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The folks at Zipper Interactive have been in an unenviable position for the past eighteen months. Ever since the studio’s flagship PS3 title MAG was revealed during Sony’s E3 2008 press conference , the gaming populace’s collective expectation (or, alternatively, apprehension) for the title set an impossibly high bar for the developer to clear. We first spoke to the game’s producer, Alan Van Slyke, during PAX 2009, when he explained a bit of the techno-wizardry which powers the game’s internal servers. Yesterday, we got a chance to speak with Van Slyke once more — this time about the pressures associated with developing a game of this (forgive the pun) magnitude, whether the game’s rigorous beta testing paid off, and how one of MAG ’s three factions has evolved into an unstoppable victory machine .

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Interview: Zipper’s Alan Van Slyke on MAG’s past, present and future

Apogee — it’s not dead yet! — has announced that its cult classic first-person shooter, Rise of the Triad , is on its way to the iPhone OS. The game is being ported to the platform by Mobilia Interactive, which has produced a number of previous iPhone titles as well. The port actually surfaced over the summer last year , though it’s now clear that the company has been given Apogee’s blessing to sell the app

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Apogee’s Rise of the Triad getting ludicrous on iPhone

What fun is Aliens vs. Predator without the knowledge that the Predator whose face you just ruined with your secondary baby-jaws isn’t being controlled by a real person? Thankfully, that’s a question we no longer have to ponder — as promised , the original Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000 has received multiplayer support on Steam , complete with Steam overlay integration.

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Multiplayer patched into original Aliens vs. Predator on Steam

It’s time for the masses to try out Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ’s multiplayer, as EA has seen fit to deploy a demo on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The 1.4GB download will see fierce fighting on the Port Valdez map in “Rush Mode.” Access to the demo ends February 25, 2010, a week before launch . For those interested in learning more about the single-player campaign, check out our hands-on of the solo experience with Preston, Sweetwater and the rest of B company.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 MP demo coming to 360 … NOW

Are you on the fence about whether or not you should pick up the cumbersomely titled Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies for your Apple-branded mobile device? First of all, fence straddling is dangerous. Get down from there! Also, there’s no reason to be all wishy-washy anymore, as a free “Lite” version of the game has recently become available on the App Store .

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Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies gets Lite version on App Store

It can be hard being a a total outdoorsman every now and then — don’t we know it! Sometimes it snows, or there are vicious bears, or maybe we’re just feeling like snuggling up inside with a warm mug of hot cocoa instead of mercilessly hunting down animals for sport. Thankfully, development studio Beast understand our predicament and has announced a March release date for upcoming Xbox 360 hunting sim Field & Stream: Total Outdoorsman Challenge . Finally, a solution! At last, we can “brave the elements” of the wild without having to actually experience the raw elements that make us want to stay safely indoors. And considering that the closest we get to “the wild” is the local zoo, it’s good to know that the game will feature “more than 30 big game, native, and fowl species across multiple environments.” Heck, we can even polish up our lacking rifleman skills with F&S:TOC ’s free hunt and practice modes. How could we go wrong! What’s this about Cabela’s somethingorother , you say?

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Field & Stream: Total Outdoorsman Challenge coming to 360 in May

Were you quick enough to catch the handful of Halo: Reach screens released via the EBGames website? Well it happened, we assure you, and luckily the folks at XCast Online snagged the whole lot of ‘em. That said, if you’ve already got the February issue of Game Informer , chances are you’ve seen these screens before — that’s because a good deal of them are directly from that issue’s cover story on the upcoming prequel. If EB Games has already gotten its hands on these screens, chances are we’ll be seeing an official release from Microsoft in the not-so-distant future

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Halo: Reach screenshots leaked then pulled by EB Games website

There’s just one Team Fortress 2 class that’s scraping by without the support of post-launch additional content: The hard hatted, begoggled Engineer. It makes sense that Valve will get to the crafty class sooner or later — but many have wondered whether the developer will keep expanding on the title once the Engineer’s update goes live. Fortunately, a Community Fortress interview with Valve’s Robin Walker confirmed that new TF2 content would drop before and after the final class gets its new equipment.

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Team Fortress 2 updates won’t stop after final class gets new content

Many Modern Warfare 2 players still debate the game’s best piece of weaponry. Fortunately, hackers have settled this timeless dispute once and for all: It is, of course, the gun that hurtles your opponent back in time, back to the days when he or she was a lowly, classless Private.

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Rumor: Modern Warfare 2 hack attacks your XP

If you’re as intrigued as we are by Splash Damage and Bethesda’s co-operative FPSRPG Brink , you’ll probably want to check out the video above , which shows the many options you’ll be afforded when customizing your personal freedom fighter. For instance, what kind of full-torso tattoos would like?

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New Brink video shows how to customize your lanky, lanky character