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Chad Ocho Cinco Wishes to be Called “The Black Mexican” on Xbox Live
Twitter reveals the story of Chad Johnson Ocho Cinco’s afternoon today, in which the Bengals receiver boasts of his gamer cred, can’t configure his wireless, fulminates at the lack of avatars that look like him, and finally tweets his gamertag. At about 2 p.m. Ocho, apparently in the mood for some Madden, touts his gamer…
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Capcom Toyed with Idea of Phoenix Wright vs. Tatsunoko
Ryota Niitsuma, producer for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, says the company did have plans to put the famed juris doctor in the lineup, but ran into problems because his OBJECTION! was just too powerful in English. Niitsuma told NGamer magazine that Capcom wanted Phoenix Wright, and Franziska von Karma (for her whip), in the game, but…
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Welp, Sony Ain’t Gonna Like This
Go punch up pspgo.co.uk. That’s not exactly the product being being flogged there, is it. A Chinese registrant picked up the domain name in late April, and has plastered it with a replica of the DSi’s product page. Now, as Destructoid points out, there ain’t no page forpspgo.com, so maybe Sony really doesn’t give a…
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Water Cooler Games Closes
Water Cooler Games, a standard-bearer for intelligent discussion of video games over the past six years, has been shuttered, according to co-founder Ian Bogost in a final post made today. Bogost, who started the blog with Georgia Tech colleague Gonzalo Frasca, attributes the closure to two things. One is the mainstreaming of the discussions Water…
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Treyarch Confirms Map Pack 3 for PC CoDWaW
In the Treyarch official forums, Josh Olin, the community manager, confirms that Map Pack 3 for Call of Duty: World at War is coming to the PC, and a patch is also in the works. This is what he had to say: As with the previous two Map Packs, Map Pack 3 will indeed be…
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List of Warcraft Expansion Content Leaves No Rumor Unturned
A truckload of details and features, alleged to be included in the as-yet unnanounced World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, has made its way out to the interwebs. This gets both spoiler alert and rumor treatment in the strongest terms possible. MMO Champion has put together this list, saying it comes from multiple sources. One of them…
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Weekend Reader: The Themes of 9/11, and After, in TIE Fighter
TIE Fighter was released in 1994, a time in which serving as the instrument of an oppressive, corrupt government against insurgent forces didn’t raise the kind of uncomfortable questions such a game would after Sept. 11, 2001. But, however uncomfortable, there are similarities between the Empire’s prosecution of its war on the Rebellion and hegemony…
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Ubisoft Dev Signs Off With a Flash
William David, a former designer for Ubisoft, felt he should finally take the plunge and strike out on his own. This week he left Ubisoft and uploaded this flash game as part explanation, in part thanks to his friends and co-workers. As someone who’s quit a lot of jobs, and part of a generation increasingly…
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Madden Launch Returns to Its Roots — for One Weekend Only?
Time was, EA Sports‘ Madden franchise released on the weekend, not a Tuesday. “Madden Football Friday” predated the “Madden Holiday” of the past dozen or so years, and it returned again this week. But is it back for good? No, said Nathan Stewart, the EA Sports Director of Marketing. What took place this year was…
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Weekend Coupons: Pencils, Notebooks, a Wii …
It’s August, so marketers will try to hook you for your back-to-school/college nostalgia, or use it to cross sell you some things you really don’t need, but probably want. Let’s have a look. Hardware: • Target’s targeting the beginning of back-to-college migration as a pretext for putting all sorts of study aids on sale. Basically,…
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Kotaku Originals: Annual Affairs
They happen every year: QuakeCon, the Woodstock of Gaming. Totilo’s in Dallas, bringing back the peace and love. Madden also dropped this week; with a splurge of coverage and controversy. And console price rumors? Oh, right, they happen every day. The week in original reporting on Kotaku: Kotaku’s QuakeCon 2009 Coverage News Former LucasArts President…
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A Blog For The Ladies… Who Date Gamers
A former co-worker of mine started a blog for girlfriends of gamers. I’m hoping she’ll expand the scope — but for now, I get to be both her target audience and her audience’s target. The Gamer’s Girl is supposed to be a place for girlfriends of gamers to commiserate about their gamer-dating-related woes and advice.…
By AJ Glasser