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Battlefield‘s Taken a Piece of Call of Duty‘s Pie, Says Peter Moore
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 left an inch-deep bootprint on video gaming’s biggest retail month, and dominated most measures the popular press use to designate big-game-itude. Yet Peter Moore, the Electronic Arts chief operating officer, is insisting his label’s Battlefield 3 drew blood from the year’s biggest commercial release. “I think when the dust…
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There Are No Brunettes in “Miyamoto’s Angels”
This four-star send-up by The Game Station is clever any day of the week, and especially timely given whatever the hell it was that just took place in the past 24 hours. This is “Miyamoto’s Angels” and, lo and behold, all three are blondes, so I can’t easily identify which one is supposed to be…
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Closed Multiplayer Beta on Tap for UFC Undisputed 3
UFC Undisputed 3, which releases on Valentine’s Day, will get a closed pre-release beta, according to the game’s producer and a THQ representative. Though no other details are available, given the online difficulties faced by THQ’s WWE 12, it’s widely assumed this will cover the game’s multiplayer features. Console betas in sports titles, whether closed…
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Report: Next Dead Rising Stars a Mechanic, Deals with Illegal Immigration
First there was Frank, then there was Chuck. Now, in the next Dead Rising, there’s Rick, a mechanic holding out against the zombie apocalypse in Los Perdidos. That is according to an unnamed source speaking today to Siliconera. The info follows Capcom’s vaguest of teases, on the game’s official Facebook page, suggesting that series protagonist…
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A Million Bucks Up for Grabs as EA Sports’ Tournaments Move to the PS3
Competitive Madden gaming, for the better part of a decade, typically involved a weekend of long drives, cheap hotel stays, and lots of standing, sitting and sometimes sleeping on ugly convention center carpet. It fairly assured that only the diehards and elites would show up for preliminary rounds. Well, not anymore. Virgin Gaming is bringing…
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BBC Leaks Doctor Who Teaser for PS3, Vita, PC
A Doctor Who video game is being developed for PS3 and PlayStation Vita, according to a teaser trailer that the BCC evidently published prematurely, then removed, on Thursday. Entitled Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, the text accompanying the video said that “Gamers can take on the role of the Doctor and River Song as they…
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This Nintendo Download Brought to You By Pushmo
There might not have even been a Nintendo Download post today if not for the brave efforts of Pushmo, Intelligent Systems’ endlessly entertaining block jumping game for the Nintendo 3DS. The rest of this week’s games can go straight to hell. With the big Nintendo 3DS system update dropping on Tuesday I really wasn’t expecting…
By Mike Fahey
