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Angry Birds Coming To A Board Game This Year
If you treasure all that time spent building Mousetrap’s contraption and its inevitable collapse midway through, then Angry Birds: Knock on Wood, a board game due later this year from Mattel, is perfect for you. Yes, it has a slingshot. In the two-to-four player game, both sides will play a card-based strategy game that supplies…
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Singularity Among Nominees For Best Writing In A Video Game
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Fallout: New Vegas and Singularity (pictured) headline the six nominees for the Writer’s Guild’s Video Game Writing Award this year. God of War III, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II round out the field of nominees. The winner will be named Feb. 5 at the…
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GameStop’s Holiday Was A $3 Billion Disappointment
GameStop’s stock lost almost 6 percent today even though it saw greater sales in the 2010 holiday season than it did a year ago. That wasn’t enough, apparently. GameStop sent out an exultant news release earlier today, touting $3 billion in sales for the season, up nearly 6 percent. But in America, forget revenue, forget…
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MLB 2K11 Brings Home The Beard
This “first look” trailer for MLB 2K11 is short on specifics, but says the game will feature improved fielding and new player models – illustrated, naturally, by the Giants’ sui generis closer, Brian Wilson. In a conversation about MLB 2K11’s Million Dollar Perfect Game challenge, 2K Sports executive Jason Argent hinted that pitching controls will…
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Appeals Court Sides With File-Hosting Site Over Atari
A German appeals court threw out a judgment Atari had won against RapidShare, the popular file-hosting site where Atari says copies of games from its Alone in the Dark series were being illegally shared. Atari Europe had wanted RapidShare to take responsibility for blocking downloads of the files, and the ruling of a lower court…
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See All 18 Holes Of Augusta National Without Leaving Your Couch
EA Sports today released a complete 18-hole flyover of Augusta National, as it will appear in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters. The publisher has touted a laser scanning technology that delivers the iconic course with unusual fidelity. A flyover of TPC San Antonio also was included; in a conference call on Tuesday, EA…
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters Screenshots
No. 6 of Augusta National Golf Club. No. 7 of Augusta National Golf Club. No. 8 of Augusta National Golf Club. No. 11 of Augusta National Golf Club. No. 12 of Augusta National Golf Club. No. 13 of Augusta National Golf Club. No. 16 of Augusta National Golf Club. Tiger Woods on No. 18 of…
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Homefront Will Require Online Pass — But Renters Can Still Try Its Features Free
The occupied-America shooter Homefront will require THQ’s Online Pass – a one use code that comes free in retail copies of the game – to access the game’s online multiplayer. But accommodations will be made for renters or used-copy purchasers. Those without a valid code may still play online multiplayer on all maps, but may…
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One Valid Excuse For Sucking At Fighting Games
Do you suck at fighting games? So does Kotaku commenter Masterage, but he actually has a valid excuse. Feel free to borrow it! I love fighters, but they don’t love me. I’ve just been told that my dyscalculia could actually be stopping me from correctly remembering complex combo chains. Would explain a lot, actually, as…
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The History Of The House That Built Guild Wars
Guild Wars’ developer started out with three former Blizzard employees working out of a spare bedroom. See how far they’ve come in this video retrospective celebrating ten years of ArenaNet. With the eagerly anticipated Guild Wars 2 on the horizon, ArenaNet could become bigger than it’s three founders ever imaged. It’s astonishing to think that…
By Mike Fahey
