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Leland Yee Has More Black Friday Shopping Tips For You
Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee was unsuccessful in getting his anti-video game law to remain the supreme law of the land of California—when the Supreme Court smacks down something 7-to-2 with Justices Scalia and Ginsburg agreeing, you know that was one rancidly unconstitutional piece of work. So he’s back with another handy set of Black…
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I Am Alive’s Creator Does Just About Everything He Can to Piss Off PC Gamers in Explaining Why They Don’t Get a Version of the Game
Here’s a heartwarming tale full of good holiday cheer. In an interview with IncGamers, Stanislas Mettra, the creative director behind Ubisoft’s thought-provoking survival tale I Am Alive said chances of a PC port are about zero because a) um, piracy and b) lol, nobody buys PC games anymore. U mad? Oh, it gets better, Mettra…
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The Sounds of The Show Come from the Minor Leagues
When Sony San Diego Studio needs to build a new major league ballpark for MLB The Show, they go to that ballpark, take hundreds of measurements and images, and spend about four months constructing it in the game. When they need new sounds you hear at that ballpark, they go to a minor league field.…
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Trine 2 will Feature Cross-Platform Multiplayer for PC and Mac
Trine 2 is getting both a Mac and a PC version, and developer Frozenbyte is going to see if they can play together nicely. The Steamworks version of the game will offer cross-platform multiplayer support, the studio said in a news release. A newly released Mac beta, available to all who preorder the game, will…
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It’s Mario Kart 7, not Mario Kart 3DS, Because 7’s a Lucky Number
Mario’s debut on the 3DS was, appropriately, called Super Mario 3D Land. And never in the series 19-year history has the game had a numbered sequel (well, technically there’s Mario Kart 64, but it was not the 64th game in the series.) So why is the franchise’s 3DS version, due out in North America next…
By Owen Good
