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Making Manhattan Chowder with Crysis 2
If you discount the static and deliberately skipping video what you have here is a blend of Crysis 2‘s trailer and its closed-doors demo, shown at E3. Spoiler alert: The MetLife building goes down, and it goes down hard. This should give you a better idea of what I was trying to get across –…
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Exec ‘Severely’ Doubts Value of Some TV Advertising
In a heavy-hitter’s roundtable with an industry advertising blog, the man in charge of marketing Homefront doubts that television advertising does much for many video games, and would rather advertise on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live than CBS and NBC. “One of the bigger questions we have to ask ourselves is how important is television?”…
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Friendly Reminder: Super Mario Bros. Crossover Now Featuring Ninja Gaiden
As promised, Jay Pavlina has delivered Ryu Hayabusa from the NES Ninja Gaiden as the seventh playable character in the flash sensation Super Mario Bros. Crossover. Other character-specific abilities have been included in the game’s 1.1 update. Mega Man now jumps more realistically, and can use Rush Coil to get to higher spots on the…
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Mario Kart Saved My Eyesight
A British youth overcame what is called “lazy eye syndrome” thanks to a doctor’s prescription of Mario Kart DS, restoring his right eye from “near blindness” to a 250 percent improvement. At age 5, Ben Michaels was diagnosed with ambylopia in his right eye, which results in a steady decline in vision in that eyeball.…
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Regardless of World Cup, EA Sports Predicts an American Triumph
Landon Donovan’s miracle goal on Wednesday did far more than propel the United States to the World Cup’s knockout stage. It’s made America the No. 1 soccer video game market on the planet. So says Electronic Arts, whose FIFA series of console games is both the biggest-selling and highest-rated sports video game in the world.…
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