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Dev Alleges Some Deceive ESRB to Get Lower Ratings
The CEO of Artificial Mind & Movement – the studio behind WET and the PSP build of Danté’s Inferno – said at a development conference that the ESRB is easily manipulated and that publishers take advantage of it. Speaking at the Montreal International Game Summit, Rémi Racine of A2M said: As a developer who has…
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American League’s Best Pitcher is a Warcraft Player
Kansas City’s Zack Greinke locked up Cy Young Award, as the American League’s top pitcher, but he never gave much thought to his shot at the hardware. “I’ve been playing this World of Warcraft game,” he told the hometown paper. “The quote is classic Greinke – honest, surprising, funny – and probably as good a…
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Capcom Gets A- For Sticking To Theme
I go to a lot of preview events every year and not many of them have the wherewithal to establish a theme, let alone stick to one so well as Capcom did last night at Monster Hunter Tri University. Not only were there an obscene amount of chalkboards, pennants and people in school kid uniforms…
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BioShock 2 Rated M for Intense Violence, Wirty-Dords
No surprise BioShock 2 picked up an M from the ESRB, but that’s not to say its newly minted rating certificate isn’t interesting. The writeup says we can expect F-bombs, mother F-bombs, the C-word and the past tense of “tweet.” There are some minor spoilers in the writeup, I suppose, so I’ll let you venture…
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Phoenix Wright WiiWare Preview: Throwing Out Objections
Phoenix Wright is the most badass attorney next to Law & Order’s Jack McCoy. He’s so awesome that he even has his own musical, where he’s portrayed by a woman in drag. But that’s just hearsay from an overzealous witness violating spousal privilege*. Here’s the real testimony regarding Ace Attorney’s transition to WiiWare. *Yes, I…
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Modern Warfare 2: PC Versus 360
How does the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 compare to the console versions? I spent some time with the game on the Xbox 360 and Steam to find out. The single player experience in the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game is largely the same, with a few obvious…
By Mike Fahey