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Rare: ‘Who Knows” Why Donkey Kong 64 Hasn’t Hit the VC
Who knows? Maybe it has something to do with Rare being owned by Microsoft, and it and Nintendo being unable to decide who divides the loot. But yeah, answering a reader question, they don’t know what the deal is either. Asked in the latest RARE Scribes mailbag why Donkey Kong 64 isn’t on the Wii…
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UncategorizedSega’s Office Prank Doesn’t Think Too Much of Game Informer
Jen Groeling went off on a two-week vacation and came back to find her cube at Sega cordoned with plastic wrap and filled with about a zillion pages from Game Informer magazines. See for yourself in this video. I totally would have cannonballed into that pile. SEGA’s Office Pranks [YouTube, big hat tip thanks to…
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Look Who’s Gonna Buy Uncharted 2
I’ve always wondered if Pepsi guys, on vacation with the fams, ever pull into a McDonald’s and go, the hell with it, gimme a Coke. Of course, that’s a smidge different from deliberately buying and complimenting a competitor’s flagship product. But give the Major his due, the Xbox Live community guru Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb…
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Classic Call of Duty Offers a Dirty Dozen Achievements
Xbox360Achievements.org, on the ball as ever, found the set of 12 achievements for the original Call of Duty, which will soon arrive on Xbox Live Arcade and will be free with Modern Warfare 2’s Prestige Edition. The achievements are worth 200 points in total and not one of them is offered for multiplayer performance. Here’s…
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Miyamoto’s Secret Hobby: Measuring Stuff
Shigeru Miyamoto and the Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata chat about Wii Fit Plus, and Miyamoto discusses an odd fixation he has – guessing the length and weight of certain things. It’s why he carries a tape measure. For real. Says Miyamoto: “I’ve always enjoyed guessing the lengths of objects, which is why I carry a…
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Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron Preview: I’m A Total Space Case
I’m glad Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron‘s space-to-ground transitions made it into the multiplayer –- there was some initial confusion about whether or not the PSP Infrastructure could handle it. But the final answer is yes. Yes, Elite Squadron can handle all 16 players leaping from space combat to ground battles and back again almost…
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GameFly Filing Shows Netflix-Only Mail Slots
The slapfight between GameFly and the U.S. Postal Service now extends to the question of official-or-unofficial “Netflix Only” mail slots, which the rent-by-mail service contends is another example of the inappropriate preferential treatment its peers and competitors receive. Last month, GameFly filed an order to force the USPS to provide figures showing how many of…
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Two Years’ Worth of Dragon Age DLC is Planned
Mark Darrah, the BioWare executive producer for Dragon Age: Origins, said the studio has a two-year plan for downloadable content for all versions of the game. Speaking to The Game Reviews, Darrah said: We have plans that stretch out for basically two years. And it’s going to be everything from really small stuff like item…
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