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See The GLAAD On Games Panel For Yourself
If your Kotaku comment made it into the talking points of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation panel a couple of weeks ago, this video immortalizes your screen name. Even if you weren’t one of the chosen few, you can still get a lot from watching what went on at the panel. I pulled…
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Buy The Summer Of Arcade, Get $10 Back
Microsoft wants to pay you $10 for purchasing all five of the games showcased in this year’s Summer of Arcade promotion. U.S. Xbox 360 owners who shell out the 5600 Microsoft Points necessary to net them Splosion Man, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Turtles in Time Re-shelled, Trials HD, and Shadow Complex between now and August…
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Bethesda Guy: Here’s Who Can Afford Bungie’s Non-Halo IP
Ashley Cheng, the production director at Bethesda Game Studios, posted on his personal blog a back-of-the-envelope guess at which publishers might take up Bungie’s next, non-Halo game. Hint, one of the candidates rhymes with “Shmesmesda.” Based on recent reports, Cheng says, “Bungie only owes Microsoft two more games and they’re done. Halo ODST and Reach…
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South Park Tower Defense’s Working Titles Sucked
While South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! is a long title for the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game, some of the working titles were even more of a mouthful. Snowballing, anyone? At the “Save South Park One Snowball At A Time” panel at Comic-Con yesterday, South Park Digital’s Chris Brion explained how the tower…
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Bungie Says It’s ‘Close’ to Signing New IP Deal
Earlier this week, Bungie’s Lars Bakken strongly implied that Halo: Reach would be the last Bungie-made Halo title. Bakken now suggests that the studio is close to getting a publisher for its new, non-Halo IP. Says Bakken to Eurogamer: I think internally we’ll know sometime soon. I don’t handle these things, but I’d imagine we’re…
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Footage Leaked of XBL Avatar Golf Game?
Four user videos up on Gametrailers show what looks like an avatar-based golf game for the Xbox 360. From the footage it looks like the project is still under development. But with Xbox Live releasing Joy Ride – an avatar-based racing game – it’s not out of the realm of possibility they’d do something like…
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Xbox Division Sees 66 Percent Slide in ’09 Profit Despite 11 Million Units Shipped
Microsoft’s Xbox division booked an eye-popping 66 percent drop in profit for the 2009 fiscal year, reflecting a terrible economy and mirroring steep declines across all of the software behemoth’s business segments. For the fiscal year, Microsoft’s revenue from the Xbox 360 and from PC gaming was down $161 million, which the company mainly attributed…
By Owen Good