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Germany’s Censored L4D2 Runs Faster
Australia isn’t the only nation receiving a powercleaned version of Left 4 Dead 2. Germany, no doubt because of the killerspiele hysteria, has a similarly sanitized demo. But guess what, it also runs 40 percent faster. PC Games Hardware benchmarked both the uncut Left 4 Dead 2 and the censored German demo using to a…
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PC Version of Dragon Age Patched, Explained
The PC version of Dragon Age: Origins got a 1.01 patch not 72 hours after release; lead designer Mike Laidlaw jumped onto BioWare’s forums to explain its necessity. First, the changes, according to BioWare: • Fixed potential corruption of character statistics • Fixed portrait appearance sliders when importing a character from the downloadable Character Creator…
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Media Molecule: LBP Sequel Would “Fragment” Its Community
Media Molecule leaves little doubt it has no plans for any kind of a sequel to LittleBigPlanet, with a designer calling it “the most counterproductive thing you could do,” in an interview with Critical Gamer. “We’d never want to do that,” said Danny Leaver, adding that a sequel would fragment the game’s community. Producer Martin…
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id: Probably No Dedicated Servers for Rage
id Software’s John Carmack is mindful of the anger over Modern Warfare 2 dropping dedicated server support. That’s why he’s glad Infinity Ward is going first, because he plans to do the same thing with Rage. “It’s not cast in stone yet, but at this point no, we don’t think we will have dedicated servers,”…
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Queen Guitarist Demanded Perfectly Molded Lego Hair
OK, here’s one guy who won’t be suing a rhythm game maker. That’s because Queen guitarist Brian May paid strict attention to the use of his likeness, and insisted that his flowing tresses get a pristine Lego sculpt. “I think my Lego character is wonderful. I want one,” he said, according to BangShowBiz.com “We had…
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Bowling: Twitter Helped Build Modern Warfare 2
Seems kind of obvious to say in light of recent developments, but in an interview with Develop magazine, the Infinity Ward community manager pointed to Twitter as an instant and constant source of feedback in building Modern Warfare 2. “I communicate with our Twitter followers the same way I’d communicate with my office buddies,” Bowling…
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Moore: EA Sports Working to Appeal to Japanese Gamers
Electronic Arts’ push into Japan doesn’t exclude EA Sports, and on his official blog, that division’s boss, Peter Moore what his operation can do to invite more Japanese gamers to sports titles, specifically its FIFA franchise. Japan “is the cradle of our industry,” Moore writes, but “one of the frustrations of being an American company…
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MW2 Avatar Items Available Tomorrow, but Not for Free
Those Modern Warfare 2 Avatar goodies – of which Robert Bowling said “some” would be free right? – are going to Xbox Live Marketplace, tomorrow, FourZeroTwo says via Twitter. Unfortunately, they’ll all cost MS points. Saith the Infinity Ward community manager: “Uploading a bunch of #MW2 avatar gear to XBL tomorrow, including this full GHOST…
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NCAA 10 Showcases the Charm and Bad Calls of Hoops’ Top Home Courts
NCAA Basketball 10 isn’t just about the announcing teams and pretty graphics, it still faces the tall order of presenting all the arenas of every major conference member. Another 15 screens show us what to expect. This package delivers Lousiville at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center (Big East); Michigan State at Illinois’ Assembly Hall, one of…
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“Margaritaville” Trademarked for Video Game Use
Another cull of patent and trademark filings turns up this gem: Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritaville,” the soundtrack for public drunkenness and amphitheater-humping for more than two decades, has been trademarked for use in a video game. You can see the filing here, but my bet is that this is for some mobile game. I can’t imagine…
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KFC Madden NFL Box Unboxing and Review
On the heels of 2008’s Guitar Hero: World Tour KFC Fully Loaded Box Meal, this year the purveyor of alleged poultry allegedly from the Bluegrass State has teamed up with EA Sports for the KFC Madden NFL Box. The meal comes in four configurations, offers four “collector’s cups” featuring NFLers rendered, interestingly, in their cartoony…
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Actually, Looks Like There Will Be a Bad Company 2 Beta Soon
Earlier today, GameStop outed a beta – with a launch date – for Battlefield Bad Company 2 in a preorder deal later taken down. EA confirmed to Blend Games that news is coming this week, but no beta date. The scramble started when GameStop published a 24-hour promising deal promising access to the PS3 beta…
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TF2’s Mann Co. Responds to Its Customers Once More
September’s “Team Update” brought another mention of Team Fortress 2’s macho product supplier Mann Co., and some folks took the hint and wrote the company’s address again. Lo and behold, here’s more form-letter hilarity. And – classic comic book covers! Kotaku reader Wayne T. received a form letter, two 1960s/70s era comic covers (“Saxton Hale’s…
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Preorder Bonus Puts L4D Headwear in Team Fortress 2
“For the first time in history,” writes the TF2 Team, “two separate Valve universes collide!” If you pre-order Left 4 Dead 2, you get Bill’s beret from Left 4 Dead to trick out your Team Fortress 2 guys. The deal’s of course restricted to pre-orders of the PC L4D2, Steam or retail. However, if you’ve…
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Xbox Live Ops Manager Ain’t Going for this Facebook/Games Thing
In the latest thrilling episode of Major Nelson‘s podcast, the gang raps about the DSi XL and its virtues and drawbacks, and regular guest “e” (Eric Neustadter, the Xbox Live operations manager) says this whole gaming/Facebook synergy? Not diggin’ it. “I find the in-game uses, OK, may be interesting, the out-of-game, hey, it’s a camera,…
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Awesome Custom Mario Costume Packs Its Own Soundtrack
Perhaps a little late for Halloween, but you can use this modded Mario costume for inspiration and get to work on yours for next year. Certain motions while wearing the suit trigger fireball, jumping and 1Up sounds, among others. The get-up was built by an Adafruit Wave Shield user, connecting the gadget to an Arduino…
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Fight Night Gets Three New Fighters, Price Cut
Three new fighters will be offered in the latest round of downloadable content to be offered for Fight Night Round 4, Electronic Arts announced on Monday. Bernard Hopkins, Sonny Liston and Evander Holyfield will join the game. Furthermore, the game’s suggested retail price drops another $10, to $39.99, just in time for the holiday retail…
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Aussie L4D2 Gets a Deep-Clean Sanitizing
Hey look! Disappearing bodies! No, this isn’t some homage mod to the days of 8-bit fatalities, it’s one of the features put into the Australian Left 4 Dead 2 so it could be approved for sale. You can see for yourself in that video above. The scorecard, according to the Steam community forums is comprehensive:…
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Spring Back
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Tristan Vs. Zombies Time was, forgetting to adjust your clock back to standard time was like finding an old $20 bill the first time you put on your winter coat in November. You’d wake up, something wouldn’t feel right, and remember you had an extra hour of the most blissful…
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Alan Wake Devs Might Withhold Ending from Preview Copies
Alan Wake‘s developers are concerned enough about spoilers getting out that they’ll talk with Microsoft about keeping the game’s ending out of copies sent to the press in advance of its release. G4TV quotes the Remedy Entertainment managing director Matias Myllrinne as saying the studio is “insanely careful” about how much of the story it’ll…
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