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TGIF
Don’t give me that look. You know you watched Family Matters – more than once – on the wasted Friday nights of your youth. Not a lot to say tonight. I’ve spent most of today inside chained to this monitor preparing for the weekend so – sorry! No witty anecdotes about real life because I…
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First Videos Showcase Gameplay Of “The Jordan Challenge”
GameSpot today posted the first two videos featuring gameplay from NBA 2K11’s upcoming "Jordan Challenge," featuring Michael Jordan versus the Portland Trail Blazers in the first game of the 1992 NBA Finals. What’s intriguing to me – beyond Horace Grant’s and Buck Williams’ rec specs – is the commentary. Kevin Harlan, Clark Kellogg and Doris…
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Hump A Robot In New Vegas
Ho’in ain’t new to Fallout: New Vegas. Hell, boffing Nova in Moriarity’s upstairs was one of the first things I did in Fallout 3. The ESRB certificate for the sequel shows Bethesda’s upping the ante with hot-n-heavy man-on-machine action. There is also an extended sequence suggesting (no depiction) sexual activity with a robot (e.g., “Fisto…
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Laurence Maroney Needs To Learn How To Edit Madden Rosters
Patriots running back Laurence Maroney is this year’s designated complainer over his Madden NFL rating, taking issue with a speed rating drop that he thinks is tied to a two-year-old shoulder injury. “They got me terrible on Madden, man. I wanna tell Madden that too,” Maroney told The Boston Globe on Tuesday. “You know what’s…
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Kirk Gibson’s Home Run, Recreated In R.B.I. Baseball
Sports gamers remember the epic R.B.I. Baseball re-creation of the sixth game of the 1986 World Series. Someone’s gotten around to re-enacting an even greater World Series moment from that decade: Kirk Gibson’s home run to beat Oakland in 1988. This is one of a few moments I saw live and can recite from memory,…
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Rock Band’s PR Agency Slapped By Federal Trade Commission [Update]
The agency that handles PR for Harmonix, 505 Games and other developers will settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that its employees posed as ordinary consumers to post positive game reviews on the iTunes App store. Reverb Communications, whose clients also include MTV Games, CDV Software Entertainment and Emergent Game Technologies, must remove…
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The Glamourous Life
The Internet has eliminated guys’ rite-of-passage shame of avoiding eye contact while a clerk takes his time ringing up a glossy magazine with impossibly shaped hot women on the cover. Unless it’s Glamour, in which I appear this month. From the 12 Naughty Sex Questions You’ve Been Dying To Ask to 29 Best Beauty Buys…
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Shank’s Cinematics Problems Blamed On Old 360s [Update]
Shank, the side-scrolling beat-and-slash-em-up out this week, runs like a dream on the PS3 but is having some stuttering issues with its cinematics on the Xbox 360. The game’s developer says older models of that console are the problem. “Older Xbox 360’s have slower disc access rates, so the opening cinematic chugs, and loading between…
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How In Shape Are FIFA 11’s Athletes?
Looking at this trailer gets me winded. There’s a reason I played fullback in my lone season of high school soccer – I didn’t have to run past midfield. Hell, coach chose the goalie based on the fact he smoked. Anyway, here’s EA Sports Canada’s Gary Paterson explaining how stamina and fatigue will work in…
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U. of Florida Adds Starcraft Studies
Starcraft is being used to teach resource management skills in a new course offering at the University of Florida – but it’s only open to students in the honors college, and students have to have some familiarity with the game. Nate Poling, a Ph.D candidate at UF, came up with the idea and sold his…
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Learn To Control Yourself In NBA 2K11
NBA 2K11 isn’t just putting a new coat of paint on a reliable model; this year the game will feature advanced controls that strives to deliver more distinctive moves to players’ shooting, dribbling and driving repertoires, with corresponding animations. The advanced controls are an option in the game, meaning you can still play with its…
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Cowboys Stadium Is A Venue In EA Sports MMA
Recently, the CEO of MMA promotion Strikeforce mentioned he’d visited Cowboys Stadium. As Strikeforce is a licensing partner of the upcoming EA Sports MMA, some took that to mean the site might show up in the game. They’re right. MMA enthusiast site MiddleEasy.com pinged EA Sports’ Randy Chase to ask about Cowboys Stadium – considering…
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Newest Madden iPhone Management App Now Available
EA Sports has published an update to its free iPhone application allowing Madden players to manage their Online Franchises away from the console. Madden NFL 11 Online Franchise Companion’s greatest utility is in proposing and accepting trades among members of your online franchise. You may also keep track of schedules, results, roster moves and other…
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How To Keep A Clean Sheet In FIFA 11
New to this year’s edition of EA Sports’ FIFA will be the opportunity to play as a goalkeeper in the game’s career mode or in online team play. This tutorial gives the basics of the position’s entirely new control set. The fundamentals: You’re given an on-pitch marker that shows the best position to play the…
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Google’s ‘Game Developer Advocate’ Leaves
After a little over four months on the job, Google’s “game developer advocate” is no longer with the company. The development follows his discussion at GDC-Europe of Google’s revenue plans for games sold over its Chrome Web Store Mark DeLoura, a veteran with deep ties to the industry, joined Google in early April; on his…
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Dies Caniculares
It’s a Tuesday in August, the least interesting day of the year’s least interesting month. Some might argue February, but at least that has the TV sweeps, so you can watch Swamp Loggers of the Luftwaffe on the Histovery Channel. Anyway, here’s our open thread for the evening, as we wait for the rest of…
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Middleweights Add Another 15 Fighters To EA Sports MMA
Movin’ right along – EA Sports MMA is revealing its roster piecemeal. This week we’re shown 22 fighters eligible at the game’s middleweight class, eight of which were also revealed as light heavyweights last week. Cung Le, Nick Diaz, Frank Shamrock, Ronaldo Souza, Tim Kennedy, Pat Miletich, Jake Shields, Nick Thompson, Robbie Lawler, Benji Radach,…
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Free-to-Play NFL Sim Adds Another Superstar
Quick Hit Football, the browser-based strategy simulation, will re-launch in September with NFL licensing. Though it won’t carry real-life rosters, the game’s maker can cut deals with individual players, and Dallas linebacker DeMarcus Ware has been added to the stable. Ware joins New England wide receiver Randy Moss as stars for this year’s game. Per…
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