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Improve Your Player Stock at the Draft Combine
NBA 2K10 one-ups the create-yourself sports fantasy with its upcoming DLC package, which allows you to play in the build-a-baller workshop and then experience the thrilling meat market of the NBA Draft Combine. More than just facial features and uniform choices, you see here how the game allows you to give your guy traits based…
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Kotick: Most Gamers Prefer Sequels to New IP
Those CEOs, the things they say when they’re talking to the magazines CEOs read, thinking no one’s watching. Talking to the Economist, Activision’s Bobby Kotick said “a small segment” of gamers are the ones insisting “everything has to be new.” In an Aug. 13 profile run by the respected news magazine, Kotick responded to a…
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More Fairytale Fights Screens
We’ve told you all we can about Fairytale Fights for the time being — but don’t let that stop you from ogling these blood-splattered screens. Based on how smooth these screens look, I can only surmise they were taken from a later build of the game than the one I saw. On display is that…
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Shatner Sends C&D to Studio Over “Shatter” Joke
Captain Kirk set the lawyers to stun when he heard a skin was coming for the PSN game “Shatter,” using his likeness and including a remix of Big Bill’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” cover. One problem: the news was a joke. Two weeks back, New Zealand site Game Console wrote up a spoof about Kiwi dev…
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1000 Rock Band Songs By The End Of The Year
With more than 800 songs already available in the Rock Band Music Store, Harmonix and MTV Games foresee that number reaching 1000 by the time 2010 rolls in. Speaking at Gamescom 2009 today, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos flaunted his franchise’s massive library of music, citing it as just one of the reasons for Rock Band’s…
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$40 For That Old Thing? How Used Games Are Priced
Not content to pay any old price for a used game, Kotaku recently attempted to figure out how big stores decide what to charge for old games. The idea to research the subject of how game resellers priced their titles came after a visit to a local GameStop store. Browsing the used PlayStation 2 section,…
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Fat Princess Teases Pirates And Ninjas
What could possibly be missing from Titan Studios’ multiplayer online PlayStation Network game, Fat Princess? Oh yeah…those. No details and no teasing words. Just a simple image popping up on Titan’s website. Subtle. Classy. Pirates. Ninjas. New job classes for the game, or does someone over there just really love pirates and ninjas? The world…
By Mike Fahey
