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Old Vivendi Digs Put To Constructive Use
Vivendi’s Los Angeles headquarters at the Howard Hughes Center might be gone, but what’s taken its place will leave a lasting impact on LA drivers for years to come. Following the 2007 merger between Activision and Blizzard, the old Vivendi headquarters at 6060 Center Drive became redundant, closed as a cost-cutting measure to help streamline…
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Tiger Redeems Himself On Late Night…Sort Of
After losing to Jimmy Fallon in a round of EA’s Tiger Woods 10 for the Nintendo Wii in Times Square yesterday, Tiger managed to defeat Fallon in the televised rematch…but just barely. Tiger came on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show last night to see if he could make up for his humiliating loss…
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Mass Effect iPhone Spinoff Launches
BioWare has released a pocket-full of Mass Effect on iTunes, where the colorful top-down action adventure Mass Effect Galaxy is now available for purchase. Mass Effect Galaxy isn’t just a side story in the Mass Effect Universe. On top of delivering the same deep dialogue system along with top-down shooting action, Galaxy also features two…
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Mark Jacobs Bids Mythic A Fond Farewell
Former Mythic Entertainment head Mark Jacobs sheds a little light on the circumstances surrounding his departure from the EA-owned MMO developer in a farewell post on his personal blog. Jacobs'”All Things Must Come To An End” post mainly looks back on his time with Mythic, from the early days of Dark Age of Camelot’s pre-release…
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Strong Dictator Skills Needed For Tropico 3 Beta
Kalypso Media is currently searching for dictator hopefuls to take over the banana republic of Tropico in the beta test for Tropico 3. Tropico 3 ditches the second game’s pirate motif in favor of a return to the original Tropico, with players once again stepping into the role of El Presidente, managing the day-to-day affairs…
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TMNT: Smash Up Characters Flash By Your Screen
Has your favorite adolescent terrapin made the cut in Ubisoft’s upcoming Wii-exclusive, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up? Well of course he has. There’s only four of them, after all. It’s not as if you’d make a TMNT game with only Raphael in it, but look who else is in it! We have a generic…
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THQ Working On Their Own Controller-Based Game
Performing a body slam from the top ropes onto the back of the bandwagon, THQ is readying their own game-specific control accessory, to be added to the pile in 2010. The news comes from an article in the LA Business Journal on the success that companies such as Activision have had with controller based games…
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Trine Now In Convenient PC Demo Form
While we’ve still got a bit of a wait before Trine comes out on the PlayStation Network, we can play the PC version right now, courtesy of the recently released playable demo. The demo comes by way of SouthPeak Interactive, who’ve picked up the PC publishing rights for Frozenbyte and Nobilis’ 2D platforming physics-fest in…
By Mike Fahey