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2K’s Big Boss Badmouths Baseball Again
The chairman of Take-Two Interactive – the parent company of 2K Sports – called his company’s exclusive pact with Major League Baseball a “losing proposition” and suggested they would walk away when the deal expires in 2012. Strauss Zelnick told Reuters that annualizing a video game risks producing one of lower quality and burning out…
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Virtual Pitchers And Catchers Report March 8
Earlier today 2K Sports, on its Facebook page, confirmed March 8 as the release date for MLB 2K11. While we’re pinging Sony to verify MLB 11 The Show comes out the same day, traditionally multiple league-licensed products all come out on the same day. An exception would be NHL 2K11, which was a Wii-only release.…
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A Safer Way To Throw Darts At Your Television Screen
Wagering the staggering power of the PlayStation 3 combined with the innovative motion control of the PlayStation Move, Devil’s Details’ Top Darts transforms your television into the world’s fanciest dart receptacle. As a teen I fell in love with darts, but I never quite got over the fear that I’d turn around one day and…
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Fading Wii Speak Faces Phase Out
Wii Speak’s retail availability is being curtailed and, if demand for it doesn’t improve – which doesn’t appear at all likely – Nintendo will phase out the microphone peripheral completely. In a statement, Nintendo has confirmed Wii Speak’s limited retail availability as part of a phasing out of it altogether. However, the company that it’ll…
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Team Fortress 2 Enters Public Beta
Valve is throwing on ongoing public beta test for Team Fortress 2, and everybody that owns the game is invited! Valve loves adding new items and features to Team Fortress 2, but doing so takes testing, and testing takes people. Where are they going to find a large group of people with a vested interest…
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This Xbox 360 Controller Mod Concept Has Cash Written All Over It
Shades of the Nintendo 64 pipe, this Xbox controller pipe loses points for being nothing more than a nut placed over the guide button, but gains points for the non-smoker’s uncanny resemblance to a young George W. Found on Flickr Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Fight Night’s Card Carries Real Champions, Too
Though the star of its cover, and of the darker, rawer story told through its singleplayer mode, is fictitious boxer Andre Bishop, Fight Night Champion will still deliver real-life boxing legends in their prime, as fans expect of the series. Four new screens went out today over the game’s Facebook page. All of these boxers…
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Super Meat Boy’s Last Laugh On PETA Is PC-Playable Tofu Boy
Gloating that he goaded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals into making a flash-game free advertisement for indie hit Super Meat Boy, the game’s co-creator followed up with an unlockable Super Tofu Boy character for the game’s PC version. The game hit Steam just yesterday, so, that’s fast turnaround by Team Meat. A tweet…
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Chastened Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox 360 Modding Case
A day after a judge chewed them out in open court, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles dropped their case against a man accused of running a modding business that allowed Xbox 360s to run pirated or unauthorized games. Wired reports that Matthew Crippen, 28, is a free man, after prosecutor Allen Chiu told Judge Philip…
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The Closest You’ll Come To Uncharted On The iPhone
Jason Cole is no Nathan Drake, but after getting a look at the hero of Gameloft’s upcoming action adventure game Shadow Guardian for the iPhone I get the feeling he really wants to be one. Gameloft has made a rather lucrative business out of copying the gameplay and concepts made popular in console games and…
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Who Wants Eight Inches Of Hot Vinyl Meat?
Do you prefer your meat pristine and untouched or vigorously beaten? Symbiote Studios has you covered either way with a pair of limited edition Super Meat Boy vinyl figures, just in time to preorder for the holidays. Symbiote Studios, the creators behind the silly anime-styled Jessica Chobot figures, has teamed up with Team Meat to…
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Wolverine Tears Marvel Pinball A Release Date
The X-Men’s resident badass Wolverine sure plays a mean pinball, and fans can too when Zen Studios unleashes four Marvel-themed pinball tables for Pinball FX next week on Xbox Live Arcade. Wolverine joins Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Blade as the stars of next week’s batch of mighty Marvel additions to Xbox Live Arcade’s Pinball FX…
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Poison-Based Bacteria Redefines Life As We Know It
Arsenic is an element that is deadly to most living creatures, but bacteria living in California’s Lake Mono thrive on it. Today NASA explains how those poison-eating organisms are changing the way we search for extraterrestrial life. News of an arsenic-eating bacteria residing in alkaline Lake Mono first came two years ago. As reported by…
By Mike Fahey
