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The Body Count of the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Beta
With less than a week until it closes, the Battlefield Bad Company 2 PlayStation 3 beta has recorded more than 9.4 million vehicle kills, which is like four times all the highway fatalities in the U.S. since 1957. Total kills recorded during the beta stand at 45.42 million, according to the Battlefield Blog. Other fun…
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For EA MMA, UK Mag Scoops the States on Other Details, Too
Yesterday, word spread that a UK fight magazine had fixed EA Sports MMA’s release to September. I emailed the magazine to make sure that claim wasn’t misattributed. Fighting Spirit Magazine sticks by it, and offers more details. We don’t have permission to reprint the article in its entirety, but having seen it, I can confirm…
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Seasons Greetings From Earth Eternal
Earth Eternal, an adorable massively multiplayer online game, brings you Santa suits and snowmen to celebrate the holiday season. That’s great, so… where’s my menorah? “Winterfest” is what Earth Eternal is calling the Christmas season within their fantasy MMO land. From now until presumably the end of December, players can find new candy cane weapons,…
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Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
Tired of slow progression in NCsoft’s latest MMO, Aion? The developers feel your pain, and they plan to assuage it with regular double experience weekends, starting with the next three weekends in a row. Things got a little slow for me in Aion around level 18 or so, so I for one welcome the introduction…
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Army of Two Dev: We Wouldn’t Have Done Modern Warfare 2’s Airport Scene
Matt Turner, a producer on EA Montreal‘s Army of Two: The 40th Day, praised Infinity Ward for having the sack to do its infamous “No Russian” mission, in which terrorist NPCs kill civilians, but adds “we wouldn’t have done it.” “You’re playing a CIA agent, it’s designed to show the atrocities,” Turner told CVG in…
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Google Yanks Android Ports of Doom, Quake on ZeniMax Demand
A takedown notice sent by ZeniMax led to the Android Store’s removal of several ports of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein; one of the developers admits that, though the port used open-source Doom code, some of the game files were proprietary. ZeniMax, which of course now owns iD software, filed the DMCA complaint with Google. Developer…
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Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford Talks Borderlands And More In This Week’s Podcast
While our boss is away, Gearbox Software‘s boss plays, when the Borderlands developer’s head honcho Randy Pitchford takes Crecente’s place beside Totilo in this week’s installment of Kotaku’s call-in podcast. Mr. Pitchford will be on hand to discuss anything and everything Pitchford and Gearbox related, from Borderlands to Brothers in Arms; that one Half-Life game…
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Microwaved Xbox 360 Elite — Yours for $31,000
Remember the microwaved mutant Game Boy Advance, creepy eyeballs and all? The same artist has done the same thing to an Xbox 360, and has it listed for $31,002 on eBay. “The Only Elite Xbox 360 that has been microwaved,” boasts the advertisement by artist Kenny Irwin. I’d love to see someone zap theirs just…
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Massive Free Realms Update Brings Tiny Dinosaurs
Sony Online Entertainment drops a massive end-of-the-year update on its free-to-play MMO Free Realms today, adding holiday Snow Days, fishing, player housing, and new pets, including dinosaurs, dragons, unicorns, and pegasi. I would have figured SOE would have gone from cats and dogs to something like hamsters or potbellied pigs, but instead they go and…
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