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MLB 2K‘s Perfect Game Challenge is Back Under New—and, One Hopes, Exploit-Proof—Rules
The Perfect Game Challenge offered by the Major League Baseball 2K series, tainted by allegations of cheating and rules loopholes last year, returns under a new format this time, its fourth in as many years. Though the million-dollar prize pool is still the same size, it will now divide the loot among 30 overall winners,…
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Electronic Arts Turned Down the Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden, Says Report
Esquire’s fascinating profile of the SEAL Team Six member who killed Osama bin Laden, and his struggles to adapt to civilian life, churned up this intriguing detail: the shooter wanted to consult on Medal of Honor: Warfighter, but Electronic Arts turned him down. Now, EA didn’t know the shooter (who is not named in the…
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This iPad App Puts Discworld’s Finest City at Your Fingertips. I’d Wear Gloves.
“There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it’s wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along the wrong way.” That’s pretty much all you need to know about the central city of Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld books, but if you’re still ill-advisedly curious, there’s now an interactive…
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Galaxy on Fire Strategically Goes Massively Multiplayer
The premiere mobile space sim, Galaxy on Fire and its sequel have pleased countless fans of Privateer-style combat and trading. Now German developer Fishlabs Entertainment prepares to open up the universe to colonization in Galaxy on Fire: Alliances Set in a remote corner of the Galaxy on Fire universe, Alliances is a free-to-play massively multiplayer…
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For Once, a Politician Defends Games, Saying They’re Not the Cause of Violence
The drill is familiar: a lawmaker goes on a newsmaker show, puts on a Real Serious Face, is teed up some opportunity to tell everyone that scary scary video games bear some responsibility for America’s love affair with gun massacres. Well, that wasn’t the drill yesterday on Fox News Sunday. Not for Rep. Nancy Pelosi.…
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Parkour-Powered Vector Races Gracefully to Android
Nekki Games’ stylish free-running platformer Vector is one of the coolest games on Facebook. In December it became one of the coolest games on iOS, and now it’s one of the coolest games on Android. Funny how that works. Vector for Android brings the smooth and sexy silhouette parkour action of the Facebook and iOS…
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Chinese Actress Claims To Be Super Gamer, Supposedly Plays 5 Different Games Simultaneously
Chinese actress Li Xiao Ran (李小冉）is known for many things in China; she’s famous for her roles on both the big screen and the TV screen as well as her prowess as a dancer. The one thing that she really isn’t known for is being a gamer, and now she’s out to change that. Best…
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Terrible 19-Year-Old Threatens Suicide To Get Money For In-Game Equipment
Previously we’ve translated a report about a young woman in China threatening suicide after receiving a fake iPhone—well now, there’s a young Chinese man in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, threatening to commit suicide over video game equipment. Late last month, 19 year-old Zhou (same surname as me!) wanted to buy a set of equipment for an…
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Notorious Chinese Hacker Caught After Extorting Game Company
Last Thursday, a notorious Chinese hacker was arrested in Qingdao, Shangdong province. The hacker, a 24-year-old surnamed Zhang, has been plaguing many Chinese internet companies over the last year. iFeng.com reports that Zhang was arrested in an internet cafe in Qingdao, doing the very thing that made him a criminal: using other people’s money to…
By Eric Jou
