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Bungie Briefly Considered a Halo 4 with Master Chief
Bungie’s writers considered extending the saga of Master Chief beyond Halo 3 – whose ending certainly left an opening for it – before settling on the prequel story of the Fall of Reach, the studio’s community manager said. It’s hardly a shock; when last seen, Master Chief was entering cryonic sleep on a ship adrift…
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APB Voice Chat will Have Ads
Some APB fans have checked their account management pages and noted a paid subscription option that will remove ads delivered to the MMO’s in-game voice chat, which of course, means the game will serve ads over voice chat. An APB community manager rushed to dispel fears that chat advertisements would interrupt or obstruct the game…
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He Doesn’t Mind What You Call Them — Unless It’s ‘Monopoly’
This is a column about Peter Moore, and because it’s about the EA Sports president, it’s going to be, in some way, about Madden NFL‘s exclusive license. So, let’s get this out of the way. Because Peter’s probably reading. “I read your stuff, I read your readers,” Moore told me during a lengthy, wide-ranging talk…
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This Guy’s Very Enthused about Gears of War 3
Maybe you know someone who’s just a little too cray-cray for Gears of War. If not, now you do. Meet iSekC, who’s cuckoo for Cole Train and was knighted by Cliff Bleszinski himself as the game’s No. 1 fan. Sure, we’ve all played with action figures – with dialogue – switched cover on our way…
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Unboxing Half-Life 2: The Bubblegum
The infamous leak of Half-Life 2‘s beta in 2003 was a story with an international scope and wide-ranging consequences, some just now coming to light. Such as this box of Russian-made Half-Life 2bubblegum. The guy unboxing this won it in an eBay auction for $2.25. It’s obviously a knockoff – in 2003 and 2004, other…
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Box Scores: Circle the Bandwagons
Alright, I confess, I’m fully aboard a soccer bandwagon that, if fate has any sense of timing, should barrel headlong into a shattering wreck this afternoon. Luke keeps bugging me to learn soccer, so I picked up 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa and toyed around with the two-button controls, just to learn spacing and…
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Support Your World Cup Side in Uncharted 2 Multiplayer
Through July 12 – the day after the World Cup championship – Uncharted 2 players may choose from 16 different World Cup shirts for Drake and Flynn in multiplayer, one for each nation that advanced to the Cup’s knockout stage. Naughty Dog made the skins active last night, calling it a gesture to soccer fans…
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The Moneysaver: Dealverines!!!
You think you’re tough for reading The Moneysaver every day? There’s half a million scarecrows in Denver who’d give anything for one coupon of what you got. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes … on each other. Been wanting to use Red Dawn somehow since I saw Homefront at E3. John Milius…
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Will a Thousand Words Do?
Hi folks: We’re aware of the problems preventing some stories from embedding images and video. We’ve got people working on a solution as we speak – we know how important these are to the stories you enjoy. Kotaku’s posting schedule will continue as planned through this outage and its swift resolution.
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The Week in Review: He’s One, But Not the Same
The man’s a gamer. Maybe not one of us – we don’t run Electronic Arts after all – but this week’s profile of EA boss John Riccitiello portrayed a man who thinks earnestly about games, in ways we gamers do. It was not his gaming bonafides that started a robust discussion of Riccitiello’s place as…
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Making Manhattan Chowder with Crysis 2
If you discount the static and deliberately skipping video what you have here is a blend of Crysis 2‘s trailer and its closed-doors demo, shown at E3. Spoiler alert: The MetLife building goes down, and it goes down hard. This should give you a better idea of what I was trying to get across –…
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Exec ‘Severely’ Doubts Value of Some TV Advertising
In a heavy-hitter’s roundtable with an industry advertising blog, the man in charge of marketing Homefront doubts that television advertising does much for many video games, and would rather advertise on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live than CBS and NBC. “One of the bigger questions we have to ask ourselves is how important is television?”…
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Friendly Reminder: Super Mario Bros. Crossover Now Featuring Ninja Gaiden
As promised, Jay Pavlina has delivered Ryu Hayabusa from the NES Ninja Gaiden as the seventh playable character in the flash sensation Super Mario Bros. Crossover. Other character-specific abilities have been included in the game’s 1.1 update. Mega Man now jumps more realistically, and can use Rush Coil to get to higher spots on the…
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