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Free-to-Play NFL Sim Adds Another Superstar
Quick Hit Football, the browser-based strategy simulation, will re-launch in September with NFL licensing. Though it won’t carry real-life rosters, the game’s maker can cut deals with individual players, and Dallas linebacker DeMarcus Ware has been added to the stable. Ware joins New England wide receiver Randy Moss as stars for this year’s game. Per…
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Vikings Long Snapper Is Pissed He’s Not In Madden
Pity the poor long snapper – the special-teams player who, unlike the kicker, both gets dirty and speaks English. Also, unlike the kicker, he rarely shows up in Madden NFL. Cullen Loeffler hasn’t made the game in seven years. Game Informer has filed easily the most entertaining training camp report of the 2010 NFL preseason,…
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UncategorizedIt Doesn’t Get Much More Noir Than Negative Zone Spider-Man
In the shadows of the Spider-Man Noir universe, you can barely even see the Negative Zone alternate costume for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, but it’s definitely there. As we mentioned last month, Best Buy customers get a code to unlock Negative Zone Spider-Man in Shattered Dimensions when they preorder the game. That doesn’t lock other purchasers…
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Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom Wants To Be Your Friend
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom producer Daisuke Uchiyama is tired of over-the-top violence in games, and thinks he’s found a different motivation for playing his new game: Friendship. Daisuke Uchiyama is a friendly sort of person. He wants me to call him Uchi, which I will gladly do. He’s spent the past 15 years producing…
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How Many People Are Playing APB?
Scottish developer Realtime Worlds recently entered administration, and it’s rolling out play and pay stats for the recently released All-Points Bulletin to sweeten the pot for potential buyers. Who’s playing, and what are they paying? Realtime Worlds went into administration last week after being hit with massive layoffs the week previous. That means they need…
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James Cameron Is Earth’s Official Spokesperson
After showing us through the magic of 3D how human beings could potentially screw up an entirely new planet, James Cameron has signed on with NASA to help show how the agency is keeping us from screwing up our own. Cameron stars in a series of three new commercials to help promote NASA’s contributions to…
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Microsoft Is Ready To Ban Halo: Reach Pirates
As leaked copies of Halo: Reach hit the torrent sites, Microsoft tells Kotaku that they are aggressively investigating the leak and are fully prepared to hand out bans to anyone caught playing the game pre-release. It happens every time a big game comes out, but when it’s a game as big as Bungie’s final Halo…
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Possession Is Nine Tenths Of Ghost Trick
At the beginning of Capcom’s Ghost Trick you die. Then the action really starts heating up. I got a chance to play a new level at Gamescom last week, and now I’m going to tell you all about it. Ghost Trick, developed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, could be the most compelling little adventure…
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Dream Day Wedding Sends Wine By Mail
When I returned from Germany after covering Gamescom, the last thing I was expecting to be waiting for me in a UPS box was a bottle of Dream Day Wedding-labeled Merlot. The package came from I-play, purveyors of fine casual games, in celebration of the release of hidden object game Dream Day Wedding: Bella Italia.…
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