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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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
