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Microsoft has Rights to Make Another South Park XBLA Game
Microsoft has a two-game deal with Comedy Central for its South Park license, which implies that another Xbox Live Arcade game could be on the way, following 2009’s South Park: Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! Joystiq uncovered that nugget in a discussion with Prithvi Virasinghe of 345 Games, which is the games production arm of…
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NBA Jam Creator Leaves EA Sports for Zynga
Mark Turmell, the creator of the NBA Jam series that saw a revival last year on modern consoles, has left EA Sports for the social games developer Zynga, Kotaku has learned. Turmell’s is the latest in a string of notable departures from EA Tiburon, one of two EA Sports studios and the production site of…
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All Mass Effect Comics are Free Until Tomorrow Afternoon
Dark Horse is offering all of its Mass Effect comics for free, over the web, for the next 24 hours, a promotional move for both an upcoming Dark Horse Mass Effect series and surely tied to a panel at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con. The promotion ends tomorrow at 3 p.m. EDT. The problem is,…
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Computer Learns to Play Civilization by Reading the Instruction Manual
Starting from nothing, a computer taught itself to read the instruction manual for Civilization and saw its rate of victory jump from 46 percent to 79 percent. That is according to researchers at University College London, who developed “meaning-inferring algorithms” that, when applied to the computer, took it from zero understanding of its task to…
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Angry Birds Maker Says It’s Worth More than PopCap
Whatever Electronic Arts is spending to acquire PopCap, its casual gaming rival Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, would cost more. That’s according to … well, Rovio. “The valuation from our point of view is somewhere, I dunno, maybe north of PopCap,” Ville Heijari, the vice president of franchise development, told Eurogamer. Let’s remember that…
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Named Rosters Already Available for NCAA Football 12
At more than 6,000 names, all of which must be manually entered, custom rosters for NCAA Football is annually one of the biggest community projects in sports gaming. Accurately named files were available yesterday—the day of release—for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. The files are accessible by going to the Team Management menu…
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Tribes: Ascend Makes Its Playable Debut at QuakeCon 2011
Fans eager to see what Atlanta-based Hi-Rez Studios is doing to the Tribes franchise should head for QuakeCon in Dallas August 4 through 7, where Tribes: Ascend will be available in playable form, with closed beta keys up for grabs.
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When One Heart Isn’t Enough to Signify Your Love for Gaming
First artist Fabian Gonzalez taught us the video game ABCs. Now he delivers the ultimate expression of retro gaming love, three full hearts and a handful of classic game references. Visit his Society6 store page to plaster this banner everywhere.
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