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So Another Hall-of-Famer Sued EA Sports. Should Video Gamers Care?
As multiple lawsuits have been brought in multiple venues by multiple former college athletes—some of whom are actually more recognizable as professional stars—I’ve tried to pull back to the big picture of what really faces video gamers and (principally) EA Sports in the parade of litigation over unauthorized use of likenesses in sports video games.…
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AT&T Giving Uverse Subscribers $60 to Go Buy Xbox Live Gold
Wednesday, Microsoft announced that more than 40 providers had signed on to deliver TV programming to Xbox Live. One of those, AT&T, has been supplying content through its Uverse service for about a year, where it’s been available to free subscribers. Now it will completely transition to Xbox Live Gold. Therefore, AT&T is giving its…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Requires a ‘Permanent Internet Connection’
Mandatory constant Internet connections piss off PC gamers. No studio can has yet put that news in any light that didn’t summon an extremely indignant reaction. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2‘s tried to put it in a different light by saying the constant connection is how players will be served actual game content. Like missions. That does not…
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Easter Egg Gives Breaking Bad a Cameo in Rage
Appropriately enough, the season four finale of Breaking Bad is on AMC tomorrow night. You may recall that, in late August, Rage made a strange cameo in the meth-slinging drama, in which someone plays the game with a light gun. Well, Rage has returned the favor with a Breaking Bad prop cameo of its own.…
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They Think I Do Not Know a Buttload of Crap About the Gospel, but I Do
Orphans! Listen to Ignacio. I know it is fun to wrestle. A nice piledrive to the face, or a punch to the face, but you cannot do it. Because it is in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor. Software • Tuesday, Oct. 11 release Forza 4 regular 360 game comes with $10 eGift Card…
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Co-Op Multiplayer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Arrives Oct. 25
“Exterminatus,” the late-addition cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, will release Oct. 25, publisher THQ said today. It had originally been scheduled for an “early October” release. Exterminatus has two maps, and lets up to four players take control of a Space Marine in what’s essentially a Horde match, fighting wave after wave of…
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L.A. Noire Studio Owes $1 Million to Employees—and a Quarter of That Is Claimed by the Boss
Team Bondi, the Australian studio that saved the worst year of its existence for the one in which it finally delivered L.A. Noire, owes its employees more than $1 million, according to papers filed in the studio’s liquidation. It’s a fitting epitaph for an outfit slagged over the summer for shady employment practices and insider…
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Bulletstorm’s Creator Says All the Cussin’ was ‘A Bit More Than We Really Wanted’
Bulletstorm, released in February, is probably still 2011’s most foul-mouthed game. It may be 2012’s most foul-mouthed game, too. It popularized the term “dicktits” after all. Adrian Chmielarz, the creative director at Poland-based People Can Fly, tells the latest edition of Game Developer magazine that he didn’t know just how much swearing was going on…
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There Will Be No Backbreaker 2 as Its Studio is Moving Away from Console Gaming
Backbreaker‘s small but extremely passionate following got some bad, but not really unexpected news. “Unfortunately, and unofficially, it is very unlikely that we will revisit [Backbreaker]/full-on football again,” the game’s lead developer told a forum member. What’s more, Todd Gibbs told the forum user that “the company has changed direction and is currently not looking…
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Build This Woman a Minecraft Palace and She’ll Live With You Forever
If you build it, there’s a chance you might meet her. Actress / comedian Kristen Schaal wants you to show her how beautiful Minecraft on the Xperia Play can be. In exchange, you might just get to find out how adorable she is up close. And suddenly I wish I had an Xperia Play. The…
By Mike Fahey
