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IRS Plane Crash Flash Game is Quick and Tasteless
The gentleman who created this Flash adaptation of last week’s civilian divebomb attack on an IRS building says he enjoys “making stupid games in 24 hours or less.” Mission accomplished. This is “Tax Time!” based on Joe Stack, who on Thursday crashed his civilian airplane into a government building in Austin, Texas, housing the Internal…
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‘Xbox Effect’ Cited in Chick Flicks’ Rise
This weekend The Sunday Telegraph noted that, for the past three months, the box office charts in the U.S. have been dominated by the, shall we say, estrogen-infused variety of movies. It’s not because more women are watching more movies, it’s because more guys are watching fewer – and in fact, are assumed by Hollywood…
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Rebellion Calls AvP ‘Critical Success’; Talking Sequel
Discounting “three totally sh— reviews” from American sources, Rebellion reasons that Aliens vs. Predator is a “critical success”, just as becoming the U.K.’s fastest-selling title of 2010 makes it a commercial success. They’re already thinking sequel. “The reviews have been mostly good,” Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley told Develop Magazine. “We’ve had three totally sh— reviews…
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Six Stadiums From the Days Before Naming Rights
Although I suppose Polo and Forbes are big brands in modern times. I just doubt they’d put it on a baseball park. SCEA’s released this video of the six classic ballfields available with an MLB 10 The Show preorder. The Polo Grounds, Forbes Field and four other fields will be unlockable from within the game,…
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Nielsen: Games Account for 5 Percent of U.S. Entertainment Budgets
Across all U.S. households, video games account for 4.9 percent of monthly entertainment spending – to 2.8 percent for CDs and mp3s – according to recent Nielsen research. Among households that are active game buyers, the figure is 9.3 percent. It’s important to note this is not a whole-dollar measurement – it does not mean…
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The Secret Armory Of General Knoxx Opens This Week
With a raised level cap, tweaked enemy AI, and new villains, weapons, and vehicles, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is Borderlands’ biggest dose of downloadable content yet, and it’s due out tomorrow. That’s right, those sneaky folks at 2K Games have waited until the day before the DLC drops for the Xbox 360 to…
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Super Meat Boy! In My Xbox Live Arcade? It’s More Likely Than You Think
Edmund McMillen, creator of indie games such as Gish and the recently profiled Super Meat Boy!, passes along an image that subtly hints at a release of his meat-based platformer on Xbox Live Arcade sometime this year. It took a bit of detective work to decipher the image’s message, but we eventually figured out what…
By Mike Fahey