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Angry Birds Maker Ready for Stock Sale, has Six Sequels Planned in 2012
On the heels of Facebook gaming titan Zynga going public today, the maker of mobile gaming’s mammoth hit Angry Birds suggests it will pursue a public offering of stock in 2013, and that it has five or six games from that franchise planned for 2012. Tekniikka & Talous, a weekly newspaper in Rovio’s native Finland,…
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Skyrim Hits Its Lowest Price Since Release
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360, PS3, PC) is $49.99 with free shipping from Amazon, matching Target’s earlier price drop. This is the lowest price since the game’s Nov.11 release, and $5 less than Black Friday and Cyber Monday. No word on how long the price cut will last. [Thanks, Dealzon]
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A Physics Puzzle to Stretch Your Mind—and Your Patience
Stretched is a physics puzzle for the iOS that explores slingshot physics in ways we’ve seen before, and a few ways we haven’t yet. Packing 80 levels for a buck, Stretched will definitely stretch your dollar, but it may also stretch your patience. Happily, there’s a “skip level” feature to get you past some of…
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Goodbye, Star Wars Galaxies
Tonight is the end of Star Wars Galaxies, once a crown jewel of Sony Online Entertainment’s MMO portfolio. There is now less than an hour before the total shutdown of the eight-year-old MMO. Right now, courtesy of Giant Bomb’s live stream broadcast, we’re seeing enormous deciduous trees growing in the Tatooine desert, and X-Wing fighters…
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Another 18 Screens Showcase Final Fantasy XIII-2
Longtime readers know that hilarity abounds when you ask the sports guy to write about Final Fantasy. I have not once ever so much as pressed a button in this series. So here you go, 18 new shots from Final Fantasy XII-2 The game’s “Master of Monsters” concept sounds a little bit like Pokémon to…
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Should You Buy Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue? Yes.
Zen Studios’ pinball renaissance on the Xbox 360 and PS3 is one of the best values in downloadable gaming on consoles this past year. Never better than when it’s handling licensed tables—the kind you always wished you got at the pizza parlors of your misspent youth—Zen returned this week with another four in its Marvel…
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NBA 2K12 DLC! NBA 2K12 DLC Codes Here! Get Your NBA 2K12 DLC! Who’s Ready?
2K Sports is spreading holiday cheer with free codes for the “Legends Showcase” downloadable content for NBA 2K12, the extension that lets player go 1-on-1 with a raft of all-time greats in competitions such as HORSE, 21 and other blacktop basketball variants. They’ve given us five codes for a free download on both PlayStation Network…
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Farmville‘s Maker Looks to Harvest a Cool Billion from the Stock Market
As rumored two days ago, it is now confirmed that Zynga will hold an initial public offering of its stock on the NASDAQ tomorrow. The dominant maker of Facebook video games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars has priced 100 million shares at $10 each. MarketWatch reported the development this afternoon, citing documents filed with…
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Get Item!
Get Item! | Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of The Legend of Zelda, accepts the Video Game Awards’ inaugural hall of fame award on behalf of the game and Nintendo. Surprise! That PS Vita Wasn’t Lost at the VGAs After All Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one’s surprise, the DJ revealed this…
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A Night-and-Day Comparison Best Describes Fortnight
Fortnite, revealed last nite (rimshot) at the Spike Video Game Awards, is one of those games whose elements seem to be either derivative or easily recognizable, yet an easy description remains tip-of-the-tongue elusive. It’s a got resource gathering, but it’s not really Minecraft; cartoony characters, but you can’t say it’s Team Fortress; zombies and headshots,…
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Surprise! That PS Vita Wasn’t Lost at the VGAs After All
Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one’s surprise, the DJ revealed this afternoon he did not, in fact, lose an unreleased PlayStation Vita in a Los Angeles cab after his performance at last night’s Spike Video Game Awards. “I just wanted to see how much management would freak out over it,…
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Culture
DLC Provides the TLC
Downloadable content for Battlefield, Assassin’s Creed, and Gears of War highlights an otherwise slow week for new releases. Don’t forget the Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue series coming to the PS3 and in Pinball FX2 on the 360. Tuesday • Assassin’s Creed: Revelations—Ancestors Character Pack (PS3, 360) • Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand (PC, 360)…
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Kneecapped by Skyrim
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Very Best of the Skyrim ‘Arrow in the Knee’ Meme [Ranker] Out on the vanguard of 2011’s hottest new video game memes, Ranker charts…
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Angry Birds Second Birthday Invites a New Bird to the Party
Angry Birds has published another special-occasion update, this one celebrating the runway mobile hit’s second birthday. With it, you get 15 new levels and a new projectile, the Orange Bird, which “propels any object it touches.” The update is to the main game, which is still 99 cents for the iPhone, $4.99 for the iPad.…
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The Baron and the Exec
The Spike Video Game Awards can always be counted on to supply awkward moments, but they’re usually a celebrity bombing a joke with a hamfisted, if not intoxicated delivery. Last night we got something different, and no, we’re not talking about the teabagging spree. That’s “The Black Baron,” a YouTube hypeman who had earlier ripped…
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The 2011 VGAs: All the Videos, All the Games, All the Awards
The Spike Video Game Awards are an event that says more about the coming year than it does about the current one. Last night gave us more than a dozen trailers, half of which concerned games about which we knew nothing, or next to nothing, before Zachary Levi started handing out the hardware. As to…
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The Winners and Nominees of the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards
GAME OF THE YEAR The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Nominees: Batman: Arkham City; The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword; Portal 2; Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception STUDIO OF THE YEAR Bethesda Game Studios Nominees:Naughty Dog; Rocksteady Studios; Valve BEST XBOX 360 GAME Batman: Arkham City Nominees:Forza Motorsport 4; Gears of War 3; Portal 2 BEST PS3…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to listener-supported public radio WTAY, bringing you the best in smooth jazz each Sunday. We’re counting on you to come through this pledge drive, so won’t you please pick up that phone, give me a call, and order me a pizza? I’ll send you a Metal Gear Revengeance Tote Bag and The New…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Oddman Out
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Dec. 5.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Dec. 9.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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Can NFL Blitz Have a Cover Curse if the Game Actually Has No Cover?
Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was voted the “cover star” for January’s reboot of NFL Blitz at the Video Game Awards tonight. Of course, Blitz is a downloadable title, so this game actually has no physical cover. So that means Rice won’t actually tear his ACL in the playoffs after the game releases on…
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