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Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC Dated and Priced
The Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC package announced last week has been dated and priced for the Xbox 360 and PS3. It arrives Nov. 5 on both consoles in North America, and on Nov. 12 for the PS3 in Europe. The package will deliver five new characters – one of whom is Black Panther, it…
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Jury Awards $16 Million in Fatal Win-a-Wii Stunt
A jury awarded $16 million to the family of a Sacramento-area woman who died in a 2007 radio stunt in which participants chugged water and held their bladders in order to win a Wii. Jennifer Strange (pictured), a mom to three kids, died of apparent water intoxication during “Hold Your Wee for a Wii,” a…
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Will Monkeyshines at ESPN Throw a Monkeywrench in a Video Game?
Steve Phillips, formerly of ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, lost that gig in a sex scandal that you might have read about. He was also the color analyst in MLB 2K9. That title doesn’t feature in-game boinkable PAs, but will he stay? Pasta Padre, on the ball as ever, speculates “no.” Even though we’re about four months…
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UK Viral Vid Teaches Us How to Cope with L4D2
Bad enough that this sucker’s set in Louisiana and still features a cricket bat – I’ve truly never heard of anyone playing that game south of the Mason-Dixon, outside of university graduate students from India. This viral vid across the pond for Left 4 Dead 2 furthers the European co-opting of the zombie genre –…
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Drake’s Voice Actor Says Jackman’s the Man
In a podcast interview, Nolan North, the voice of Nathan Drake, indicated that Hugh Jackman is the preferred actor – by producers – for the upcoming Uncharted movie. Desmond – er, Drake – er, North – told the Official Playstation Magazine UK’s podcast that not only is Jackman who he’d like to see take on…
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SAG Sacks Voice Acting Contract
A contract proposal hammered out between the Screen Actors Guild and video game publishers was shot down after a union vote. A key sticking point seemed to be “atmospheric” work, in which one actor voices multiple minor characters. Variety reports that the guild members who work this contract – covering 70 games publishers and all…
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Breaking Down the Sex in Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Origins has got boinkin’ – we knew that already. With copies out to reviewers, one guy has provided a mostly spoiler-free look at all the sex-having, which he says begins “around hour 60.” So it’s just like dating! Demian Linn at Bitmob worked all the angles with every potential partner in the party,…
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Is Rockstar Teasing Next GTA Location?
GTA4.Net noticed this “ad” in the Episodes from Liberty City instruction manual that, reading between the lines (or around the torn out part, anyway) seems to tease where the series is headed next. And maybe when. The ad, apparently for a fake movie, declares “Liberty City, It’s Over!” implying, naturally, that we’re all done here.…
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Dedicated Servers Not Likely for Aliens vs. Predator, Either
Modern Warfare 2, of course, done stepped in it with the dedicated-server thing. CVG talked with a producer and got less-than-assuring answers that Alien vs. Predator PC will support dedicated boxes, too. In an interview with the Rebellion senior producer David Brickley, CVG pointedly mentioned that “There’s been a lot of controversy this month surrounding…
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Amazon Deal: Useful, but Tread Carefully
Between now and Saturday, an $80 purchase on Amazon nets you another $40 in store credit toward the purchase of another game. But let’s think about this for a second. First off, most new console games are $59.99, right?. So while Uncharted 2 and Borderlands are eligible on this deal, unless you’re poaching MSRP-reduced titles,…
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GameStop Brings in 15K to Manage Holiday Rush
GameStop’s booting up for the Black Friday rush, hiring some 15,000 temps between now and Christmas Eve to manage the predicted retail onslaught. The temps will fill positions in 4,300 stores, briefly filling the company’s total headcount by 46 percent, and the “in-store game advisor headcount” by 78 percent. GameStop said the figures are consistent…
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Fifty Bucks and a Meal Spins Your Wedding Reception, DJ Hero-Style
It’s hilarious this dude’s in North Carolina, because every Baptist wedding reception I ever attended in my home state involved “Electric Slide,” which is not included in DJ Hero. Nor, for that matter, is the small dish of butter mints. Anyway, a Mr. “[email protected]” is offering his services and his DJ Hero kit to rotate…
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Football Fans — Here’s Collinsworth NFL 10
Cris Collinsworth took over as the color analyst for the Madden franchise last year. John Madden retired from broadcasting this year. As this video suggests, it’s only a matter of time before the ex-Bengals receiver takes over the title Collinsworth (as voiced by NYC comedian Rob Lathan) has to start out somewhere, so here he…
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Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud for Near Future
A streaming games service – “cloud gaming,” as the buzzphrase has it – is on Microsoft’s horizon but, for the near-term, it’s not something that can be reasonably delivered to a local-machine user, said the Europe boss for Xbox Live. Speaking at the London Games Festival, Jerry Johnson told an audience at the British Academy…
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Is Your Population Demoralized? Watch “Space A-hole”
Because antisocial behavior becomes so much more romantic when someone writes a folk song about it – here is “Space Asshole,” whose creators say was written and sung after most of the accompanying video from Red Faction: Guerrilla was shot. That’s because “this game is so wonderfully conducive to space assholism that there was little…
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Borderlands Wasn’t Censored for Australia, but Somehow Was Anyway
Australians who pre-loaded the PC version of Borderlands found an extra file hinting their version was a “low-violence” flavor. 2K, according to Ausgamers, said no censorship was made to receive classification Down Under, and they’re “working on clearing this up.” Pre-loaders of the PC version over Steam found the file “borderlands_low_violence.ncf” in their download; it’s…
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Animator Says He’s Working on “GoldenEye 2010” for Wii
Grain-of-salt territory here, as it’s just one guy and his resume, but an animator named Craig Peck lists work on “GoldenEye 2010 (Wii),” spotted by – who else – SuperAnnuation. “Animator on Activision’s James Bond series for the Nintendo Wii,” is what the entry here [pdf] says. The work was done for Eurocom, responsible for…
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Five New Screens to Get You Ready for Gay Tony
We’re three days and and five new screens closer to the release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City and, more specifically, The Ballad of Gay Tony. Rockstar put out these five, foreshadowing what you can expect in the expansion. Luis scaling the Rotterdam Tower; flashing the Advanced MG machine gun, the titular Tony…
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