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Nine States Oppose California In Supreme Court Games Case
Yesterday evening saw the filing deadline for supporting briefs in Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association – the Supreme Court case involving a California statute restricting the sale or rental of violent video game sales. Nine states oppose the law. Rhode Island, Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Washington, plus Puerto Rico…
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The Band Is Back, Marching Under The Shield
A league license rebranded it as Quick Hit NFL earlier this month, trading some of the football strategy simulation’s upstart rep for establishment cred. For many on the game, it was an arrival. For some, it was also a return. Many on the team that developed this game, a browser-based, free-to-play, pay-to-upgrade title that also…
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Halo: Reach Load Times, Installed vs. Disc
If you have the drive space, you may want to consider installing Halo: Reach to your Xbox 360, as loading some game types can go nearly two to three times as quickly. The time savings are a matter of seconds, not minutes. But this comparison, by Examiner.com, shows the opening mission loading in 8.1 versus…
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Let’s TGS: Day Four
Our past day of reporting from Tokyo Game Show saw Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam, Project Dark and its demon soul, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and that suave blue PS3 above. And there’s plenty more to read about as well. Here’s a run down of day four of the show. You can find day one…
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Box Scores: Sixteen Bags
Only 15 players have hit four home runs in a single game, a feat even more rare than a perfect game. Three of them are Phillies. If anyone would become the fourth, Chase Utley’s a good candidate. Andrew K., playing a full 162-game season as the Phillies with MLB 10: The Show, received the Reds…
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Starkiller Brings Two Sabers To A Blaster Fight
GameTrailers got the first in-game cutscene from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Not once in 33 years have I ever seen anyone disembark a TIE Fighter, and Star Wars doesn’t look like it’s gonna start showing that now. How the hell do you get in and out of those things, anyway, the Force? Oh,…
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The Moneysaver: Buckaroo Bargains
The White House wants to know, is everything OK with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia? Coming soon: The Moneysaver Versus The World Crime League. Before we get started, interesting development in valueland: the digital distribution service GamersGate just opened a full-blown store through Facebook.…
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The Week in Review: Exciting Game Show
Two major drops – Halo: Reach on Tuesday, PlayStation Move on Friday – vied with Tokyo Game Show 2010 to dominate the past week. They may have been the biggest news, but they weren’t the only news. Reach went out with some problems, apparently – multiplayer issues on the 4GB Slim Arcade models of the…
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Hold Your Breath And Think Of Five Bearded Men
So my friends and I have undertaken the inevitable mustache-growing contest. Right now I’m sporting about five days of completely, full-faced unshaven stubble. But I’m wondering if I should spend all this growth on a Hulk Hogan-style Fu Manchu. That’s the goal of this contest, which assuredly I will win. I just don’t think the…
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Trash Talk Backed With Slick Moves Of NBA 2K11
Hoops is the smack-talkingest of major team sports, so it follows that the marketing of its video games would also involve some good-natured lip. But also pay attention to the new post animations 2K Sports has added into NBA 2K11. Better yet, just run go get the demo and see for yourself. It went up…
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The Sports Of Kings With Liars And Cheats
Multiplayer horse racing is one of the new modes of play in Red Dead Redemption’s Liars and Cheats downloadable content extension, due next week. Four screens give us some clues as to what it’s all about. Hint: It’s got guns. The mode supports up to eight players, competing in cup-style tournaments of between 3 and…
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Get Acquainted With NBA Elite’s Feature-Packed Demo
This video offers quite the list of details for the NBA Elite 11 demo – except a release date. But when it does arrive, it’ll offer plenty to play around with in advance of the full game’s Oct. 5 drop. From the narration and other details, we see that you’ll be playing “the full fourth…
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OK, So, Now Canadian Football Leaguers Are Pissed At Madden
So. We’ve gone through long snappers, injured running backs and unceremoniously dumped wide receivers on the list of those with Madden grievances. Is there any other class of marginal or washed-up performer with a beef? Oh yeah. Canadian football players. In Madden NFL 11, analyst Cris Collinsworth disparages Canadian football when a kicker shanks a…
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EA Sports MMA Goes For UFC’s Throat
EA Sports is not often in the position of the contender. It is with its mixed martial arts title, as THQ owns the UFC license, the leading mark. That doesn’t mean EA’s marketing the game like a lightweight. This latest trailer features a quote from the competition – THQ executive VP Don Gold saying, “there…
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What’s Cooking With ‘The Jordan Challenge’
Comedy is the context of this newly minted featuring five NBAers stumping for NBA 2K11, but for gamers, the takeaway is the in-game footage of “The Jordan Challenge.” And, well, Derrick Rose decorating a cake. And basting a turkey. The challenge, which asks you to recreate 10 signature moments from Michael Jordan’s career, will unlock…
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Guinness Gives Mafia II The F-Bomb Record
Yesterday, Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunters compiled 200 instances of Mafia II using a four-letter word that rhymes with “John Kruk.” Today, Guinness World Records says it’s provisionally certified the game as the all-time F-bomb champion among video games. In an email to Achievement Hunters co-hosts Jack Pattillo and Geoff Ramsey, Guinness’ gaming records editor said…
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NBA 2K11 Will Feature ‘Dynamic Attendance’
Ever notice that half the Staples Center crowd is either tied up in traffic or too famous to arrive on time for the Lakers’ tipoff? NBA 2K11 has, and the video game’s “dynamic crowd” feature will reflect that. The gang at Visual Concepts studied attendance numbers and watched footage of broadcasts from every NBA arena…
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Mafia II Sets An F-Bomb Record [NSFW]
House Of The Dead: Overkill previously held the Guinness-certified World Record for most uses of the F-word in a video game, with 189. Mafia II has whacked that target. Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunter compiled all 200. Language very NSFW. Achievement Hunter: World Record F-Bombs [Rooster Teeth]
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Kinect Gets Its First Weird Grasshopper Manufacture Game, ‘Codename D’
Japanese games impresario Goichi Suda, creator of No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned, and his studio Grasshopper Manufacture will bring an all-new title exclusively to the Xbox 360, titled “Codename D.” (Skittles? Is that you?) Suda, taking the stage at Microsoft’s TGS 2010 news conference, said that he’d wanted to work with the…
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Radiant Silvergun Coming to Xbox 360
Radiant Silvergun, the spiritual progenitor of Ikaruga, is coming exclusively to the Xbox 360 next year, Microsoft said at its Tokyo Game Show news conference. The title is being developed by Treasure, the original studio behind both games. Radiant Silvergun, an arcade favorite brought to the Sega Saturn in 1998, will feature online cooperative play…
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