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Paint the Town Brown with Duke Nukem Forever
Evidently, crap will be a missile weapon when Duke Nukem Forever releases – quite ironic for a game that’s spent 14 years unable to shit or get off the pot. I have no problem with toilet humor, I can deal with the sight of turds and I can handle, conceptually anyway, someone throwing them around.…
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Why Nintendo Has No Interest in Mobile Phones
Though Nintendo has, notably, struck an arrangement with AT&T to provide free wireless Internet hotspot access, the company remains adamant that it isn’t entering the mobile phone business. “We don’t want to be in the phone business,” Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, told CNN. “We don’t see that as an opportunity. Phones are…
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Original Madden Developer Sues for Millions in Royalties
One of the developers on the first edition of John Madden Football is suing Electronic Arts, seeking a handsome cut of the estimated $4 billion in profits the series has reaped over more than 20 years. Robin Antonick, a contracted developer who, in 1986, helped Trip Hawkins build the seminal football franchise with consultation from…
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Leaked Forza 4 Video Confirms Kinect Features [Update]
Realizing it is April Fool’s, if this video is a fake, someone went to a lot of trouble to create something that delivers no punchline. Here is a solid three minutes jampacked with in-game footage of Forza 4, touting a lot of features we’d scented from a marketing survey that went out last week. Details…
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Sega’s MLB-Licensed Management Sim Launches
Just to make it official, Sega’s MLB Manager Online had a beta launch earlier this month, not a full launch as some posts had implied. Moot point now as the fully-licensed sports management sim is now available. All 30 Major League teams and over 900 real players are featured in the game. Scads more details…
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Evony Awarded $300K From Hacker Who Probably Can’t Pay It
That Evony hacker who showed up to federal court in sweat pants will likely be wearing them a lot longer – if not a barrel. A judge rather quickly ruled against him, finding that selling auto-playing bots and game maps violated Evony’s copyrights, and awarded the game’s owners $300,000. Could be worse. Philip James Holland,…
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Million-Dollar Perfect Game Contest Kicks Off Tomorrow
2K Sports has laid another seven-figure bounty on a perfect game thrown in its Major League Baseball game. Players have had about a month to practice with MLB 2K11’s pitching and fielding; the chase for 27 straight outs officially begins at noon EDT tomorrow. It’s a simple proposition: Pitch a perfect game using a single…
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Burgertime’s Flamebroiled Fun Arrives This Summer
We saw glimpses of it at GDC; this gameplay trailer gives a bigger sense of what’s behind Burgertime’s HD reboot, which is due this summer. Peter Pepper will still be assembling monstrous hamburger sandwiches, but he evidently will do so to defeat (or appease?) a boss character trapped inside the circular level. Burgertime, by MonkeyPaw…
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Metacritic Ditches Developers’ Career Ratings
Shortly after introducing ratings of individual video game developers, based on the aggregated ratings of games in which they are credited, Metacritic has scrapped the idea altogether, saying the information is incomplete and can’t be trusted. Marc Doyle, Metacritic’s co-founder, told GamesIndustry.biz that the process of rating developers, as presently constituted, really isn’t fair to…
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Madden Concussions a Teachable Moment, Says EA Sports
EA Sports confirmed it will present concussions as a potential injury in Madden NFL 12, with special in-game commentary and gameplay circumstances that call attention to the seriousness of head injuries in a contact sport and the need to seek appropriate treatment. The depiction of concussion injuries is being done partly to reflect realism, a…
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Let’s Play One Hundred and Sixty-Two
Hope Springs Eternal | It only felt like a holiday. Baseball fans celebrated Opening Day today. Major League Baseball moved up Opening Day to prevent the postseason from creeping into November. The last time MLB opened the season this early with a full slate of games was 1998. (Photo: Getty Images) Sony’s MMO Studio Confirms…
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Playing 3DS Augmented-Reality Games with a Whiteboard
Everyone’s testing the limits of the Nintendo 3DS augmented reality games, but it does seem that if you can replicate one of the cards it uses – preferably the question-mark box – you can start the game from anywhere, whether it’s on the screen of an iPhone or, now, a white board. Some guys at…
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EA Sports Boss Says Michael Vick “Has Served His Time”
Michael Vick, who returned to the NFL in 2009 after a two-year prison sentence for running a dogfighting ring, was the second-biggest winner (by percentage) in the first round of EA Sports’ fan-voted playoff for the Madden NFL 12 cover. To no one’s surprise, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has demanded Vick’s removal…
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Sony’s MMO Makers Close Three Studios, Lay Off One-Third of Workforce
Sony Online Entertainment, makers of D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms, closed three studios and will lay off nearly a third of its workforce, Kotaku has learned. Word began spreading when George Broussard, best known as the co-creator of Duke Nukem Forever, tweeted earlier this evening that SOE was seeing layoffs and “studio closure is…
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PlayStation Emulator Yanked from Android Store — Foreshadowing PS Phone’s Release?
ZodTTD’s PlayStation emulator is on the Android store. The soon-to-be-released PlayStation Phone is an Android device. Can you guess the punchline here? Available for nearly six months, now PSX4Droid has been judged by Google to have a “content violation,” and poof, off it goes. ZodTTD, via Twitter, said he’d been working like hell on an…
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Flick Football Takes to the Air with Pocket Passer
Full-scale, console-style football has been a technical success on the iPhone but many, myself among them, find it prohibitively complex for such a small screen, using multitouch. Other developers have found stronger success breaking the game down to singular acts. To Backbreaker’s Tackle Alley, a running game, we can now add Pocket Passer for all…
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NBA Jam Won’t Update Rosters for Console Versions — but Does for iPhone’s
Earlier this month, EA Sports made it official that anyone expecting updated rosters on NBA Jam was SOL. That’s for the console versions. The game’s iOS version just got a roster tweak today, in time for the soon-to-begin playoffs. That means Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups, my go-to-duo on all platforms, aren’t balling for the…
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Madden NFL 12 Said to Include Concussions to Present a Safety Message
Remarkably, Madden NFL 12 will depict players suffering concussions, according to the president of the NFL Players’ Association, but apparently in a manner that reinforces the seriousness of the injury and the message that playing through one is not a good idea. In a tweet first reported on by Gamasutra, George Atallah, a senior official…
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EA Sports and Major League Baseball Reconnect on Facebook
It’s not the return of MVP Baseball, the long lost and lamented Major League Baseball title that went into exile after 2005, but EA Sports has gotten back on the field with MLB in World Series Superstars, a Facebook game rumored to be in development that launched by surprise today. World Series Superstars plays the…
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ReviewsTiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters is an Experience Unlike Any Other
My first visit to Augusta National broke the club’s dress code with almost criminal negligence: I was wearing basketball shorts, a T-shirt, and was unshaven to boot. Sure, I was on my couch, but I told myself I was stepping to the tee box on the first hole of the world’s most prestigious golf course.…
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