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User Uncovers Dodgy Russian Trading Scheme… in Team Fortress 2
Steamrep forum user base64, having noticed a strange spike in transactions for a rare in-game item, decided to do a little private investigating. And uncovered some very strange happenings. Picking up on a weird increase in trades for “earbuds”, a rare item in the game, his investigations led him to discover a closed Steam group…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Rumor: 2013’s Call of Duty is Another Modern Warfare Game
According to a report on Siliconera, next year’s Call of Duty game will take place in the same universe as Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare titles. The site’s source, related to the game’s voice acting, is the same one who accurately leaked a ton of Sleeping Dogs info over a year before that game’s release, so…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Kixeye Thinks Zynga is After Its Trade Secrets, Files Cross-Complaint Against Social Gaming’s Minivan
Look at that face. It’s the face of Kixeye chairman and CEO Will Harbin. That is a face that means business. Now imagine it saying “Claiming that (Zynga’s) failed business practices could inform ours further establishes their complete lack of understanding of the gaming business.” And then he orders their execution. Last month Zynga filed…
By Mike Fahey Published November 14, 2012 -
Behold The Cosmic, Comic Beauty Of The World
I don’t quite know how to describe this alternately beautiful, sad, funny, stupid, and transcendant video, so I’ll just leave it here. Its author, Travis Green, prefaces it on Reddit thusly: “I made this after smoking 3.5 marijuanas. Don’t do drugs.” Yeah, pretty much. Go ahead and give it a watch, if you’re in the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 14, 2012 -
Unsuccessful Nintendo Counterfeiter Gets Almost Three Years in the Slammer
A counterfeiter who made about £600,000 selling cartridges and discs loaded with pirated Nintendo games will do at least a year of hard time in the U.K. after being sentenced last Friday. Justin Success-Brooks—turns out Success is not his middle name, just part of his hyphenated last name—got a 28-month prison sentence that will likely…
By Owen Good Published November 14, 2012 -
ArenaNet Adds ‘Ascended Gear’ To Guild Wars 2, Upset Players Grab Their Pitchforks
Oh, you like that Exotic weapon you’ve got? Yeah, but is it Ascended? That’s the name of the newest sort of gear in Guild Wars 2, another addition to extend the MMO’s endgame and give hardcore players more to do in the already gigantic game. In a new post at the ArenaNet website, ArenaNet’s Linsey…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 14, 2012 -
The fifth and final episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead game comes out next week. There will likely be emotions.
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 14, 2012 -
What’s Going on With NBA 2K13‘s Roster Update?
The state of NBA 2K13‘s roster update has been uncommonly bad to date. In the most recent episode of the Press Row Podcast, Operation Sports’ normally placid Steve Noah needed bleeping when discussing the slowness and inaccuracy of the update. “There’s been three players added in the latest update,” Steve said, in a podcast recorded…
By Owen Good Published November 14, 2012 -
This Company Will Make Real-Life Miniatures Out Of Your Minecraft World
If you’ve played Minecraft, chances are you’ve built something so cool that you wish you could immortalize it and put it on your mantle. Thankfully, there’s Figureprints, a company who in the past have recreated your Xbox 360 avatars and World of Warcraft characters. Now, you can export you favorite Minecraft creations and they’ll make…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 14, 2012 -
Lucasfilm Wants to Make “Two or Three” Movies a Year. That’s a Lot of Star Wars.
The next Star Wars movie, Episode VII, is just the tip of a money-coloured iceberg Disney plans to harvest in the wake of its takeover of the franchise from George Lucas. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Lucas’ anointed successor, Kathleen Kennedy, says that the company wants to produce “two or three films a year”, which aside…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Metacritic Refuses To Pull Negative Review That GameSpot Admits Was Factually Inaccurate
If you head on over to the Metacritic page for Natural Selection 2, you might notice something strange. Of the seven reviews listed, only one is scored below an 80. Also, it doesn’t actually exist. Last week, GameSpot reviews editor Kevin VanOrd pulled his site’s review of Natural Selection 2. The review, scored 60/100 and…
By Jason Schreier Published November 14, 2012 -
Valve Blocks ‘Slenderman’ Game From Steam Due To Copyright Concerns
See here, the official teaser for Faceless, a game previously known as Slender: Source. It’s got a complicated lineage: inspired by another game which was in turn inspired by an internet meme Despite popularity on Valve’s new Steam “Greenlight” crowdsourced game initiative, Faceless can’t get itself onto Steam. Joystiq takes a look in a new…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 14, 2012 -
Real Names in Games Mean More Money for the NCAA, Executive Argued
Five years ago, an NCAA executive said EA Sports should be allowed to use actual names of its amateur athletes—commanding a higher licensing fee as a result—because players’ likenesses were “rigged into the games now by illegal means.” Permitting their use would clear up the matter and bring more money to the NCAA, he said.…
By Owen Good Published November 14, 2012 -
EA says it has “no reason to believe there has been any intrusion into our Origin database.”
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2012 -
Splinter Cell Movie Is Happening, Tom Hardy Starring as Sam Fisher
Assassin’s Creed isn’t the only movie that Ubisoft wants to get to the silver screen as soon as possible. Rumors from earlier this year that Ubisoft was looking at making a Splinter Cell movie appear to have been well-founded, according to Variety. And what’s more, the movie’s got a star. British actor Tom Hardy is…
By Kate Cox Published November 14, 2012 -
Judge GTA IV‘s Graphics Against GTA V’s With These Incredibly Accurate Screenshot Comparisons
Who would go through such a painstaking process to recreate the poses and action of some of Grand Theft Auto V‘s screenshots, courtesy of Game Informer? RomanBOY123 would, apparently. He put GTA IV on max settings on his PC (1920×1080 resolution, with HD tree mods) and came up with some amazingly accurate screenshots to match…
By Tina Amini Published November 14, 2012 -
This Dog Does Not Like Skyrim‘s Dragons
When I was growing up, my dog, like most dogs, didn’t like thunder. I bet she wouldn’t have liked the dragons in Skyrim, either. This image of “Maggie,” tweeted by Skyrim-makers Bethesda, shows a dog reacting quite viscerally to, we have to assume, a charging winged beast in Skyrim Now that I’ve bumped up the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 14, 2012 -
Love Minimalist Pop Culture Iconography? Here is Your Free iPhone Game
If you look at a red and black square with two white dots and immediately think “Mickey Mouse”, then Icon Pop Quiz is for you. Reducing beloved pop culture characters, television shows and movies into simple colored squares is officially a thing, and where there’s an official thing there’s a game. In this case it’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 14, 2012 -
I May Not Be A Fan Of Halo 4‘s Spartan Ops, But I Sure Do Love The Episodes That Come With It
So far, I only like Halo 4‘s mission-based Spartan Ops mode in theory. A new episode every week? Wait, every week? Amazing, I love the dedication. The missions, on the other hand, have so far been boring and bland and monotonous. Fortunately the episodes that come with them are, like the game itself, gorgeous. So…
By Tina Amini Published November 14, 2012