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Create-a-School Returns to NCAA Football
NCAA Football enthusiasts are already rejoicing– promotional materials tout a “teambuilder” feature in NCAA 10 that signals the return of “Create-a-School,” which has yet to appear on any next-gen versions. Tuesday, the back side of a GameStop placeholder for the game made its way to the forum NCAA Strategies. One of the details listed is…
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Apple Approves, Quickly Removes “Baby Shaker” App
This is probably not how Apple planned to celebrate the week it hit a billion downloads from the iTunes App store. It’s apologized for admitting the unabashedly tasteless “Baby Shaker” for distribution, and removed it. Baby Shaker makes revolutionary use of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s accelerometer to simulate killing a crying infant. When the…
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Weekend Coupons: Cou-pwnage
We’re back again with another round-up of price-cuts and sales events for the frugal amongst you. As stated earlier, this is the week The Orange Box can be had for the stupid-low price of $9.99. The guiding principle here at Weekend Coupons is we tell you about deals on stuff you might actually want to…
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Microsoft Refunds Braid Overbill, Plus a Little Extra
If you bought Braid back in February when it was XBLM’s first “Deal of the Week,” check your points balance. Microsoft mistakenly overbilled for it, but they’ll be refunding the difference plus 100 points. We’ve gotten word through a few readers about the mistake, which Microsoft attributed to a “technical glitch.” The virtual money should…
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Activision, Gibson Guitar Settle Claims
Sometime last week, Activision and Gibson Guitar decided to end their legal wrangling over a patent infringement claim made against the Guitar Hero franchise. Terms ain’t disclosed. Gamasutra dug up the docs, which indicate only that Gibson and Activision shook hands on April 17 and a federal judge in California terminated the case. A federal…
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Kotaku Originals: If It Ain’t Broken, We Break It
Let’s recap a week slam-slap full of breaking news that got the gamer gums a-flappin’. Fallout Vegas? We was there. Lego Rock Band? Done tole you about it. The biggie? Stephen Totilo, newly minted editor-mans. Sony had a couple attention-snappers, too – the existence of Uncharted multiplayer (and its beta), and Arkham Asylum’s exclusive play-as-Joker…
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What AJ Learned About Machinima Law Today
Today kicks off Stanford University‘s Play Machinima Law Conference with panels of machinima artists, copyright lawyers and legal representatives from Blizzard, EA and Microsoft. Machinima is one of those hazy areas of artistic expression not quite covered by copyright law and not quite insignificant given how many people have jumped on the bandwagon. Kotaku first…
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GameFly Pays First Class Postage For Second Class Treatment
GameFly, the enormously successful rent-video-games-by-mail service, filed an official complaint yesterday with the Postal Regulatory Commission over the treatment of the games it ships, saying its costing them a fortune in broken discs. The Los Angeles-based company says that the United States Postal Service is responsible for breaking between one and two percent of 590,000…
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