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BlizzCon 2009: The Show So Far
With BlizzCon 2009 day two in full swing, let’s take a look at what went on during day one, from start to Cataclysmic finish. Day one of BlizzCon actually started with day 0, when we got a peek inside this year’s swag bag, revealing its full Space Marine, hand sanitizer glory. Between that and our…
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Analysts Get to Speculating on 360 Slim
This is like U.S. presidential elections. No sooner do we have a conclusion to a two-year orgy of rumor and speculation than another immediately begins. But a sampling of analysts turn up some who believe that, sure, Microsoft will follow suit with an Xbox 360 slimline design. The pros for such a move: If the…
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Aussie Prof Connects a Lot of Dots Between Games and Gamblin’
A study of young people who are also pathological gamers, sooprise, turns up a connection to video games, in a report on Australia’s ABC News. Notably, however, another researcher knocks down the suggestion of a causal link. Paul Delfabbro of the University of Adelaide led a team studying more than 2,500 Australian teens, more than…
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Weekend Reader: Questions Asked by a Virtual Jihadi
Typically, the controversy over “Virtual Jihadi” – a mod of a skin of 2003’s budget-bin jingoist shooter Quest for Saddam – deals more with free speech and abuse of authority rather than what the game asks its players to consider. Even without the actions of Troy, N.Y. officials against the mod’s creator, and those hosting…
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Why Blizzard Can’t Just Sell More BlizzCon Tickets
With BlizzCon tickets selling out within minutes again this year, fans wonder why the company doesn’t just sell more tickets. After yesterday’s opening ceremonies, the reason become abundantly clear. The picture above was taken holding my camera high amidst the press of bodies trying to either get in or out of the main hall. Some…
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World at War Map Pack 3 Surpasses … One Million Downloads
And that’s in its first weekend of availability. Activision announced yesterday that Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 registered more than a million paid downloads through Xbox Live and PSN from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9. The seven-figure weekend brings to 6.5 million the worldwide downloads of World at War map packs,…
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In a League of Your Own, Where Your Word is Law
For widely divergent reasons, a lot of people think neither Brett Favre nor Michael Vick should be playing in the National Football League this year. There’s only one place where they can do anything about it though. Their game console. If you find Favre’s narcissism, serial retirements and scheming against his former team offensive, you…
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Weekend Coupons: Rent to Own
There are about 48 hours left on a big GameFly sale. Also, Fallout’s PC catalog (pre FO3) arrived on Steam in a package deal. These lovely prizes and more can be yours, if the price is right. • GameFly subscribers, there’s a large sale going on for games no one wants console classics, through Monday.…
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Kotaku Originals: Slim Goodbody
No doubt about it, this was Sony’s week, as the PS3 Slim’s arrival dominated the news out of Gamescom – one of three expositions on two continents where we have or had writers in the past week. Totilo went to QuakeCon, Fahey’s now at BlizzCon, and though Gamescom is wrapping up in Cologne, by no…
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BlizzCon 2009 Day One Ends
The first day of BlizzCon 2009 comes to an end, and the flamethrowing space marines are heading to sleep, but the action continues tomorrow! Join us (err, me) tomorrow for more from BlizzCon 2009, including highlights from the costume contest, cosplay, some more cosplay, people in costumes, people dressed as other things, and I’m pretty…
By Mike Fahey