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How One Man Stopped Square-Enix From Letting Gamers Kill Yahweh
The attempt to include overt references to Judeo-Christian figures in the classic role-playing game Xenogears caused a few translators to quit — they feared a violent backlash — and prompted a change in the name of the game’s final boss, according to one of the people who brought the game to America. On this week’s…
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Sony Bigwig Trash Talks Nintendo 3DS and Hurts Our Feelings
During an interview with Fortune Magazine, SCEA’s charming CEO Jack Tretton discussed the company’s business strategies…and then indulged in some nasty smack talk. “If you’re really going to sustain technology for a decade, you have to be cutting edge when you launch a platform,” Tretton explains to the business mag. Reasonable enough. But the Playstaion…
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PS3 Hacker Flees the Long Arm of Sony for South American Freedom
The saga of George “geohot” Hotz continues, hurtling deeper into absurdity with each growing unit of acceleration. He fought the law and lost—a judge demanded he hand over his PS3-hack relevant hard drives. His answer? I’m out, bitches. According to a court document filed by Sony in its noble, interminable battle to prevent people from…
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Kevin Butler, as You’ve Never Seen Him Before (NSFW)
Cat’s out of the bag, folks. Kevin Butler is not really PlayStation’s vice president of everything from First Person Shooter Relations to Rumor Confirmation. He is, in fact, the actor Jerry Lambert, who played quite the cringe-inducing straight man in the most recent episode of Showtime’s “Shameless” on Monday. KB, under the auspices of being…
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PlayStation’s Top U.S. Exec Cleans Up Pro Poker Tour Event
That, folks, is a 10-6 unsuited. In poker jargon, that hand is known as “garbage.” But for Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, they were the winning cards at a pro-am poker event earlier this week. Tretton was one of several executives entered in the World Poker Tour’s Silicon Valley Poker Challenge,…
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Hey, Whatever Happened to Marcus, the PSP Mascot?
A Sony executive recently declared that Marcus Rivers, the smartass ‘tween flack for the PSP who debuted at E3 last year, delivered “positive sales effects,” for the handheld. Near as I can tell, that’s the first anyone’s heard of the little twerp in more than four months. Marcus still anchors the front of Sony’s official…
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Which Console Is Best For First-Person Shooting Racists?
In order to determine which video game console you should play, you must ask yourself a few questions. Are you a gamer? Do you prefer first-person shooters? Racist or non-racist? Dorkly’s handy flowchart insults and informs. Judging by this graphic, I should be playing games exclusively on the original PlayStation. I have absolutely no problem…
By Mike Fahey
