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Naughty Dog Says Uncharted Motion Comic is On the Way
In a live chat on PlayStation.blog today, Neil Druckmann, the Naughty Dog lead designer, said Uncharted fans can soon expect to see a motion-comic prequel voiced by “your favorite actors from the two games.” We don’t have much info other than the transcript itself. Answering a reader’s question: “So what is next? DLC?” Druckmann said.…
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Newell, in Australia, on ‘Entertainment as a Service’
In this video, the Valve boss Gabe Newell takes questions at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Sydney and discusses support for Left 4 Dead and why he honored the deal to fly to Australia to see a modder’s campaign Newell was asked about support for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, relative to…
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Kurt Cobain Parody Vid Taken Down on Activision’s Request
Remember the video of Kurt Cobain singing Bon Jovi’s hits, and shrieking “yeah, boyeee!” in “Bring the Noize?” The compilation that hung the game with its own rope for its treatment of Cobain is gone from YouTube, on Activision’s demand. Sure, videos get taken down all the time. But search for “Guitar Hero” on YouTube…
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Final Two Characters Revealed for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
In my day, we knew him as Jason. Of course, that was in the U.S., watching Battle of the Planets. But in Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, he is Joe the Condor, and he’s Tatsunoko’s last entrant. But who is Capcom’s? From the Mega Man continuity, it’s Zero – from Mega Man X, or Rockman X…
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Get an Advance Peek at the Mass Effect Comic Book
The first six pages of the first issue of Mass Effect: Redemption by Dark Horse have made their way public. You can see them over on Comic Book Resources. The book is co-written by BioWare’s Mac Walters with John Jackson Miller. The art is by Omar Francia. The story covers events leading up to Mass…
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Double the Presentation in NCAA Hoops 10
No lie, the inclusion of CBS’s announcers and graphics package with ESPN’s for NCAA Basketball 10 fires me up. A dual-network presentation agreement is unprecedented, and EA Sports‘ development blog gives a little more insight into the effort that required. More than just table overlays and title graphics, EA Sports is including signature wipes and…
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You Wish You Had Lil Weezy’s Xbox
Calling all XBL cops, be on lookout for one rapper, Lil Wayne aka Lil Weezy, who fessed up in this clip to owning an Xbox 360 containing not just “every game ever created” but also “every porno.” Flashed, modded or whatever, we doubt there’s a hard drive large enough to truly hold all of that…
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Dev Defends Valve From Conflict-of-Interest Criticism
Ostensibly the kind of small games studio that Valve exploits, according to the Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s controversial remarks last week, Tripwire Interactive told Gamasutra that it wouldn’t exist without Valve’s muscular presence in the PC sector. Unlike “terrible” proposals that the Tripwire president John Gibson received in shopping Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 to publishers,…
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Texas Test-Market Opens for Rapture-Ready PC Games
Christian-themed PC games like Left Behind and the Charlie Church Mouse series are now available in – where else – Walmarts in – where else – Texas thanks to an agreement between the retailer and publisher Inspired Media Entertainment. InspiredMedia d/b/a Left Behind Games Inc., worked out the pilot release of its titles in 100…
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ESRB Clarifies PSP Minis Rating Costs
A story Friday discussed the development costs of an indie game for the PSP versus the iPhone. While getting an ESRB rating does cost money, the board reminds that a different rate structure will likely apply to PSP Minis titles. ESRB spokesman Eliot Mizrachi contacted Kotaku to remind that the ratings authority has a different…
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The Lady is a Spider in Dragon Age: Origins
Not to say Demerol, or whatever its name is, is a patriarchal society, but when the humans send two dudes and two females to go hike up K2, guess who’s not going to be fully dressed for the weather. Oh, they’re not just there for eye candy. While one woman headshots orc zombies with her…
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I Could Car Less
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Tangled Up in Blues After tomorrow my car is officially like Airwolf. No, smarty, Ernest Borgnine is not coming over to ride shotgun. I mean it will be a vehicle whose existence is not acknowledged by the government. That’s thanks to the California DMV. In mid-August, after I moved here,…
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SOE Prez Calls it ‘Planetside Next’ in Blog
Two weeks ago, word spread among Planetside fans that Sony Online Entertainment would be working on another iteration of the popular MMO FPS. Now John Smedley, the SOE president, has called it “Planetside Next” in a LiveJournal entry. To me, Planetside Next means we get a chance to take the essence of everything that was…
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Ten Fingers on Five Frets in Guitar Hero: Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen’s performance of “Eruption” is more impressive. That’s not the question being asked. But this comparison shows the similarity of the finger work in the tapping sections, which speaks well of the design of Guitar Hero: Van Halen. It takes a performer like Danny “GuitarHeroPhenom” Johnson, holder of eight marks in the Guinness…
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“Dead Before Dawn” Mod Guaranteed to Hit on Halloween
News to some, friendly reminder to others, but the Left 4 Dead mod “Dead Before Dawn,” a mall-based homage to “Dawn of the Dead,” is no ordinary mod. Valve sent the makers a soundfile of Francis saying “I hate malls.” Anyway, “Dead Before Dawn” hits on Oct. 31. The modmakers are working feverishly, and promise…
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NES Controller Flash Drive Secured by Konami Code
The list of NES case- and controller-mods we’ve seen covers just about everything imaginable, but Joe from the modder site Proto Dojo goes one better – making a USB drive unlockable by the Konami Code. As Joe and everyone who’s seen this point out, that’s rather like picking 1234 for your ATM PIN. Because the…
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