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Longtime Madden Producer Leaves the Team
Phil Frazier, a 13-year veteran of EA Sports and the executive producer for the label’s flagship Madden NFL title, is leaving the company, Kotaku has learned. Frazier’s departure follows by two months that of Ian Cummings, the series’ former creative director and himself a 10-year veteran of the project. Madden NFL 12 is due for…
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Why Nintendo Went Back to White for the Wii U
Launching in a white case five years ago, the Wii has seen a special edition release in red, and currently is available in black. Its successor, Wii U, goes back to white. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto says the design choice is so people won’t think the console is kid’s stuff. Miyamoto, speaking to Game Informer said…
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The Awesome LEGO BioShock Playset We Wish We Had When We Were Kids
This is, basically, a multistage BioShock playset, in LEGO spanning the game’s opening plane crash, to the lighthouse and to the Medical Pavilion and beyond. It is fantastic, the work of Imagine Rigney at MOCpages, built for Chicago’s Brickworld 2011 expo and noticed today by the gang at Irrational Games. There are many, many more…
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Nicktoons MLB is More Than The Bigs for Little Kids
At E3, I visited the 2K Games booth every day of the show. Every day I went there, I saw these two guys from High Voltage Software in the 2K “Sports Bar,” sitting in easy chairs, playing Nicktoons MLB. As far as I know, it was all they did all day. After playing it with…
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This Chiptune American Bandstand has a Good Beat, You Can Dance to It
It’s hard explaining why syndicated dance party shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train were compelling television, unless you grew up in that analog era that predated VCRs, cable TV (in some stubborn households) and goddamn for sure the Internet. If we used classic game soundtracks, now it becomes something listenable, if not watchable, and…
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