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Sony’s MMO Makers Close Three Studios, Lay Off One-Third of Workforce
Sony Online Entertainment, makers of D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms, closed three studios and will lay off nearly a third of its workforce, Kotaku has learned. Word began spreading when George Broussard, best known as the co-creator of Duke Nukem Forever, tweeted earlier this evening that SOE was seeing layoffs and “studio closure is…
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PlayStation Emulator Yanked from Android Store — Foreshadowing PS Phone’s Release?
ZodTTD’s PlayStation emulator is on the Android store. The soon-to-be-released PlayStation Phone is an Android device. Can you guess the punchline here? Available for nearly six months, now PSX4Droid has been judged by Google to have a “content violation,” and poof, off it goes. ZodTTD, via Twitter, said he’d been working like hell on an…
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Flick Football Takes to the Air with Pocket Passer
Full-scale, console-style football has been a technical success on the iPhone but many, myself among them, find it prohibitively complex for such a small screen, using multitouch. Other developers have found stronger success breaking the game down to singular acts. To Backbreaker’s Tackle Alley, a running game, we can now add Pocket Passer for all…
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NBA Jam Won’t Update Rosters for Console Versions — but Does for iPhone’s
Earlier this month, EA Sports made it official that anyone expecting updated rosters on NBA Jam was SOL. That’s for the console versions. The game’s iOS version just got a roster tweak today, in time for the soon-to-begin playoffs. That means Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups, my go-to-duo on all platforms, aren’t balling for the…
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Madden NFL 12 Said to Include Concussions to Present a Safety Message
Remarkably, Madden NFL 12 will depict players suffering concussions, according to the president of the NFL Players’ Association, but apparently in a manner that reinforces the seriousness of the injury and the message that playing through one is not a good idea. In a tweet first reported on by Gamasutra, George Atallah, a senior official…
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EA Sports and Major League Baseball Reconnect on Facebook
It’s not the return of MVP Baseball, the long lost and lamented Major League Baseball title that went into exile after 2005, but EA Sports has gotten back on the field with MLB in World Series Superstars, a Facebook game rumored to be in development that launched by surprise today. World Series Superstars plays the…
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The Cursed Crusade Is Coming Along Nicely, Though Still Cursed
After months of quiet toil, Atlus and developer Kylotonn Entertainment step out of the smoky blacksmith shop with a handful of new screenshots for their co-op action-adventure outing The Cursed Crusades. Why does everyone look so glum? Oh yeah, the whole curse thing. Just because holy Templar Denz and his roguish mercenary friend Esteban have…
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Thorn Dice, The Most Brutal Tabletop Dice In All The Land
Although you’ll have to make sure they get a good randomizing rotation in the air before they land-they don’t look like they’d roll well-you’d be hard pressed to find a more badass set of number generators than these “thorn dice,” available in hard resin or metal depending on how much you’d like to pay. (Platinum…
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Ridiculously Short, Arrival Sets The Stage For Mass Effect 3
The Arrive downloadable content pack for BioWare’s award-winning Mass Effect 2 has been unleashed, giving players one last chance to spend some quiet time with Commander Shepard before the trilogy’s Earth-shattering conclusion. An hour and a half just doesn’t seem like enough time. Before I go deeper into my Arrival impressions, know that I’m going…
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