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To describe Gas Powered Games’ Demigod as a DotA clone is doing a disservice to its target audience. Demigod is DotA for people who think DotA sounds like a division of Homeland Security.

So what is Demigod? Picture a PC RTS where the player controls a single, gigantic hero unit–an RTS/action-RPG hybrid. Each side has an automatically-spawning horde of minor units, with the Demigod’s task being to either direct them to a specific location, or impact the battle to the point that your side eventually overtakes the opposing enemy.

As such, Demigods come in two categories: Assassins and Generals. The former are pure warriors, while the latter primarily take comm…

To describe Demigod as a DotA clone is doing a disservice to its target audience. Demigod is DotA for people who think DotA sounds like a division of Homeland Security.

So what is Demigod? Picture an RTS game where the player controls a single, gigantic hero unit–an RTS/action-RPG hybrid. Each side has an automatically-spawning horde of minor units, with the Demigod’s task being to either direct them to a specific location, or impact the battle to the point that your side eventually overtakes the opposing enemy.

As such, Demigods come in two categories: Assassins and Generals. The former are pure warriors, while the latter primarily take command of the minio…

The level editor in MediaMolecule’s upcoming customizable PS3 platformer LittleBigPlanet could net talented creators more than internet fame–it could land them a paying job.

Speaking to CVG, producer Pete Smith said that the team at MediaMolecule plans to closely watch the game’s oft-touted user-created level marketplace for talented Little Big auteurs. “We will be aware of who those awesome designers are and certainly there’s the potential to get them building levels as part of [our] team,” he said.

Smith mentioned …

Independent developer Introversion has introduced its new Rocket Riot multiplayer mode for Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest, a new multiplayer variant of the company’s flatness-loving action-RTS hybrid Darwinia. Rocket Riot is a capture-and-hold race to build and launch a rocket.

Multiwinia will premiere on PCs in September. An Xbox 360 version called Darwinia+, containing the original single-player Darwinia and Multiwinia, will arrive as a digital download on Xbox Live Arcade late this year.

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Developers could soon hit the limits of the Xbox 360’s graphics hardware, guessed senior Epic employee Rod Fergusson.

“I think we’re certainly approaching the upper end of it, as far as what developers are able to do with it,” Fergusson told Gamasutra. In the near term, gamers are covered: “There will be games in development that won’t ship until 2010, and I’m sure they’ll look killer,” he assured.

Epic Games’ Gears of War 2

But 2010…

Following up on this morning’s revelation that Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will be a playable character in Guitar Hero World Tour (PS2, PS3, 360, Wii), publisher Activision has provided a trailer featuring the singer and his everlasting gaze.

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The Shacknews delay tag has gotten another workout today as Slant Six’s PS3 online shooter SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation had its public beta test pushed back a few days.

The “good news,” according to the SOCOM website, is that the final game is still on track for its October 14 release.

The “bad news” is that the preview for pre-order customers–originally set to launch yesterday–has been moved to Friday, September 5, and access for Sony downloadable video magazi…

As Gearbox prepares to unleash Samba de Amigo (Wii) upon an unsuspecting public, publisher Sega has provided a trailer chronicling one couple’s forbidden love.
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Supporting downloadable content, the maraca-shaking music game and its varied song list arrive in Wii form on September 23.

The veil of shadow has finally come off the long-rumored Ninja Blade, revealing the title to be a ninja-themed hack-and-slash action game from Otogi and Metal Wolf Chaos veterans From Software.

Due out next year as a Microsoft-published Xbox 360 exclusive, the game will pack fast-paced cutscenes and high-tension action set in a faithful rendering of famous parts of Tokyo, going by an IGN interview.

The first details were accompanied by the above screenshots, with more information expected to arrive …

The veil of shadow has finally come off the long-rumored Ninja Blade, revealing the title to be a ninja-themed hack-and-slash action game from Otogoi and Metal Wolf Chaos veterans From Software.

Due out next year as a Microsoft-published Xbox 360 exclusive, the game will pack fast-paced cutscenes and high-tension action set in a faithful rendering of famous parts of Tokyo, going by an IGN interview.

The first details were accompanied by the above screenshots, with more information expected to arrive…