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Madden 10 Now Pops Up Ads with Annoying Frequency
Madden NFL 10’s in-game advertising arched some eyebrows when it released, but the grousing quickly blew over. The complaints have returned, as some users are reporting even more frequent pop-up ads, sometimes at the rate of one-per-snap. It seems that under the latest patch, which I applied on my Xbox 360 last night, a rectangular…
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The Magic Obelisk: Game Arts’ First Original Title In 10 Years
Grandia and Lunar developer Game Arts delivers its first original title in over a decade to WiiWare next week, with The Magic Obelisk, an action-adventure game about the deep bonds formed between tree spirit and light spirit. Lukas is a tree spirit who wants to use his power to transform into a tree to help…
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On The Worst Day Of Christmas Dante’s Inferno Gave To Me…
The Dante’s Inferno marketing team sinks to new lows in this “The Worst Day of Christmas” trailer. Two purple peaks? Really? Have you ever been embarrassed for someone else? The moment the music starts up in this holiday-themed Dante’s Inferno trailer my cheeks started getting warm. By the time the first line came out, they…
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World At War Map Packs Bundled Up For The Winter
Save five dollars on nine multiplayer maps and three zombie wonderlands with the Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack Bundle, available today on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Surely someone hasn’t bought these yet, right? The World at War Map Pack Bundle collects all three of Treyarch’s expansion packs for the latest…
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Realism’s Place In The Legend Of Zelda
Edge magazine has an interview with Legend of Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma in their 211th issue feature, Links To The Past. His feelings on Twilight Princess? Regret. In a snippet of of the interview reprinted on Edge Online, Aonuma says that the realistic look and feel of Twilight Princess presented challenges for the designers…
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Xbox Live Launching Individualized Music Game Stores
Microsoft makes searching for downloadable songs for your rhythm games much easier today, with the introduction of individualized music game stores covering all the major music games. Expected to launch later today, the Xbox Live music games stores will make browsing the latest releases for games like Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero much more…
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Weyland-Yutani: Building Better, Bloodier Worlds
Lance Henriksen slithers back into the role of Charles Bishop Weyland in this story trailer for Rebellion’s Aliens vs. Predator, once again managing to sound comforting and sinister at the same time. I’m pleased to see Rebellion putting so much work into the story mode for Aliens vs. Predator. While I love the multiplayer concept…
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Capcom Delays Major Games
Capcom is delaying Lost Planet 2, Super Street Fighter IV, Dead Rising 2 and the North American release of Monster Hunter Tri into a 12-month period starting on April 1, 2010. A forecast revisions document reveals that all four titles will be pushed back to the company’s 2010 fiscal year (staring in April, ending March…
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The Sega Mega PSN Sale
From Alien Breed for the PSP to Valkyria Chronicles downloadable content, if it’s Sega and it’s on the PlayStation Network, it’s now on sale. Announced this morning by Sega’s assistant community manager David Beavers on the PlayStation Blog, the Sega Mega Sale drops the prices of every piece of downloadable Sega goodness on the PlayStation…
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North American Game Industry Employment Somehow Rose Slightly In 2009
According to the third annual Game Developer Census, game industry employment in North America has risen slightly in 2009, due in part to new Canadian studios and a rise in social and online gaming developers. It almost seems impossible, considering the frequent reports of studio closings we’ve reported over the past twelve months, but the…
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UncategorizedJudge Super Street Fighter IV’s Real-Life Juri
When I first saw Super Street Fighter IV’s new character Juri, my first thought was that the costume she wears is extremely impractical. Capcom’s official real-life Juri confirms that thought. Capcom USA posted this video yesterday, featuring a live-action model wearing a close approximation of Juri’s outfit during a 2010 lineup reveal earlier this year.…
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