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Nintendo Seeks to Patent the Massively Singleplayer Online Game
Back in 2010, Nintendo filed a patent application for something called a “massively single-playing online game,” something whose interactions don’t take place in real time and what sounds a little Animal Crossing-ish (above). According to GameSpot, which found the filing, the MSO(?) would be an environment where players’ actions and choices affect the world they…
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From Snot-Shooting to Eyeball Eating, The Best Gaming Apps of the Week
Shooting your own mucus at phlegm-hungry monsters? Destroying ice sculptures with multicolored bombs? Attacking a dolphin-headed mad scientist from the inside? It’s definitely time for this week’s Gaming App of the Day round-up. It was a week filled with the sort of touchy-feely games you’ll only find on today’s advanced mobile gaming devices, otherwise known…
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Does This Sound Like the Year 2027 to You?
To capture the sound of the year 2027 for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Eidos Montreal recruited a man with hair so glorious the music composer had to be bald to balance it out. While the graphics folks are busy working on textures and such, the sound folks are busy trying to create the aural identity…
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Is Iron Wolf the Next Call of Duty?
A pair of hackers that gained access to the Xbox account of a Treyarch employee believes they’ve stumbled across the next entry in the Call of Duty series, code named Iron Wolf. Are they on to something? The Iron Wolf speculation comes after hackers gained access to the Xbox Live account of an internal PartnerNet…
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The Next Katrina Could Make You a Winner
Every year between June and November the North Atlantic is subjected to some of the harshest weather on the planet. Hurricanes and tropical storms takes lives, ruin homes, and have been known to commit large portions of poorly-fortified cities to the briny deep. Predicting these destructive forces of nature is no game, only now it…
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It’s Moogle Magic Time in Final Fantasy XIII-2
As far as I’m concerned it’s always Moogle time, but the phrase takes on new meaning in Final Fantasy XIII-2 When a monster appears on the playfield in Final Fantasy XIII-2 a Mog Clock pops up on the screen, granting the player various bonuses based on how long it takes them to make contact with…
By Mike Fahey