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NBA Jam Dev Just Wants Us All To Get Along
Trey Smith, the creative director for the recently released NBA Jam, would like to see a kinder, gentler gamer culture. “If the people of PAX ran the world, it would be a much better place,” he told MTV Multiplayer. Asked for “the biggest problem [facing] current games,” Smith hit outat “the actions and attitudes of…
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Vikings Get A Boost In Madden’s Latest Update
Interestingly, the trade sending Randy Moss to Minnesota boosted the Vikings’ overall rating in Madden NFL 11 without diminishing the New England Patriots’. Not that this is necessarily a zero-sum game, but what gives there? New England, with no game this week, is now a receiving corps headlined by Wes Welker and Brandon Tate, with…
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NBA 2K11 Records A Dominating Performance — On Twitter
Few video games reach trending topic status on Twitter. It’s the sort of thing normally accorded to disasters, celebrities, and global news. NBA 2K11 has been a trending topic every day since Monday, for 57 hours straight at one point. For those who argue this year’s game has become a phenomenon, the Twitter numbers would…
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Backbreaker Studio Now Working On “Icebreaker”
NaturalMotion Games, the developer of the football cult fave Backbreaker, is now working on an ice hockey game apparently titled “Icebreaker,” according to a video profile by the BBC. In the video, you can see the U.K. studio’s animation team at an ice rink in Leeds, doing motion capture of hockey players. In the office,…
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This Is Where Lightsaber Crystals Come From
The next planet to be revealed for BioWare’s Knights of the Old Republic is Ilum, the hotly-contested home of the crystals that give lightsabers their pretty colors. The caverns of Ilum are home to crystals of wondrous power. Specifically the power to make your lightsaber purple. For ages young Jedi would make pilgrimages to the…
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The United States Army Is Testing Fallout PIPBoys
You can call the devices the U.S. Army is testing out at Fort Dix in New Jersey wrist mounted phosphorescent OLED Displays is you want. We’re calling them PIPBoys. What the gentleman in the photo here is looking at is one of eight wrist mounted phosphorescent OLED Displays delivered to the U.S. Army for testing…
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