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The Week in Review: The Xbox Takes a New Direction
Two of the top men responsible for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 strategy left the company this week, depicted as departing on good terms, but nonetheless announced as “retiring” from the company. Robbie Bach, the former head of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, and J. Allard, a 15-year veteran described as the father of the Xbox and…
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Kotaku Off Topic: My Old Friend Pete
The checkout lady asked if I found everything. “And then some!” I said. “Please thank whoever ordered Texas Pete. This is the first time I’ve seen it west of the Mississippi!” She looked at me like I was from Jupiter. Not to be provincial, but only those who grew up with Texas Pete – made…
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UFC Undisputed 2010 Review: A Light Heavyweight Rematch
No game took an emerging sport to the mainstream in its first edition like UFC 2009 Undisputed did last year. But once you join sports gaming’s A-list, even in your rookie year, you have to start making sequels. THQ, known for delivering annually on the WWE Smackdown series, poured development into UFC Undisputed 2010 to…
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Three Gaming Products Make Time’s 50 Worst Inventions List
I poke fun at the Virtual Boy as much as the next guy, but does it belong on the same list as New Coke, Clippy the helpful paper clip, the Segway, and Agent Orange? Time’s list of the 50 Worst Inventions isn’t so much a list of failed inventions as it is a list of…
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UncategorizedGary Coleman Dies
Gary Coleman, best known for his role as Arnold in the 1970s-80s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, died today of injuries he suffered in a fall at his Utah home. Coleman, who also appeared in 2003’s Postal 2, was 42. TMZ reported Coleman’s death just past 12:30 p.m. U.S. Mountain time. He had been in a Provo,…
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