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Report: Dead Space Extraction Will Not Have MotionPlus Support
IGN is saying that earlier news that Dead Space: Extraction would support Wii’s MotionPlus technology “is merely misinterpretation,” according to an unnamed Electronic Arts representative. During a Thursday conference with investors, the Chief Operating Officer John Pleasants discussed MotionPlus support within EA’s Tennis and Tiger Woods 2010 titles. Continuing the thought, he mentioned Dead Space,…
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New Twitter Page Takes Suggestions for “Modern Warfare 2”
Chatter earlier in February hinted that Modern Warfare 2 was in the works; an Infinity Ward Twitter account takes it a step further. They’re taking requests for features in the game and a community site. Set up about a week ago, the Twitter page asks (via Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling): “What are your top feature…
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Fake Atari Games 2.0
Fake ports of modern games? Yeah, it’s been done before. Same with cart labels. But someone stuck them on actual carts, which will be hilarious once the next yard sale rolls around. Redbeard Math Pirate on Flickr created 15, spanning the range of cart art on the Atari 2600 – original VCS, second generation, third…
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Lemmy and King Diamond Gameplay Trailers
Here’s two more Guitar Hero: Metallica trailers, featuring Motorhead and King Diamond, showing the headbanging action you won’t see because you’re concentrating on the note highways. Sweet mercyful crap, dig some of those sets. Of course, the full tracklist has already been revealed, but here’s a viewers guide of the songs in each video: Guitar…
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Halo: ODST Mosaic Gets First Day Zero Urban Legend
Bungie was plundered of all its Mythic Map Pack early release codes in about a nanosecond this past week. That hasn’t stopped the hopeful delusional from believing more can be found. In a weekly update that sought to sweep all the begging urchins from their front door, Bungie also included that mosaic, made from screenshots,…
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Video of Tabula Rasa’s Final Moments
Last night NCSoft shut off Tabula Rasa’s servers. Early word had it that the Bane horde would either wipe out humanity, or humanity would do the job itself with a doomsday weapon. I have never played this game (so have, like, not a lot of people, that’s the reason the servers were being turned off.)…
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First Screen from NFS MMO Shows Customizable UI
A post on Need for Speed: World Online’s official blog explains its “a user-selectable gadget interface designed specifically for the PC.” Pretty much anything can be added to, deleted from, or moved about the readout. “We think its about time PC gamers had games that allowed them to arrange their information their way,” says a…
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Good Night, Good Game?
Here’s a gameplay trailer for "Night Game" a WiiWare title that looks to be one of 2009’s it-games in the indie community. The physics look a little LBP-esque to me on some of these levels. The mood and the lighting and the music are very relaxing, too. In fact, I suddenly want to take a…
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And How Much Does *Your* Dad Love You?
About two years ago, a proud father began work on a custom pink arcade cabinet for his then 2-year-old daughter. Well, now she’s four, and he just moved it into her room. Welcome to “Bella’s Arcade,” built by James, who has built and restored other arcade cabinets. This cabinet is built 80 percent to scale,…
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RB Classic Rock Track Pack Coming to Retail
I love it when the ESRB rates music games, because it means someone, somewhere, is marking down every “damn” “ass” and “bitch” they hear on a clipboard. In this case, we can piece together a few of the songs that might be on the Rock Band Classic Rock Track Pack, which just got rated and…
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Landmark Baseball Sim Being Ported to iPhone
Earl Weaver Baseball, the heavyweight of baseball simulations in the late 1980s and one of the titles that helped create EA Sports, is being ported to the iPhone by its original programmer. It won’t be called Earl Weaver Baseball, as he’d need to be paid for his name, and this is probably a $4.99 iPhone…
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Michael Gallagher Probably Had a Better Year than You
ESA top dawg Michael Gallagher took home more than $800,000 in cash and prizes in his first year on the job, GamePolitics reports. That compensation package came in an IRS filing covering April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008, so it precedes the 25 percent decline in ESA membership, and the fun-size, booth-babeless E3 of…
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New ‘Late Night’ to Treat Game Debuts Like Movie Premiere
Jimmy Fallon, who takes over “Late Night” from Conan O’Brien beginning on Monday, says the show under him will cater to the interests of a younger audience “into tech stuff, gadgets, video games.” Speaking to Movieweb, Fallon – the former Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live – says appealing to the coveted 18-to-34 year…
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L.A. Times Asks State to Let a Bad Law Die
Calling California’s violent video games law “an embarrassment,” the L.A. Times says the state shouldn’t create another by appealing its overturning to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Times pointed out the law’s obvious flaws – too broadly defined, zero causal link between violent games and the harms claimed, etc., before winding up with the common…
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Rock Band 2 on PS3 and Wii Dated for UK
Our friends across the pond who don’t game on the 360 will be pleased to learn Rock Band 2‘s finally gotten its Great British release dates. PlayStation 3 and PS2 gamers get the game March 27; Wii gamers will see it April 24. The game had been Xbox 360 exclusive in the UK since its…
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Weekend Coupons: Here to Console You
So Lost Planet is $5 on Steam and Warhawk’s down to $20 on PSN. That we knew. What other values can be had out there? • For those waffling on getting into PS3 gaming, Best Buy is hoping a console bundled with either Guitar Hero III or Guitar Hero; Aerosmith (game and guitar) AND a…
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No, Apple is Not Resurrecting the Dreamcast
But this is a working Dreamcast inside an iMac G3 case. Modder logicdustbin had some spare G3s and a 15-inch LCD monitor laying around, had a moment of inspiration, and soon the iCast was born. “So I started taking shit apart,” he says, and seeing the monitor fit in nicely the Dreamcast was the next…
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EA Honcho: “We Didn’t Make Hits” in ’08
Remember EA boasted that last year it put out 15 games getting 80 or better on Metacritic? Guess that’s no longer an operative statement. A senior exec told investors “We didn’t make hits” last year. John Pleasants, EA’s chief operating officer, told a Goldman Sachs conference last week the company’s plans for success last year…
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Kotaku Originals: Punch Out and PSP
Significant announcements for the PSP and Nintendo led the charge this week. Buzz about a UMD-less PSP almost outshone word of major titles releasing on Sony’s handheld and Ninty’s upcoming catalog. The week in originals: PSP Three Reasons This Could Be the PSP’s Year LittleBigPlanet PSP to Feature Creation, Interoperability With PS3 Perry: PSP 2…
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Reviews
Dapple Micro-Review: A Rainbow for the Colorblind
Some have estimated that one in 20 gamers are colorblind. I’m one of them. Dapple was brought to my attention last week as a game specifically designed to include colorblind players. Optimizing for a 5 percent minority is not a step many would think to take. Especially when the game is a matching puzzle based…
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