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2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- Gold Rush finally out, TF2 free this weekend!
- Phoenix Wright spinoff announced: Gyakuten Not Saiban
- Electronic Arts in Rock Band PAL Release: The Quest for More Money
- PC Gaming really extra not-dead: Spore dated, 7 SEP 2008
- PC Gaming still not dead - Mass Effect coming in May
- GTA IV dated: 29 APR 2008, for real this time.
- How we spent our long weekend: Hardware Hacking
- Rockstar lineup now on Steam, for a super mega discount
- Valve Store Update: Cubes! Posters! Headcrabs! Other Stuff!
- Sunday Dramabomb: Vivendi & Activision merge into "Activision Blizzard"
- Forums are open to registrations again
- Review Megapost: Shooters, Future Law, Gimmicks and Hobos
- BAD END: Bioware & Pandemic gobbled-up by EA
- BAD END: Smash Bros Brawl delayed til 10 FEB 2008
- End of the Universe Imminent: Sonic joins the Smash Bros lineup
- Rock Band: 360/PS3 - 23 NOV 2007 for $170, PS2 - 10 DEC 2007 for $160
- Online multiplayer confirmed for Smash Bros Brawl
- Fortress Forever out now!
- Last remnant of FASA closes up shop
- Good News and Bad News about The Orange Box preorder
- Hellgate: London preorder bonuses (and Beta!)
- Fortress Forever: Finally being released on 17 SEP 2007
- Reviews: Puzzles, Hair Metal, and Transforming Metal
- Valve launches Steam Community Beta
- QuakeCon Keynote Wrapup: Quake Wars release date, Quake Zero & Steam deal announced
- Activision and Neversoft confirm Metallica's "One" will be in GH3
- id's new game gets a title, hints of a release on all platforms
- Blizzard announces World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
- EA drops online support for tons of games
- GTA4 slips to 2008
- Toribash 3.0 Tantalizes with Trailer
- E3 2007 - Unreal Tournament 3 in-game trailer & screenshots
- Sony @ E3 2007 - Desperately Seeking Relevancy
- Nintendo @ E3 2007 - Numbers, Dates, the Zapper and ... a Scale?
- Microsoft @ E3 2007 - Games, Games, Games and an Olive 360
- PS3 $100 Price Drop Confirmed, Desperate
- Put your party hats on, it's DirectionalPad's 2nd birthday
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars beta gets patched
- Zelda: Phantom Hourglass coming sooner than expected
- Bioware & Sega team up for a Sonic DS RPG
- Steam to get community features next month
- Geometry Wars now available on Steam
- Quake Wars public beta details announced
- Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 dated - 09 OCT 2007
- Planned downtime coming up tonight
- Game Informer Exclusive Bonanza Part 2: Rock Band
- Game Informer Exclusive Bonanza Part 1: Fallout 3
- New Starcraft 2 video out
- Assassin's Creed: Worldwide Release this November
- Smash Bros. Brawl works with whatever controller you've got
- Fallout 3 teaser-trailer released, game confirmed as multi-platform
- Guitar Hero III Good News and Bad News
- Harmonix helps keep ScoreHero afloat
- Guitar Hero III confirmed, headed to ALL PLATFORMS
- Smash Bros. Dojo website launches
- Nintendo announces their Summer Lineup
- Metapost: Wordpress upgraded to 2.2
- Blizzard officially announces Starcraft 2
- Halo 3 - 25 SEP 2007
- Blizzard dusts off the old Hype Machine, announcement next weekend
- Activision finally announces Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s
- Flagship finally clarifies Hellgate: London multiplayer situation
- First GTA4 trailer finally out
- Apocalypse sign #23,098 - "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games"
- The black Xbox 360 "Elite" is totally real and coming soon
- EA announces Wing Commander Arena (but don't get excited)
- Mercenaries 2 announced, slated for multi-platform release
- Followup: Clover Studios returns as SEEDS
- Supreme Commander Quickie: The Demo is out
- UT2007 wrap-up: Names, Ports, and Slips
- Supreme Commander goes Gold, on shelves 20 FEB 2007
- Guitar Hero goes to . . Neversoft?
- Hellgate: London news from CES 2007 - Beta, Release and MP details
- New Year, new reviews
- Nintendo and Opera release the Wii Internet Channel
- Smash-hit Flash game "Line Rider" coming to Wii and DS
- Nintendo launches the Forecast Channel, Opera coming Friday
- Still can't find a Wii or PS3? Amazon will hook you up.
- Steam knocked out by a blustery day
- Nintendo replaces everyone's Wii straps
- Firefly rises from the dead in MMORPG form
- Halo 3 public beta signups begin tonight
- Gamespot deploys all-360 advertising for their PS3 subsection
- Downtime & Review updates
- Those reviews I promised
- Gamestop finds a few more PS3s
- Wal-Mart breaks Guitar Hero 2's street date by 2 weeks
- Sony sues Lik-Sang into oblivion
- Burning Crusade slips to Jan 2007
- Fox & Universal pull out of the Halo movie
- Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth preview posted
- Sam & Max's triumphant return to gaming now available
- The Jack Thompson Comedy Tour continues: Bully cleared for release
- Gamestop/EB Wii Preorder details confirmed
- Psychonauts available on Steam
- Capcom dissolves Clover Studios
- More Wii/PS3 Preorder rumors
- MTV reveals most of the Guitar Hero 2 set list
- New set of Reviews & Previews posted
- Wii / PS3 rumors: Preorders and Kiosks
- PS3 gets an upgrade and price drop in Japan
- Harmonix to be acquired by MTV for $175 Mil
- Wii in Europe - 8 DEC 2006, Australia - 7 DEC 2006
- New batch of games available on Steam
- Reggie confirms it: Wii in US - 19 NOV 2006, $250
- Wii in Japan - 02 DEC 2006
- Thursdayton pre-show speculation
- Double Fine scores a publishing contract with Vivendi Games
- Double dose of PS3 blunders: delays and shortages
- EGM confirms 12 new tracks for Guitar Hero 2!
- Duke Nukem Forever's dev team evaporates
- Sad news of the day: HL2:E2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal pushed to FEB 2007
- Nintendo confirms new US DS Lite colors
- Guitar Hero 2: Two more songs announced, plus weird stuff [Update!]
- F.E.A.R. MP goes free in a couple hours
- PLAYSTATION 3: A CAPITAL IDEA
- DPad sorta goes to SIGGRAPH 2006
- KillerNIC Pricing and Availability announced
- Downtime
- ESA Prez confirms: E3 as we know it is dead
- Guitar Hero 2 Updates: More songs and Practice Mode
- E3 in serious jeopardy, possibly cancelled indefinitely
- New Directional Pad forums online!
- Valve Media Wrapup: Portal, Team Fortress 2 and HL2 E2
- EU Release date for Opera DS - 06 OCT 2006
- Simple one-step plan to ruin Lumines
- Update: Team Fortress 2 artwork released
- KillerNic: XTREEM NETWORKING!!
- DPad's belated first birthday
- TEAM FORTRESS 2, RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars slips to 2007
- 5 New Reviews (Seriously!)
- Tetris clone "Quinn" comes under fire
- Another Set of Indie Games You Should Know
- Prey demo now available for PC, 360 demo Real Soon Now
- LucasArts' Prez: Time is more important than Quality
- DS Lite Really Seriously In Stores (For Real)
- Half-Life 2: Episode 1 available today at Noon ET
- DS Lite street date sorta-broken
- YOU killed the Dreamcast, IGN brings it back
- Sony announces "Playstation Signature Series"
- Nintendo of America Executive Promotions - All Hail President Reggie
- Roundabout Wii Pricing: Less than $250
- "The Wizard" Slated for Summer DVD Release
- European DS Lite Price / Date set
- DirectionalPad's E3 2006 Coverage wrap-up
- Rock Out on PC: Freetar Hero b1 released
- E3 2006 Pictures are all up
- E3 Pictures / Wrapup / Impressions / etc - SOON
- E3 Day One Pictures
- E3's Main Event - The Wii Line
- Nintendo @ E3 - Playing = Believing
- Square Enix @ E3 - All Final Fantasy, All the time (plus mobile phone games)
- Sony @ E3 - Games, Specs, Prices, Dates
- Thismorning's unscheduled downtime
- Even More Indie Games You Should Know
- Pre-E3 - Shadowrun is Coming
- Pre-E3 - New Spore footage released
- First few Guitar Hero 2 Tracks announced
- More Pre-E3 Nintendo News - DS Lite June 11th for $130
- Your very own Lamarr
- The Revolution gets a name: Nintendo Wii
- Someone out there really does love us: A Silent Hill Movie Review
- PS2 pricedrop official - New MSRP: $129.99
- Guitar Hero 2 officially announced
- Official Out of this World remake out this Friday
- Starforce loses a major client
- Microsoft formally acquires Lionhead Studios
- The "Macs can't play games" argument is officially dead
- Bob-omb scare in rural Ohio
- April 1st hits early
- Half-Life 2: "Episode 1" slips a month
- StarCraft: Ghost postponed indefinitely
- Directional Pad Game Review Megapost
- Nintendo at GDC 2006 - Brain Age and Zelda:DS
- Shadow of the Colossus cleans up at the GDC Awards
- Sony at GDC 2006 - Kratos, Ducks, downloadable content and more
- PS3 Sorta-delayed, PSP Price slashed
- Updated: KatamariDamacy.jp closes up shop
- Starforce: Piracy Advocates?
- iPodMame? No, iPodMame *Cabinet*
- Classic NES game scenes in LEGO Form
- Home-Made Animated LED Pac-Man Bike Rims
- Guitar Hero 2 officially in the works
- Year Old Relic: Will Wright's GDC Spore Presentation
- Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ships March 20th
- Economic Theory in Action
- Bride of 'Indie Games You Should Know'
- Bomberman Act Zero official site is up
- Infinium finally gives in: Phantom officially "on hold"
- Linkdump: 8bit Katamari Damacy
- Next-Gen Bomberman for the 360 revealed
- Update: Opera for the DS Confirmed
- New to the DS: voice chat, download stations, possible web browser
- Halo 2 for Windows Vista - Does anyone care?
- Mother 3 presents from Shigesato Itoi
- Return of Indie Games You Should Know
- Nintendo announces the DS Lite
- Mother 3 gets a Japanese release date
- Stargate: SG1 - The Alliance Canned? Again?
- Majesco calls it quits
- Star Wars: Empire at War Demo out tomorrow
- No DS redesign yet, is anyone surprised?
- Mega Man ZX announced for the DS
- WiFi-Enabled Tetris DS coming in March
- Half-Life 2: Aftermath gets a releasedate
- Take-Two picks up Irrational Games
- 360 Add-on drive announced before you've even bought your 360.
- New Year's Accomplishments
- On Upgrading and Low Post Volumes
- Infinium nearing release of . . not the Phantom
- Shall we play a Game?
- StarForce vs. StrawMen
- New People, Reviews and Previews
- Good news for King's Quest Fans
- Acclaim is back, in Zombie MMO-porting form
- Another Dose of Infinium Comedy
- Nintendo of Japan makes Mother 3 Official
- More Indie games you should know
- 3 New Reviews: War, Giants and Strogg
- Mother 3 "Nearing Release"
- Coming Soon: another giant Star Wars Galaxies trainwreck
- New Star Wars: Empire at War trailer released
- Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion pushed to 2006
- Weekly Valve news - Lost Coast & Xbox Port
- Here, have some Reviews
- Valve pushes first "Steam 3" update
- Unofficial Kings Quest Sequel Shut-down. Fans feign shock.
- Blizzard teases us again
- Square Enix announces Even More Ports
- Halo movie in good hands - Peter Jackson and WETA on board
- Zelda 64 Deconstructed
- Quake 4 Goes Gold
- Want the publishing rights to Mortal Kombat?
- Chronic Logic Trashes RTSes
- Equal Rights in the Mushroom Kingdom
- No countdown page has ever lived up to the hype
- Day of Defeat: Source released, plus other Steam news
- Square Enix consumes Taito
- Nintendo pushes yet another GBA out the door
- Serious Sam 2 Demo - Out Tomorrow
- We Love Katamari - In Stores Everywhere
- Revolution Controller. Seriously.
- Sam & Max license gets a new loving home
- Xbox 360 worldwide release dates announced
- Katamary Damacy coming to the PSP
- Square-Enix prepares more irrelevant ports
- Super Mario Bros turns 20
- Black & White 2 worldwide release date set
- We Love Katamari's street date is broken
- Three bits of Half-Life 2 Mod News
- News Corp buys IGN/Gamespy for $650 Million
- Surviving through an Interesting-News drought
- Your weekly Shadow of the Colossus update
- Psychonauts European localization is finished
- Corporate Buyout Conspiracy Theories
- Quake 3 Source Code is out
- Majesco Games go global thanks to THQ
- Xbox 360 Price(s) leaked
- Zelda Slips to 2006
- Metapost: 3 New Reviews and an Open Call
- Shadow of the Colossus releasedate slips a month
- Valve Announces it will distribute indy game "RagDoll Kung fu" via Steam
- GPL Quake III Source Coming Soon
- Stargate SG-1: The Alliance back from the dead
- Jurors officially don't buy the GTA defense
- Half-Life 2: Aftermath Teaser-trailer
- Stargate SG-1: The Alliance Scrapped
- Revolution Controller Design Tool
- Nebulous Metroid Prime 3 information
- Dungeon Siege II Demo is out, and unbelievably large
- Sony gives a stateside releasedate for the PSP's v2.0 Firmware
- More Blizzard News: Blizzard North closes up shop, moves South
- Diablo II v1.11 Patch Released
- World of Mana and other tidbits from Square Enix
- Diablo II v1.11 Patch Announced
- Updated impressions of Shadow of the Colossus
- Doom Movie trailer released
- Civilization 4 Preview
- Go Go Microsoft Hype-Machine
- EyezMaze updates GROW and Tontie
- Majesco Games Down (but apparently not) Out (for now)
- Jack Thompson is still on the warpath
- PS3 news from yesterday's Playstation Meeting
- Aonuma and Miyamoto apologize for Wind Waker's failings
- Free Pre-release copy of Nintendogs
- ESRB pulls Rockstar's rating
- Bungie pushes Halo 2 Update
- Shadowrun video game license not going to waste
- Resident Evil 5 Announced
- Infinium Labs still not dead
- EA snags Valve's meatspace distribution rights
- Breaking your Microsoft NDA in 3 easy steps
- Doom Movie might actually not suck
- First Two Reviews Posted
- Week-1 Recap / Update
- How Many MMORPG's Does One Fledgling System Need?
- Shadow of the Colossus Release Date
- Battlefield 2 Expansion Details
- A Review Does not Appear in this space.
- Majesco's CEO Quits, Stock Dives
- Battlefield 2 Comedy of Errors
- Hip Interative Goes Under
- Supreme Commander Preview
- Golf? Public Beta?
- Katamari Damacy 2: In Stores (In Japan)
- Nintendo Skips the 2005 Tokyo Game Show
- Indie Games You Should Know
- American McGee presents American McGee's Bad Day: LA (an American McGee Production)
- Welcome to DirectionalPad.com
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