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Outgoing IGDA Chief Departs With a Rant
This was said in the context of the GDC’s notorious annual rant session, so, it’s not a classic burning of bridges in the last day on the job. But the outgoing head of the International Game Developer’s Association, Jason Della Rocca, has some tough love for the folks he represented. Della Rocca, who helped plan…
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Reggie Fils-Aime Comments on “Bob’s Game”
Despite a stonewall of no-comments from Nintendo, and increasingly bizarre behavior by amateur developer Robert Pelloni, MTV Multiplayer’s Stephen Totilo stuck with the story of “Bob’s Game,” Pelloni’s DS title that Nintendo declined to support. Thursday, Totilo finally got an official response on the matter from Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America. For those…
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Iwata Plays … WarioWare: Snapped
Playing WarioWare: Snapped makes you look like a total fool, which is why it puts together a slideshow of your silly pantomimes at the end of the game. Yes, that means you, Mr. Nintendo President. Check out Satoru Iwata playing singleplayer pattycake the DSiware title. The nosepicking microgame isn’t showed, but he does have to…
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Weekend Coupons: Clarence Sale
This weekend’s Steam Sale is Tomb Raider Anniversary for $5. GameStop is disguising a clarence sale as a huge blowout spectacular. And Best Buy has a free controller deal for PS3, but it’s not cheap. For starters, nearly every major retailer puts a bunch of games on sale on the weekends. Here are a couple…
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Rumor: Blizzard Takes On Redneck Rampage?
“Published reports” (i.e. don’t blame me) say Blizzard’s got the Redneck Rampage brand now. Someone should tell Blizz there’s already a redneck MMO out there – it’s called “Mississippi.” IncGamers, checking up on some trademark notices, found that ones for the three Redneck Rampage properties (that would be, of course, Redneck Rampage from 1997, Redneck…
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Star Fox Creator Won’t Do a Barrel Roll on Wii
Q-Games prez Dylan Cuthbert also is the creator of three Star Fox games for Nintendo, but he’s not interested in doing one for the Wii. He also says Star Fox fans like furries. Cuthbert sounds like he wants no part of a new Star Fox title for the Wii. “It’d be a big project, like…
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Kotaku Originals: April’s News
Before the Internet, we didn’t have April Fool’s Day. When we played a joke, we’d tell a guy his shoe was untied and then WHAM! bash him upside the head with a piece of firewood. See? That’s funny. You kids couldn’t find funny with both hands and a map. And you should be glad we…
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