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Heavenly Tetris Delivers A Miracle From Above
On Wednesday, XKCD – look, if you’re reading a video game site at (checks watch) 11:47 PM, then XKCD needs no introduction – offered its vision of Tetris in heaven. Today, someone made that a playable reality. Here is Tetris in Heaven. Too many squigglies? Got a tower or column running up the center? Like…
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Sony Confirms ‘External Intrusion’ Is Behind PSN Outage
Sony has acknowledged that the outage, since late Wednesday, of PlayStation Network is due to “an external intrusion on our system.” Patrick Seybold, PlayStation’s top spokesman, said the service was taken offline “to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services.” Still no word on when the…
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Paid Subscription Would Offer Early Downloads, Free DLC, For EA Sports Titles
An online survey indicates that EA Sports has plans to offer a paid subscription that, among other features, would deliver some paid downloadable content for free and make full versions of upcoming games available for download before their release date. “Discounts on all downloadable content for participating EA Sports console-based titles,” was the first bullet…
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Romancing the Gnomes Leads To Happily Ever After In Warcraft
Cutting-edge trendspotter The New York Times today tackled the phenomenon of MMO-facilitated romance, noting that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft is six times that of Match.com. To explain the phenomenon, the Times turned to Ramona Pringle, who studied MMO romance as a producer for the PBS news magazine Frontline. Pringle enlisted the animation…
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EA Sports’ “Football Czar” Opens With A Two-Month Drill
In the two and a half months since he traded Canada’s weather for Florida’s, and titles like FIFA for Madden, Cam Weber has read that he delayed Madden’s release for three weeks because of the NFL lockout; that he’s adding some kind of social network to the game, like Need for Speed’s Autolog; and that…
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How One Man Stopped Square-Enix From Letting Gamers Kill Yahweh
The attempt to include overt references to Judeo-Christian figures in the classic role-playing game Xenogears caused a few translators to quit — they feared a violent backlash — and prompted a change in the name of the game’s final boss, according to one of the people who brought the game to America. On this week’s…
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Nyko’s Move Rifle Is A Nice Shot But Not Enough To Break Through
I don’t know if I’ll ever be sold on the idea that motion-control in first-person shooters can provide any greater fun or any means of shortening the genre’s tactical learning curve into something more instinctive. It is, as I’ve said, like trying to turn a doorknob with barbecue tongs. You’re just better off turning it…
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A Trip Through Pokémon Black And White‘s Online Dream World
With the Pokémon Global Link service, Pokémon Black and White players can sync their game data with their PC and enter a magical world that exists in the dreams of pocket monsters. Join me on my first trip to this Pokémon Dream World. I haven’t played much Pokémon Black since I picked it up on…
By Mike Fahey
