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Come Sue, My Lord
The creators of the titillatingly marketed, disabled-gamer-saving MMO Evony went on the warpath yesterday to extract nearly $1 million out of a modder accused of selling auto-playing bots and a gigantic map that exploit the game. When you’re getting sued for $825,000, it’s probably not a great idea to show up to federal court in…
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Full NFL Shutdown May Threaten Half of Madden Sales
With the NFL and NFL Players Association trading punches over who should and shouldn’t attend the league’s draft in April, it’s safe to assume a lockout will last at least that long. Now analysts are speculating on worst-case scenarios for Electronic Arts should a work stoppage eliminate the real-world season that helps drive so much…
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UncategorizedRing Blade Welcomes You to Shuriken Hell
After a seven-level warmup with Ring Blade, a bullet-hell shooter with a twist, I found my right index finger getting that weird burning-inside/cold-to-the-touch feeling. It’s a good thing, I think. Ring Blade, from MindTrip Studios, is a mobile game right in the sweet spot of any shooter fan with an iPhone. It sticks to a…
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Guess What, Horse Armor Still Sells
Buying The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’s Horse Armor. It’s like listening to Barry Manilow, eating at the Olive Garden or ordering Spectravision. No one will admit to doing it, but still enough do so keep it in business. Bethesda Softworks’ Pete Hines said, scouts’ honor, that this still happens. “I don’t have the report in…
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Just 5 Percent of Games Were Rated M Last Year, Says ESRB
Just five percent of all games rated by the ESRB and published in 2010 were classified as M, a marginal decline from 2009 when they accounted for 6 percent, the board said in a news release today. The smallest portion of the 1,638 ratings the ESRB doled out last year belongs to EC which, safe…
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UncategorizedOh, Awesome, Soon You May Perform “Bed Intruder” in Rock Band
Antoine Dodson went full meme in late July; his local-news anti-crime rant was autotuned into “Bed Intruder” in early August. The Blue and Gold Marching Machine of North Carolina A&T State University performed it at halftime about a month later, and then Rock Band 3 arrived two months after that. Why has it taken so…
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ReviewsThe Waiver-Wire Prospects of MLB 2K11
I’m thinking of a famous, very touching monologue by Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles, talking about cutting players during spring training. “You call ’em in and say, ‘It’s the consensus among us that we’re going to let you go back home.’ Some of them cry, some get mad, but…
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UncategorizedAnarchy Reigns‘ Mathilda Has Curves And Spikes In All The Right Places
She’s one part Bayonetta, one part purple people beater. She’s Mathilda, and she’s ready to enter the blood-soaked multiplayer ring of Platinum Games’ Anarchy Reigns. Platinum Games and Sega continue rolling out characters for the upcoming brawler also known as Max Anarchy, and each new character is more intriguing than the last. Mathilda here is…
By Mike Fahey
