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A Kingdom for Keflings to Launch with Playable Avatars

NinjaBee announced today that A Kingdom for Keflings will be the first Xbox 360 title to ship with playable, in-game Avatars. Below is the press release with the announcement along with two screenshots of the game showing avatars.

WWE(R) SmackDown(R) vs. Raw(R) 2009 Playable Demo Now Available for Download via PlayStation(R)Network

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. - THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) and JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAKK) today announced the WWE® SmackDown® vs. Raw® 2009 playable demo is now available for free download via PlaySt

G4: Obama And Palin Coming to Mercenaries 2 As Playable Characters

From G4: "Turns out that the rumors were true! Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are indeed coming to Mercenaries 2: World in Flames as playable characters in an upcoming update.

Hacking the Left 4 Dead Demo: Split-Screen Co-op, Playable Zombies, and Custom Maps

Fans have had a field day with exploring what's possible in Valve's Left 4 Dead since the demo for the PC version was unlocked for pre-order customers yesterday. After less than 48 hours, a bit of trickery has yielded split-screen play, playable zombies from the versus mode, and even an old friend of Counter-Strike fans, the classic map de_dust.

Banjo demo goes LIVE

This just in - a free playable demo of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts has just been posted on Xbox LIVE. Go get it! Ours is already downloading…

C&C Red Alert 3 Single Player Demo Available Now

Electronic Arts has released a playable demo of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3. This single-player demo (2 GB) features the game's cinematic opening, one campaign mission from both the Soviet and Allied campaigns, and an interactive tutorial.

Dragon Tide Adds Warlocks

Dragon Tide is pleased to announce the addition of Warlocks as a playable class. Warlocks are masters of dark, demonic magic and are specialists in curses, afflictions, fire and shadow. Warlocks feature more base vitality and dexterity than most other spell casters, making them ideal for PvP and general battle.

Warhammer Online to receive new classes

Christmas may be coming early for Warhammer Online subscribers in the form of new playable character classes.

Tom Clancy's EndWar Playstation 3 Demo Now Available

Kicking off the countdown to the game's release, Ubisoft announced today that a playable demo of Tom Clancy's EndWar(TM) for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system is now available to consumers. The demo is free and offered for download on the PLAYSTATION Network.

ImTOO MPEG to DVD Converter 3.0.39.1114

ImTOO MPEG to DVD Converter is a fast,easy to use DVD authoring software,which can convert MPEG1,MPEG2 and MP4 to DVD and burn it to DVD disc (playable on home DVD player). The MPEG to DVD Converter allows you to specify NTSC or PAL,adjust 4:3 or 16:9 video aspect and burn DVD disc,DVD folder or ISO files.To convert MPEG to DVD becomes so easy and fast! *Features 1.It is so easy to use that only a few clicks are enough 2.It offers super fast ripping speed beyond your imagination-It supports multithreading and batch conversion,thus provides>200% converting speed to users 3.It supports adjustable multiple Bit Rate and Frame Rate, you can get best quality video with TV screen 4.It supports device types include DVD-R,DVD+R,DVD-RW and DVD+RW 5.It provides so many brilliant DVD menus for DVD authoring 6.

The Best Breakout Game in the World Emerges on Smartphones

DotEmu, a start-up specialized in bringing classic video games to new devices, just announced the launch of Krypton Egg for Smartphone. The demo version of the game is also playable online on the developer's website.

Bright House Clicks On Online Video Store

Bright House Networks will steer customers to Time Warner Cable’s Road Runner Video Store, which provides 3,000 movies and TV shows for rent and purchase over the Internet and playable on Windows PCs.

Your 20 Free Rock Band Songs *Are* Coming, Eventually

The twenty free downloadable tracks that Harmonix has promised to those who purchased Rock Band 2 are coming. Just hold tight. Some of you may have already gotten your code to download the batch of playable freebies, but for those of you haven't, those of you wondering why it's November 4th and you're codeless, Harmonix's Sean Baptiste explains.

Final Fantasy XI Confirmed For Dissidia

You heard rightly, Final Fantasy XI will be represented in Dissidia: Final Fantasy in the form of Shantotto, the impish little Tarutaru from Windurst. It was confirmed at a recent Final Fantasy XI event, and it looks like she will be a playable character.

Battlefield Multiplayer Maps Free on Xbox Live

DICE is announcing having released the long named Battlefield: Bad Company Community Choice Pack on Xbox Live. The pack is free to download and is basically made up of four single player maps that have been adapted by the company to be playable in multiplayer.

Doom Finally Ported To Flash

Kotaku writes: "What hasn't Doom been ported to at this point? You can't answer "Flash 10!" anymore, as an enterprising Newgrounds contributor has gone to the effort to port the id Software classic to Adobe's platform, making the first-person shooter playable in the web browser of your choice. It's a tidy little port, if a bit slow on this writer's 2 year old MacBook Pro."

Five XBLA Games To Get Retroactively Avatarded

Five Xbox Live games and one game are to get avatars. The games to get avatars are Hardwood Hearts, Hardwood Spades, Small Arms, UNO, and Bomberman Live are to get avatars. Scene It? Box Office Smash is also included. Also, a new Xbox Live arcade game will have playable avatars.

Rumor: Nazi Zombie Mode To Ship After CoD: WaW Release

The "Nazi Zombie Mode" was announced only last week for Call of Duty: World At War, showing a mode that looks similar to Horde in Gears of War 2, apart from it's jam packed full of Zombies. One thing that we discovered however is that it will only be playable up to one month after release.

iPod Converter 1.8 adds bitrate calculator, bugfixes

MacVide has launched iPod Converter 1.8, and update to its audio/video mp4 converter that fixes bugs and adds a bitrate calculator. The user can also set up an approximate output file size in version 1.8. The converter supports numerous video formats, including AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, ASF, DivX and more, and outputs mp4 files playable on iPods, the iPhone, Apple TV and others. It can crop out black bars, can set video resolutions and frame rates and bitrates for both audio and video.

MotoGP 08 [PC] Demo Available NOW

WorthPlaying writes: "MotoGP is the world's premier motorcycling championship consisting of 18 Grands Prix hosted around the globe, featuring the world's top motorcycle manufacturers who provide machinery for the world's best riders. The demo includes a quick race around the Mugello circuit, with a choice of riding as either Spanish favorite Dani Pedrosa or America's Nicky Hayden, playable in three models and set the opponent AI to create the ideal challenge to match their riding skills."

Resi 5 Euro demo confirmed

We were lucky enough to spend some time with both the game and the UK PR dude at the Xbox Gathering event for European journalists recently. While the chap was quick to explain the malarial African setting and the fact that you spend much of the game blowing the heads off the natives in brutalising levels of detail, he was less forthcoming when we pressed him for info about a playable demo.


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