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Pricetag On NBA Elite’s Delay: $60 Million And Counting
Yesterday, we reported that a delay of NBA Elite 11’s release lasting past the end of the year jeopardizes the sale of as many as 1.1 million copies. Today, the analyst offering that estimate put a dollar figure on it. In a note to investors today, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter said to expect Electronic…
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ESA Canada: Just 5 Percent Of Parents Aware Their Kids Play Online
More than three-quarters of kids ages six to 17 play video games online. No surprise. Just five percent of parents of kids those age say they’re aware that they do so. That kind of abysmal inattentiveness is surprising. That is the finding of a survey commissioned by the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, which queried…
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You’re Effing Downloaded: The Kenny Powers App
Kenny Powers, the washed-up lout protagonist of the sports comedy Eastbound & Down on HBO, has his own 16-bit inspired home-run derby game, free on the iPhone. You can use a donkey to distract him into throwing a meatball pitch. This game also is desirable because it is not for those under 17, which means…
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New NASCAR Game Confirmed [Update]
As was rumored last week, Activision will publish a NASCAR-licensed game and racing-focused studio Eutechnyx will be building it, according to an official site launched today with a countdown clock that hits zero in five days. EA Sports had published NASCAR games from 1996 to 2009, ending with NASCAR Kart Racing on the Wii, the…
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Force Feedback Helps Doctors Poke Patients With Robots
A popular method of adding more immersion to video games could make a life or death difference to doctors using robotic proxies to perform delicate surgery. See that dangerous-looking machine in the picture up top? That’s Sofie the surgical robot, and one day her pointy bits might be fishing about your insides, trying to repair…
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UncategorizedLegless Marathon’s Underground Final Fantasy XIV Adventure
During the Final Fantasy XIV beta stress test, a tiny Lalafell named Legless Marathon fell through the world. It was the beginning of a grand adventure. Normally falling through the world would be a bad thing, but little Legless here has a grand old time. He does battle with vicious creatures that can’t technically touch…
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Scenes From An Undead Nightmare
At first I was scared that Rockstar adding zombies to Red Dead Redemption would come off as silly. After seeing the first four screens for the Undead Nightmare downloadable content, I’m just scared. It’s one thing to be surrounded by zombies in a modern setting, where weapons are readily available and even the most ordinary…
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Of Course There’s Going To Be A 3DS Super Monkey Ball
Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator and developer of the Super Monkey Ball franchise, started envisioning how his game would work on the Nintendo 3DS from the moment he saw the handheld’s features. Super Monkey Ball was there for the launch of the Wii. There was a version for the Wii balance board. It was there when the…
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