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  McSweeney’s Outs Samus Aran, Fanfics Gay Marriage Rant

  Normally, we’d recommend just about any piece of fan fiction that begins with Metroid bounty hunter Samus Aran coming out of the closet. But McSweeney’s satirical rant from the Zebes native isn’t even remotely sexy. Serious Metroid fans may get a titter out of the referential piece, but conservative Galactic Federation types aren’t going to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  EA Boss Not Yet Ready To Talk About Next Medal Of Honor

  EA CEO John Riccitiello made first official mention of the continuing Medal of Honor franchise today during the company’s quarterly earnings call, but gave little indication on how the series would progress. Riccitiello said the next Medal of Honor game is “somewhere out there,” but that executives on the call were “not yet in a…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  Madden 10 Pre-Sales Tracking Ahead of Madden 09

  In the same conference call announcing Madden Arcade, EA Sports boss Peter Moore said this year’s version of the football franchise is doing better in pre-sales than last year’s 20th anniversary edition. As reported by IndustryGamers, Moore said that, with 10 days to go before the Aug. 14 drop, “we’re now marginally ahead year-on-year.” Last…

  By Owen Good Published August 4, 2009
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  Vanillaware Boss Says HD Update For Muramasa Possible

  Vanillaware’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade is a lovely looking side-scroller. But it could be even lovelier at higher-than-Wii resolution, an option not out of the realm of possibility, according to studio founder George Kamitami. He tells Gamasutra that Muramasa: The Demon Blade‘s assets are created at double the size of what we’ll see in the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  Puzzle Bobble iPhone Screens Pop Up

  Taito’s teasing Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-A-Move) for iPhone on its Facebook page, fresh off Space Invaders Infinity Gene‘s critical success. Looks like they’re also teasing other Taito classics yet to come for the iPhone, judging from the collage image (shown here). Based on the other two teaser images, though, we can probably expect Bub and…

  By AJ Glasser Published August 4, 2009
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  Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Comes To Wii This November

  Wii owners will be getting their own Modern Warfare fix this fall, as Activision will release Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for Nintendo’s best-selling platform in November, arriving day and date with Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be a port of Infinity Ward’s blockbuster hit Call of Duty 4:…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  Kotaku NYC, For A Day

  To: Ash From: Totilo Re: Don’t Let This Flower Die! We looked at the performance of the site yesterday and came to a simple conclusion: time to let Crecente go. Gone. Finished. Done. Well, for the day. The black lion of the Voltron that is Kotaku took the day off today. In that lion’s place…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2009
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  Cobra Command Conquers EA HQ

  As seen from the offices of EA’s campus, which could use a window wash.

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  Fairytale Fights First Look Needs A Second Glance

  Yesterday’s Fairytale Fights trailer was old b-roll footage accidentally uploaded to the press site. Here’s the real show Playlogic wanted you to see. Today I sat down with the developer for a hands-on demo of Fairytale Fights. My actual preview is embargoed until August 19, but I was given permission to share a couple of…

  By AJ Glasser Published August 4, 2009
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  Sega Flings Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll Release Date At Us

  Officially reminding us of the game’s existence, as teased in July, Sega announced Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll for the Wii today, issuing a slightly more accurate winter 2010 release date for the sequel. Sega confirms that both Wii Balance Board and Wii Remote and Nunchuk controls can be used for the game, which…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  EA Sports Active *So* Successful It’s Delaying Other Games

  The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of EA Sports‘ Grand Slam Tennis will be coming a little later than originally planned, thanks to the runaway success of EA Sports Active. What does one have to do with the other? EA Sports head honcho Peter Moore says that the sports label is focused on getting…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  Hear Activision Unite The Music Of KRS-One and David Bowie

  This fall’s DJ Hero is based on the concept of mixing two songs together. From two artists. No matter how different they are. Like David Bowie and KRS-One. Give that and two more mixes a listen. That first one is “Let’s Dance” and “Jack of Spades” as mixed by DJ Shadow. Here’s the Beastie Boys…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2009
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  EA Plans Pick Up And Play ‘Madden Arcade’

  Electronic Arts is planning a smaller, arcade-style version of its long-running Madden NFL football franchise, revealing that the publisher is working on Madden Arcade for a release before the holiday season. EA Sports bossman Peter Moore announced the game today. Moore described Madden Arcade as following in the vein of the publisher’s Xbox Live Arcade…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  Fallout 3 Mothership Zeta Micro-Review: The Final Frontier

  Bethesda has released the final planned downloadable content for Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360 and PC, beaming players aboard a strange alien vessel in Mothership Zeta. We’ve been to Alaska in the past, Pittsburgh in the present, and we’ve even taken a field trip to Point Lookout State Park, so really, is there anywhere…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009
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  Impressions Of Torturing a Rabbid In A Wii Remote

  I know I’m way late to this, but I was only amused by the weird comedy-torture game in Ubisoft’s upcoming Rabbids Go Home a few days ago. The video above was shot by GameTrailers during Ubisoft’s E3 demonstration of Rabbids Go Home back in June. The main game looks nothing like that. It’s a third-person…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2009
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  EA Sees Big Sales Of The Sims 3, EA Sports Active, Still Losing Money

  Electronic Arts may have big sales of The Sims 3 and EA Sports Active to brag about—as well as impressive performance on Nintendo’s Wii—but it still lost money this past quarter. How much it lost is either a little or a lot, depending on which accounting principals you prefer to hold your publicly traded companies…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  Developing A Shadow Complex

  Witness Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski, Chair’s Donald Mustard, and sheer awesomeness’ Peter David talking about the final Summer of Arcade game, Shadow Complex. I must have missed McWhertor’s story on Peter David taking up writing duties for Shadow Complex, which is strange, considering David is one of my all-time favorite comic book writers, and not too…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009
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  EyePet Vs. Milo: The Unlikely New Console Mascots

  Here’s a YouTube comment on PlayStation 3 EyePet that caught my eye last week: “Both are useless this and milo both stupid.” Hints of a 21st century version of Sonic Vs. Mario, starring a Microsoft boy and a Sony pet? I was charmed by my brief interaction last week with Sony’s PS3 camera-enabled EyePet. The…

  By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2009
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  Braid Creator Names, Details Next Game ‘The Witness’

  Independent developer Number None‘s follow up to Braid, the time-shifting puzzle adventure game, will be The Witness, an exploration-puzzle game on an uninhabited island. Hold onto that knowledge, for it will be a long wait before you get The Witness. The developer recently began hiring for The Witness, described in job listings as “philosophical and…

  By Michael McWhertor Published August 4, 2009
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  Fileplanet Has Your Huxley Beta Invite

  Yes, Webzen’s massively mutliplayer online first-person shooter Huxley: The Dystopia is still a going concern, and all it takes is a Fileplanet login to get in on the closed beta action. It’s player versus player on a massive scale in Huxley, the game we first heard about ages ago when it was initially announced for…

  By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009