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Indie Sports Game Unites Developer’s Dream with a League’s Ambition
By the end of April, Xbox Live’s Indie Games channel will see a very unusual first: The service’s first sports title licensed by a professional league, and backed with the sponsorship of a major brand. NLL Lacrosse 2010 will be the pro sport’s video game comeback nine years after its one and only console release.…
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Moral Kombat Available Everywhere You Watch Movies
There’ll be no excuse left for not seeing Spencer Halpin’s documentary exploration of video game violence, Moral Kombat, as the film will soon be available on every web-enabled device imaginable. Moral Kombat is a compelling documentary that explores video game violence from both sides of the argument, created in 2007 by Spencer Halpin, the brother…
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Abandon All Hope, There Are No Plans For Geometry Wars 3
“Right now we don’t have any plans for Geometry Wars 3 or anything,” said Bizarre Creations’ Gareth Wilson during the Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, and all that could be heard afterwards were the relentless sobs of millions of disappointed fans. Gareth took delivering the news in stride, but fans who played the original Geometry Wars…
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Amazon Doubling Your BioShock Pleasure
Are you a BioShock newbie who doesn’t want to play through the second game without experiencing the first? Well then Amazon.com has the deal for you. Several readers have tipped us off to a deal going on now over at Amazon.com. For a limited time, purchasing BioShock 2 for the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360…
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Dante’s Inferno’s Trials Of St. Lucia Gives You Wings
Dante’s guardian angel and Christian martyr St. Lucia gets her game on in these screens from the upcoming Trails of St. Lucia downloadable content for Dante’s Inferno. I’m looking forward to the addition of co-op multiplayer in Dante’s Inferno, if only because I was slightly embarrassed having someone else sitting there watching me as I…
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The Power Behind Project Natal: PrimeSense
You’ve heard all about Project Natal, but Microsoft’s 3D motion controller solution would have fallen completely flat if not for PrimeSense’s 3D sensing technology. What is PrimeSense? PrimeSense is a company that creates technology that allows computers and, in this case, the Xbox 360, perceive the world in three dimensions. The PrimeSensor bathes the area…
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UncategorizedThree Minutes Of Final Fantasy XIV Footage And Japanese Voices
Square Enix Japan is creating a series of video blogs called Life in Eorzea, with the first one featuring plenty of Chocobos, tiny little guys dancing, and plenty of Japanese people talking. The nice folks at FFXIVCore have translated some of the chatter going on behind the Final Fantasy XIV gameplay footage, and it doesn’t…
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Bringing FarmVille To Your Browser Bar
From the FarmVille toolbar to a virtual pet that runs on your browser bar, Conduit’s Ltd. is helping gamers connect with games without having to change their web page. You might have never heard about Conduit Ltd., but odds are you’ve seen some of its technology. Conduit created a technology that allows publishers an easy…
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Let’s Abolish Schools And Teach Children With Video Games
For thousands of years, societies taught and trained their children through immersive gameplay and storytelling. Prospect Magazine’s Julian Gough wonders why we ever stopped, and ponders a fantasy world where the games of today form the children of tomorrow. “How would I cut public spending by £100bn? Abolish schools-and have children learn through playing videogames…
By Mike Fahey
