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In-Game Popup Ads Return To Madden
The latest patch for Madden NFL 11 returns the scorebar pop-up ads last seen Madden NFL 10, but they don’t display at the every-down frequency that annoyed so many when they rolled out midway through last year. Pasta Padre (the source of the screengrab) reports that their frequency seems to be greatly reduced. The last…
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Xbox Live Indie Clips: The Tribes Of Ursea
Centaurs and not-so-centaurs spill blood on the fields of battle in this week’s Xbox Live Indie Clip, the Tribes of Ursea. People often ask me how I chose which games to feature in the weekly Xbox Live Indie Clips article. Sometimes they are suggested to me through friends and co-workers. On occasion the developer themselves…
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Metropolis And Gotham Are Nice, But You Wouldn’t Want To Live There
It’s like you can’t go five feet in DC Universe Online’s Gotham City or Metropolis without seeing superheroes and super villains duking it out. I bet property values are way down. This batch of screens for Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online show some over-the-top combat going on in the streets of Gotham and Metropolis.…
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Man Wins (Ig)Nobel Prize For Swearing
Anyone who’s played a particularly frustrating video game can attest to the therapeutic effect of dropping the F-bomb. The phenomenon has now been scientifically proven, and the man behind the research awarded for his efforts, sort of. Annals of Improbable Research magazine held the 20th annual Ig Nobel awards last night at Harvard University, and…
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Is December 7 The World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Release Date?
A day after Amazon.com suggests a January release for World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion, MMO Champion uses a combination of patch info and official forum posts to nail down December 7 as the date. What does Blizzard say? MMO Champion came up with the December 7 date by putting 2 and 2 together. The first…
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The North Koreans Invade Homefront Multiplayer
You won’t find any opposing forces in this multiplayer trailer for THQ’s Homefront. Just North Koreans in snazzy outfits. This is one very promising trailer. It’s a bit short on action, but the lead up is certainly impressive, and those North Koreans from the future (the game takes place in 2027) certainly know how to…
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Bulletstorm’s Box Art Kicks You In The Face With Color
The bright and colorful North American box art for Epic’s Bulletstorm is a boot to the head of those more serious first-person shooters. It’s these bright colors that draw me to Bulletstorm. I’ve no problem traversing the dreary grey and brown worlds of games like Resistance, Killzone, or Epic’s own Gears of War. I just…
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Ugly Force Unleashed II Watches Are Collectively Attractive
These Force Unleashed II X G-Shock watches might be hideously ugly, but only 50 pairs are being made, and that makes them beautiful. The two limited edition Force Unleashed II watches from G-Shock (a Casio brand) aren’t the sort of timepieces a person wears anyway. These are watches you keep in a box and sell…
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Microsoft Names New President Of Everything Fun
The man with one of the most impressive houses in the gaming industry now has a title to match, as Microsoft officially makes Don Mattrick the president of its Interactive Entertainment Business. It’s not really that big of a change, moving from senior vice president to president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, at least not…
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Massively Multiplayer Online Petz
Fresh off the launch of its first massively multiplayer online game, Might and Magic Heroes Kingdoms, Ubisoft steers its online gaming initiative in a decidedly lighter direction with Petz World. Over the years, the Petz brand has grown from a pair of rudimentary pet sims into a veritable kingdom of animal interaction sims. The original…
By Mike Fahey
