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EA: No Online Pass for Syndicate
Not all Electronic Arts-published games will be given the Project $10/ Online Pass treatment. Rather than slap Syndicate with a one-use code that unlocks the game’s multiplayer features, EA will keep such access free, to grow interest in the shooter’s co-op mode it says. Syndicate is being published by EA Partners, meaning it doesn’t own…
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Simpsons! Simpsons Arcade Here!—Oh, You Get the Idea …
Konami has confirmed that the beloved beat-em-up The Simpsons Arcade is coming to consoles, and sooner than you expected. Not only does it get here, like, Friday (on Xbox Live), it’ll be available free to PlayStation Plus subscribers when PSN gets it on Tuesday Feb. 7. For those who don’t get it free, The Simpsons…
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Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants Anti-Bullying Tax on Video Games
“Violent video games,” a governmental classification of speech and expression that the Supreme Court found a smidge troubling last June, would be taxed extra under a proposed law in Oklahoma, with the collected money going toward state programs fighting bullying and child obesity. Here we go again. William Fourkiller, Democrat of Stillwell, Okla., proposed a…
By Owen Good
