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German Activist Group’s “Killer Game” Toss Makes Me Uncomfortable
Game Politics reports that a German advocacy group wants people to bring their “killer games” to the front of an opera house to throw away. One lucky tosser (har, har) will win a signed jersey from a sports team. The site goes on to link the group’s upcoming weekend event to a school shooting that…
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Insomniac Throwing Ratchet & Clank Community Day
If you live in Burbank, California — or just happen to be there Friday, October 23 — you should drop in on Insomniac for a Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time party. Last year, the developer threw a similar Community Day to celebrate Resistance 2. Apparently, it was such a success that they’ve…
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NPD Groups Says Video Game Gift Sales Down This Holiday
Research group NPD predicts a less techy Christmas in their holiday retail outlook. So don’t act shocked if a book shows up in your stocking instead of a video game. Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst, explains in a press release that “consumers will be looking for the right gift, rather than the most extravagant or…
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Looks Like A New Game Mode For Birth By Sleep
I was jealous when I heard Stephen Totilo played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep at the Tokyo Game Show. But even if he saw it first, it looks like he didn’t see everything. Apparently there’s a board game-type of mode in Birth By Sleep that breaks up the hack ‘n’ slash monotony many non-KH fans…
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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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