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Takedown Notice Sends Battlestar Galactica Modders Fleeing from the NBC Universal Tyranny
A swell Battlestar Galactica mod for Nexus drew the attention of NBC Universal, who sent a cease-and-desist over to ModDB, which had been hosting the work on it. And 19 other BSG mods. All have been wiped out. “I was shocked and saddened when i got the message from ModDB admins that our mod, the…
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Stunted Thinking
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Five More Bizarre Publicity Stunts in Gaming [Delta Gamer] Includes the WTFery THQ concocted for its marketing of Red Faction: Guerrilla (pictured above). By no…
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ModernWarfare3.com Finally Redirects to, Y’know, Modern Warfare 3‘s Website
At last, the long, sordid saga of ModernWarfare3.com has come to an end, one month before the game’s release, with lessons learned for all sides. For Activision, it’s “register the goddamn domain before you announce the game.” (They appear to have taken this to heart.) For cybersquatters, it’s “Don’t be a dickclown and you can…
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Frozen Account Further Sours PayPal’s Terrible Reputation with Indie Devs
For the third time in about a year, PayPal has frozen the account of an independent developer for six months, presumably because preorder activity triggered red flags. PayPal rarely says why in this case, even to the account holder, leaving its actions to appear arbitrary and bureaucratic, if not portrayed as mean-spirited. Minecraft had $750,000…
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Miracle Nintendo
Lo, the image of Jesus did appear on a Nintendo Entertainment System, to tell the world that whosoever presseth up up down down left right left right B A start shall not die, but have 30 lives. I missed the boat on offering the Jesus Nintendo last week, when it was timelier, but this challenge…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s morning in America. It’s also early afternoon in the U.K. And it is 9 p.m. in Kazakhstan. Time for everyone to talk amongst themselves. About video games. Thanks to Shadoroch for the TAYpic. Want to have your TAYpic featured here? Send your images to #TAYpics. Make sure your image is 640 pixels wide by…
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Sunday Comics: Meet the New Strip
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Oct. 1.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Oct. 7.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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Laundry Time Winners
A designer’s concept blending a functioning coin-operated washing machine with a coin-operated video game was only slightly less absurd than the 20 laureates of this week’s ‘Shop Contest, led by Daniel Bain. See them all inside! Getting things started, electrikALIEN (6) just thought of the latest craze but, of course, it means one more peripheral…
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WWE 12 Gets a Lucha Libre Cover Star in Mexico
Regional covers for sports video games are not uncommon, especially for titles like FIFA. (Madden, once upon a time, also had a Spanish edition). I don’t know that it’s ever been done for THQ’s WWE series before now, though. [Update: It has. Several times.] There is a huge, rich, pro wrestling scene down in Mexico,…
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Sinestro Batman is Yours for Arkham City if You Pick Up a Crappy Blu-Ray
Green Lantern was not critically acclaimed. Nearly everyone hated it, but that won’t stop it from getting a Blu-Ray release. And with its Extended Cut Blu-Ray Combo pack is a skin dressing Batman in a Sinestro Corps getup for Batman: Arkham City, should you have the PS3 version. The skin was overlooked when it was…
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So Another Hall-of-Famer Sued EA Sports. Should Video Gamers Care?
As multiple lawsuits have been brought in multiple venues by multiple former college athletes—some of whom are actually more recognizable as professional stars—I’ve tried to pull back to the big picture of what really faces video gamers and (principally) EA Sports in the parade of litigation over unauthorized use of likenesses in sports video games.…
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AT&T Giving Uverse Subscribers $60 to Go Buy Xbox Live Gold
Wednesday, Microsoft announced that more than 40 providers had signed on to deliver TV programming to Xbox Live. One of those, AT&T, has been supplying content through its Uverse service for about a year, where it’s been available to free subscribers. Now it will completely transition to Xbox Live Gold. Therefore, AT&T is giving its…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Requires a ‘Permanent Internet Connection’
Mandatory constant Internet connections piss off PC gamers. No studio can has yet put that news in any light that didn’t summon an extremely indignant reaction. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2‘s tried to put it in a different light by saying the constant connection is how players will be served actual game content. Like missions. That does not…
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UncategorizedEaster Egg Gives Breaking Bad a Cameo in Rage
Appropriately enough, the season four finale of Breaking Bad is on AMC tomorrow night. You may recall that, in late August, Rage made a strange cameo in the meth-slinging drama, in which someone plays the game with a light gun. Well, Rage has returned the favor with a Breaking Bad prop cameo of its own.…
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They Think I Do Not Know a Buttload of Crap About the Gospel, but I Do
Orphans! Listen to Ignacio. I know it is fun to wrestle. A nice piledrive to the face, or a punch to the face, but you cannot do it. Because it is in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor. Software • Tuesday, Oct. 11 release Forza 4 regular 360 game comes with $10 eGift Card…
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Co-Op Multiplayer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Arrives Oct. 25
“Exterminatus,” the late-addition cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, will release Oct. 25, publisher THQ said today. It had originally been scheduled for an “early October” release. Exterminatus has two maps, and lets up to four players take control of a Space Marine in what’s essentially a Horde match, fighting wave after wave of…
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L.A. Noire Studio Owes $1 Million to Employees—and a Quarter of That Is Claimed by the Boss
Team Bondi, the Australian studio that saved the worst year of its existence for the one in which it finally delivered L.A. Noire, owes its employees more than $1 million, according to papers filed in the studio’s liquidation. It’s a fitting epitaph for an outfit slagged over the summer for shady employment practices and insider…
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Bulletstorm’s Creator Says All the Cussin’ was ‘A Bit More Than We Really Wanted’
Bulletstorm, released in February, is probably still 2011’s most foul-mouthed game. It may be 2012’s most foul-mouthed game, too. It popularized the term “dicktits” after all. Adrian Chmielarz, the creative director at Poland-based People Can Fly, tells the latest edition of Game Developer magazine that he didn’t know just how much swearing was going on…
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