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UncategorizedCan You Spot This Guy’s Tell Playing Online Poker with Kinect?
If you can’t spot the sucker in the first 30 seconds of this video, then you are the sucker. In seriousness, Poker Listings’ “Positively Nerd Street” has cooked up online poker controls for Rock Band peripherals, so it was a matter of time before they did something like this. This is not proof of concept.…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
How Large is L.A. Noire‘s Map?
One of Mafia II‘s drawbacks was the extremely long driving times often required by a map that spread mission points very far apart. L.A. Noire will be twice the size – eight square miles to Empire Bay’s four – and will require 30 minutes to traverse by car. So let’s hope they place the mission…
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Concussions will be Rare in Madden NFL 12, and No One Gets Suspended
Madden NFL 12 will present concussions realistically – as realistically as removing a player from the game, forbidding his return, and delivering commentary that highlights the seriousness of the injury. The game will not include suspensions for players who dole them out; nor is there any way to intentionally cause one. Madden executive producer Phil…
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This Week In The Business: “Difficult to Excuse.”
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week… QUOTE | “Peaked in some respects.” – M2 Research’s Billy Pidgeon on the status of Xbox 360 in the market and the chances that Microsoft announces new hardware at E3 2012 QUOTE | “The market opportunity is there.” – THQ boss Brian Farrell talks…
By Drew Cohen - Uncategorized
The Week in Gaming Apps
Another week in gaming apps has passed, giving us a chance to chomp with Pac-Man, grind some Gears, take our pig for a stroll, and do whatever it is you do with a Destructopus And what do we have there at the end? Is that a Windows Phone 7 game in our list? Why yes,…
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Video Games are Artistic Enough for Federal Grant Money
For years the National Endowment for the Arts’ has been doling out millions of dollars to innovative television and radio projects about the arts or that could be considered works of art. Starting next year, video games are eligible for some of that sweet, sweet federal grant money. The National Endowment for the Arts has…
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Prototype 2 Does Not Make for a Very Heartwarming Mother’s Day Card
Activision picked a rather awkward game to help remind players that Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 8. I guess they are trying to say make your mother happy this Sunday, or consume her later and experience her disappointment first-hand.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be Steam-Powered
Square Enix partners with Steam for the digital release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution this August, offering a standard version and an Augmented Edition with digital artbook, soundtrack, and a download of the Deus Ex Game of the Year Edition
By Mike Fahey
