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Double Fine’s Kickstarter Funding Nearly Matches Grim Fandango‘s Budget
With about two days to go on its jaw-dropping Kickstarter campaign, Double Fine’s next adventure game has acquired $2.7 million in grassroots backing from fans like you. Double Fine’s Tim Schafer provides a little perspective on the size of the kitty. “Um, people… three million dollars… that was the budget of Grim Fandango!” Schafer tweeted…
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So, There’s a Fan Campaign to Change the Ending of Mass Effect 3
My opinion of Internet petitions remains unchanged: They are worth the paper they are printed on. (Hint: They are not printed on paper.) They’re a manifestation of the distorted expectation—cultivated in grade school—that First Amendment rights extend to your relationship with a private business. That said, there’s a particularly amusing poll out there, gathering 20,000…
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Alan Wake’s Boxed Edition Gets a Release Date
After extending a collector’s edition launch on Steam by a week, Remedy Entertainment has found a publisher for the boxed edition of its Alan Wake release for the PC. Legacy Interactive will distribute the game and release it in North America on April 3. The boxed edition wil also include “The Writer” and “The Signal”…
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Part of Mass Effect‘s Controversial Day-One DLC is on the Disc, Video Alleges [UPDATE]
The fury will not abate over Mass Effect 3‘s “From Ashes” extension, a downloadable content package available on the day it was released (and within the game’s collector’s edition). A user has produced a video alleging that one of the characters available in the DLC is actually on the disc. [UPDATE] This story should have…
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Title Stripped from Pokémon Champion Who Crapped in Hotel Hallway
Two-time Pokémon champion Ruben Puig Lecegui was stripped of his his title at the United Kingdom Video Game Championship following a scandal in which he and members of his team are accused of leaving their hotel rooms to take a shit in the hall “According to several eyewitness acounts,” reports the site Pokébeach, Lecegui and…
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Madden Effect
This week, Newegg sent customers copies of Madden NFL 12 instead of Mass Effect 3. Whoops! Hey, they both begin with the letter M and are published by Electronic Arts, right? That gives me an idea … What if this really was the game they were supposed to receive? By that I mean a you-got-peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Connor honed his assassin’s skill as an army surgeon, apparently. Good morning, and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. Feel free to discuss anything on the subject of video games in our comments below. If you’ve got a good idea and the skills, take a shot at whipping up a #TAYpic. Post your masterpieces in…
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Kart-ography: The Winners
A lifelike and life-size Mario Kart was the number one exploitable for the ‘Shop Contest this past week, We’ve got 20 winners inside, plus sciteach’s homage to one of the greatest driving sequences ever filmed. beans4028 blueTunic Brandon0151 Crinjin DarkNemesis25 GiantBoyDetective Gyaruson 2.0 halfbeast IndispensableNobody jersalv1 laxbenderman Nude_Eskimo pan1da7 Pedro Silva razrjab sciteach Snufkin TEL9021…
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The Saints’ Bounties Are Nothing New—to Video Games, Anyway
When something happens in real life sports, my first instinct is to see if I can replicate it in a video game. It’s partly why they exist, after all. But the New Orleans Saints’ infamous “bounty” system, which paid premiums to players who delivered devastating hits, would seem to be beyond the means of a…
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Whatever the Hell ‘Full Contact Bingo’ is, EA’s Trademarked It
Weekends were made for trademark applications, and Electronic Arts went to the trouble of filing to protect “Full Contact Bingo,” reports trademark/domain hawk Fusible. It’s definitely for a video game, per the terms of the application. What form it takes, who knows. Odds are this would be a Facebook game. If it’s a downloadable console…
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‘Stop Thinking You’re a Producer,’ Former Mass Effect Designer Tells Gamers
Christina Norman worked for BioWare on Mass Effect. She’s with Riot Games now. But she must have felt pangs of sympathy when BioWare got raked by gamer complaints about day-one DLC in Mass Effect 3. Because she basically gave them a double-barreled middle finger in a rant at GDC. “There’s no point in releasing DLC…
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Trine 2 Gets Six New Stages in DLC Release This Summer
Frozenbyte, the makers of Trine 2, informed the site XBLA Fans at GDC that the game will be getting six new stages plus other content in downloadable content to arrive this summer. The package will also include a new story and new character skills. Frozenbyte’s Mikael Haveri said fans should expect plenty of puzzles. Additionally,…
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Bethesda Settles Lawsuit with Mojang, Whose Next Game Can Be Called Scrolls
Over Twitter, Mojang founder and Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson said his company and Bethesda Softworks reached a settlement in their trademark dispute over Scrolls, the name Mojang has chosen for its next game. “The settlement is that we give them the trademark, get to keep the name, and won’t make an Elder Scrolls competitor…
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Even if the Audio is Faked, Fat Mega Man’s Street Fighter X Tekken Ending is Just … Bizarre
The guy who uploaded this admits the audio is dubbed over, but he says that it’s the English sound file from the the on-disc DLC of Street Fighter X Tekken This is the ending for Original Box Art Mega Man, who releases (with Pac-Man) for free on Tuesday, and he name-checks two major publishers, including…
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