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Uncharted Movie Back At Square One After Director Talks Break Down
Hothead director David O. Russell will not be directing any Uncharted movie, the Los Angeles Times reports, and the unsuccessful negotiations to bring him to the project have pretty much shot any chance the movie has of releasing in 2011. Russell’s proclivity for some grade-A blowups in the past added the potential for comedy, if…
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Backbreaker’s Officially Bigtime Now — It’s Sold Out To KFC
A day after releasing news of its behemoth patch on Xbox 360, the folks who make Backbreaker say its free iPhone version has picked up a Kentucky Fried Chicken sponsorship. Runners will now celebrate with, what else, the Chicken Dance. This is for Backbreaker Lite – not the paid Backbreaker version (although that only costs…
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EA Sports “Monitoring” Favre Situation
Brett Favre’s officially on the Minnesota Vikings – in Madden NFL 11‘s launch version. If he retires, the first roster update will drop him from the game, making him unavailable in multiplayer. How soon after the Aug. 10 release will that first update come? “We are monitoring the situation, and will detail our plans should…
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Crysis 2 Won’t Make It Out This Year
Most recently scheduled for release before the end of 2010, perhaps even in the fall, EA has confirmed that Crysis 2 has been pushed to its fourth financial quarter, giving it a release window of January through March of 2011. The news of the delay came today during EA’s reporting of its first-quarter 2011 financial…
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NASA’s Robotic Spaceman Has A Twitter Addiction
Meet Robonaut 2, the most dexterous humanoid robot in existence, soon to be the first humanoid robot in space, and you’ll be able to hear all about it through his Twitter account. Created through a joint project between NASA and General Motors that began in 2007, Robonaut 2, or R2 for short, was originally planned…
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Microsoft Triumphs In Multiplayer Gaming Patent Battle
In 2004 Peter Hochstein and Jeffrey Tenenbaum sued Microsoft over a 10-year-old patent for “communicating live while playing the same video game in separate locations.” After six years of legal tomfoolery, a U.S. District Judge has dismissed the case. Hochstein and Tenenbaum sued both Sony and Microsoft for patent infringement in 2004, claiming that both…
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UncategorizedTortured Souls Fight The Power In Rise Of The SixString
One of three rebel clans fighting against the vile Order in Power Gig: Rise of the SixString, Rise is comprised of a lead vocalist with murdered parents and a guitarist kicked off of her farm. This is one heavy game. I continue to be impressed by the depth of story Seven45 Studios has constructed for…
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UncategorizedYou Know What Scott Pilgrim Needs? More Zombies
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World director Edgar Wright calls in some friends from Shaun of the Dead to adds a little more awesome to Ubisoft’s 2D downloadable Scott Pilgrim video game. The old-fashioned 2D beat-em-up gets an old-fashioned secret controller code, unleashing hordes of undead hipsters on our unsuspecting heroes. It’s no up, up, down,…
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Red Dead Redemption’s Legends And Killers Arrive Next Week
Eight characters from Red Dead Revolver invade Red Dead Redemption next week in the Legends and Killers Pack, bringing with them nine new multiplayer map locations and one angry-looking tomahawk. The Legends and Killers Pack hits on August 10 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, running fans a cool $9.99 or 800 Microsoft points.…
By Mike Fahey
