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Kinect Fun Labs Adding “Air Band” Soon
Kinect Fun Labs, the free-to-download toys for Xbox Live Arcade (and Kinect) that have delivered optimized avatar generation and zany object animation (but not advanced penis recognition heuristics) look to be joined by an air-band application getting you and your friends in on a pantomime jam session. Germany’s ratings board has passed judgment on “Air…
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Torchlight 2 is Too Big for Xbox Live’s Memory Limit
Torchlight did land-office bidness on Xbox Live Arcade, but Torchlight 2 is so far above the memory limit on an XBLA game that the developer is focusing instead on a MacOS port after its upcoming PC release. Max Schaefer, the Runic Games CEO, told Eurogamer that the first Torchlight just barely fit under XBLA’s file…
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EA Sports’ Peter Moore Takes Over as EA’s Chief Operating Officer in Company Reorganization [Update]
Peter Moore, president of EA Sports for the past four years, has been promoted to Electronic Arts’ chief operating officer in a company-wide reorganization, John Riccitiello, the EA chief executive, said today. Moore, 55, takes over a position vacant since former COO John Schappert left for Zynga in April. Moore had been president of EA…
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EA’s Disaster Plans Don’t Include Billion-Dollar Lawsuits or Giant Meteors
A cocktail-napkin calculation about what’s at stake in former NCAA players’ lawsuit against EA Sports arrived at a potential cash-and-prizes value of $1 billion. But as apocalyptic as that total sounds, Electronic Arts doesn’t sound too worried. “We could lose billions more if a giant meteor hits the earth,” spokesman Jeff Brown told CNBC’s Darren…
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Nintendo: It’s For Dresses, Now
Honey, if I bought this for you, would you wear it for me? This Game Boy-themed tube dress costs about as much as the original device did—$70. It’s made by HereandThereVintage and available on etsy. Nintendo Dress [Etsy via LikeCool] You can contact Owen Good, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
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DC Universe Online Brings a Multitude of Heroes to the Fortress of Solitude
DC Universe Online‘s latest game update delivers a new group raid in Superman’s hideout, and tunes up the difficulty in the old one at Batman’s crash pad. It’s available now for the game on PS3 and PC. The narrative behind the Fortress of Solitude raid involves heroes and villains forming an uneasy alliance against Brainiac,…
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The 15 Greatest Pros—and the Greatest Pair of Cons—Come to NBA 2K12
Before Air Jordan, Converse was the top brand on the basketball court, singularly identified with Julius Erving since his ABA days. The only way I’d have a bigger shoe-gasm watching this video is if Dr. J set those kicks down on a red-white-and-blue ball, and the camera raised up to reveal a New York Nets…
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Indie Bundle Adds Five More Games if You Donate Five Bucks or More
The Humble Indie Bundle 3 has now added five more games, and still is being offered for the super-low price of “whatever you want to pay.” Provided whatever you want to pay is more than the average donation, which is $4.96 as of now. The Bundle’s masters today decreed that the lineup from Humble Indie…
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Dr. J Joins Larry, Magic and Michael in NBA 2K12‘s “Greatest” Challenge
NBA 2K12 will follow last year’s extremely popular “Jordan Challenge” by again reaching deep into the game’s memory bank, serving up 15 re-creations of the NBA’s greatest performances with an all-new cast of legends, and broadcast presentation authentic to their eras. “NBA’s Greatest” will bring ABA/NBA all-time great Julius Erving to a simulation basketball game;…
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Here’s What You Get—And What You Don’t—With EA Sports’ New Premium Subscription
What is EA Sports’ Season Ticket? It’s a $25 VIP pass, good for a year, getting you past the velvet rope to your favorite sports game on a weekend when everyone else is still playing last year’s edition. It offers a 20 percent discount on paid downloadable content. But the parameters of Season Ticket in…
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EA Sports’ ‘Season Ticket’ Subscription Gets Diehard Fans In the Game Early
EA Sports will offer an annual subscription for hardcore sports gamers, which includes a three-day, pre-release full-play preview of five of the label’s most popular titles, and a 20 percent discount on their paid downloadable content catalog. EA Sports’ “Season Ticket” begins Aug. 27 with Madden NFL 12, and it will cost $25. Covering Madden,…
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Flick Rocket is a Daydream of Centipede Asteroid Invaders Command
In third grade, I would draw up notebook-paper hybrids of arcade games. Pac-Man would chase barrels with a hammer and Frogger shot at invaders from the highway. Flick Rocket, a hybridized, deeply nostalgic arcade shooter, strongly appeals to my inner eight-year-old game designer. Drawing on Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede and Missile Command, with nods to…
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How Are You Holding Up?
Because I’m a Potato | A reinterpretation of GlaDOS’s famous line from Portal 2, by flickr user Chris McVeigh. The saying is also on a T-shirt for sale at Qwertee for the next 23 hours. (Photo: Chris McVeigh) Hidden Content Reveals More Cell Phone Pics, PC Aspirations of Catherine Probing discs for console games doesn’t…
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Cole Phelps Flies Off the Handle Again, but He Kinda has a Point
As the phone hacking/police corruption/influence peddling scandal is still an open case in the U.K. but seems to have cooled off in the public eye. Time to send L.A. Noire‘s Cole Phelps back to the scene, to investigate something most everyone shrugged off when it happened. That would be the death of Sean Hoare, the…
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Culture
Insanely Tepid Shipment Plans
It is a thin week for new releases, especially at retail. On shelves, there’s Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension for Wii, 3DS and PS3. On Xbox Live Arcade, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet arrives Wednesday. Tuesday • Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (PS3, Wii, DS) — Sure, it’s a kid’s game, and…
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If It’s a PC Exclusive with No Multiplayer, You Better Believe Hard Reset‘s Trailer is All About Gameplay
The Polish super-team building the cyberpunk FPS Hard Reset must think it’s 1996 or something. The game is a PC exclusive, has no multiplayer, and although it was announced earlier last month, it’s coming out later this year. That’s how things used to get done around here. Flying Wild Hog dropped that gameplay trailer on…
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Geek Mythology
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 10 Geekiest Sidekicks in Video Game History [Walyou] Good ol’ Zero from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. That guy defined geek. His missions were…
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Hidden Content Reveals More Cell Phone Pics, PC Aspirations of Catherine
Probing discs for console games doesn’t usually turn up much, but someone found a ton of extra naughty images of Catherine (such as the three above) and an unused file that hints that Atlus once planned a PC version of the game. The VG-Resource found the content earlier today. Nothing says a PC Catherine is…
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Esports
Catch MLG Anaheim Live on Pro Gaming’s Biggest Weekend of the Year
Three huge events figure to make this weekend one of the biggest ever in competitive video gaming: the EVO World Championships, the GSL Finals and, underway right now, MLG Anaheim. Reminder: MLG Anaheim’s championship round is underway now. You may see it here. StarCraft 2, Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops are the…
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Lawsuit Demands Second Life Horses Be Starved to Death
Second Life’s merits as an actual video game may be debatable but its impact on the economy is not. It has, for example, provided a huge boost to the new markets of virtual sex caskets and imaginary pet food. And ridiculous lawsuits, because America has been lagging other first-world nations in that important economic indicator.…
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