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French Court Declares Namco Bandai the European Distributor of Xbox Witcher 2
Earlier this year Polish developer CD Projekt Red got into a legal scuffle with Namco Bandai over the distribution rights to the Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Now a French court has made it quite clear: THQ is out, and Namco Bandai is in. Despite having had Namco Bandai handle…
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The Adventures of Tintin and the Poor to Passable Review Scores
One of the most popular comic strips in Europe is now a major motion picture, and where there is a major motion picture based on a comic strip, there is a video game tie-in. Generally they aren’t very good. Can Tintin save the day? The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn tells the…
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The Plagues of Egypt Make An Encore Appearance in The Secret World
With all of Earth’s conspiracy, mythology, and theology at their fingertips Funcom has a broad spectrum of horrible things to visit upon the players on modern day MMO The Secret World. In the Scorched Desert of Egypt, things get biblical. If those are the locusts, I don’t want to see the frogs. Rather than leaning…
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Serious Sam 3: BFE Serves Pirates a Heaping Helping of Giant Immortal Scorpion
I’ve played quite a bit of the latest entry in Croteam’s twitchtastic first-person shooter series, but I never encountered the super-speedy giant unkillable pink spider creature in the first level. Know why? Because my copy isn’t pirated. In order to curb rampant pc game piracy, developer Croteam purposefully included a bug (hee) in Serious Sam…
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The Final 2011 Kotaku Game Club Starts Tomorrow, So Hopefully You’ve been Playing Zelda
Welcome gamers, to the next session of the Kotaku Game Club. In October, we played an Xbox-exclusive game, and in November we played a PS3 exclusive, so now it’s time for the Nintendo players to get a chance to get in on the fun. I’m happy to announce to that we’ll be playing Legend of…
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$100 Million Lawsuit Against Game-Bouncing Beyonce Proceeds
Attempts to have the $100 million lawsuit brought by game developer Gate Five against singer Beyonce for abandoning a project to create a music game featuring her work have been thwarted by judge Charles Ramos of the Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday. The singer’s pull out cost reportedly resulted in the loss of 70 jobs…
By Mike Fahey
