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Arkham Asylum‘s Director Ponders Game Starring … Bane?
Generally, the reason you adapt a comic book franchise for a video game is because its most recognizable characters help drive its sales. Bane, while familiar to the Batcore, probably doesn’t have much of a Q-score with the general public. That doesn’t stop Sefton Hill, the director of Rocksteady’s award-winning Batman: Arkham Asylum from daydreaming…
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NBA Jam Tosses Up Another Five Shots, Hits Them All
The NBA Jam fan page on Facebook rolled out another five screens of the upcoming reboot of the beloved arcade/early console classic. We now know the names of eight more players who’ll be appearing in the game. They’re identified inside. Indiana’s Danny Granger (shooting) and Mike Dunleavy versus New Orleans’ David West and Chris Paul.…
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Apple Cuts a Larger Slice of Mobile Gaming Pie
If iPhone and iPod Touch gaming is in the same category as the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, then the Apple device surged in 2009 at the expense of the two dominant mobile platforms, especially the PSP. That is the finding the analytics site Flurry, which found Apple’s control of the DS-PSP-iPhone portable gaming marking,…
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Army Toughens Training for Generation ‘Softened’ by Games
The Army is remaking its basic training for the first time in 30 years to cope with a generation that, as the general in charge says, has a courage and physique shaped by, you guessed it, video games. Speaking to National Public Radio this weekend, Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling didn’t single games out specifically,…
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Receivers Achieve Awareness in Madden 11
You know those short hook routes where your receiver stands three yards in front of the first down? Or those swing routes where the halfback runs straight out of bounds? They’re supposedly a thing of the past in Madden 11 Giving the first details of the upcoming game to IGN, the game’s developers are going…
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Add Tilt Control To Your PSP
Datel helps PSP users hop on the motion control bandwagon with the Tilt FX PSP, a device that adds accelerometer controls to your favorite games. The Tilt FX PSP, available now for the PSP-1000 through 3000 (sorry, PSPgo, but no one loves you), is a device that plugs into the bottom of your handheld gaming…
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From Productive Writer To Cocaine Addict, Just Add Grand Theft Auto
Tom Bissell was a productive, healthy, and somewhat disciplined young award-winning author, before his passion for Grand Theft Auto helped transform him into a cocaine-addled gaming addict. As a travel writer with an eye for politics and history, Tom Bissell has visited Uzbekistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan, but it wasn’t until his first forays into Vice…
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