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  The Beatles: Rock Band Gets The Beatles Guitars

  Harmonix and MTV today announce two new Beatles-themed guitar controllers going on sale when The Beatles: Rock Band hits stores in September – the Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet. The Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet are a pair of full-bodied, classic guitars used extensively by John Lennon and George Harrison throughout their careers.…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009
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  I Like My Women Like I Like My Gamers – Covered In Fingers

  To: Mike From: Luke Re: Where In Greater Los Angeles Is Brian Crecente? Thanks, Mike. Woke up this morning intending to do a full day’s work, not mash my F5 key into dust. Anyway, here’s what you missed while scouring the city looking for stray Crecentes in fetching red fedoras: I’M A MULLET! I’M A…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  So, How Long Until Final Fantasy XIII Is Out In Europe?

  As we’ve pointed out with numbers, few Japanese publishers are as tardy with their European releases as Square Enix. So how’s the Final Fantasy XIII localisation coming along, then? In a statement that’s not exactly encouraging for European fans, Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase has told Videogamer: Obviously we would like to release [in Europe] as…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Make Your Own Modded Console Handhelds

  Console modder Ben Heckendorn has made quite a name for himself chopping machines apart and making them smaller, sleeker, more portable. Now you can do as he does. To help him sell his book “Hacking Videogame Consoles”, Heckendorn has posted on his website a series of design documents and shopping lists for some of his…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Surprise, Fallout 3’s New DLC Is Broken

  Seems that Fallout 3’s latest piece of trouble-plagued downloadable content, Broken Steel, has launched broken. Least, it is on PC. Shocking, I know. A ton of people keen enough to install the game as soon as it went live this morning have been met with the following message: Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Earthbound Fans Are Crazy, Yo

  Somehow a fresh, unopened copy of Earthbound turned up on eBay the other day. Bidding was fierce. And at the auction’s closing bell, the winner had parted with, oh, over $1000. To be exact, the final amount was $1,025.01. For an unopened, store-bought copy of the 1995 classic, is that a steal? We’d say no,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Where Halo Meets Hyrule

  You know, back in the day, playing Blood Gulch for the millionth time on the original Xbox, I often wondered: why can’t there be a map in here that recreates Ocarina’s Hyrule? [via Go Nintendo]

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Activision Gets A New Chairman

  It’s been announced overnight that Activision Blizzard‘s chairman, who is due to retire later this year, is to be replaced by the Chief Executive of partners Vivendi. The mega-publishers’s current chairman – Rene Penisson – will be stepping down because his “mandate expires this year”. His replacement, Jean-Bernard Levy, has been with Vivendi since 2002,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  50 Cent Wants To Make A Game (That Doesn’t Feature 50 Cent)

  Former “rapper” now “multimedia personality” Curtis James Jackson III has already been the star of two video games. But he wants to be involved in more! Just, not ones where he’s the star. Speaking with MTV, Fiddy says that he’s already had talks with publisher THQ about the possibility of some day being “a part…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title

  Madden is…serious, kinda, but EA Sports’ other tentpole sports game, FIFA, is really serious. Take the game’s “World Cup”, which saw an amazing 500,000 gamers enter for $20,000 cash and a new car. Yup. 500,000. Emerging victorious at the top of that mountain of broken dreams was 22 year-old Frenchman Bruce Grannec, who beat Mexico’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Psychonauts Art Will Make Tuesday Bearable

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  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Dead Space: 1.4 Million Sold

  There seems to be an impression amongst people that Dead Space under-performed. That such a fantastic game deserved “better” sales. I don’t know. 1.4 million copies sold sounds pretty good to me. The figure was disclosed by EA Redwood Shores’ Visceral’s Glen Schofield in an interview with GameSpot, and when you consider EA’s other “under-performing”…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  PC Sales Charts: Sales Screw Everything Up

  They do! While the NPD charts are, grimly, business as usual, the Steam and Direct2Drive charts are a mess, courtesy of some weekend sales. HAWX? Assassin’s Creed? Far Cry 2? Great for the publishers and those gamers picking up some older games on the cheap, but for the hardcore PC sales charts enthusiast, it just…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Let’s Run A PS3 Through A Medical Scanner!

  X-rays of consoles and controllers are neat and all, but for those after something a little more 21st-century, why not take a look at a controller and console run through a medical CT scanner. These game-related examples are just two of the items artist (and medical student) Satre Stuelke was able to pass through a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  Red Orchestra 2 Lets You Play As The Nazis

  There’s long been a complaint that, aside from a select few strategy titles, gamers are never given the chance to play as the Germans in a Second World War game. For better or worse. But the upcoming sequel to Red Orchestra – Heroes of Stalingrad – will let you do just that. Developers Tripwire say…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
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  PlayStation Home Getting A Machinima Movie-Maker

  Introducing SceneSet, the movie-making add-on for PlayStation Home that will finally allow users to create something exciting within the service. A small dev team by the name of Loot will be releasing the program later this month, and it will allow users to create short machinima videos using Home’s assets. Locations, characters and items, you…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  Apple Eyeing Electronic Arts Takeover?

  David Tong over at TheStreet (so, no, not some guy’s blog) notes that, over the past few days, there’s been a bit of chatter from financial types surrounding Apple taking over Electronic Arts. Wait, what? Adami noted that there is chatter that Apple (AAPL Quote) is eyeing Electronic Arts(ERTS Quote) as a takeover target. Nuts.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009
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  ‘The Science of the Mushroom Kingdom’ Explores Super Flora

  Designed for a Communication Design Fundamentals class, The Science of the Mushroom Kingdom offers a look at the flora and fungi of the Super Mario Bros. universe, a textbook designed for budding botanist bros. Reader and Carnegie Mellon University student Theyab forwarded us a copy of his creation, which explains the properties (and dangers) of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 4, 2009
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  The GDC Text Adventure Gives Me Flashbacks

  The folks over at GameSetWatch—the blog owned by the same company that run the Game Developers Conference—posted a text adventure/”interactive experiment” version of the conference today, put together by game creator Jim Munroe. Munroe is a Canadian Sci-Fi author who designs video games in his spare time. I’m not familiar with him, but anybody who…

  By AJ Glasser Published May 4, 2009
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  First Red Steel 2 Trailer

  As you’ll see from the “Destination PlayStation” (ie a retailer-only event) title card, this isn’t an official consumer trailer. Doesn’t mean you can’t watch it, though. The trailer comes courtesy of MSN Games Brazil, who say they obtained it via a source at Ubisoft. It shows just how different the sequel is to the first…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2009