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If It’s Not Love, It’s The T-Virus That Will Bring Us Together

When a video game’s about one company’s good guys and bad guys fighting another company’s good guys and bad guys, writing up a story that sews together those rivalries is a bit of a challenge. In the end, corporate badge means little to the story of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, which…

Another NCAA Player Sues Over His Appearance In Video Games

No NCAA basketball title releases this year, but that doesn’t mean people can’t sue over ones made last year. A former Tennessee player is joining the legal action against the NCAA and EA Sports over their use of his likeness. The suit filed by Bobby Maze, a standout basketballer for Tennessee who nonetheless was not…

Major League Baseball Management Sim Goes Live In March

Sega, the publisher of the extremely popular Football Manager series, is trying its hand in baseball early next year with MLB Manager Online, fully licensed by Major League Baseball and its players association. A closed beta will begin Jan. 7. The free-to-play browser-based game will be launched in North America, Japan and South Korea, and…

Get This Tron-Inspired 360 Controller Before Supplies De-Rez [Updated]

The $49.99 price tag for this Tron-inspired Xbox 360 controller may not suggest that it’s anything special. What makes it a collector’s item? Only 250 were made. Update: Supplies have de-rezzed but PDP has others available, in blue. That, and the fact you may only buy it online from Performance Designed Products. Promotional copy says…

Backbreaker 2’s Vengeance Is A Dish Served Hot

Backbreaker’s addictive Tackle Alley minigame put you on the field as a ballcarrier juking and spinning his way through 100-yard touchdown runs. Backbreaker 2: Vengeance puts you in the game on defense, blasting those showboats out of the water. Backbreaker 2: Vengeance, the iPhone (and iPod Touch)-only sequel to Backbreaker: Tackle Alley, hit the iTunes…

PS3 Seamheads Get A Custom Controller When MLB 11 Arrives

To go with its new analog controls, MLB 11 The Show is going on a new controller – this baseball-themed DualShock, timed to release with the game on March 8. Further, SCEA is saying that if you reserve and buy your copy of MLB 11 The Show, you’ll be entitled to 30 days of MLB…

A Look At Fallout New Vegas’ Dead Money

A quest for an NPC you’d just rather shoot than talk to, for a payoff that’s probably disappointing, if not a lie? That’s classic Fallout. Except in Dead Money, Fallout New Vegas’ first DLC extension, you don’t have a choice. Dead Money arrives Dec. 21 and costs 800 Microsoft Points. It’s an Xbox 360 exclusive.

iPhone’s “Modern Combat” Comes To PlayStation Move

Gameloft’s Modern Combat series, which debuted on the iPhone last year, will move to Move in January with Modern Combat: Domination, a downloadable multiplayer shooter on the PS3. As the name is highly derivative of current combat shooters that will go unmentioned, the structure of the game is as well, the difference is you’ll be…

Faked Black Ops Ad Plagiarizes Obama [Corrected]

If Kobe Bryant playing pretend soldier offended some, then this – said to be Call of Duty: Black Ops’ next TV spot – would rile them further. Update: Treyarch says this video is not a Black Ops ad. We’ve contacted Activision representatives to ask about the authenticity of this video, which is on YouTube under…

Jesus Christ, Fight Night Has Guns?

In a cutscene, but if Fight Night Champion’s gonna get an M-rating, it won’t be sending Andre Bishop to the slammer for stealing cable TV. This sequence looks like something out of Mafia II, almost. With better brawling, one hopes. EA Sports sent out that trailer yesterday as a further means of introducing you to…

Xbox 360 Faceplates Were a Failure, Says Microsoft

Swappable faceplates on the Xbox 360 wasn’t a bad idea, says the console’s marketing boss but, looking back, it came in a little late, especially for a fad based on mobile phones. “We don’t ever create an accessory with the intent of having it fail”, Albert Penello told Official Xbox Magazine. “The idea wasn’t bad…

The End Of The World, As MotorStorm Knows It

Getchaself a good look at the gameplay in MotorStorm: Apocalypse, in which those fortunate enough to have working vehicles choose not to flee their city’s imminent destruction, but rather have badass races before all the buildings collapse. Or during them. SCEA reminds us that the game will feature a playable demo before its early 2011…

VGAs’ Overall Television Ratings Slide For Fourth Straight Year

The Video Game Awards are a high-profile event, but trade mainstream exposure for a production some gamers find cheaply stereotypical. That bargain still hasn’t conclusively paid off; overall ratings declined for a third straight year, but gained in some demographics. Variety reports that Saturday’s production delivered 627,000 viewers to Spike, a 3 percent drop from…

Analog Pitching Controls Come To MLB 11 The Show

In a control switch that’s likely to be controversial to some, MLB 11 The Show’s default pitching, throwing and hitting controls will move to the right analog stick, though it will include the old face-button commands for the lifers. ESPN’s Jon Robinson, getting the first preview of Sony’s genre-leading baseball franchise, says the analog-based pitching…

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The Waffle Game That Changed Their Lives

You’ve never heard of this game. It’s in only one cabinet, playable in one city and, generously estimating, maybe it makes a dollar a day. Nothing about this video game suggests it’s someone’s meal ticket, but it is. For life. Built over the past year, Off The Waffle the game, found in Off The Waffle…

More Details For SSX: Deadly Descents

The EA.com official page for SSX: Deadly Descents went live sometime last night, shedding a little more light on the return of the snowboarding series and dropping another three screenshots. According to the site’s official writeup, SSX: Deadly Descents tells the story of a team seeking ” to be the first to descend the faces…

Red Dead Redemption Cleans Up At The VGAs

To keep the show to two hours, they didn’t hand out all the hardware on stage at last night’s 2010 Video Game Awards. Here is the complete list of honorees. Neil Patrick Harris’ compensation was limited to just one award. Red Dead Redemption was thebig winner, with four awards, led by Game of the Year.…

PC Need For Speed Won’t Get Consoles’ DLC

Not only is Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit’s first downloadable content package not coming to the game’s PC version, the PC version isn’t getting any of the consoles’ paid DLC extensions, period, according to the game’s studio. Big Download reports that Criterion Games, on the official Need For Speed message boards, confirmed the lack of…

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