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Samurai Warriors is a Big Hit with the Ladies
One of the launch titles for the Nintendo 3DS will be Samurai Warriors Chronicles, a series whose devoted fan base is 40 percent female, says publisher Koei. Hisashi Koinuma, the developer overseeing the Samurai Warriors series, quoted the figure to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Koinuma said he thought the series was appealing because the development…
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Vegas Entrepreneur Bets on an Arcade
Fremont Street in Las Vegas is where you find the low rollers. The five-dollar tables and four-dollar steaks. It’s a district with lower rents and higher ambitions, and that’s where one gaming-themed bar is set to open this spring. Insert Coin(s) will be a gaming lounge that resembles “Tron meets Blade Runner,” says its owner,…
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More Than 100,000 Register for APB Reboot
When it stopped taking applications last night, the new owner of APB, the cops-and-robbers MMO, said it had more than 100,000 requests to participate in the beta for APB: Reloaded, a free-to-play reboot. Those who signed up for the subscription-based MMO, which collapsed three months after launch, were invited back to the game by new…
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StarCraft Modder ‘Could Be Looking at Offers’ — Including from StarCraft’s Maker
StarCraft’s top designer called last month’s stir over a “World of Starcraft” mod “a big misunderstanding,” but said the mod’s creator could be seeing job offers down the road, possibly from StarCraft’s studio itself. Dustin Browder, the game design director for StarCraft II, told Eurogamer that his shop wants to shake Ryan Winzen’s hand “and…
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A Game That Stares a Laser Beam Through You
Security cameras rarely send the message you’re in a safe area. Their presence usually more likely mean you’re somewhere someone expects something to go wrong. Surveillant expands on this sense of menace, making the camera an adversary, not a friend. Surveillant, for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is a sleek 3D platformer that offers some…
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A Real-Time Strategy Game Of Thrones
The bloody conflict in the Kingdom of Westeros comes to life in the first screens of A Game of Thrones: Genesis, the real-time strategy game based on acclaimed fantasy author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga. French developer Cyanide Studio revealed its plan to develop games based on Martin’s beloved works…
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The Most Heartbreaking Zombie Video Game Trailer You’ll Ever See
It’s been more than three years since we last heard any news on Techland’s zombie survival horror game Dead Island. Now it’s back, with a trailer demonstrating that not even children are safe from the undead hordes. When last we saw Dead Island it was heading for a 2008 release on the Xbox 360 and…
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Bejeweled Proposed As A Clinical Treatment For Depression And Anxiety
While more mainstream video games are under fire for causing depression, a new study at East Carolina University finds that playing casual puzzle games is an effective way to combat clinical depression and anxiety. Guess who underwrote the study? East Carolina University’s Psychophysiology Lab and Biofeedback Clinic have spent the past year putting 60 test…
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Are These The Top 50 Video Game Characters Of All Time?
Guinness asked gamers to vote for the top 50 video game characters of all time, so if your favorite character is not represented in this list you probably should have voted harder. More than 13,000 gamers cast their vote at the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition website in order to create this list, and it…
By Mike Fahey
