Final Fantasy fans may have been dismayed by the delay of the Final Fantasy XIV beta yesterday, but be dismayed no more! Square Enix has announced that the “critical bugs” have been exterminated and the North American beta will actually begin today at 7:00pm Pacific Time (10:00pm Eastern / Joystiq Time). Meanwhile, the European beta (available in the UK, France and Germany) will begin September 2 at 2:00 GMT and the Japanese beta is set to start on September 2 at 11:00 JST. Once the beta begins, just head over to the beta portal to start the registration process
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Final Fantasy XIV open beta starts tonight
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During a recent presentation of Red Faction: Armageddon , we asked what the designers at Volition felt were the top five changes made from Guerrilla to the latest installment. Red Faction: Guerrilla stood out as one of our favorites in 2009 , so we were interested to see if Volition would be covering up the same blemishes that we’d had in mind. You’ll find the answers from RF:A ’s Lead Level Designer, Jameson Durall, after the break.
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Volition’s top changes between Red Faction: Guerrilla and Armageddon
Filed under: Podcasts It’s the calm before the autumnal storm, and we’re marking the peace with some new releases like Mafia 2 and Shank . And, of course, Chris is playing a game from 1974, but you can just skip over that part
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Joystiq Podcast 151 – Brought to you by the fine folks at Bacardi edition
We apologize that we can’t deliver this post to you in glorious red monochrome 3D. Unfortunately, that technology hasn’t been invented yet and hopefully never will be
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Flashboy Plus breathes life into Virtual Boy (yes, you red that right)
Valve has sent over a new trailer for Portal 2 (you know how much we love those), this time highlighting the vocal talents of The Office scribe Stephen Merchant in the role of Wheatley. Merchant’s a wonderful match for the spherical sidekick, who’s sure to win you over with his unpoised, upbeat blathering. Just think of how sad you’ll be when you inevitably drop him into a pit of fire
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Portal 2 video: Stephen Merchant debuts as Wheatley
How would you like to own a piece of history? Sure, at any time you could point your browser here and relive the events that transpired on Dead Space Girl day , but it’s just not the same as being able to actually put your hands on a copy of Dead Space Extraction , y’know
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Dead Space Extraction going for $18 on Amazon
In my otherwise totally accurate and insightful review of Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days , I mocked the couture of the game’s villains. I might have even said they dressed like my dad, which is wholly unfair to a man at least 50 percent to thank for giving me the precious gift of life
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Kane and Lynch 2 apparently nailed belly chic
If our preview doesn’t have you pumped to try out the keyboard in Rock Band 3 , perhaps the latest trailer will. The video shows off a number of the songs suited to the new peripheral, including Kansas’ “Point of Know Return,” Foreigner’s “Cold as Ice” and more
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Rock Band 3 trailer tickles the ivories
The Gamescom awards have been handed out by an “expert jury” from the publishing and media sector, with Gran Turismo 5 taking the “Best of Gamescom” award.
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Gran Turismo 5 wins ‘best of’ Gamescom awards 2010
The SpeedGamers are taking on a couple of Ubisoft action platformers this weekend to help raise some money for the oil-stained Gulf of Mexico.
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SpeedGamers run an Assassin’s Creed, Prince of Persia marathon for the Gulf
