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Major Nelson Weighs In On 360 Console Bans
Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb discusses the recent string of Xbox Live piracy console bannings, delivering an important caveat to those purchasing used machines in the process. Last week Microsoft launched a string of Xbox Live console bans on Xbox 360s that had been modified to play pirated software, which naturally cause an uproar among…
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Ubisoft’s First Half Sales Drop More Than 50%
Ubisoft announced its sales figures for the first half of the 2009-2010 fiscal year today, indicating a sales decline of more than 50% over the same period last year. Ubisoft’s combined sales for the first two quarters of 2008-2009 were €344 million ($510 million). A year later, and that figure drops by 52%, down to…
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Braid Finally Makes It To The PlayStation Network
After charming the pants off of players on Xbox Live Arcade and the PC, Jonathan Blow‘s Braid is finally heading for the PlayStation Network later this month. The time-twisting adventures of Tim will be taking the trip to the North American PlayStation Network on November 12th courtesy of Hothead Games, with a European release coming…
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Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes
The iTunes App Store is officially crowded as hell, as Apple announces more than 100,000 applications now available for you to weed through in order to find anything good. With over 2 billion applications downloaded across 20 categories in 77 countries, Apple is probably right when they call The App Store the “world’s most popular…
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New 30 Seconds To Mars Single Debuts In Dragon Age
30 Seconds to Mars‘ new album, “This Is War,” doesn’t hit stores until December 8th, but you can get a sneak peak at the title track in Dragon Age: Origins. It seems a rather bizarre place to debut a new song, but there you have it. The Jared Leto-fronted band’s “This Is War” is on…
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BlazBlue Getting The PSP Treatment
Arc System Works‘ deliciously different 2D fighter BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger gets considerably smaller in February, when BlazBlue Portable hits the Japanese PSP. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger confused and delighted fighting fans when it was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, being a fighting game that you couldn’t simply pick up, perform Street Fighter-like moves…
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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Staggers Out DLC
Four new multiplayer maps and two Fire Team Engagement missions are out for the PC version of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising tomorrow, with its console cousins receiving a title update before the DLC sees release. The Skirmish downloadable content pack for Dragon Rising comes out for free on the PC tomorrow, bundled with a title…
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So How Many Boss Fights Will Prince of Persia Have?
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner says that one of the first things lost in translation from video game to film is gameplay. But the Prince of Persia film hopes to dodge that bullet with its action/adventure genre label. You can see from the trailer just how much of that “action/adventure” thrust comes from what…
By AJ Glasser
