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For Some Reason, Sony’s Decided to Change What Your PSN Account is Called
In an email to PlayStation Network subscribers, Sony told subscribers that their PlayStation Network accounts will now be known as “Sony Entertainment Network” accounts. Not that this does away with PlayStation Network as a name. Sony says PSN “will be aligned with Sony Entertainment Network.” It’s a purely cosmetic change, in other words and, no,…
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It’s Time for Reckoning
The action RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning releases on Tuesday, bringing with it damn near 200 hours worth of gameplay. You don’t have to get it full price, either, there are savings on the console and PC versions of the game, plus more than 58 other values, inside this weekend’s Moneysaver! Software • Feb. 7…
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Xbox Live’s Top Cop Turns in His Badge
Stephen Toulouse—known as StepTo to those listening to Major Nelson’s podcast, or unfortunate enough to feel the cold kiss of the Xbox Live banhammer—has given his two weeks notice to Microsoft. The director of Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement will leave Feb. 16, after 18 years with the company. On his personal blog, Toulouse calls…
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Twilight in the Kingdom of the Week in Gaming Apps
This week we featured five different titles across several different platforms in our daily Gaming App of the Day posts, but that doesn’t matter to you, does it? No, you’re too busy playing Kingdom Rush You care not for the needless expense of classic shooter Rayforce, or the under-delivering action of One Epic Game. You’ve…
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UncategorizedNFL 2K5 Says New England Wins a Super Bowl Shootout
Earlier this week, the official Madden NFL 12 simulation of Super Bowl XLVI took both the underdog and the under for the first time in the past nine years, calling the New York Giants as 27-24 winners over the New England Patriots. A simulation run on dearly departed Madden nemesis NFL 2K5 returned the opposite…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I got sucked back into Skyrim this week. My first playthrough didn’t get very far; I was tromping around as a Nord warrior, and it didn’t really connect me to my choices, and my choices to the story, as much as I would have preferred. After watching the Grosjean Brothers’ hilarious Skyrim 2012 sequel, I…
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UncategorizedHear Five Minutes of the Latest Halo Novel, Narrated by Guilty Spark
Halo: Primordium, by Greg Bear, released just after the new year, and if you’re curious what the book’s all about, Macmillan has provided Kotaku with this five minute clip from the novel’s audiobook version. Narrating this clip is Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark.
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That Old College Try
That Old College Try | All-Americans LaMichael James, Justin Blackmon and Robert Griffin III celebrate a fumble return and touchdown late in the fourth quarter of Madden Bowl XVIII. But next year’s NFL rookies left too much time on the clock, and fell to the team of Drew Brees, Tim Tebow and Jimmy Graham. (EA…
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UncategorizedYou Might Catch Some Secrets in This Final Fantasy XIII-2 Monster Video
Join me as I take a trip through my favorite new feature of Final Fantasy XIII-2, monster recruitment, snag a couple of rare creatures, and witness the beginning of a legend that will never die. Well, probably never die. Since finishing the main story of Final Fantasy XIII-2 last weekend I’ve spent the majority of…
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These Are Not the Same-Sex Relationships The Old Republic Players Were Looking For
Riffing on the Family Research Council’s outrage over same-sex NPC relationships in Star Wars: The Old Republic, talk show host Conan O’Brien and team cobble together some footage of the science fantasy franchise’s most famous gay couples. Of course the actual footage has nothing to do with the actual situation in Star Wars: The Old…
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Deus Ex Lead Designer Honored With Game Developer Lifetime Achievement Award
With nearly 30 years in game development and a career spent crafting unique gaming experiences like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, Warren Spector has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The annual peer-selected award will honor Spector’s many contributions to the science and art of…
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