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Which One Is Worse?
At this point, after 17 days with no end in sight, it’s fair to ask the question. the PlayStation Network Outage, or the Xbox 360’s Red Ring of Death: Which is worse? Let’s leave aside the data breach, though it is one of the largest in history, and is the feature of this disaster that…
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Should Video Game Retailers Screen Their Employees for Fanboyism?
Should video game store employees be allowed to let their personal preferences influence which products they suggest? That’s the question commenter Uncle Jesse asks in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Fanboys are everywhere, but do some of you who work at retail shops and try to influence your customers? Just because you love something, doesn’t…
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The Smithsonian Has Picked the Games of Its Art of Video Games Exhibit
The Smithsonian American Art Museum revealed the winners of its public vote to decide what games will be featured in their exhibit, The Art of Video Games, today. The exhibit creates a visual history of the evolution of gaming from its humble beginnings through the present. The vote, which took place between February and April,…
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Microsoft’s Execrable “Clippy” Returns in Gamified Office Tutorial
Microsoft Word’s loathsome Clippy, the Crazy Crab of application mascots, is making a comeback. Yes, really. Killed off in 2007, Microsoft is now using him as the tutorial host introducing you to the wonders of the latest round of whatever useless bloatware they’re heaping on Office. Ribbon Hero 2: Clippy’s Second Chance – a video…
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Cliffy B Implies No Master Chief/Gears Crossover Because Microsoft is ‘Kind of Squeamish’
Epic Games characters have appeared into other games before – Lost Planet 2, for example. The studio’s willing to consider any reasonable tie-in with its own games, too, so you’re not the first to wonder how awesome it’d be to have a Master Chief skin in Gears of War The problem, as Epic Games design…
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Telltale Plans More Episodic Adventure on the Xbox 360
Aside from the first two Sam and Max seasons and its CSI games, Xbox 360 adventure game fans have been missing out on Telltale’s particular brand of episodic fun. No longer! Today Telltale reveals that it has signed an Xbox 360 publisher licensing agreement with Microsoft, collecting the final piece of a set that already…
By Mike Fahey
