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Reviews
Mafia II: Jimmy’s Vendetta Review: Sand And Fury
Mafia II’s release was clouded by confusion over what “open-world” really meant. Some assumed it meant “sandbox,” where Mafia II was anything but. Jimmy’s Vendetta, the game’s first batch of downloadable content offers more of what some had been expecting. That means no Vito, no Henry, no Joe Barbaro. Instead you’re Jimmy, a former mob…
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NBA 2K11’s Demo Is Out Next Week; Halftime Show Confirmed
2K Sports is publishing its NBA 2K11 demo on Tuesday, three weeks in advance of the game’s Oct. 5 drop. The publisher has normally waited until much closer to launch to release a demo. The demo is available on Sept. 14 for the 360 and PS3 over their download services. Players will get a single…
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Classic Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Coming To Mac, Says Rockstar
Answering reader mail, Rockstar Games today said it will be bringing Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas to Mac gamers “later this year.” “Look for the long-awaited release of the classic Grand Theft Auto Trilogy (Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) for Mac…
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Get Free Scouting Reports In Madden This Weekend
Scouting reports, the Madden multiplayer data that tells you your opponents’ tendencies – and your own as well – are normally bought with the in-game currency accrued free in multiplayer games. This weekend, they’re 100 percent free. Beginning mid-day tomorrow and lasting through the end of Sunday, grab as many scouting reports as you want…
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Technically, Billy Mitchell Never Set The Donkey Kong Jr. Record
The notorious arcade champion Billy Mitchell was certified as the new world record holder in Donkey Kong Jr. at his induction to the International Video Game Hall of Fame last month. But Mark Kiehl had already beaten his score. Kiehl (pictured) from whom Mitchell took the record, posted a score of 1,307,500, on July 19,…
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Madden’s Newest In-Game Sponsorship Is For A Good Cause
Tuesday’s title update for Madden NFL 11 included the “Breast Cancer Awareness” presentation mode reflecting the league’s support – and Electronic Arts’ – of the campaign. It’s a lot more than a banner across the bottom of the screen. Simply from the perspective of gameday realism, always a priority of any sports developer, the mode…
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Madden NFL 11 Breast Cancer Awareness
The official NFL pink ribbon field logo supporting National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in Madden NFL 11. Player uniform accents include pink receiver gloves and shoes, like like those worn by players during games in October. EA Sports also recreated the official football used in October. More pink uniform accents. More pink uniform accents. NFL…
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Free-to-Play NFL Game Kicks Off With 3D Presentation
Quick Hit Football – now officially Quick Hit NFL Football – has re-launched with all the colors, logos and nicknames of the National Football League, as well as a long anticipated three-dimensional presentation in the browser-based PC game. The game is still free to play, with several options of paying to upgrade or advance a…
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Turn An Ivy League Building Into Donkey Kong’s First Level
Lerner Hall is Columbia University’s student center, opening in 1999. Its ramped interior, visible through the glass facade, also resembles the girder level of Donkey Kong. You see where this is headed. Some students want to reenact, in live action, Donkey Kong in this building. They reckon they need $1,000, to cover the costs of…
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NBA Owner Looks To Facebook Games
Mark Cuban, the forward-thinking owner of HDNet and the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, is looking to Farmville-style games as a way to boost his team’s fanbase and increase his network’s productivity. Cuban, on his blog, put out a call for developers of social games who can build “consumer and corporate applications. I’m not looking for knockoffs…
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Games-Addicted NFLer Doesn’t Make The Team
Quinn Pitcock, who climbed up from the rock bottom of self-described games addiction to give his NFL career another shot, did not make the final cut with the Seattle Seahawks. An all-America defensive lineman at Ohio State, Pitcock’s first stint in the NFL, with the Colts, flamed out thanks to a combination of depression and…
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NBA 2K11’s Move To Move Began With Dunks
We’ve known since E3 that NBA 2K11 would be playable with the PlayStation Move. Today, 2K Sports gave the first details as to how the game will be played with the new motion controller. The studio didn’t provide any video of Move in action with the game, unfortunately. Still, it does describe some of the…
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Look Ma, Super Street Fighter IV With One Hand
Aided by a standard-issue Street Fighter IV FightStick, this guy pulls off all of Ryu’s Trials in Super Street Fighter IV – using one hand. And he collects the achievement for it, to boot. YouTube user biffotasty filmed himself doing this over the course of 30 minutes. Trials “21 and 24 were the hardest, almost…
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Just To Be Clear — NBA Jam’s Wii Version Has No Online Multiplayer
Not shocking news, but apparently it hadn’t been put on the record yet, and some folks were wondering if NBA Jam for the Wii would have online multiplayer support over the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Answer: No. EA Sports Vancouver confirmed it today, but I swear I’d heard it before. Maybe it’s because of the Wi-Fi…
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EA Sports MMA Demo Arrives Sept. 28
EA Sports MMA’s free demo will arrive Sept. 28 for both Xbox 360 and PS3; you’ll get four fighters, four different skill levels and a tutorial. Further, as EA Sports has done with demos for NCAA Football 11 and Madden NFL 11, sending a note to someone in your friends list suggesting they try the…
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2K Sports Serves Up Top Spin 4 In 2011
2K Sports will publish Top Spin 4, the latest edition of its tennis sim, in 2011, with versions for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. In a statement issued today, Greg Thomas, 2K Sports’ president of product development promised the game would deliver “an uncanny level of realism in the player and stadium models, authentic…
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Update Delivers Old Madden Commands, New NFL Moments
The old pre-snap commands are back in Madden NFL 11, one highlight in a whale of an update that also adds replays of key moments from the upcoming NFL season, and even a “Breast Cancer Awareness” presentation mode. Madden NFL 11’s implementation of the “Strategy Pad” provoked howls of protest from the series’ hardcore fans,…
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NHL 2K11 Review: The Second Shift Takes The Ice
2K Sports made one of the more intriguing – and gutsy – calls in sports publishing when it shelved NHL 2K on the PS3 and Xbox 360 for a year, going Wii-only for NHL 2K11. The business story makes sense: At the time, 2K was unchallenged in Wii hockey (EA Sports has since announced a…
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