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New Nintendo Patent Looks Like Picture Pages 2.0
A new patent application Nintendo has filed in the U.S. tips its hand to a potential new focus for the game-maker, and no, it is not core gamers. I’m no patent inspector or IP attorney, but what’s being described here looks like an application of the Wiimote, not some new hardware or peripheral. By using…
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Need a Jorb? 2K Boston’s Recruiting Hard at GDC
2K Boston, the house behind Bioshock, hits SF and the GDC this week looking for talent to help them with “their biggest and most ambitious project yet.” Dozens of openings are promised. 2K Boston itself is touting this push pretty hard. Back in February people spied some job listings on Gamasutra that shed some light…
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Wolfenstein Trailer: Short Attention Span Theater
Here’s your "Occult" trailer for the upcoming Wolfenstein next-gen re-do/sequel. Too bad it doesn’t linger on any shot for longer than 15 frames, I’d really like to process the visuals and maybe understand its gameplay. Anyway, the long-awaited sequel (since, like, 2004) is due for a July release on PC, 360 and PS3, adding mutant…
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NCAA Football 10 Gets a Release Date — but Not for Wii
The latest edition of NCAA Football will release July 14 on four consoles, but none of them are named Wii. The “All-Play” version has been sacked as EA Sports focuses on improving the full-featured title. In comments to Gamespot, EA Sports confirmed the omission of the Wii from the launch announcement was not a mistake.…
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Weekend Coupons: Slim Savings
We seem to have hit a lull this week. Gamestop has gone ga-ga with Pokémon shit because the DS platinum version is releasing March 22. Play-Asia is having a huge sale, though. Here’s what I found: • Beginning tomorrow, Kmart – whoa, they still exist? – is having a sale on Xbox Live subscription cards.…
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Terror Suspect Chooses Prison after Wii Confiscated
Crecente rocked the Bird Shirt in his new passport photo, which just screams “body cavity search.” He might reconsider dressing like a terror suspect, after Canada confiscated a Wii belonging to one. Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub is an Egyptian who got political asylum in Canada, then was imprisoned as a terror suspect for his close ties…
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Vin Diesel Salutes British Host’s Level 80 Wife
Vin Diesel’s been on a full-court publicity press of late, but say this about the man – he’s not a phony when it comes to games. Diesel appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, an entertainment/interview program (fine, programme, happy?) on BBC One. The tables get turned rather quickly when Ross asks Diesel about his…
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EA’s Still a Little Pissy that “Guided Experience” Hasn’t Caught On
Eurogamer asks a lot of impertinent questions of Dead Space: Extraction’s executive producer. Like “Is this still gonna be cool for a rail shooter?” And “are you gonna babyfy anything because it’s on the Wii?” That’s not directly what was said to EA’s Steve Papoutsis, but he seems to take its meaning as such. Check…
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Wait a Minute, What the Hell Happens April 9?
Is it the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack release date? Bungie’s latest update ends with “PS: 04/09/09.” Last week, notes sharp-eyed reader Crono51, the studio hinted the release date was coming “Soon™. Maybe next week.” When people throw cryptic crap at me and gratuitously trademark adverbs, I just start taking it all at face value…
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Kotaku Originals: Midas Touch
Give yourselves a big hand and take a victory lap. Our determined grassroots campaign – that, or Paramount seeing some no-brainer DLC to hype Transformers 2 – succeeded in getting “The Touch” on Guitar Hero. Never mind this dickclown who had the regions of his brain responsible for smiling and irony lobotomized. The point is…
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What Guitar Hero and Rock Band Can Teach Us
Contrary to your assumptions, Guitar Hero and Rock Band are not sneered at by all serious musicians. By themselves they may not teach you how to be a part of a bona fide rock band, but two instructors whose job it is to do so say the games have some qualities that make them a…
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Starting Over
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Killzone 2 Podcast There’s something arty about that picture – to me anyway. I took it two weeks ago when I was clearing everything out of my apartment. The Genesis wasn’t mine. I don’t know who threw it out. But it seemed like a fitting, if plaintive, comment on how…
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Week in Games: Wars and Retribution
Two AAA drops this week, and both are on portables – Resistance: Retribution and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, deploy for PSP and DS, respectively, on St. Patrick’s Day. Redy 2 Rumble Revolution is on the Wii and, if futbol is your thing, then Pro Evolution 2009 (Wii and PS3) might be worth a look.…
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Peter Moore: Boxing is “the Past”
Electronic Arts has long been rumored to have eyes for a mixed martial arts title. IGN got to the EA Sports chief at a launch event and asked, obliquely, if that was so. Phrasing the question as “which sport he’d like to see EA Sports tackle next,” Moore said that, while they’re “incredibly excited” about…
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DS Can Help Brit Kids Pass Driving Test
When I took my written driving exam in California, I had a pretty simple rule – of all the choices described, the ones that an asshole driver would do were incorrect. Apparently it is a lot harder in the U.K., where some 40 percent of first time takers of the Driving Theory Test (“theory”?) fail…
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A Video Compendium of Sheva in Tribal Costume
Click to viewWell, this didn’t take long. Resident Evil 5 dropped, what, on Friday? And already someone’s culled together two solid minutes of Sheva cavorting in her tribal costume. Warning – spoilers begin at 0:52. If there’s a defensible purpose for this post, it’s that it shows some gameplay footage that’s pretty rare at the…
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Spy Plate Will Sap Dinner
Or make a casserole look like a pork chop. Reddit user tortus says he painted this after his girlfriend drug him to a pottery-painting class when he wanted to be playing Team Fortress 2. For those who want to say so, yes it is a slow news day. Feel free to point that out in…
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Patent Troll Lawsuit Begins on Tuesday
Way back in 2007 an “investment firm” that so happened to hold some patents filed a suit claiming Microsoft and Nintendo infringed them. The suit wends its way to the courtroom on St. Patrick’s Day. Fenner Investments Ltd. says controllers for the Gamecube, Wii, Xbox and Xbox 360 infringe the “low-voltage joystick port interface” patent…
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German Chancellor Eyes Video Games in Wake of Shooting
More details of the shooting linked to video games over in Germany: The shooter was playing Far Cry 2, and Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering what could be done to limit access to violent games. Merkel did not give specifics in this Reuters story (via International Herald Tribune) so perhaps it’s just a politic response…
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Kojima on MGS Touch: “Simple, Yet Solidly Playable”
Hideo Kojima gave an interview to Famitsu iPhone magazine, and gave up a lot of detail on the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid Touch. Your next Metal Gear is a 20 stage game but, ruh roh, you don’t get them all at once. “Of these, 12 stages will be available initially,” according to Anoop Gantayat at…
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