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Squared Away
Ready for His Close-Up | Cleveland Browns running back Peyton Hillis, selected after a five-week fan-voted playoff, takes his cover shot for Madden NFL 12 in Times Square on Thursday. (Photo: Mike Stobe/Getty Images) Sony: PlayStation Network Will Return This Week PlayStation Network, down since April 20, will return this week, said Kazuo Hirai, the…
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Claire Redfield Put Guns N’ Roses in Mega Man X5
The transparent naming of Mega Man X5‘s Maverick bosses for the members of Guns N’ Roses stood as an unexplained oddity since the game’s 2001 release here in North America. (That’s Axle the Red above. See? Not subtle.) Now we have an explanation, and it’s just as strange. Claire Redfield did it. No, really. The…
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Madden NFL 12‘s Wii Version Will Finally Support the Classic Controller
Madden executive producer Phil Frazier has confirmed, via Twitter, that Madden NFL 12 on the Wii will support the Classic Controller. Wii football gamers have long requested the feature. (His tweet was in response to this question from a fan.)
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Creepshow
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •8 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends (That Happen to Be True) [Cracked] I have to tip my hat to Cracked. They do the best lists…
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Is Portal 2 Controlled with Kinect a Good Thing?
I’m on the fence with this, but as Portal 2 has elements of a first-person shooter, and that genre is tricky to adapt for Kinect, it looks like a breakthrough to me. Here someone has hacked Kinect, using FAAST (the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit), to play Portal 2. Firing a portal is accomplished…
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Sony Considers Reimbursing Credit Card Replacement Costs in Light of Data Breach [Update]
In this morning’s news conference, Sony Computer Entertainment head Kazuo Hirai said the company would consider covering costs associated with reissuing credit cards to PlayStation Network subscribers who feel their accounts have been compromised by the massive data breach of April 20. Update: The entirety of the news conference, including reporters’ questions, translated into English,…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
This is not the TAYpic. Ceci n’est pas le TAYpic. We didn’t sort out the selection of the May image before this weekend, and that decision is the province of top men. Top … men … So for now, let’s talk amongst ourselves about video games. We’ve got a few suggestions already, but if you’d…
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Sony: PlayStation Network Will Return This Week
PlayStation Network, down since April 20, will return this week, said Kazuo Hirai, the second-in-command for Sony Corp., at a news conference today in Tokyo. When PSN comes online, PS3 users will face a mandatory system software update that also requires them to change their account passwords before they can sign into the service. That…
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