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GameStop Listing Gives Up Possible Career Mode in NBA Elite
A preorder premium for NBA Elite 11 offered by GameStop tips off a new mode in NBA Elite 11, something called “Become Legendary.” The smart money’s on this being a singleplayer career along the lines of FIFA’s “Be a Pro.” Saith the listing: Reserve NBA Elite 11 and receive a GameStop exclusive Jordan Brand Boost…
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“Halo: The Fall of Reach” Comes To Shelves Today
That would be bookshelves, kids, in bookstores. A new revision of Eric Nylund’s “Halo: The Fall of Reach,” first published in 2001, went on sale today with 27 pages of new material. What’s in the new trade paperback? Glad you asked. According to a release from Tor Books, you get: • Excerpts of Office of…
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Kid Bribed With Video Games To Steal Drugs, Say Cops
Kids, if someone promises you a video game! if you let them borrow a bottle of mom’s pills without telling mom, that’s bigtime STRANGER DANGER and you need to tell McGruff the Crime Dog. Cops in Portsmouth, N.H. on Sunday arrested a woman by the name of Shannon Leathers and charged her with bribing a…
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Uncharted Movie Back At Square One After Director Talks Break Down
Hothead director David O. Russell will not be directing any Uncharted movie, the Los Angeles Times reports, and the unsuccessful negotiations to bring him to the project have pretty much shot any chance the movie has of releasing in 2011. Russell’s proclivity for some grade-A blowups in the past added the potential for comedy, if…
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Backbreaker’s Officially Bigtime Now — It’s Sold Out To KFC
A day after releasing news of its behemoth patch on Xbox 360, the folks who make Backbreaker say its free iPhone version has picked up a Kentucky Fried Chicken sponsorship. Runners will now celebrate with, what else, the Chicken Dance. This is for Backbreaker Lite – not the paid Backbreaker version (although that only costs…
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EA Sports “Monitoring” Favre Situation
Brett Favre’s officially on the Minnesota Vikings – in Madden NFL 11‘s launch version. If he retires, the first roster update will drop him from the game, making him unavailable in multiplayer. How soon after the Aug. 10 release will that first update come? “We are monitoring the situation, and will detail our plans should…
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Crysis 2 Won’t Make It Out This Year
Most recently scheduled for release before the end of 2010, perhaps even in the fall, EA has confirmed that Crysis 2 has been pushed to its fourth financial quarter, giving it a release window of January through March of 2011. The news of the delay came today during EA’s reporting of its first-quarter 2011 financial…
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