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Dungeon Runners Dead by the End of the Year
It’s a “crap sandwich” – bad news between two slices of nice – says Dungeon Runners‘ producer. While the game goes dark New Year’s Eve, they’ll try to throw as many bones to its fans as they can until then. Stephen Nichols, putting it bluntly, says “the game just isn’t profitable.” Though the game’s creative…
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Finally, A Marathon I Might Actually Finish
Sarcastic Gamer and Texas Children’s Hospital (where yours truly went for many a medical malady in her youth) are teaming up for a second annual gaming marathon to benefit pediatric cancer research and treatment. Extra Life, as the gig is called, generated $120,000 last year with their 24-hour gaming marathon event. This year, they’re kicking…
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Approval Ratings: Multiplayer and Online Services
Last Saturday we asked Kotaku readers 10 questions regarding their preferences and habits in online services and downloadable titles. PSN or Xbox Live? Fat Princess or Castle Crashers? You made the call, and the answers are inside. As I said, the answer to some of these questions might seem painfully obvious, but the goal here…
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Get Tales of Monkey Island Free On Talk Like a Pirate Day
Telltale Games and LucasArts have teamed up to make this year’s Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19 — same day as Rosh Hashanah) memorable with a free download of Tales of Monkey Island, Episode One. The giveaway goes on all day on the 19th, but through the 21st of September, they’re also giving gamers…
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Sony Japan Studio Chief: “We Have to Develop the Global Title”
Saying that domestic sales to Japan are not enough to sustain Sony’s video game business, the chief of SCE’s Japan Studio said it must develop globally appealing titles, even though some Japanese gamers show a lack of interest in them. Speaking to the DICE Summit Asia in Singapore (through a translator), Yasuhide Kobayashi the senior…
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The Numbers of Warcraft
In a keynote to GDC Austin, two Blizzard developer pulled back the curtains on some aspects of World of Warcraft that players might not consider much, and dropped an interesting tidbit about how the series evolved from RTS to MMO. Gamasutra, covering the keynote, reports that World of Warcraft grew out of a Blizzard team’s…
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Team Fortress 2 Skeletonized for Final L4D2 Push
Ah, September. That time when the leaves begin to turn, the morning air is crisp, and Valve’s modelers and animators vanish from Team Fortress to work on Left 4 Dead. Happened last year, it’s happening this year, as Team Fortress 2’s official blog says in an update. “We’ve improved our process a little to ensure…
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UK Retailer Declares PSPGo ‘Almost’ Dead Before Arrival
While not joining a broader boycott among some European retailers, ShopTo’s comments in advance of the PSPGo’s launch do not exactly encourage sales. “As a format it is almost dead before it has arrived,” the ShopTo boss told Eurogamer. Again, the gripe isn’t so much about the new handheld’s cost – $250 in the U.S.…
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Operation Flashpoint Trailer: Watch Stuff Get Blown Up
Everybody loves a good explosion. And text flashing on blank screens is nice, too. Actually, the explosions in Dragon Rising might not be what you’re expecting, based on past war video game experiences. The developers behind the game did research, you see, and concluded that explosions are more about smoke and oily fumes than about…
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Five New Champions Enter The League Of Legends
Riot Games today adds five new characters to the ever-expanding roster of champions in League of Legends, the upcoming multiplayer online battle arena. Champions are the characters that your Summoner summons to represent them on the field of battle, and Riot is going out of its way to make sure there’s a large selection available…
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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Multiplayer Preview: War Is Hell. And Mostly Colorless.
Sion Lenton, Executive Producer on Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, says the game isn’t competing with Modern Warfare 2. It’s just trying to get out the message that war is scary. There are several ways games can communicate the horrors of war. Watching your squad die or witnessing a nuclear explosion, for example, could make quite…
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PSPgo Has ESRB Ratings Packed Right In
The only way parents could possibly miss the ESRB Video Game Ratings Guide loaded onto the new PSPgo is if they never actually touch the system themselves, and what are the chances of that? ESRB president Patricia Vance discusses the PSPgo’s built-in ESRB ratings guide over at the PlayStation Blog, praising it as a “straight-forward…
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Sony Pre-Emptively Blasts BBC Report on PS3 Failures
Tonight, the BBC will broadcast a report claiming the PS3 suffers from systemic hardware failure and Sony’s repair service is inadequate. GamesIndustry.biz has a six-page salvo from SCEUK to the BBC, ripping the report and implying legal action could follow. The program, Watchdog, said it received 155 complaints from viewers regarding the so-called “Yellow Light…
By Owen Good
