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GameStop Isn’t Worried About Trade-In Kiosks
News of retail giant Best Buy entering the used game market with automated trade-in kiosks failed to leave video game speciaty chain GameStop quaking in it’s boots. GameStop addressed Best Buy‘s plans at their annual shareholders meeting in Southlake, Texas on Tuesday, explaining that their years of customer service give it the winning edge over…
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Film Producer Sues Midway Over Mortal Kombat Rights
Lawrence Kasanoff, the producer behind the Mortal Kombat movies, television show, and animated series has filed suit against Midway in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in order to make sure he retains series milking rights. The complaint filed by Kasanoff’s Threshold Entertainment seeks to protect the company from losing intellectual property rights to certain Mortal Kombat characters…
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Battlefield Heroes Performs Covert Launch
The cartoonish, free-to-play, web-based iteration of DICE’s Battlefield series has quietly slipped out of beta, with Battlefield Heroes now available for anyone willing to partake. I’ve found no big launch announcement, and other than the new trailer on the front page of the site, it doesn’t seem like much fanfare is being made. If you…
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Now You Can Buy Expensive World Of Warcraft Pet Statues Too
A custom made statue of your World of Warcraft character is certainly a fine thing to have, but what is your character without their loveable animal companions? Perhaps FingerPrints’ FingerPets can help. The company that brought us original 3D printed representations of players’ World of Warcraft is branching off into the pet business, offering three…
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Serious Sam Reborn In HD For Xbox Live Arcade
Developer Croteam has worked up a new version of its CroTech Engine in order to deliver Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD to the Xbox Live Arcade. Scheduled for a late summer release, Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is exactly what the name implies: the first entry in the tongue-in-cheek, over the top Serious…
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Mytheon Trailer Casts The First Stone
The first trailer for Petroglyph’s Mythic gives us a bit more of an understanding as to what’s actually going on in the online action roleplaying strategy hybrid. Petroglyph shaves a little of the fuzz off of the original Mytheon announcement, which spent more time talking about microtransaction-based game that was creating an entire new genre…
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The Big Daddies That Might Have Been
Taking an iconic video game character and reverse-engineering it as a prototype is a delicate task. Let’s look at a few of the concepts drawing that eventually led to the Big Daddy of BioShock 2. These concept art shots appeared yesterday on The Cult of Rapture BioShock website, they were presented as a way to…
By Mike Fahey
