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Video Gaming’s List of Who’s Who and Where They Stand on SOPA
Much credit to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, for maintaining this registry of members of the Entertainment Software Association and their on-the-record positions regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill almost universally despised by rank-and-file gamers. Why is this important? The ESA, the industry’s principal lobbying arm in the United States, backs SOPA, meaning it…
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Nintendo Doesn’t Let WiiWare Self-Publishers Reveal Sales Figures
The independent publisher Icon Games Entertainment, a week ago, looked back on 2011 and counted up how many copies it had sold of games such as Bashi Blocks (pictured above) and Arcade Air Hockey. Icon’s Richard Hill-Whittall found that he’d sold 255,763 copies of games in all, a pleasant surprise given he figured they’d only…
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Electronic Arts Loses Fight for SSX Domain Name
Electronic Arts has lost its bid to win the domain “ssx.com” from a holdings firm that bought it up in October. While the holdings firm parked the domain and briefly served ads leading to the game—an action that EA used as the basis for its complaint-an arbitration panel didn’t see that as enough evidence of…
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That Jawa Looks Stoned
That Jawa Looks Stoned | Guinness’ latest record it just made up is “Largest Entertainment Voice-Over Project Ever” and, guess what, Star Wars: The Old Republic is its holder. Beats “Most Banthas Stuffed into a Phone Booth.” Gotham City Impostors‘ January Release Date Was Some Kind of Joke With the console beta test for Monolith’s…
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Indie Says Atari’s on Warpath Against iPhone Apps with ‘Even a Passing Resemblance’ to Their Old Games
Vector Tanks was around for at least three years on the iTunes App Store and looked a lot like Battlezone the whole time. It isn’t there anymore. Atari recently sent legal papers over to the game’s developer, Black Powder Media, which now warns other indie developers that “anything that has even a passing resemblance to…
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Gotham City Impostors‘ January Release Date Was Some Kind of Joke
With the console beta test for Monolith’s downloadable dose of bat on clown violence still ramping up, Warner Bros. has gently pushed the release date for Gotham City Impostors from January into February. Someone notify Julian Day! Releasing simultaneously on Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC can’t be easy, so we’ll cut the…
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Rob Duncan – Gunfight Epiphany
You probably don’t recognize the name Robert Duncan, just as you might not be aware of the cancelled FX show Terriers for which his song “Gunfight Epiphany” acted as both the opening and closing theme. These are two things I’d really like to rectify. The art of composing music for film and television is often…
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Phantom Breaker Brings a New Flavor of 3D Fighting to North America
A new contender steps into the 2D fighting ring when 7sixty brings Japanese developer 5pb. Games’ brawler Phantom Breaker to the North American Xbox 360 this spring. A mysterious organization in Japan led by someone named Phantom has organized a fighting tournament the grand prize of which is a single wish. That’s as much of…
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Behold the Awesome Power of Final Fantasy XIII-2‘s Moogle
They’re not just about floating about saying “Kupo” anymore. In Final Fantasy XIII-2, many of the game’s most important mechanics are Moogle-powered. I’m not a picky Final Fantasy fan. All I want is a lengthy adventure of some sort and an adorable little floating critter by my side at all times. So I think I’m…
By Mike Fahey
