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Spec Ops: The Line Multiplayer Pits Brother Against Brother Against Sand
How refreshing is it to have a tactical shooter set in Dubai without one side having to be some sort of terrorists? It’s The Exiles versus The Damned in Spec Ops: The Line‘s online multiplayer sandbox. Not that Spec Ops: The Line is a giant, open-world free-roaming experience. In this case sandbox actually means boxes…
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Iowa Journalism School Adds Video Games Writing to Curriculum
This fall, the University of Iowa’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication will offer a course in writing about video games and reporting on the industry. “My idea is that everyone can learn from video games,” Kyle Moody, the course’s instructor and a teaching assistant in the journalism school, told The Daily Iowan, the independent…
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Report: Prey 2 Studio Hasn’t Worked on the Game Since November
There’s a good reason Prey 2 has been delayed to 2013, as announced today. It’s because its development studio hasn’t worked on the game since November, according to an anonymous source speaking to Shacknews. The reason for that? Human Head, the developer “was not happy with the terms its contract with [publisher] ZeniMax,” reports Shacknews,…
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The Kotaku Mixtape Vol 6: SimCity and Beyond
If you’re reading this, you probably wasted hours and hours of your youth on Simcity 2000. Chances are you also know the weird, off-beat soundtrack by heart. But in the 90’s, Will Wright’s Sim Franchise was massive, and SimCity 2000 was only one one game in a series that spanned subjects like healthcare reform and…
By Chris Person
