really defies description. This 3DS title is no exception, no matter which dimension you’re looking at.

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Gamercamp Lv3: Seth Cooper Interview

A couple of months back, a game called Foldit made headlines when gamers used it to solve an HIV protein strand that has been eluding scientists for a decade. Fold it is a game where a player is given a protein that they must fold up for maximum points following certain rules. I had a chance to sit down with Seth Cooper from the University of Washington (who worked on Foldit) to talk about the game and to discuss what else is coming out of the University of Washington.

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At a Glance
Get Into the Zone (with Freebies!)

Never be the first or the last guy. Middle is always the way to go.

Newly-registered (officially) Xitol Softworks used to be a mod team for Halo: CE and and Halo 2 PC; later, they were a community for Halo 3. But now they have evolved ton an indie game dev team, and are working on some pretty neat stuff.

Their current endeavour, Zone: The Battleground, is an Unreal-powered multi-player FPS built off of the Zone universe (created by Xitol) that is rumoured to be intense and vastly customizable! It will be released next year, but Xitol wants you to start getting excited about it now; and they have given us the nod to Tweet some codes for a free copy of the remix of the original “Future” track created by Kenny Clemson (here).

You’ll have to follow us on Twitter to be able to get the codes. Once you have a code, click here and go bananas. These codes are one-use; please be kind and don’t hog them all.

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Review
MLB Bobblehead Battle

With the world series wrapped up and old man winter covering all the fields in snow, Baseball fans are left wondering where they can get their ball and bat fix now. Enter MLB Bobblehead Battle, a game for the XBLA, developed and published by Konami – ready to fill in that Baseball hole inside of you. However, it doesn’t fill that hole with baseball goodness, but with spiders and bitter tasting things. The game leaves me questioning if this is real life or not because the design choices just blow my mind.

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Review
Motionsports Adrenaline

Motionsports Adrenaline is a new game from Ubisoft for the Xbox360 Kinect. The game involves five different “extreme” disciplines: base jumping, mountain biking, kite surfing, kayaking and rock climbing. Of course being the extreme guy that I am, Jorge knew this game would be right up my alley. Growing up as a generation X-er I’ve been involved in most of these sports in one capacity or another (aside from base jumping) so I was eager to see how they translated into a video game – especially rock climbing.

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News Bytes
Stuff From Lately

The Holidays lumber ever closer to us, and we madly try to make our way through all of the titles that are either out or going to be out very soon. Throughout all of this madness, though, we would remind people that there are other public events and things to do that are happening in the near future! We’ll take some time to break it down here – old skool.

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