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Six Years’ Worth Of Game Time Destroyed In Pirate Raid
For several reasons, EVE Online subscriptions – “pilot license extensions” – have become an in-game item to be bought and sold among players – and stored in cargo holds of the sci-fi MMO’s ships. You know where this is going. Seventy-four “PLEXes” – these 30-day subscriptions – were in the cargo of “a lone Kestrel…
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UncategorizedFive Minutes With Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game
Ubisoft’s game adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s six volume comic book series is now available on the PlayStation Network. We’ve played it for five minutes so the Xbox 360 owners can see what they’re waiting until August 25 for. So far, so good! Look for a full review of Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World: The…
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UncategorizedNBA Jam Checks Off Its Creator’s “Hit List”
When Mark Turmell – the lead designer and programmer on the original NBA Jam – came to EA Sports’ reboot, he brought a list of 60 things the team needed to get right to make a true Jam. The series’ creative director explores what “The Turmell Hit List” and another original Jam personality – announcer…
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A Bit More on Monday Night Combat’s Second Certification
Sunday we reported that Monday Night Combat passed certification twice when Uber Entertainment found some things not up to snuff after it went gold. Penny Arcade learned it’s because of the game’s ability to tune itself without a patch. Jerry Holkins was intrigued by the claim that Monday Night Combat can make balance adjustments “on…
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Talk Football With The Madden Man Tomorrow
Madden NFL 11 is on shelves now, and tomorrow we’ll have the series’ senior producer, Phil Frazier, take us inside this year’s game and how it was built. Plus a special guest appearance by yours truly! Frazier will be taking our questions and your calls, hopefully fully recovered from whatever hangover “Madden Gras” delivered down…
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Stephen Hawking Thinks The Earth Should Probably Start Packing
“I see great dangers for the human race,” begins noted theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. As a human myself, that’s exactly the sort of thing I don’t like to hear. Perhaps they are words I , or more accurately we need to hear, however. As part of website Big Think’s Dangerous Ideas series, Hawking suggests that…
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