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Telltale Games has opened the colossal doors on its new Jurassic Park: The Game website where fans get an early jump on pre-ordering the game as well as roaming Isla Nublar, including previously unexplored areas…if you have the password.

Jurassic Park: The Game launches November 15 for Mac, Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, with an iPad 2 version coming shortly thereafter in time for the holidays. The Deluxe Edition of Jurassic Park: The Game is available for pre-order for either Windows or Mac with a $10 discount. So, for $39.99, you get:

• All four episodes of Jurassic Park: The Game on a single disc
• Replica Jurassic Park staff ID card
• Replica Jurassic Park staff uniform patch
• Replica movie brochure/map updated with Jurassic Park: The Game content
• 32 page ”InGen Field Guide” from the notes of park geneticist, Dr. Sorkin
• Digital download code for the Official Jurassic Park: The Game soundtrack & exclusive videos

But pre-orders are not the only thing to discover in your tour. The Jurassic Park: The Game website provides new screen shots, artwork, new videos, and access to new unexplored areas of Isla Nublar. Be prepared to provide the correct password, though. Don’t know it? Maybe you should go back and watch the movie. We’re just sayin’.

Digital Eel releases two of their soundtracks for recently released game Data Jammers: FastForward. Check out the tunez from Nightmare Band, Digital Eel’s inhouse musicians.
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NASA has created a video game for you would-be network execs that let’s players design and build giant virtual ground and space communications systems to keep astronauts in orbit and scientists on the ground in touch.

In NetworKing, developed by the Information Technology Office at NASA’s Ames Research Center, players build three communications networks by setting up command stations around the world, then linking them to orbiting satellites and space telescopes. Players earn resources throughout the game as they acquire more satellite clients and perform scientific research.
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Check out our great interview with OnLive’s Brian Jaquet during PAX 2011.
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Telltale Games has announced that Jurassic Park: The Game has gone gold. This point and click adventure game coming for multiple platforms, including the Mac, will release on November 15th with its first of five episodes.

Jurassic Park: The Game is a cinematic adventure that takes players back to Isla Nublar – the site of Jurassic Park – during the events of the first movie. Filling up some loose ends that were never addressed (ex: The embryos), you play a new character who is a desperate smuggler that has to fight through the thick flora and the deadly fauna and find your quarry without meeting up with an untimely death. In addition to locations and creatures familiar to fans of the movie, the game offers new areas to explore and new prehistoric beasts to survive in a game that combines fast-paced action, exploration and puzzle-solving.
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Recently, Virtual Programming told the world that they had been getting chummy with Epic Games. Specifically, VP was a key development partner in helping Epic out with releasing a Mac OSX version of their UE3 SDK. We wondered just how chummy this relationship was, and more importantly, what we Mac gamers might get out of this friendship, so we shot over a few questions to the UK developer.

Brad Cook, their Director of PR and Marketing, very kindly handled the job of getting our questions answered by VP CEO Mark Hinton:
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If you’re a fan of the animated tv show Star Wars: The Clone Wars, then you’ll be happy to know that LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars has appeared on the Mac. Starting today, Feral Interactive retails this tongue-in-cheek take on the Clone Wars era for both digital download and box format.

Developed by TT Games and LucasArts, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is the third LEGO Star Wars game, and the seventh LEGO game overall, brought to the Mac by Feral Interactive. The game features 16 different star systems, 32 story-based missions, 48 bonus levels and over 100 playable characters, making it the biggest LEGO Star Wars video game to date.
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Valve Software has announced development of the second DLC for Portal 2. The in-game editor for Portal 2 is targeted for release early next year.

This easy-to-use in-game map editor will let users design, build, and share their own single-player and co-op test chambers with the community, who will be able to view, play and vote on them with a simple click. When released, the in-game editor will join the first content update Peer Review, which was released just two weeks ago.
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Data Jammers: FastForward has been released. Digital Eel’s data arcade game has initially been released for Windows, with a Mac version soon to follow.

In Data Jammers, you are an elite virtual commando named Data DOOD (stands for Digital Operative Optical Data). Your job is to defend the data stream by infiltrating the military industrial complex, Ouroboros, and destroy it. The game is set within continuously moving three dimensional retro wireframe driving tracks which are populated by numerous dangers, hazards, and boss guardians along the way.
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Today Omaha reviews the Mac games Puzzle Agent 2 and the last two episodes of Hector: Badge of Carnage by Telltale Games.
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