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Forbes Lists Gabe Newell As A Name You Should Know
Being video gamers, you likely are familiar with the Valve co-founder and president. But Forbes, business list-maker extraordinaire, has taken notice and looks to feature Gabe Newell in a December magazine roundup of influential people and concepts. Forbes isn’t doing this because it expects Episode 3 sometime next year. The numbers it likes are 70…
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The Original Violent Spectacle Gets Its First Mature Rating
Growing up, I only saw boxing on HBO. With Mike Tyson the premier fighter, it was usually over fast. Anything that wasn’t seems sanitized in low-definition hindsight. That changed the first time I saw a bout fought live. In headgear. It was in February 1997, inside Goettge Memorial Fieldhouse aboard Camp Lejeune at The Armed…
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Indie Game Makers Unite In “Winter Uprising” On Xbox Live
Declaring an insurrection against “massage apps, clones and garbage,” a ragtag band of indie developers on Xbox Live’s Indie Channel are going all out the first week of December, unleashing 14 games in the “Indie Games Winter Uprising.” The games will be priced between 80 and 400 Microsoft Points (a buck to five bucks) and…
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Predict The Mature Content In Fight Night Champion
Yesterday, EA Sports confirmed that Fight Night Champion will be its first M-rated sports game ever. The sweet science is a dirty business – how far will the game go in presenting that? Right off the bat, I’d say they’re going to stop gimping the lyrics in the soundtracks. It always sounds hideous, but they…
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Box Scores: A Bargain At Twice The Price
Demos aren’t just to try before you buy. Sometimes they can turn in a nailbiting thriller, as one value-seeking Kotaku reader found with FIFA 11’s demo. Wocalax couldn’t pick up the FIFA 11 full copy just yet, and has instead played the game’s demo to fill in the time. The game features only three-minute halves…
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NBA Jam’s “Mr. Boom-Shakalaka” Calls Some Inappropriate Catch Phrases
Click to viewNBA Jam is known for its zany catch phrases and Tim Kitzrow is best known as the zany announcer delivering them. Asylum got Kitzrow on the phone to deliver seven new lines they wrote. The result is 100 percent fan service. ‘NBA Jam’ Announcer Tests Jam-isms We’d Like to Hear [Asylum]
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The Moneysaver: See Red
No snappy puns this time, just a classic, straight up parody of an action movie directed by my good pal Lon Lopez, co-starring my other good pal John – he’s the cop getting the crap kicked out of him. I want them to do a Honeycomb action movie spoof. Opening sequence: Detective walks into the…
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The Week In Review: Cuban Mission Crisis
Nearly 50 years after the Bay of Pigs, Cuba’s state-run press still seethes with indignation at any U.S. incursion, real or perceived. In a first, the Communist holdout is outraged at a video game. That would be Call of Duty: Black Ops, which features Fidel Castro in a couple of ways without the island government’s…
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THQ Says You’ll Find Out About Saint’s Row Movie Soon Enough
An announcement is due in December, the publisher told Gamasutra. THQ is looking to time the film’s release to the next game’s launch, but that’s not a hard commitment this far out. Speaking to Gamasutra, THQ CEO Brian Farrell said the company views its licensing strategy as a means to “build our brand at no…
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Angry Birds Planning Xbox Live, Wii Releases
The developer of Angry Birds has said, at a London conference, that the game will be coming to all three consoles soon, reports PocketGamer. CEO Peter Vesterbacka, of Rovio – whose publishing partner, Chillingo, was bought up by Electronic Arts recently, also shot down thoughts of an “Angry Birds 2” sequel on its original. But…
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