There really isn’t a game hero out there as intense as Isaac Clarke. Severing limbs is the guy’s primary pastime. He braved the horrors of the Ishimura, lost all of his crew, and lost his sanity, yet he’s still ready to go out and crack some skulls. In this newest Dead Space 2 video, Isaac expands his palette of badassery into something like a zero-gravity HALO jump. Check it out.

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Konami has announced just recently that their latest action/adventure game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow will be available at North American retailers on October 5th, 2010. The game, which is set to be a reboot to the Castlevania series, is developed by MercurySteam and Kojima Productions, with Hideo Kojima himself on staff list as Executive Producer. The game is releasing on both the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 consoles.

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Bethesda has recently released the details pertaining to their pre-sell bonuses for their upcoming co-op title Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. Four different packs have been announced (Darkset, Griffin, Assassin, and Demon) each for one of four different game retailers. Each of the packages also contain four different strikingly different bonuses.

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Bethesda and Obsidian Entertainment have just recently revealed the voice cast for their upcoming game Fallout: New Vegas, sequel to their enormously successful post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout 3. Expectedly (and reassuringly) returning to the newer title is Ron Perlman, a familiar voice to fans of the series, and he brings along with him several other surprising and returning voice talents.

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Shank is getting ready to drop onto fans very soon, and with that in mind developer Klei Entertainment is rolling out some exciting goods for people following the development and release of the game. Five new pieces of concept art were revealed, hinting at the basis for certain characters and weapons. The trophy/achievement list was also outlined today, allowing players a glimpse of what is soon to come.

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Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow made a pretty big impact on the PSP scene after its 2007 release. I can only assume that the extremely warm reception the original title received (ranging from Game of the Year and Editor’s Choice awards from many publications) was the primary focus behind bringing the portable game to the PS2. With that being said, there is an inherent downside to bringing a portable game to a home console; this is to say nothing of a game nearly three years old.

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Klei Entertainment, the developer behind the upcoming PSN/XBLA/PC game Shank, has already given gamers more than enough reason to be excited about their polished-looking title. Now, they are giving even more. Available from The Official Shank Blog, a single piece from the game’s soundtrack is now available free for download.

The developer had also planned to promote its Facebook page for Shank by promising that if the game could get 1,500 fans, they would release the entire soundtrack. Seeing that their goal was hit almost immediately, the full soundtrack to Shank (scored by Vince De Vera) will be available for free download in the very near future.

Spawn Kill was recently given a rare chance to ask Visceral Games a couple of questions about their upcoming release Dead Space 2. Steve Papoutsis, Executive Producer of the studio, was more than happy to oblige. While he’s still a bit tight-lipped on some of the most sought-after information, Mr. Papoutsis did give us a closer look at some of the tweaks to the Dead Space formula that the sequel is going to offer.

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The Kill Kast is back again and this time they are talking portable gaming. Stephanie, Rebecca and Eric get together to talk about what they’ve been playing which includes Persona 3, Limbo, Borderlands and Hulu Plus on the PS3. As always we chat about some recent news and we go into our topic of the podcast which is portable gaming; what we like about it, what we hate about it, why we play portable games or why we don’t, and what we hope to see in future. More importantly we talk about our upcoming Halo: Reach contest which no one will want to miss out on. So check it out, find out what our big contest is and enjoy the podcast. Thanks for listening!

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Frozen Codebase, the developer for the previously in-production Metalocalypse video game, has confirmed that the game is no more. The studio’s founder, Ben Geisler, shared in a phone call with Gamasutra that they had been developing the game for Konami, and that Konami no longer holds the license for the game.

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At Comic Con 2010, during a panel called “Building a Horror Entertainment Franchise: Dead Space 2″, EA and Visceral Games announced two new entries into the Dead Space franchise: Dead Space Aftermath and Dead Space Salvage. Keeping in line with the previous Dead Space tie-ins, Dead Space Aftermath is an animated feature film, and Dead Space Salvage is a graphic novel. Aftermath delves into the story behind the first-responder mission to Aegis VII, while Salvage tells the tale of a group of miners who discover the USG Ishimura.

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I have the feeling that DeathSpank is going to appeal to a lot of old-school gamers. Too many modern-era games try to deliver a serious, intense, epic, and dramatic story with multitudes of plot twists, betrayals, and the like. DeathSpank goes the complete opposite direction. Full of crisp visuals and irreverent humor, the latest from Ron Gilbert and Hothead Games delivers what many gamers want, but not necessarily what they might expect.

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One of my primary concerns with games that put a huge focus on player-created content pertains to the medium with which said content can be utilized. Can a title actually deliver both an expansive set of creation tools and solid gameplay that makes the crafting worthwhile? The team behind ModNation Racers definitely had this goal in mind, though they expectedly fell a bit short of one those two major concepts.

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Clash of the Titans is coming. Developed by Warner Bros. Interactive and Game Republic (the force behind titles such as Genji: Days of the Blade and the upcoming Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom), Clash of the Titans is set to appeal not only to the core of action game players, but to fans of the old and new Clash of the Titans movies and mythology fans alike.

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Red Dead Redemption has been an enormous hit for the games industry, and it’s no secret why: players can do whatever they choose in the untamed old West setting. Recent information from games site Gamespy has displayed very specific statistics taken from user gameplay during the first two weeks after the game’s release. Among the information are tidbits like total log time, total alcohol consumed, and in-game murder counts. The results are pretty interesting.

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