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2K’s Next Baseball Title Sends SpongeBob to the Plate
Baseball, the National Pastime. For 141 years, it is a game whose numbers and names need no introduction. Mantle. DiMaggio. .406, 755. Ren. Stimpy. 2K, holder of the exclusive third-party publishing rights for MLB video game products, will take a swing at the market with Nicktoons MLB for the 360, Wii and DS. The 360’s…
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Gamers More Agitated by Playing Sports Games than Shooters, Says UK Study
There’s a couple of ways to look at this latest video game study out of the U.K. Either there is no meaningful link between playing violent video games and aggressive behavior, or FIFA 11 is deadlier than Modern Warfare Guess which one formed the headline in the British press after a study found that a…
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Judge Tosses College Athletes’ Claims Against EA Sports [Corrected]
A federal judge on Monday threw out former college athletes’ claims against EA Sports, regarding the use of their likeness in past versions of NCAA Football and the now canceled NCAA Basketball. While the ruling clears Electronic Arts in a legal sense, the claims still will proceed against the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Company,…
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Player One or Player Two? Chimps Can Tell the Difference
Using the vast power of science, researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have found another good reason for a chimpanzee to play video games: to determine if they are self-aware enough to know which pixel represents their primate self. Self-awareness isn’t just for humans anymore. Sure, it’s a major feature of the human brain and…
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Donkey Kong Doesn’t Have to Do Anything, He’s a Gorilla
What’s so terrifying about a short Italian plumber that would make an 800 pound gorilla flee instead of facing him? As it turns out, absolutely nothing. Dorkly’s latest game-inspired video hits the barrel on the head. Even as a young boy, something struck me as odd about the dynamic between Mario and Donkey Kong. Mario…
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Canada’s Privacy Czar Thinks Sony Should Pay
“I was disappointed that Sony did not proactively notify my office…It seems to me that it’s time to begin imposing fines – significant, attention-getting fines – on companies when poor privacy and security practices lead to breaches.” [The Vancouver Sun]
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Mass Effect 3 Thrusts Its Way into Early 2012
Remember the first trailer for Mass Effect 3? The one that teased us with a “Holiday 2011” release date? Consider it invalidated, as the game’s executive producer scootches its release into early 2012. When a trailer comes out more than a year in advance of a game’s release, you can generally assume that the date…
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The Darkness 2 Will Get the Blood Flowing on October 4th
The Darkness 2, sequel to the cult-hit, will be available in the US and Canada on October 4th, with a global release coming on October 7th. I never played the original Darkness but I saw this game back at PAX East and was impressed by the game’s surprisingly intuitive Quad-Wielding system, which lets players quickly…
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Next Week’s Rift Update Opens a Rift to the Plane of Facebook
If you’ve lost friends to Trion Worlds’ massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Rift, prepare to get them back in an annoying fashion next week, when the 1.2 update hooks its claws into Facebook. Now that the rifts from the Plane of Death have been sorted out, it’s time for Earth and Fire to have their go…
By Mike Fahey
