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Philly Devs’ Ambition: Make Their City the Hollywood of Gaming
Video Game Growth Initiative Philadelphia, or VGI, grew out of IGDA’s Philly chapter, and it’s looking to make the City of Brotherly Love into an East Coast magnet for games development. Philadelphia City Paper spotlighted the five-man band – an audio engineer, an executive, a dev, a lawyer and a professor at Drexel University –…
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Iwata: Nintendo Doesn’t Think Its E3 Presser Went So Hot
In the company’s quarterly financial results briefing, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata confessed that, yeah, internally no one believes that Nintendo’s E3 2009 briefing was anything to shout about, either. Says Iwata: As for the media briefing at E3, of course we had many internal discussions after that. Honestly speaking, none of us at Nintendo thought…
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NHL 10 Coverboy Arrested Over 20 Cents
Who knows what Patrick Kane was paid to appear on the NHL 10 cover, but it was probably more than 20 cents. So it’s hard to fathom why a 20-year-old zillionaire athlete would deck a cabbie over two dimes. But that’s what Buffalo cops say Kane did when he caught a $13.80 cab ride last…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. • Seven Best-Selling Games that Totally Suck [Joystick Division] The writer vents his spleen at group of titles unworthy of the scads of money they…
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Week in Games: Friday Night Lights
This is Madden Week, the 21st in the franchise’s lifespan, although it’s been a phenomenon for only about a decade. Friday, instead of a Tuesday, football fans will call in sick to pick up their copy and talk smack to friends. Other highlights: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 finds its way to the PS3 on Thursday.…
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Today’s Punishment: Pick Your Poison
We realize that one gamer’s pain is another’s pleasure, so in an effort to diversify the punishment around here, today’s session will give you several choices. You may select from: • Five minutes of Shaq Fu gameplay: Needs no introduction. One of the worst game concepts of all time. • A Nine-Minute Minesweeper Tutorial: Really,…
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Watch People Play Games on UK TV
Last weekend, the UK network Bravo – unrelated to the U.S. channel, BTW – launched something called “Game Face,” tilted toward casual gamers, presumably ones with wads of disposable income. Former MTV boss Peter Einstein is behind the show, and he thinks he knows why video game shows “have failed in the past.” From what…
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Speechifyin’ Euro Gamers Can Get Into MAG Trailer
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has put out a call for battlefield speeches written by gamers, saying the best will be professionally recorded for use in an upcoming Massive Action Game trailer. Here are the catches: Looks like this is restricted to PSN account holders in Europe. Update: Specifically, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and…
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Brütal Legend Soundtrack Confirmed
The complete Brütal Legend soundtrack that we first reported yesterday, apparently going out early from an EA Denmark site, has been confirmed as authentic by Double Fine chief Tim Schafer. Schafer had this to say in a statement to GameDaily: This soundtrack took years to put together as we wanted to represent every genre of…
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Madden Simulates NFL Season; We Offer Predictions, Too
As it does every year, EA Sports simulated the upcoming football season on Madden NFL 10 and determined that, yes, New England is a great team, and the AFC and NFC West remain as weak as a free casino drink. Hardly takes Nate Silver to make such grandiose calls, but EA’s sim gave us the…
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Humorous How-to Tackles NES Installation
As anyone who’s ever tangled with an RF switcher knows, hooking up consoles in the old days was more plug and less play. Helpfully the gang at Shamoozal have put together this step-by-step look at rigging up your Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s done in the style of the old Disney explainers with Goofy as the…
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GameStop Pre-Order Reveals BioShock Multiplayer Characters
“Blanche the Actress” and “Zigo the Fisherman” will be available as multiplayer character classes with a pre-order of BioShock 2, according to an upcoming GameStop promotion that someone in the game’s forum spotted. For the record, these are the first two multiplayer classes announced for the game. The best we can get for pictures are…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Aug. 7 Serial begins here. PvPonline published Aug. 7 ActionTrip published Aug. 3 Digital Unrest published Aug. 7 DotGif published Aug. 3 Little Gamers published Aug. 7 EXTRALIFE published Aug. 6 GU Comics published Aug. 6 Awkward Zombie published Aug. 3 VG Cats published week of Aug. 3 2P Start published Aug.…
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The First Football Game in Cowboys Stadium
Was, for the record, a game of Madden NFL 10, on a PlayStation 3. PlayStation and EA Sports invited more than 200 fans to the NFL’s newest stadium on Saturday to battle it out on Cowboys’ Stadium’s big screen, which has been the scene of video gameplay before. The event played out during the Cowboys’…
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UncategorizedIce T Plays Call of Duty, Loses Shit, Demands Snapple, Rings Cliffy B
All in a day’s work for the CSI Law & Order: SVU star. As Jace Hall admires Coco’s plastic attributes, Ice gets killed by friendly fire, beckons for a soft drink, and then discusses casting decisions with Cliff Bleszinski. Giz put this up yesterday, alongside a video of Ice destroying a six-year-old MacBook. It was…
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Mario was Put in Punch-Out Without Permission
The latest “Iwata Asks” bull session regards Punch-Out!!! – the NES original, not the Wii sequel – and it’s quite revealing. Especially when designer Makoto Wada (pictured) pipes up. Wada-san, who came aboard Nintendo right around the time the Punch-Out!!! port for the NES was being created, spills two interesting details. The first is that…
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A Tribute to One of the Last Sports Game Gods
As any sports gamer – or anyone who’s seen Swingers – can tell you, Jeremy Roenick in NHL ’94 was the definition of unstoppable force. Score, win fights, deliver punishing checks, it was all automatic for Roenick. Roenick retired this past week, and Patrick Hruby (Hey! I know that guy!) writes an eloquent tribute to…
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Bioware Confirms Dragon Age: Origins Delay
You’re gonna have to wait another fortnight to get your brothel goat sex. The rumblings from retailers yesterday have been backed up by Bioware today. Dragon Age: Origins‘ new release date is November 3. BioWare told IGN: “Dragon Age Origins will be released on November 3rd in North America and November 6th in Europe for…
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Music Video Done 4-Bit Style
Arman Bohn, formerly of the band Eureka Farm where he played alongside current members of Deathcab for Cutie, has put out an album inspired by the Atari games of his youth. This video is “No Escape!” and in addition to its visual style, adds a nice story to make it eminently watchable. The music, self-described…
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