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Madden NFL 12 Franchise Mode Gallery
Expanded rosters will make preseason games more meaningful as Franchise players decide who to cut and who to keep. Expanded rosters will make preseason games more meaningful as Franchise players decide who to cut and who to keep. As you scout rookies for the NFL draft, their ratings will be partially unlocked according to how…
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Madden NFL 12 Superstar Mode Gallery
A system of skill points, used to develop your created NFL superstar, is new to this year’s mode. A redone menu in Superstar mode. Superstars may ask for a trade to another team. Whether it’s honored is another thing altogether. Superstars may ask for a trade to another team. Whether it’s honored is another thing…
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Reviewers Detect Something Wonderful in L.A. Noire
As players prepare to lead Detective Cole Phelps through the seedy underbelly of 1940’s Los Angeles, game reviewers have already cracked the case of L.A. Noire‘s worthiness wide open. When Rockstar Games isn’t busy pushing out award-winning entries in its wildly successful Grand Theft Auto franchise, the studio likes to explore settings that aren’t normally…
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Ubisoft Queues Up Assassin’s Creed, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell Movies
Launched earlier this year, Ubisoft’s motion picture arm is wasting no time at all getting the game developer’s biggest franchises onto the silver screen, with 3D features based on Assassin’s Creed, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell in the works. Ubisoft is finally putting into motion its long-standing plan to transform itself from video game developer…
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Can You Figure Out What Makes This Watch “Video Game-Inspired”?
Joel: I honestly cannot see what makes this Converse watch “Video game-inspired” Fahey: Well it’s got….um. There’s the… I got nothing. Totilo: Dr. Mario! Joel: That’s about it maybe. Totilo: also, the red and white on the right is clearly an abstract version of fireball Mario from Super Mario Bros Totilo: the navy blue is…
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The Day That Xbox Live Customer Service Cared
We only ever hear negative things about customer service, because a satisfied customer rarely spends time gushing over their experience on the internet. Commenter KillerIri5h is an exception, raving about his Xbox Live customer service experience in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. So like many people, I’ve fallen on hard times financially. I’m an artist…
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Chrono Trigger Warps Your Wii Back to 1995
The Wii Virtual Console travels back in time this week to a time when a much softer Square made games that were consistently excellent. It’s not that Square Enix doesn’t put out good games. There are plenty of excellent modern games out there bearing the company’s brand. It’s just that back in the days when…
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Plants Vs. Zombies Coming to Android for Free (for a Day)
Buried in a businessy press release from PopCap are two gems: That Plant Vs. Zombies and Chuzzle are coming to Android via the Amazon market-and that they’ll be free apps of the day. PvZ for free is quite good. Chuzzle is tomorrow; PvZ “later this month”. [PRNewsWire]
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Siege Hero Returns Fire Against Birds
Once upon a time, Armor Games published a flash game called Crush the Castle, and it was quite good. Then another studio came along, replaced the trebuchet with a slingshot, the ordnance with birds, and made off with all the gold in the land. Armor Games strikes back, sort of, with Siege Hero, an iPhone/iPad…
By Owen Good
