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DRM Means Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Will Have ‘Limited Offline’ Functionality
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition will use Games For Windows Live to administer the game’s DRM, says Capcom’s Christian Svensson, and while the game will not require an always-on Internet connection to be played, it’ll have a “limited offline” mode for those with no uplink. That means those who live in regions that aren’t…
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Phoenix Wright Movie Confirmed; Releases in Japan Early Next Year
This week at the Cannes Film Festival, Japanese director Takashi Miike tipped off he was working on a Phoenix Wright adaptation for the big screen. Capcom has now confirmed it. A news release says the live-action Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will open in Japan in early Spring 2012. Pictured is Hiroki Narimiya as Phoenix Wright,…
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Sony Says It’s Working on the PS4
Asked to explain increased research and development costs, a Sony senior executive told investors that work PlayStation 3 successor is “already under way.” “For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life,” said Masaru Kato, the Sony chief financial officer, according to Eurogamer, “but this is a platform business, so for the future…
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Rename the Big Ten’s Ridiculous Divisions in NCAA Football 12
The Big Ten’s ridiculous division names will be getting a makeover—probably thousands of them—thanks to NCAA Football 12 That wasn’t the original intention of the fully customizable conference features built into this year’s game, but it will most definitely be one of their consequences when college football traditionalists bring home NCAA 12 in early July.…
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Latest Hacker Target: Codemasters
Four days before the North American street date for DiRT 3, password and login data for Codemasters’ website was posted online, the developer said, making it the latest name in games to suffer an online attack. Codemasters told GamesIndustry.biz that it discovered the breach on Friday, took its website completely offline and repaired a security…
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The Dark of the Moon Shows a Brighter Side of Transformers Multiplayer
Transformers: War for Cybertron got online multiplayer right, treating the Autobots and Decepticons like soldiers rather than children’s toys. The problem was the setting of Cybertron didn’t exactly lend itself to varied battlegrounds and colors other than red and purple. Movie tie-in Dark of the Moon fixes that. The other problem with War for Cybertron…
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This Gaming Geek Shall Inherit MLB 2K11‘s Million-Dollar Prize
Before setting off to claim a million-dollar bounty offered by MLB 2K11, Brian Kingrey did an analysis. He pored over batting averages, compared pitcher strengths and tendencies, examined the probable starters for the contest’s opening day and the batting orders they faced, to determine what hurler had the best chance of tossing a perfect game.…
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One Year Later, Did Nintendo Keep Their E3 2010 Promises?
E3 is the biggest event the video game business. Every company lays their cards on the table, and every AAA game for the next year is on display. Failure is not an option. As high as the stakes were before, Nintendo managed raise them at their 2010 E3 keynote. Riding high from strong Wii and…
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This is What Alice Looks Like Before She Tears You a New Asshole
If you happen to wander across sweet Alice during her travels in Wonderland and she should happen to flash red, white, and red all over, you’re probably going to die. This is Hysteria. Similar to the powerful effects of the Rage Box from American McGee’s Alice, the Hysteria power in Alice: Madness Returns infuses our…
By Mike Fahey
