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Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
Tired of slow progression in NCsoft’s latest MMO, Aion? The developers feel your pain, and they plan to assuage it with regular double experience weekends, starting with the next three weekends in a row. Things got a little slow for me in Aion around level 18 or so, so I for one welcome the introduction…
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Army of Two Dev: We Wouldn’t Have Done Modern Warfare 2’s Airport Scene
Matt Turner, a producer on EA Montreal‘s Army of Two: The 40th Day, praised Infinity Ward for having the sack to do its infamous “No Russian” mission, in which terrorist NPCs kill civilians, but adds “we wouldn’t have done it.” “You’re playing a CIA agent, it’s designed to show the atrocities,” Turner told CVG in…
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Google Yanks Android Ports of Doom, Quake on ZeniMax Demand
A takedown notice sent by ZeniMax led to the Android Store’s removal of several ports of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein; one of the developers admits that, though the port used open-source Doom code, some of the game files were proprietary. ZeniMax, which of course now owns iD software, filed the DMCA complaint with Google. Developer…
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Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford Talks Borderlands And More In This Week’s Podcast
While our boss is away, Gearbox Software‘s boss plays, when the Borderlands developer’s head honcho Randy Pitchford takes Crecente’s place beside Totilo in this week’s installment of Kotaku’s call-in podcast. Mr. Pitchford will be on hand to discuss anything and everything Pitchford and Gearbox related, from Borderlands to Brothers in Arms; that one Half-Life game…
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Microwaved Xbox 360 Elite — Yours for $31,000
Remember the microwaved mutant Game Boy Advance, creepy eyeballs and all? The same artist has done the same thing to an Xbox 360, and has it listed for $31,002 on eBay. “The Only Elite Xbox 360 that has been microwaved,” boasts the advertisement by artist Kenny Irwin. I’d love to see someone zap theirs just…
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Massive Free Realms Update Brings Tiny Dinosaurs
Sony Online Entertainment drops a massive end-of-the-year update on its free-to-play MMO Free Realms today, adding holiday Snow Days, fishing, player housing, and new pets, including dinosaurs, dragons, unicorns, and pegasi. I would have figured SOE would have gone from cats and dogs to something like hamsters or potbellied pigs, but instead they go and…
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Global Agenda Launches In February
Georgia-based Hi-Rez Studios is finally gearing up for the release of their futuristic team-based shooter, cementing a February 2010 release for Global Agenda, with preorder customers gaining guaranteed access to the beta test. Global Agenda is a combination of free and subscription-based team-based online shooter, but either way you’ve got to buy the game to…
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You Run A Big Game Publisher In 2010…What Will You Do?
Cast aside those ratty sneakers and step into the expensive, well-polished shoes of the CEO of a big-name video game publisher. What changes would you make to ensure the success of your business in 2010? Welcome to the first installment of “What Will You Do?”, where we have our readers tell us what they’d do…
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Red Dead Redemption Gets The History Channel Treatment
Give me a good ol’ Western trailer any day — horses, guns and desperadoes. When I say that, though, I don’t mean add a History Channel voice over. Not that the History Channel can’t paint a picture of the Old West just as well with some grainy-voiced fellow walking you through the environment. I just…
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Infinity Ward Sweeps First Annual Inside Gaming Awards
While Uncharted 2: Among Thieves got the top nod from Spike’s annual Video Game Awards, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 managed to sweep a different video game ceremony just one day ahead of the VGAs. The First Annual Inside Gaming Awards was held December 11 in Los Angeles to “specifically appeal to the vast…
By AJ Glasser
