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Yes at LGS the Sims 3 was given a date during EA's press conference.  The date was announced to be February 20, 2009.  Look forward to the next expansion in the evergrowing Sims franchise. 

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We've always ben fans of the Team Fortress 2 trailers, and the new "Meet The Sandwich" video is no exception, giving us plenty of "lawlz" as the kids these days say. Watch, enjoy, and maybe even make yourself a sandwich.

Blizzard is famous for it's "when it's ready" line and it seems that they have labeled the much anticipated Wrath of The Lich King cinematic as ready. Many outlets are reporting that Blizzard's cinematic will be shown at the Leipzig Games Convention on August 21 at 1:00 pm. Thats, three days folks! Although this blogger has stopped playing World of Warcraft (for now), I am always awed by the detail and all around awesomeocity of Blizzard's cinematics. Let's just hope this cinematic is not enough for this blogger to pick up the game again, because this blogger still wants to keep his life outside of Azeroth alive.

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Mmmmmm world exclusive trailer. Although world exclusives are always tasty, the graphics on this one remind us a bit too much of Grand Theft Auto. But that didn't stop it's predecessor from selling well last time. We expect this one will do just as well, if not better. The God Father II is only for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, there's no The God Father: The Black Hand love for Wii as of yet. Do we have any God Father fans excited for the game out there? Now if you'll excuse us, we'll get back to listening to Jonathan Coulton songs as we get ready to move our "offices."

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Although we too were shocked when we heard there were prototypes of Spore, as we thought Will Wright does not make games, he births them, we wondered why Maxis decided to release them.

 Play with our Prototypes

 Spore has been a huge undertaking. Along the way we ended up exploring countless design directions in gameplay, simulation and user interface.

One of the ways in which we explore possible design directions is by building simple, playable prototypes that we can play around with to get a sense for a particular system.

Usually these prototypes are never seen by the public, but we thought some of the more intrepid players out there might enjoy playing around with a few of our early Spore prototypes. Keep in mind these are not tested, supported or even easily explained.

You can check out Spore's "Play With Our Prototypes" page to download and play the early test versions of Spore. Even though Maxis is showing some love for Macs with the final version of Spore, apparently they weren't so loving of the platform when designing it's prototypes. Sorry folks, the prototypes PC only.

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Quake playable in your browser. Free to play. Sweet, sweet video footage leaked from Quake Con 2008. What more do we need to say? Actually, there is just one more thing, as Columbo would say. If you'd like to join in on the Quake Live beta test, you can sign up using your email on Quake Live's official site.

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Game Informer will have the full wrap on the game in their new issue when it goes on sale August 18. Heres what we know so far:

"Batman: Arkham Asylum from Rocksteady Studios and Eidos. This completely original title explores Gotham City’s darkest location, the infamous Arkham Asylum. But as a routine prison transfer goes wrong, the Joker sets his demented plan into action and Batman comes face to face with an army of his worst enemies. In a dark and gritty setting reminiscent of Bioshock (with a story co-written by Paul Dini), Arkham Asylum is setting the stage for a true-to-character Batman game."

Heres to hoping that the rumored Pandemic developed Batman is indeed in the works as well. The more the merrier right? Well, as long as it isn't a repeat of Superman 64 (which doesn't look to be the case), because 2 doses of Superman 64 is enough to kill a man.

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