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Could You Rewrite Fight Night?
The concept behind Fight Night Champion’s narrative “Champion Mode” inspired me when I read of it. I looked forward to it as a breakthrough opportunity for the sports genre. But it served up a tray of disappointingly bland cookie-cut characters and conflicts, and the progression of your career was too short and too rigid. That…
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Animal Crossing Deepens the Madness of Charlie Sheen
Say what you like about Charlie Sheen, he so completely owns the story of his downfall, it can’t even be considered a downfall. Anything mocking him comes off as an admiring meme. This Animal Crossing mashup is but the latest. Melding some of Sheen’s more off-the-wall quotes over placid scenes from the Nintendo social sim,…
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Nominate Someone — or Some Game — for the Hall of Fame
Three video game titles will be enshrined along with the second class of honorees at the International Video Game Hall of Fame in Ottumwa, Iowa, which is seeking public input as it assembles nominees for final voting. Nominations close on March 15. A group as large as 18, comprised of living persons, organizations, and game…
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Minecraft‘s Creator Says Piracy, Theft Aren’t the Same
Generally, those who create monster indie game hits don’t follow up by spouting, well, corporate attitudes about their games when in public. So the fact Markus “Notch” Persson has a more liberal view of the piracy issue isn’t that surprising. But he does have strong words for it. “Piracy is not theft,” he told the…
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The Games of Tomorrow, in San Francisco Today
Kotaku’s reporting team is in its second day of news-wrangling at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, bringing back details, screens, footage and anything else bubbling up at one of the industry’s leading conferences. The conference is scheduled to last through tomorrow, but that won’t be the end of news coming back from San Francisco, For…
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UncategorizedThe PlayStation Move Can Control Robots Too
Yesterday Sony unveiled Move.Me, a software application that allows hobbyists and academics access to the Move controller to do things like operating robots remotely. Today, we see the Move operating a robot remotely. While not quite as impressive as some of the things we’ve seen hobbyists do with Microsoft’s Kinect, moving a robot around remotely…
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UncategorizedOne Of L.A. Noire‘s Murder Mysteries Is A GameStop Exclusive
There are a million stories in this naked city, but the Naked City story for L.A. Noire is only yours if you preorder the game through GameStop. Since L.A. Noire’s particular flavor of police investigation action is episodic, standalone cases make excellent preorder gifts. That’s what Rockstar Games is doing with Naked City, which sees…
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A New Guild Wars 2 Class Emerges From The Shadows
Slipping through the shadows unseen, striking from the darkness with a relentless barrage of melee attacks, one could easily mistake the latest class revealed for Guild Wars 2 as some sort of assassin – and they wouldn’t be far off. So far we’ve seen two different flavors of casters and two heavily-armored fighter professions revealed…
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Microsoft’s SideWinder Gaming Hardware Isn’t Dead Yet
Has the long-lived SideWinder line of gaming-centric computer peripherals finally bitten the dust? Microsoft says it isn’t so. Microsoft’s been releasing computer gaming peripherals under the SideWinder brand for the better part of two decades, pushing out everything from flight sticks to elaborate force feedback steering wheels. The line was put on hiatus in 2003…
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NCAA Football 12‘s Cover Goes Up For a Vote
Four collegiate standouts – Washington’s Jake Locker, Oklahoma’s Demarco Murray, Alabama’s Mark Ingram, and Nick Fairley of the national champion Auburn Tigers – are candidates for the cover of NCAA Football 12 in a fan-voting contest EA Sports is conducting via Facebook. The winner will be announced April 19.
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UncategorizedThree Heroes Converge In Call Of Juarez: The Cartel
Ubisoft’s controversial third entry in the Call of Juarez series tells the story of three very different above-the-law heroes, and players can step into the shoes of any one of them, both online and off. A fictional drug cartel has bombed a U.S. law enforcement agency, killing hundreds of people. Believing the cartel has infiltrated…
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