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Scandalized golfer and serial cheater Tiger Woods is returning to golf. Game company EA Sports is thrilled. More »
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A Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 release without an active star is no longer a going concern, with the golfer's return to active duty at the Masters Tournament next month. More »
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"Sponsors like Gillette and Electronic Arts are going to drop Tiger Woods regardless of what they are saying now," writes a Forbes national editor. But who would that leave to carry on EA's golf franchise? Nobody, basically. More »
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Earlier today, flOw creator Jenova Chen accused Aquatica iPhone developer Ketera Software of either improperly sourcing his game as inspiration or flat-out ripping off flOw's source code. More »
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The flap over the portrayal of Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man has long since settled, but Ian Bogost has an interesting take on the significance of including such a structure within a video game in his Gamasutra column. The depiction of the cathedral shows off the PS3's capabilities, but the inclusion of such an important landmark is not simply a standard of the apocalypse genre or something that serves to cement the time and place of the setting, but an homage - not a desecration - of a site: More »
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From The Escapist, the magazine that occasionally takes itself a wee bit too seriously, an interesting wrap up of the 2006 Oblivion topless mod/subsequent ESRB re-rating issue. At the core is the idea a developer or publisher could be punished - by bumping an original T rating up to an M - for content that they didn't produce or distribute. But with their hands tied - a game without a rating is a game that can't be sold in retail stores - Bethesda agreed to abide by the ESRB decision. But was the Oblivion problem a blip on the radar screen, or a sign of larger future problems lurking in the distance? More »
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The totally rad website for Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's has launched and while it may only be one page it does hold some new information. At the bottom of the page, an audio player plays tracks from the game and reveals three new tracks that were heretofore unannounced. The three new tracks are: More »
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On Boxing Day (that would be the day after Christmas to all of us Yanks) Prime Minister Tony Blair flew out to Florida with his family for a week-long holiday at the Miami Beach home of the Bee Gees Robin Gibb. More »
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