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Madden’s Numbers Nudge Higher This August
Early discounts by retailers such as Amazon and Walmart stoked speculation that Madden’s sales were coming slow. EA Sports is projecting a modest increase over what the title pulled last August. A statement today by the publisher called Madden the top selling game in North America for August, and said its sales are up about…
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Welp, Someone Done Tried To Sell Their Kinect Beta Already
Microsoft had to figure this was going to happen: Someone put their Kinect beta hardware and their console for sale on eBay, hoping to get $1,200 for it. It was rather quickly de-listed, however. I haven’t seen the entire EULA for this hardware beta but something tells me Microsoft probably forbids selling the unit and…
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Lightweights and Welterweights Round Out EA Sports MMA Roster
Seventeen more fighters at the welterweight and lightweight divisions complete the EA Sports MMA roster, bringing to 60 the total number of combatants in the game. Joachim Hansen, Shinya Aoki, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Jay Hieron, Marius Zaromskis, Hayato Sakurai, and Tyron Woodley are the new welterweight fighters, joining Robbie Lawler, Nick Diaz, Kazuo Misaki, Lyman Good,…
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Monday Night Combat Was Almost “Combat, Inc.”
Monday Night Combat. Evokes a sense of battle-as-primetime sport, right? Sure, thanks to a certain football broadcast. Uber Entertainment filed and owns the Monday Night Combat trademark, but it had backup plans in case the lawyer-mans raised a fuss. “We got it trademarked and no one complained, but it was definitely a concern,” Chandana Ekanayake,…
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Madden NFL Superstars Launches on Facebook
Madden NFL Superstars, a Facebook card-and-management game anticipated for several months, went live to the public earlier today. The free-to-play game resembles June’s FIFA Superstars in structure while borrowing elements from the popular Madden Ultimate Team of the console game. In the game (accessible here), players assemble a team through acquiring packs of cards, which…
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Consoles From Cashews?
It may sound nuts, but a new bioplastic being developed by Japan’s NEC Corp. using cashews could change the way electronics are manufactured in the future. Of course normal plastic changed the way electronics and just about everything else is manufactured, but the convenience comes with a price. Synthetic plastics often contain toxic materials. The…
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Bangai-O Brings The Missile Fury To Xbox Live Arcade
Treasure’s classic puzzle-shooter for the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast gets the big-screen sequel it deserves this fall with Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury for Xbox Live Arcade. Giant robots and fruit for everyone! Bangai-O Spirits for the DS was okay, but nothing less than a full HD sequel could truly satisfy fans of the original game,…
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Frankenreview: Metroid Other M
After all these years of spelling Metroid a certain way, Nintendo and Team Ninja go and pull an Other M on us. How will the assembled video game critics handle this new consonant? Of course there’s more to the new Metroid than another M. The team behind Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden are on…
By Mike Fahey
