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Amazon Seeks “Call of Duty-est” Town in America
Amazon’s pitting city against town against village in a promotion to see which American municpality orders the most copies of Modern Warfare 2 with release-date delivery. They’ve got a top 40 board up, which Stillwater, Okla. currently leads. The criteria: Amazon’s cutoff are towns and cities with a population over 5,000 (according to the most…
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Storm’s Husband Gets Some Play In Ultimate Alliance 2
T’Challa, leader of the fictional African Wakandan nation, bearer of the Black Panther mantle, and husband to the X-Men’s Storm, joins Carnage, Psylocke, and Cable as a new downloadable character for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. The Black Panther is a title held by the ruler of Wakanda and chieftain of the Wakandan Panther Clan. As…
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Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC Dated and Priced
The Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC package announced last week has been dated and priced for the Xbox 360 and PS3. It arrives Nov. 5 on both consoles in North America, and on Nov. 12 for the PS3 in Europe. The package will deliver five new characters – one of whom is Black Panther, it…
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Modern Warfare 2 Footage Sparks Outrage In Australia
Leaked footage of gameplay from Activision’s Modern Warfare 2 has the Australian Council on Children and the Media calling for the game’s MA15+ to be reconsidered, effectively banning it from sale. The skippable scene of terrorist atrocities in Modern Warfare 2 first came to light via leaked footage on YouTube early yesterday. News travelled quickly,…
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DJ Hero DLC Is A Tad Bit Pricey
DJ Hero is barely out the door and already there are new downloadable tracks, with 50 Cent, Queen, Gorillaz, and Public Enemy hitting Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network today – for $3.00 apiece. DJ Hero developer FreeStyleGames’ Chris Lee gave IGN the skinny on the first round of DJ Hero DLC, revealing a price…
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Reviews
DJ Hero Review: You Spin Me Right Round
Into a genre that seems determined to turn our living rooms into plastic instrument wastelands comes DJ Hero, where one turntable is all you’ll ever need. While the Guitar Hero series is all about performing music, DJ Hero is all about perfecting it. Packed together with a plastic facsimile of a turntable, the DJ’s weapon…
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Animator Says He’s Working on “GoldenEye 2010” for Wii
Grain-of-salt territory here, as it’s just one guy and his resume, but an animator named Craig Peck lists work on “GoldenEye 2010 (Wii),” spotted by – who else – SuperAnnuation. “Animator on Activision’s James Bond series for the Nintendo Wii,” is what the entry here [pdf] says. The work was done for Eurocom, responsible for…
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Analyst Slashes DJ Hero Sales Projections
Activision’s DJ Hero hits store shelves tomorrow, and it might linger there a bit longer than expected, as Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz drops sales projections for the rhythm game by more than 50%. Will hype, demo booths, and the Hero brand be enough to make DJ Hero a smash hit? Perhaps not, if…
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A Million Facebook Users Like Guitar Hero
Facebook users have been clicking on the “Become a Fan” button on Activision’s Guitar Hero page like crazy, making it the first video game franchise to gather more than a million Facebook fans. If you had any doubts about the ever-growing importance of Facebook to the game industry, look no further than today’s Activision announcement,…
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Hooks Up Cable
After a good month of watching local channels, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 finally upgrades to Cable. The son of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor, raised by Cyclops and Jean Grey in the far future, Cable would be one of the most powerful mutants in the Marvel Universe if they hadn’t dialed his powers way down…
By Mike Fahey