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Michael J. Fox Voicing Two Characters in Back to the Future Finale
Michael J. Fox will lend his voice to the fifth and final chapter of Telltale Games’ Back to the Future adventure, but we didn’t know he’d be supplying the voices of two characters. Telltale’s creative director, Dave Grossman, confirmed the dual appearance during a preview of Telltale’s coming work at E3 2011. Grossman wouldn’t say…
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South Park Presses Square for Doubt on L.A. Noire
Fresh from the vivisection they performed on EA Sports and Peter Moore (which Moore himself quoted on our Twitter feed Thursday), the kids of South Park turned their attention to L.A. Noire in Thursday night’s episode, in which Stan battles chronic cynicsm—aka “Internet commenter’s syndrome.” We can see its more tragic manifestations here in Stan’s…
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Phishing Threat Closes European Club Nintendo
Nintendo today sent a message to members of its European website saying that a potential phishing threat prompted the company to close down portions of the site, including Club Nintendo “The protection of our customers is our utmost priority and so we have taken the precaution of immediately shutting down some parts of this website…
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Triple Crowns are Not Uncommon
The Belmont Stakes runs today, and while there has not been a Triple Crown winner in horse racing since 1978, nor a triple crown winner in Major League Baseball’s hitting categories (batting average, runs batted in, home runs) since 1967, we have seen six triple crowns over the past decade. They’ve just been in a…
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Eventually, all Microsoft Games will Employ Kinect
For Microsoft, the E3 2011 recipe read much like E3 2010’s—Kinect, and lots of it. The head of Microsoft’s Game Studios noted the company’s focus on the device and said at some time in the future, all first-party games from the Xbox 360 maker will include Kinect support. “It’s not a mandate that everything we…
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Mission Critical Deals
Two actors pose atop vintage armor in the World of Tanks display outside the Los Angeles Convention Center’s South Hall at E3 2011. Image by Isaac Viel. Sorry folks, no snappy film quotes today, just this badass pic to get us back on track coming out of the big week at E3. On with the…
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UFC Undisputed 3 Seeks a Bid to Fighting Game Tournaments
UFC Undisputed may be a sports simulation, but the series has roots in fighting games, says the game’s producer, and UFC 3 will pay tribute to those roots when the game releases in January. Developer Yuke’s Future Media Creators told me at E3 that the point of UFC Undisputed 3’s competition mode is to get…
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Barely Feeling the Force in Kinect Star Wars
For as long as brothers have swatted one another with wrapping-paper tubes, Star Wars fans have wanted something, anything, to give them the sensation of wielding a lightsaber, repelling blaster fire and cutting down Stormtroopers in a streak of blue. That, too, is the goal of Kinect Star Wars and all who are making it…
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Watch Us Go Croc-Hunting in Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater
We only played a tiny bit of the Nintendo 3DS remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but what we did told us one thing. This is definitely a Metal Gear Solid game. We struggled with the controls. Hey, it’s a Metal Gear. Those controls are never that easy to handle. Unfortunately, the demo…
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The Latest Ace Combat Gets to the Choppah (and the Bombah)
The aircraft of the venerable Ace Combat series all have been of the fixed-wing variety. The most notable variance in the latest installment Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the inclusion of helicopters, as many saw when the game’s first trailer showed an Apache Longbow used in gameplay. “If we just wanted to make a jet…
By Owen Good
