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Problems Plague Pinnacle DLC
The Pinnacle Station DLC for Mass Effect went out the door today, and already BioWare’s user forums are reporting problems with the PC and console edition. The good news is for PC users. Bioware expects a reasonably fast fix for some CD key rejection issues. A BioWare QA lead said that an installer had been…
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NCAA 10 Patch Resolves ‘Gay’ Filtering
Probably not the biggest gameplay issue NCAA 10 players are concerned about, but the “gay” filtering foofaraw has been cleared up as part of a massive patch, the second put out for this game in two months. You might remember, earlier this month, we reported the egg-on-face situation where auto-named rosters from NCAA 10’s Teambuilder…
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Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
In a public library, a dude sitting at a monitor with his hands in his lap, covered by a newspaper, implicitly means bad things. Fear not, he’s only sneaked in an Xbox to steal the free WiFi and play Halo. The tumbelog teendrama picked this up – the writer’s pal spied the multiplayer shenanigans in…
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Distressed-Look 360 Up For Sale on eBay
A British gamer has listed on eBay his red-ringed Xbox 360. And it’s in even worse shape than that suggests. Plainly and repeatedly listed as a “faulty Xbox 360” – and that picture isn’t deceptive advertising – UK eBayer jonnyandco05’s bricked 360 comes to you “modified for better ventilation, with a turbo inlet on the…
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Gabe Newell was Victoria’s Secret’s No. 2 Body
For a little while yesterday, Valve’s managing director was No. 2 in Victoria’s Secret’s “Body” contest. While his staggering 28,160 votes have not been wiped out, he has been removed from the list of contenders. There is substantial evidence that 4chan had plenty to do with this, as 4chan founder moot was No. 1 for…
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Castle Crashers DLC Arrives at Midnight
Last night The Behemoth announced that the Necromantic DLC for Castle Crashers – said to be coming “soon” – is coming out, like, now. At midnight U.S. Pacific time it’s available for 160 Microsoft points. Update: The countdown seems to be pegged to your IP address’s local time. Gamers on U.S. Eastern time say they…
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EA Germany Exec Accuses Gov’t of Game Censorship
Wracked by a mass shooting partially blamed on games, the government considering a ban on “killerspiele” and developer Crytek threatening to leave, Germany’s firsthand experience in the violent games debate is like no other country’s right now. Electronic Arts‘ top many in Germany, Gerhard Florin (pictured) says enough is enough. In an interview last week…
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Kid Napped in PSP Deal Gone Bad
What’s it they say, “You never hear about a drug deal gone good?” Same for selling games. In this case, an unhappy customer took a Utah teen for a ride when the PSP that changed hands didn’t work as advertised. The suspect’s now in custody, so, this ends well. But it began badly, on Saturday,…
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iPhone Madden to Arrive by Opening Day
Well, well. Now we know why Gameloft was in such a hurry to get NFL 2010 for the iPhone out the door this month. EA Mobile says Madden NFL 10 will release to the iTunes store by opening day. Although the news release says only “September 2009,” (October ’09 in the rest of the world),…
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Papers, Please
To: Luke From: Owen Re: An Excellent Intern This week I went to get my Oregon driver’s license. Unlike other state DMVs, you don’t walk out the door with your card here. While the main office in Salem approves things, you carry around a provisional license on a piece of printed paper, which looks like…
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A Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage to Games
“8-Bit Trip,” according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between. The music was written by Daniel Larsson and the animation was done by Tomas Redigh, of the Swedish electronica duo…
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Weekend Timewaster: Turn-Based Battle
This flash-game parody of JRPGs perfectly nails every device, trope, conceit and theme of the genre. Hang in there – even if the odds seem ridiculous, someone shows up to give you 200 gold to buy the JRPG sword. At which point you face even more stupid-ridiculous odds, and the game becomes either a snide…
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Dad’s Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son’s Grave
Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who’s to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier. In Wales, the 200th U.K. soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict was memorialized this weekend.…
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Molyneux: Hate Mail Changed Fable II DLC
I guess this rates a spoiler alert, nearly a year after the fact. But the dilemma presented at the end of Fable II so outraged some players that they took to writing good old-fashioned hate mail to Peter Molyneux. In an interview on the choices the Fable series forces its player to make, Molyneux said…
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Video of Kurt Cobain, Matt Bellamy in Guitar Hero 5
Two videos out in the wild show Guitar Hero 5 gameplay and two rockers as whom you may perform – well, in the Quicktime events anyway. Matt Bellamy of Muse, and Kurt Cobain of … does he need further identification? These vids were uploaded to DailyMotion by user SchnackAttack. Here is Cobain, performing, what else,…
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Week in Games: Inmates and the Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum, delayed from a summer release and yet still stoked by an excellent demo, is this week’s AAA console drop. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box arrives on DS tomorrow, and NBA 2K10: Draft Combine hits XBLA Wednesday. This week’s count: 10 for the DS, six for the PC, five for the 360…
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Policenauts English Localization Completed
The fan-engineered English localization of Hideo Kojima’s PSOne cult classic Policenauts is finally complete. The project’s page today announced that the patch is live. For those not in the loop – that includes me, fair warning – Policenauts was a sci-fi adventure game produced for 3DO, PlayStation, and the Sega Saturn back in 1996. While…
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Madden Suit Seeks to Gang-Tackle EA
Did you buy a copy of Madden NFL from its 2006 version forward? You too can be a plaintiff in the lawsuit against Electronic Arts, over its exclusive-rights arrangement with the NFL. Pecover vs. EA, the federal class-action suit alleging EA’s exclusive license with the NFL constitutes an illegal monopoly, is looking for additional plaintiffs…
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The History of Arkham Asylum
Eidos’ latest, probably last buzzbuilder trailer before Tuesday’s release of Batman: Arkham Asylum, gives a thumbnail history of this notorious “hospital,” and shows why you don’t ever want to plead insanity in Gotham City. It sounds like this audio is taken from the character audio histories, which we saw as unlockables in Arkham’s well-received demo.…
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