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GameStop Stock Plunge Blamed on Walmart Price Slash
Walmart’s move to cut prices on the Wii and two dozen of the year’s top releases was enough to dent GameStop’s stock early Wednesday, dropping it nearly 9 percent – the biggest plunge of any stock in the S&P 500. GameStop was trading for $21.73 around 1 p.m. U.S. Eastern time, $2.11 off its opening…
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Netherlands Hospital Blackout Blamed on Silent Hill
A psych ward patient in Holland skated on an insanity plea after he killed power to an entire hospital thinking he was solving a puzzle in Silent Hill. You might have heard of this, but a month ago or so, Jan H., the patient, shut down power to Sophia Hospital in the Netherlands thinking that…
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ESRB Launches Free iPhone Search App
The Entertainment Software Rating Board has published a free iPhone app that allows content-conscious shoppers to search out ratings and content descriptions while they’re in line wondering if Left 4 Dead 2 is appropriate for little Billy’s stocking. The ESRB’s entire ratings database is searchable, with full certificates available for titles back to July 1,…
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BioWare has a Fix for Dragon Age Soundtrack/PS3 Issues
Over the weekend we had a lively discussion of file and disc formats and why exactly the mp3 soundtrack for Dragon Age: Origins was inaccessible on the PS3. BioWare’s asking anyone with the problem to email, they can fix it. A BioWare spokesman dropped the official help URL – help.dragonage.com – and asked that people…
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Survey Points to Potential New Features in NCAA 11
An EA Sports survey asks respondents which feature, from a list of 13, would most likely drive their purchase of NCAA 11. Possibilities include an “athletics director” mode, and broadcast presentation similar to what was done in NCAA Basketball 10. Pasta Padre got his hands on a screenshot of the survey from a tipster, which…
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My Favorite Thing
To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Antipodes Beckon This weekend, Dad published his annual holiday column, a tradition going back, I don’t know, it’s gotta be more than 15 years. “My favorite things,” is its theme, and his range from guilty pleasures like burnt potato chips or sausage gravy to the simpler ones like sports,…
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Study: Avatars Dressed in Klan Robes Usually Belong to Unpleasant People
A researcher down in Texas has found that, when people are assigned to play characters wearing the brooding black robes of an emo Jedi, or the coneheaded getup of a KKK grand kobold or whatever, they exhibit antisocial behaviors. The study, entitled “The Priming Effects of Avatars in Virtual Settings,” more or less says that…
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Week in Games: Owen Good’s Week in Games: The Post
James Cameron Commands You to Pay Attention to His Name Over the Game Titled Avatar is a five-platform release this week, as movie adaptations commonly are. The film sounds like it’ll be a total joke, too, which also is unsurprising. Let’s not forget Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel, which couldn’t pass “Justify Your…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •15 Super Cool PlayStation 3 Case Mods [GamingBolt] These aren’t necessarily the top 15, but they do form a list, and most of them are…
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Desert Bus Charity Shatters $100K Goal
Desert Bus for Hope, the fund drive dedicated to playing the world’s most boring game, ever, logged more than five days behind the wheel and raised a staggering $132,568.94, more than 88 percent over last year’s total. The marathon, a project of the comedy troupe LoadingReadyRun benefiting the Child’s Play charity, kicked off on Nov.…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Nov. 23 PvPonline published Nov. 25 ActionTrip published Nov. 23 2P Start! published Nov. 25 EXTRALIFE published Nov. 25 Dotgif published Nov. 25 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published Nov. 25 Dueling Analogs published Nov. 25 Nerf NOW published Nov. 25 Rooster Teeth published Nov. 24 Monday Night Crew published Nov. 23 Virtual Shackles published Nov.…
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Dyack Brags that ‘Staggering’ Layoffs Make His Studio ‘Oldest’
In an interview, Denis Dyack bemoaned the “staggering” layoffs seen in game development over the past 18 months, then went on to talk about how such attrition has helped cement Silicon Knights as one of the longest tenured studios left. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Dyack touted Ontario as a potential global leader in the games sector…
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XBL iPhone App Released, Might It Be Free Someday?
The new 360 Live is more functional and packs more features than previous attempts at remote Xbox Live control over your iPhone, but it comes with a cost $1.99. However, a year-old Microsoft policy might reduce that to $0.00. 360 Live automatically retrieves your friends list when you sign into your Xbox Live account with…
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Fight Night Has a Message for You Spammers
Fight Night Round 4‘s next DLC delivers four fighters, rivalry matchups, and “old-school rules,” which I assume means a brain-pulping 15 rounds. Its next patch release will tire the hell out of your boxer if you don’t fight smart. Continuous punching, weaving and haymakers all have higher endurance cost, spamming your block ruins your ability…
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Format Gaffe Prevents PS3 Owners from Playing Dragon Age Soundtrack
Those who bought the Dragon Age: Origins Collector’s Edition for PS3 cannot access the bonus soundtrack. The disc is Blu-Ray and the music’s mp3, so a PC won’t play the former and the PS3 is unable to see the latter. Let me clarify: A PS3 won’t access the mp3 files from a Blu-Ray disc. PS3s…
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Their Bodies, Our Games
That picture above poses an interesting question to Massively’s Seraphina Brennan. Why, she wonders, is the knee-jerk reaction to get bent out of shape about a buxom, indiscreetly clothed woman in a video game, but not a ripped, stripped-to-the-waist man? Second Correction: Seraphina Brennan is in fact the transgendered identity of the writer and is…
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Cover Athletes: Putting More Than a Name Into a Game
Michael Phelps might have been on a Wheaties box. It doesn’t mean he advised General Mills on how to make the cereal taste better. But that’s also the role Evan Longoria, the newly minted Silver Slugger and Gold Glover from Tampa Bay, takes on as the cover man for MLB 2K10, an endorsement announced this…
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Weekend Coupons: Black Saturday
Not all of the deals this weekend are doorbusters designed to get you to a brick-and-mortar location. If your butt remains fused to the living room couch, you can still get some value-added shopping done thanks to Kotaku Weekend Coupons. Hardware • The 120GB 360 Elite bundle that includes PURE and Lego Batman is yours…
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