Saying that I am a big LOTR fan is quite the understatement. Add Pandemic to the mix and I'm right on board. Today Pandemic announced development of the next great LOTR game, Lord of the Rings: Conquest. A game that will put you on those epic battlefields from the New Line trilogy. Check out the official site here and explore around. Good stuff. Now if only my prayers would be answered for the movies to come out on blu-ray and for The Hobbit to come out before I die. Guillermo del Toro better not fuck it up. Anyway, see the press release for Conquest after the break!

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Parkour (free running) is definitely gaining popularity, ever since the opening scene of Casino Royale the building-hopping sport has been showing up more in games, movies and advertisements. Mirror's Edge aims to redefine free running and quite possibly first person games in general. Hit the jump for the new trailer!

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Made up news network MNN has launched a scathing attack on
Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, claiming the Xbox 360 and PS3 title "is
training our journalists to be lazy."

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Well GTA the Fourth is not even out yet and it's already being lauded as the best game ever. After playing Vice City and losing interest after a few hours I swore I would never play another GTA game. Then, after breaking my promise and playing San Andreas until I was so frustrated with a mission I was throwing my controller I vowed again that I would never play another GTA game.

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Initial D Extreme Stage is slated for a late Spring or early Summer release this year in Japan. This will basically be a port of Initial D Arcade Stage 4, with extra features like online play. Whether or not the online features will work outside of Japan is unknown at this time. Most fans of the manga and anime will be all over this, but being the PS3 is region free for games, racing game fans in general should give this a shot too.
For first images, please click the following link, via Magic Box:
http://www.the-magicbox.com/0803/game080303b.shtml
For information on Initial D Arcade Stage 4, check out this Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_D_Arcade_Stage_4
If you want to preorder, check out this link via Play Asia:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-bp-49-en-70-2lx5.html

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