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Bulletstorm Puts Its Foot Down
If Epic Games’ new game Bulletstorm breaks new ground in a familiar, crowded genre, it’ll be in the use of melee attacks that aren’t as traditional to the first-person perspective. They’re the first link in the game’s chain of cruel. Not that there isn’t still plenty of shooting done in the first-person perspective. Bulletstorm’s first…
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It’s Like Many Things, But Still Unlike Anything, Say Bulletstorm‘s Creators
Shooters and summer action movies have plenty in common, not least in how both are commonly pitched: Something and something meet something else. Epic’s Bulletstorm, due in 2011, will enter this fraternity with similar references. “It’s the Burnout of shooters, with a little bit of Duke Nukem,” Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski said, “and…
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Blur Tutorial Leaves Me Hot for Teacher
Now that Danica Patrick’s up to speed on things like multiplayer and power-ups, she has the credibility to hold our attention through this tutorial on Blur‘s basics. Or maybe it’s just the winks, shoulder-shimmys, and lip gloss. Definitely lip gloss. Blur’s due out, like, pretty damn soon. Or May 25, whichever is sooner.
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IGDA Teams with USDA to Make Some Choice Games
Sometimes, games and the government are capable of doing things together other than antagonizing each other. Take the six “Game Jams” going on in two weeks, pairing developers with kids to brainstorm some games that reinforce healthy eating habits. The IGDA’s collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture is part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s…
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Crappy Demo No One Wanted Sells for $710
It didn’t come close to breaking records set recently by other rare titles, but NBA 2-Ball, a freebie PSOne disc given out at the 1998 NBA All-Star game, probably set a mark for demos. The item sold last night with a winning bid of $710, better than double the opening bid of $300, which some…
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Eight More Fighters Added to EA Sports MMA
Andre Arlovski, Lyle Beerbohm, Roger Gracie, Alistair Overeem, Kevin Randleman, Vitor Ribeiro, Murilo “Ninja” Rua and Fabricio Werdum. Heard of those guys? Me either. But they’re in the roster for EA Sports MMA – and a new batch of screens. Arlovski and Randleman are a former UFC heavyweight titleists, Overeem is the current Strikeforce heavyweight…
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Hey, Your Mod Got Portal In My Team Fortress …
Don’t want to wait for multiplayer in Portal 2? Some modders are privately testing out Team Fortress 2 equipped with portal guns, and released this video to show how far they’ve come with the concept. While anyone on the board can pass through a portal, whether they laid it down or not, the portals can…
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What Sports Gamers Can Expect, If There Are No More Free Passes
Strong users of rental services and resale or trade-in options, sports gamers justifiably feel blindsided by EA Sports’ new “Online Pass,” which requires a ton of once-standard game content to be activated by a one-use code. To recap: Yesterday EA Sports revealed its “Online Pass” strategy, which will begin in June with the next Tiger…
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Split With Founders Sends Major League Gaming CEO Packing
The founders of Major League Gaming and the league’s CEO have parted ways over a difference in how the professional gaming league should be expanding, with the ousted chief apparently not getting support for more aggressive growth plans. Matthew Bromberg ran the New York-based league for the past four and a half years; he’s out,…
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Adapter Plays Game Boy Titles Through the NES
Here’s Retrovision, and it looks like something a friend of mine did – jamming a CD adapter into a cassette adapter into the eight-track slot of a Dodge Colt’s car stereo. Retrovision is about as practical, yet just as awesome. Nintendo Age user Bunnyboy built this adapter, which allows one to play Game Boy carts…
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It’s Not the Critic Who Counts, but the Crasher in the Arena
Hinted at a week ago, the developers of Castle Crashers for the PS3 have more information on the new four-player Arena Mode exclusive to this version of the game. It accomodates 2-on-2, 1-on-3, or good old free-for-all matches. “So since we’ve had to rewrite the code for the game anyway as we bring it to…
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The Last Man to Play Halo 2 on Xbox Live
He is Apache N4SIR. Nearly a month after Microsoft shut down the original Xbox Live, he was one of the Noble 14 who kept their connections running. Their numbers slowly dwindled, and today, he was the last Spartan standing. At 4 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, Agent Windex and Apache N4SIR were the last ones left…
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BioShock 2‘s Latest DLC Hits PS3 and 360 Tomorrow
BioShock 2‘s “Rapture Metro” pack of downloadable content, abruptly delayed from its original release two weeks ago, was rescheduled just as abruptly today. 2K Games today said the DLC rolls out tomorrow. The DLC is 800 Microsoft Points/$9.99 and is available on PS3 and Xbox 360 tomorrow. The PC version of the DLC is on…
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Brit Modder Wiped Out, but Doesn’t Get Jail
A British programmer said to have reaped some £600,000 selling modchips that bypassed copy protection on four consoles avoided jail at his sentencing today, but only because the father of two was bankrupted by his conviction. Glen Cook (pictured, left) got home detention from a judge named Les Spittle, whose measured remarks at sentencing belied…
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FarmVille, Coming to a Convenience Store Near You This Summer
FarmVille looks to overrun your corner convenience store this summer, thanks to a cross promotion that’ll have 7-Elevens nationwide hawking exclusive items for the casual game, plus others from the Zynga family. Whaddaya get? From the looks of it, a water tower, a cow, a sandwich cart, a tree, a swimming pool and other items…
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Walmart Takes Another Shot at Used Game Sales
Three months after its kiosk partner bellied up, ending Walmart’s first foray into used game returns, the retail behemoth is climbing back in the ring with another provider, and will offer more than just used discs. Industry Gamers says Walmart confirmed that it is now partnering with Game Trade, a start-up company providing these types…
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Wii at Last, Wii at Last, Thank God Almighty …
So President Obama, once again, dinged video games in a speech. I’d rather send a more uplifting message, where a console is judged not by the content of its games, but the color of its skin. As we know, today is an historic day* in America – the first black Wii is available for purchase.…
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