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  Ubisoft Opens Facebook Gaming Portal

  Ubisoft already has one game up and running on a new Facebook portal it just opened. TickTock tests your knowledge of your friends and then, naturally, pesters you to pester them. In the game, you’re given a series of recent status updates and asked to identify, by multiple choice, who wrote them. Fast answering is…

  By Owen Good Published July 20, 2009
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  Your Comments Fuel Gay Gaming Conference

  Physically, you may not have been at EA Redwood Shores this weekend. But if you commented on to Justin Cole’s op-ed column to Kotaku, you were there in spirit. Cole used commenters’ responses to his post, The Impact of Homophobia in Virtual Communities, to drive discussion among panelists Caryl Shaw (Senior Producer at EA’s Maxis),…

  By AJ Glasser Published July 20, 2009
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  First Look At A Proper Prince Of Persia Movie Poster

  While a preview poster went up last year for Jerry Bruckheimer’s upcoming Prince of Persia flick, it was just a tease. A logo and not much else. Today, Empire gives us our first look at some real posters. Not what you’d expect, are they? Really clean, and modern. No tacky “Persian” logo, no silly pose…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2009
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  A Taste of Game Development

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: This Sunday Was Actually Lazy As I’ve said before, I have no interest in ever making the jump from writing about games to creating them. Kotaku isn’t a means to that end. But over the past month I did try to make some fun games. Just not video ones. My…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2009
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  The Best-Selling Wii Games Of 2009 Didn’t Come Out In 2009

  An analysis by website Gamasutra of first-half sales figures for the three big gaming consoles shows that the Wii’s hits are older hits. Gamasutra has crunched the NPD video game sales numbers and the results show that the top five best-selling games on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 in the U.S. from January…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2009
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  Madden Demo Comes Early To 360 Owners

  Microsoft are at it again, this time working out some kind of deal with EA Sports that will see the public demo (not the preorder demo) for Madden 10 released a week early on Xbox Live. While PS3 owners and Xbox Live Silver subscribers will be able to download a demo of the Giants v…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2009
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  Newspaper Names Budget of Ghostbusters: The Video Game

  It’s not often that the public gets word of what it costs to make a specific game. But a multi-million-dollar range was given for the latest Ghostbusters game in a Texas newspaper. The Fort Worth Star Telegram fingered the cost of development for the game at $15 million to $20 million. The budget figure ran…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2009
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  Brutal Legend’s Eddie Riggs In All His Sculpted Glory

  How can you truly call yourself metal if you don’t have a 17 inch Brutal Legend Eddie Riggs figure leaping dramatically from your mantle? Sculpted lovingly by Mark Newman and splashed with color by Tom Vukmanic, this official Eddie Riggs statue depicts Jack Black’s video game alter ego at the height of his power, leaping…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009
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  Microsoft Patents Drop-In Co-Op In Shooters

  Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office assigned the maker of the Xbox 360 and publisher of Gears of War the feature to offer seamless switching from solo to co-op gaming in squad-based shooters. The patent, #7,559,834 was invented by James York of Austin, Texas and filed back in the original Xbox era…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2009
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  Retro/Grade: A Shooter In Reverse

  Rick Rocket just saved the universe, and now he has to do it all over again…in reverse. This is Retro/Grade, coming to the PlayStation Network from developer 24 Caret Games. Retro/Grade takes conventional shooter mechanics and reverses them. You pilot your ship around the screen, avoiding enemy fire while making sure your ship is in…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009
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  Dante’s Inferno Comic Premiers At Comic-Con (Updated)

  EA and DC Comics have teamed up to create a comic book mini-series based off of the upcoming Dante’s Inferno video game, with preview copies available at the San Diego Comic-Con later this week. DC Comics adds another video game license to their Wildstorm imprint with Dante’s Inferno, the action-adventure game adopted loosely from Dante…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009
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  Wizard of Oz Preview: Partying Up With The Tin Man

  Thank goodness the new Wizard of Oz game for the DS doesn’t closely follow the movie’s plot, because this reporter, who played the game recently, could never get through that movie. What Is It? The Wizard of Oz is a newly announced (today!) game for the DS coming this fall from publisher XSeed. It’s a…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2009
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  Mad Catz Brings Exclusive Street Fighter Sticks To Comic-Con

  The San-Diego Comic-Con is all about exclusive goodies, and in that spirit Mad Catz is hawking a limited number of exclusive Street Fighter IV arcade sticks and pads to show attendees. Visitors to the San-Diego Comic-Con this week will have a chance to pick up one of 500 of these exclusive Street Fighter IV accessories,…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009
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  Rabbids Go Home On The DS

  The Nintendo Wii couldn’t contain the Raving Rabbids‘ first solo game, so Ubisoft is bringing Rabbids Go Home to the DS as well, with extra-added functionality for those who’ve upgraded to the DSi. Featuring the same storyline as the Wii version, Rabbids Go Home DS trades in the console’s Katamari-esque collecting gameplay for a puzzle-adventure…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009
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  Preview The Next 360 System Update

  Microsoft is inviting thousands of Xbox 360 owners to help beta test the next big Xbox 360 system update, and your chance is just a modest survey away. As they did with the New Xbox Experience last year, so Microsoft is doing with the next big system update, inviting users by the thousands to test…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009
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  Assassin’s Creed 2 Short Films Hit This Holiday

  Assassin’s Creed II: Lineage, the short film series inspired by the game, will kick off this holiday, Ubisoft said today. The three short movies willl focus on the story of Ezio’s father, Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, and will be a prelude to the Assassin’s Creed II storyline, offering insight into the Assassin’s Creed II storyline…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2009
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  World At War Map Pack 3 Deploys In August

  It’s another set of three normal maps and one zombie map in Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3, coming to consoles next month from the fine folks at Treyarch. Three screens accompanied today’s announcement, showing off the three regular multiplayer maps coming as part of World at War’s third dose of downloadable…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009
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  Greenpeace Turns PS3, Wii, 360 Into Spokesmen Against Toxicity in Consoles

  Greenpeace today released three videos to highlight what they say is the presence of “highly toxic substances” in video game consoles. The stop-motion videos turn the bits and pieces of the Playstation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 into fictional spokesman defending the companies decisions. About two years ago Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony were added to…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2009
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  New WoW Races Hinted At By Halloween Masks?

  A set of four Halloween masks discovered in the latest test patch for World of Warcraft has players debating over whether or not they’ve uncovered the next two races for Blizzards massively-popular MMO. The four masks in question, shown above courtesy of But Wait, There’s Lore, depict a goblin male and goblin female, which are…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009
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  Virtual Carlos Santana Wails In Guitar Hero 5

  Rock, salsa and jazz fusion spring to life in Guitar Hero 5, which will feature the guitar legend Santana in all his 3D-rendered glory. A live version of Santana’s “No One to Depend On” will be featured in the next version of Activision’s band game, and an eerily-lifelike Carlos Santana will be on hand to…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009