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Objects in the mirror ARE closer than they appear! Telltale Games has released Jurassic Park: The Game for Windows, Mac, Xbox 360, PS3, and iPad this week, so now you can get up close and personal with your favorite giant reptiles of foregone days.
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Hey, great news…Mojang’s Minecraft is officially released! Wait, what? You mean, IT WASN’T ALREADY? After 2 years in development and 4 million sales generating over $50 million in revenue, Minecraft is officially finished, or so says creator Markus Persson (also known as Notch), who tweeted that the game had gone gold and would be released at the end of the week at the first Minecon, a gathering of Minecraft fans.
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UPDATE: we received more info about that Battle Nations combat question. Read below for more info.

Today, we look at battle game Battle Nations by Z2Live, the Com2uS baseball sequel Homerun Battle 2, and Bulkypix’s RPM: Gymkhana Racing.
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Today Omaha reviews the iPhone games UltraDeep by Viquasoft and Rig Fire by Golden Helicopter, and the iPad game Tower Defense: Lost Earth HD by Com2uS.
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The world of the 1950′s mafia has arrived. So you better really think about getting that copy of Mafia II: Director’s Cut that Feral Interactive announced will be coming to the Mac on December 1st. This version is a specially-created package that includes the standalone version of Mafia II and all of the game’s previously released add-on packs and downloadable content.

Mafia II is set in post-World War II America with an intense, tightly woven story that transports players into the dark and unforgiving world of organized crime. And by unforgiving, we mean “killing someone in a parking lot with meat cleavers” unforgiving. Players control Vito Scaletta, a Sicilian immigrant making a name for himself on the mean streets of fictional Empire Bay. Together with his childhood friend Joe Barbaro, Vito quickly becomes a trusted member of a powerful mob family, but quickly discovers that the life of a wise guy is as dangerous as it is glamorous.

If Vito is to rise from lowly foot soldier to made man, he must earn a reputation as an efficient enforcer, a skilled getaway driver and a reliable hit-man. The game aims to intersperse gripping narrative with visceral action that combines brutal shoot-outs, hand-to-hand combat, and realistic driving with accurately recreated cars from the period. A sense of time and place is evoked throughout by a soundtrack of hit songs from the 1940s and 50s.

Mafia II: Director’s Cut contains all the downloadable content and expansion packs for Mafia II, including arcade-style missions in The Betrayal of Jimmy and Jimmy’s Vendetta, where players take on the role of a contract killer. Players also get the chance to become Joe Barbaro in Joe’s Adventures, a separate eight-hour campaign which answers many of the questions that remain at the end of Mafia II: Director’s Cut.

Mafia II: Director’s Cut was originally developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games in 2010, and is the sequel to Mafia which sold more than two million copies. Mafia II: Director’s Cut is rated M for Mature by the ESRB, brushing up against that terrifying AO rating with such things as uncensored vintage Playboy centerfolds and the word F%&ck spoken 200 times (yeah, someone actually counted, apparently).

Minimum system requirements include:

• 2.0 GHz Intel Mac
• Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
• 4GB RAM
• 256MB of graphics memory. The following graphics cards are not supported: ATI X1xxx series, ATI 2400, NVIDIA 9400, NVIDIA 7xxx series and Intel GMA series. The following cards require will require 4GB of system RAM: NVIDIA 320M and Intel HD 3000. (all requirements subject to change before the game ships)

The Mac edition of Mafia II: Director’s Cut will retail in North America for US $39.99, £29.99 (inc. VAT) in the UK, and €34.99 (inc. VAT) throughout Europe. It will also be available online for direct download from a variety of digital partner sites worldwide, including Feral Interactive and the Mac App Store.

Cipher Prime, developers of the celebrated game Pulse for iPad, have announced the release of their music-based puzzler Fractal onto the Mac App Store and Steam. Fractal for Mac is expected to be available on the Mac App Store today. The Steam release for PC and Mac is planned for the coming weeks.
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Bent Spoon Games has announced the release of Girl with a Heart of, an experimental interactive narrative-based game. Inspired by interactive fiction and adventure game genres, the game is available for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
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We have some good news out of the Independent Games Festival in China. The Line HD, the iPad game released by Anthive Games, won The Best Mobile Game at IGF China.

Reviewed last year by iGame Radio, The Line has been granted several awards for their innovative game mechanic which they have improved upon consistently. Rather than control the main character, Eddy, the player controls and manipulates Eddy’s environment to help him get to the goal of each level.
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OstinGames, developer of KissIsland, is launching the KissIsland Kissing Contest. A prize worth as much as $2000 awaits the person to come up with the best kissing video with the most creative kiss.

KissIsland is a survival action game that combines fighting and kissing in the story line (including, apparently, gorillas) about a pilot of a military spaceship that survives a crash on an isolated island full of impassable jungles, gorillas, and the local tribe run by a Voodoo sorceress.
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Here’s a weird bit of news. Developer Digital Eel sent us a note to let us know that their free strategy sci-fi game Strange Adventures in Infinite Space has just been updated…to Mac OS X Lion!
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