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It’s Official: 2K Will Make WWE Video Games From Now On
As was rumored during the breakup and selloff of THQ, Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of 2K Sports, will take over the license to make WWE video games. Documents filed today in court say Take-Two, THQ and Yuke’s, the Japanese company which developed the wrestling games for THQ, have come to an agreement settling all…
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Gabe Newell Says Valve Layoffs Don’t Affect Any Current Projects [UPDATE]
Gamasutra today reported that several employees from Valve Corporation were laid off on Tuesday, terminations said to involve “large decisions,” according to their report. Further, Jason Holtman, Valve’s director of business development, is among eight persons no longer listed in the company’s public employee directory Valve has not responded to requests for comment on the…
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Pro-Games Talking Point Calls Japan the Home of Violent Games, but Is That Really Any Better?
On Sunday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, went on Fox News and deflected blame from violent video games as a serious, actual cause of mass shootings in the United States. “In Japan, for example, they have the most violent games and the lowest death-mortality-from guns.” Now here’s Martin Short,…
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MLB 13 The Show Gets Seven New Stadiums—in the Minor Leagues
When I finish with my professional obligations in writing about MLB The Show and sit down to play it for my own enjoyment, I’m nearly 100 percent a Road to the Show player. That’s the game’s career mode, where you bring a guy out of the minor leagues into the majors and, one hopes, stardom.…
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Mass Effect Edition of Risk Arrives This Fall
Yep, I’m as surprised as you. This showed up on the official Mass Effect Facebook page yesterday, and obviously coincides with Toy Fair in New York this week. But Hasbro has said nothing about the “Galaxy at War” edition of Risk. BioWare says the game is on shelves in the fall.
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New Consoles ‘Most Likely’ Won’t Be Backwards Compatible, EA Exec Says
The next generation of consoles are unlikely to accommodate older games with backwards compatibility, Electronic Arts’ chief financial officer told an audience of investors in San Francisco today. Blake Jorgensen, addressing how EA will manage when new consoles arrive later this year, as is widely expected, pointed to the company’s sports catalog and particularly their…
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The Mother-and-Alien-Child Reunion is a Couple of Motions Away in Stick To It
Whenever I feel like the physics puzzle format is completely played out, Fahey slides me another download code, and the thing turns out to be pretty good. Stick To It, ahem, adheres to the basic principles of the genre, but shows there are still clever ways to challenge players to finish a puzzle with an…
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Patent Application Points to New PS Vita with HDMI and USB [Update]
A patent application filed last year describes a new PlayStation Vita configuration which includes HDMI and USB support. The application was published on Feb. 7. That image above was included in the filing, dated July 27. Sony, of course, has an event scheduled for Feb. 20 at which the next PlayStation console is expected to…
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The Next Game in Batman’s Arkham Series is Coming This Year, Says Time Warner Exec
Slipped within Time Warner’s call to investors last week was this mention, from the company’s chief financial officer, that the next entry in the acclaimed Arkham series of Batman video games will be arriving in 2013. Said John K. Martin, Time Warner’s chief financial officer: And we also have a strong games release this year,…
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DS Homebrewing Still Going Strong with Portal Adaptation
The DS still is home to a robust homebrew scene, as we see here in this Portal port that modder Smealum has been working on for about the past six months. “Still nowhere near playable,” he writes under the latest video, but it’s brought along Portal staples like turrets, cubes, switches and energy balls. “This…
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Ungrateful Toy Fair-goers Already Hawking Exclusive Skylanders on eBay
Well, this doesn’t look tacky or anything. Skylanders has been giving out exclusive Toy Fair figurines to attendees of the show itself and a couple of preview events last week. Said attendees are not civilians, as Toy Fair is a closed, industry event. But, knowing the demand for these suckers, a bunch have been listed…
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MLB 2K‘s Perfect Game Challenge is Back Under New—and, One Hopes, Exploit-Proof—Rules
The Perfect Game Challenge offered by the Major League Baseball 2K series, tainted by allegations of cheating and rules loopholes last year, returns under a new format this time, its fourth in as many years. Though the million-dollar prize pool is still the same size, it will now divide the loot among 30 overall winners,…
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Electronic Arts Turned Down the Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden, Says Report
Esquire’s fascinating profile of the SEAL Team Six member who killed Osama bin Laden, and his struggles to adapt to civilian life, churned up this intriguing detail: the shooter wanted to consult on Medal of Honor: Warfighter, but Electronic Arts turned him down. Now, EA didn’t know the shooter (who is not named in the…
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For Once, a Politician Defends Games, Saying They’re Not the Cause of Violence
The drill is familiar: a lawmaker goes on a newsmaker show, puts on a Real Serious Face, is teed up some opportunity to tell everyone that scary scary video games bear some responsibility for America’s love affair with gun massacres. Well, that wasn’t the drill yesterday on Fox News Sunday. Not for Rep. Nancy Pelosi.…
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The Legend of Zelda is a New York Times Bestseller. No, Really.
Barely a week into its western release, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia is a New York Times No. 1 bestseller. Shouldn’t that designation come with an exclamation point or two? Fine! Here!! See for yourself here, it’s topping the “Hardcover Advice & Misc.” category, though that doesn’t mean it’s a strategy guide or a…
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