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Too Human is Worth, Oh, a Few Bucks, Says Judge
The great Silicon Knights-Epic Games slapfight is at last underway in a courtroom, but already a judge has suggested that even if the maker of Too Human wins, it could lose. He’s said that the damages up for grabs are $1. That’s because Silicon Knights failed to provide him with a timely, or acceptable, itemization…
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Need to Go Nuts Building an Online Shooter? ShootMania Might Be For You.
The first official trailer for Ubisoft first-person shooter Shootmania has arrived. ShootMania: Storm comes from French team Nadeo, who were behind the TrackMania games. They share a premise of heavy player modification, letting players design levels and maps. The heavily customizable, multiplayer online shooter is a PC exclusive scheduled for a release later this year.…
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Here’s Tebow Tebowing—and Victor Cruz Salsa Dancing—in Madden NFL 13
On Friday, Mike Young, the creative director for Madden NFL 13 revealed that the game would feature the notorious “Tebowing” posture, whose namesake drops to one knee in a solemn and evidently religious celebration. Operation Sports today published the first screenshot of what that would look like. In fact, they said it came on a…
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A Terrible Decision Created MLB 2K—But It Also Brought Us BioShock
The mythology built up around Major League Baseball 2K is that the game could not do anything right. Eight-figure losses and terrible review scores every year are, yes, terminal deficiencies. But its pitching and hitting mechanisms forced the dominant MLB The Show to respond with weak revisions to its controls, and MLB Today—when it worked—was…
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Activision-Bungie Contract Has Rules About Everything, Even Easter Eggs
The ongoing legal saga between Activision and former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vincent Zampella continues to bring all sorts of once-secret documents to light. We already learned that Bungie’s 2010 contract with Activision guarantees the delivery of four “sci-fantasy” shooter games, called Destiny. But what other details are hiding in that 27-page contract?…
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My Entire Diablo III Play Through in Under Five Minutes
Last week I played through the entire story of Diablo III with my Demon Hunter. It took me some 15 hours. Now you can watch the entire thing a little over four and a half minutes. Taking a cue from what our own Kate Cox did while playing through Mass Effect 3 (see below), for…
By Mike Fahey
