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I love Ubi, you love Ubi. Heck, we ALL love Ubi…

…and it looks like Ubisoft love us too, because we just got a message telling us they’re running a massive promotion on their PC download titles (preorders excluded) in the official Ubishop, offering a whopping 40% off!

Just use this discount code when buying and you can get some top games for a ridiculously low price: ACB18MARCH

Oh, and act quick - the offer ends at midnight, Monday 28th Feb. – http://shop.ubi.com

Note: The offer is UK Only.

(Apologies to our foreign friends, much love)

We’d like to introduce you to the remaining two characters from Lucha Fury a brand new beat ’em up, due to be released by Punchers Impact on XBLA and PSN in March 2011 and PC later in the year.

Lucha Fury follows the adventure of four young and talented wrestlers who spend their lives loafing around until a mysterious shortage of the energy drink they are all hooked on bring them into a journey to fight against the most incredible worldwide conspiracy ever!
No blood and real violence, only fun and wacky action in non-stop evolving environments for surprising gameplay variations.
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Intel Extreme Masters World Championship at CeBIT 2011 – Total prize purse of 400,000 US Dollars in the fifth season of the league.

Turtle Entertainment, the leading company in the field of competitive gaming, together with Intel, the world’s leader in silicon innovation, presents the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship – the grand finale of the most prominent international league in video games.

The event will take place on March 1 – 5, at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany the largest IT expo in the world. After seven months of rivalry and a series of live events around the globe the best professional gamers from Europe, Asia and America will clash for the title of the World Champion and a share of 130,000 US Dollars – a portion of 400,000 US Dollars, which is the total prize purse in this season of the league.
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Angry Fish!! No, wait…

A wise man once said, “Originality is dead” – [We don't know who, he was one of those really boring types]
You know what, he might have been on to something.

We’re all for games and movies borrowing elements from eachother, it’s the way the world works. Heck, even Avatar was just Pocahontas in a 3D-disguise.
But sometimes a new game comes along that so clearly, unashamedly resembles a current classic that it’s almost impossible to judge it before it’s released.
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Us gamers are prone to the occasional hype-fuelled nerdgasm. It’s just one of them things – they happen to us, and we accept them as part of our DNA make up.

None-gamers don’t understand them. In fact, sometimes they even go as far as taking the piss out of us because of it. But you know what, screw them! They’re missing out.

Nerdgasms usually happen when watching an awesome preview trailer, or when you get your hands on a demo you’ve waited ages for and find that it exceeds even your loftiest of expectations.
But it’s pretty rare that a simple news header can get the nerd juices flowing, especially when the actual content of said news only contains one sentence of info you didn’t know already. But today, Epic Games made that happen, and I’ve just had my very first first premature nerdjaculation because of it (honest, it’s never happened before!). (more…)