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Assassin’s Creed Novel Coming Later This Month
Play.tm reports that Ubisoft has confirmed an Assassin’s Creed novelization from the publisher Penguin will be released later this month. The novel is titled “Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance,” and is written by Oliver Bowden. I couldn’t find a book description on either Amazon or Tower Books, but Play.tm says it will be an expansion of Ezio’s…
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Fils-Aime: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Will Outsell MW2 — with One Stipulation
That stipulation is, it’ll beat either the 360 or the PS3 versions of the game, but not both, the Nintendo boss Reggie FIls-Aime told Gametrailers TV. Still, that’s a hell of a Pepsi challenge. Granted, New Super Mario Bros. Wii only releases on a single platform. Modern Warfare 2 is still expected to be an…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Nov. 6 PvPonline published Nov. 6 ActionTrip published Nov. 2 Digital Unrest published Nov. 2 EXTRALIFE published Nov. 5 GU Comics published Nov. 6 Dotgif published Nov. 2 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published Nov. 6 Dueling Analogs published Nov. 5 Nerf NOW published Nov. 2 Rooster Teeth published Nov. 5 Virtual Shackles published week of…
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Unraveled Anagram Points to FFXIII Announcement Friday
A message posted to Square-Enix’s official Final Fantasy XIII site on Friday indicates, after not too much work, that some news is forthcoming on Friday. The news post dated Friday – no link, nothing further – said simply: “A puzzle for FINAL FANTASY XIII fans! Solve this anagram to find out what lies ahead: A…
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This Is Not Lego G. Gordon Liddy; it’s ‘Enemy Mechanic’
Here are the 15 characters you can play once Lego Indiana Jones 2 releases on Nov. 17. Many are “Hey-it’s-that-guy” recognizable, if not by their names, then at least as minifig Watergate conspirators. I kid. That guy to the left is “Enemy Mechanic,” aka the Von Kaiser/Bald Bull hybrid who duked it out with Indy…
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BioWare Releases Dragon Age Campaign, Cutscene Toolset
Not even a week after its release does Dragon Age: Origins put out its official Toolset for download, allowing PC users to assemble battles, campaigns, and lip-synched cut scenes to share with the game’s community. BioWare just launched the Toolset page, touting the ability to “create new adventure,” “stage massive battles” and of course, “be…
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Bleszinski: Borderlands is Diablo for a New Generation
Continuing today’s theme of “Devs Commenting on Other Devs,” here, for a change, is Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski weighing in with something polite about Borderlands. Many have made the comparison of Gearbox’s Borderlands to Diablo. Cliffy B certifies it with this unsolicited Tweet: “Borderlands, I adore you. You’re Diablo for a generation raised on first person…
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Gearbox Boss: Valve is Behaving Like Fanboys
While not directly addressing Chet Faliszek’s slap at PlayStation 3, the Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford – no stranger to stirring s—t with Valve – has taken a poke at the Left 4 Dead developer’s posture toward Sony. Pitchford, speaking to Official PlayStation Magazine, called Valve’s posture toward Sony – specifically as expressed by Doug Lombardi…
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Sega Giving Out Early Access to Bayonetta 360 Demo
No, it’s not some preorder bonus. But quantities are limited. Sega’s offering 40,000 codes to play the Bayonetta demo early on Xbox 360, but you have to be a registered Sega Pass member to be eligible. Here’s the deal – once you register (free) for a Sega Pass, go back to this site on Nov.…
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Saturday Timewaster: Bloktonik
Tipster BulletProof found this Tetrisesque block puzzle with an entrancing soundtrack and passes it along. But more curiously, “Bloktonik” seems to be in development for WiiWare (and for mobile), with a release date TBA. I found Bloktonik to be pretty tough the first half-a-dozen times I played – on the easy setting. Different color blocks…
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Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony
GameSpot reports that a man has sued Sony, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment of America, contending the company violates the Americans with Disabilities Act for not making its virtual worlds more easily navigable by the visually impaired. The nature of Alexander Stern’s visual impairment isn’t clear from the report, whether that is total…
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The Meta-Narrative That Pulls Back the Curtain for All Games
Was GLaDOS, the artificial intelligence in 2007’s critically acclaimed Portal, in fact a game designer? And if so, what does our relationship to the computer, and its abuse of our trust, say about the other games we play? Guido Pellegrini at Playtime Magazine raises that point, among many others, in examining not just the meta-narrative…
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Valve’s Multiplayer Calculus: (360 = PC) > PS3
More provocative tidbits continue to trickle out of Valve, with the Left 4 Dead 2 project lead saying that game won’t be coming to PS3 because the console’s multiplayer community isn’t on par with PC and the Xbox 360. “Right now don’t not buy it on the 360 because you think it’s coming out on…
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NCAA Football, and the Science of Subjectivity
With true-to-life fidelity, my most recent season simulation in NCAA Football 10 found Boise State losing a trap game late in the season and, as the token BCS Buster from a minor conference, paying for it dearly in the polls. Having gone undefeated through 10 games, the Broncos (not a user-controlled team in this dynasty)…
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Weekend Coupons: Prelude to a Black Friday
Walmart kicked off the morning lineup craze three weeks early with its Saturday-only electronics sale. Crecente was there at 7:30 a.m. down there to file a live report, if by “live report” one means, “buy a Blu-Ray player.” Hardware • Today is the one-day only special in which you can grab an Xbox 360 Arcade…
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Kotaku Originals: Dog Gone
The old dog-ate-my-controller excuse got a guy out of a 5,000 Microsoft Point purchase, plus Gamertag immortality for the scape-pooch, in the No. 1 story of a news-packed week delivered by your humble editors. Top Stories Microsoft Refunds Dog Shopping Spree, Grants K9 Gamertag Rumor Rumor: Kane & Lynch 2 Has A Very NSFW Level…
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Trials Dev Pirated Its Own Game to Drive Interest
RedLynx, the developer of the well received downloadable title Trials, said that it seeded pirate torrent sites with neutered copies of the game in order to stoke interest in the title. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Tero Virtala, the RedLynx CEO, said that the pirated version his team sent out did not include leaderboard support, which Virtala…
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