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Are You An Autobot Or A Decepticon?
The co-op campaign in Transformers: War for Cybertron allows players to experience the game as either an Autobot or Decepticon. Which one will you choose first? As game director and snappy dresser Matt Tieger points out during this clip covering the campaign mode in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Hasbro sells an Autobot toy for every…
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Facebook, Farmville Reach Truce on Virtual Currency
The maker of Farmville, shedding users by the millions, got a jolt of good news on Tuesday when the game’s parent company reached an agreement with Facebook, settling a standoff over the handling of virtual currency transactions. Specific terms of the five-year pact were not mentioned by Zynga in its news release, but it did…
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UncategorizedAn Entirely Different Sort Of LEGO Video Game
Dissatisfied by the video game LEGO offerings released thus far, LEGO enthusiast Ben Fleskes takes matters into his own hands, crafting a working Pac-Man arcade cabinet made almost entirely of LEGO bricks. I’m not actually sure if Fleskes is dissatisfied or not, but I do know he’s got mad LEGO building skills. The electronics and…
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UncategorizedYou Can Help Fund Indie Game: The Movie
After covering the 2009 Game Developers Conference, BlinkWorks Media decided they wanted to create a documentary film that studies independent game developers as a way to understand the medium and the theory behind video games. Independent filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot have gathered footage from GDC 2010, along with interviews with creators at Flashbang…
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Scientists Implant Biofuel Cells Into Rats, I Call Next
A team of scientists from Joseph Fourier University in France have successfully implant biofuel cells into rats, generating 6.5 microwatts by harnessing the power of glucose. If they can amp that up, I might never need a DS charger again. A glucose biofuel cell works by taking the naturally occurring glucose and oxygen in an…
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Assassin’s Creed Publisher Could Copy EA’s Downloadable Content Model
Answering a question about downloadable content during their fiscal year 2009-10 fiscal earnings call, Ubisoft indicated it would likely they would adopt EA’s Project 10 Dollar DLC plan sometime in the future. Ubisoft’s earnings were down for the year but strong for the final quarter of fiscal year 2009-10, riding on strong sales of Wii-exclusive…
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BlizzCon 2010 Tickets Ready To Sell Out In June
Mark your calendars, Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft fans, as Blizzard lays out two dates in early June for you to attempt to spend $150 a ticket to BlizzCon 2010. Like last year, Blizzard is selling tickets to its immensely popular fan gathering in two batches. The first batch goes on sale on Wednesday, June 2,…
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PixelJunk Shooter 2 Is Full Steam Ahead
PixelJunk Shooter will be the first title in Q-Games’ series of PlayStation Network games to get a proper sequel, with “everything and the kitchen sink” going into PixelJunk Shooter 2. Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert outs the shooter sequel in a post on the PlayStation blog today, indicating that PixelJunk Shooter 2 is currently in full…
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