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Director: “Microsoft/Xbox is the Most Dreadful, Non-Talent Friendly Company”
James Gunn, one of the directors signed on to last year’s “Horror Does Comedy” original content series on XBox Live, says Microsoft rejected his first film and “cut the living shit” out of the second. To be fair, Gunn calls “Humanzee” the “most balls-out, fucked-up thing I’ve ever shot.” But he says the XBL folks…
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Warcraft on an iPhone, but is It Coming to Yours?
Yesterday, word spread that Warcraft was OTW for the iPhone, thanks to the app that ran Second Life on an iPhone last year. Skeptical, I held off, but I can’t explain why, exactly. I watched this yesterday morning, looking for any tipoff this was a quicktime movie with cleverly timed gestures – it’s four minutes…
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Tetris Lessons Available, 2 Hours for $40
Shawn Elliott (2K Boston) tweeted this this past week. Some wit up in Vancouver is offering Tetris lessons “at affordable rates,” one of those things the un- or underemployed will now rush out to imitate. According to the Craigslist poster (and if it gets flagged and removed, you may read it here and here) the…
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Get Drunk on Boomer Bile
Sidling up to the bar at a trendy club and explaining how one makes “Boomer Bile” would identify you first as “disgusting” and then, after further explanation, “disgusting and a huge nerd.” But it’s one of seven extremely complex (and dramatically backlit) cocktails that Official Xbox Magazine commissioned “a leading cocktail bar” to develop. The…
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Hotfix Patches Up GTA IV Stuttering Problem
A mini-foofaraw sprouted this week over the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, when a Windows Live update either introduced or worsened a stuttering issue in some players’ computers. That’s been fixed in lightning-fast time, according to Microsoft. “Thanks for your patience, a new update is avaible that addresses the stuttering issue with GTA…
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Feast Your Eyes on Muramasa: The Demon Blade
GameTrailers assembled a comprehensive look at Muramasa: The Demon Blade, the latest iteration in the cult-hit series that’s due out for Wii in late July. You can get a long look at the art direction and gameplay, and both qualities seem very deep, 2D platformer or not. As the video indicates, its predecessor Odin Sphere…
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ESA’s Lobbyist-Womans is Gone
A little over two months after being named the “senior v.p. for government affairs” (read: top lobbyist) for the Entertainment Software Alliance Association (this is not Star Wars), Jennifer A. Manner is now gone. Her experience, touted by ESA chief Michael Gallagher when she was hired, turned out to be lacking according to some reports.…
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King Denies Little Boy’s Wish to Be Named ‘Sonic X’
This reads like a fairy tale, but it’s all true. A 6-year-old Norwegian boy wanted to change his name to “Sonic X,” and in his land, such things must be approved by the king. Wise King Harald of Norway politely declined the request of young Christer on the grounds that, being only six, he was…
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Create-a-School Returns to NCAA Football
NCAA Football enthusiasts are already rejoicing– promotional materials tout a “teambuilder” feature in NCAA 10 that signals the return of “Create-a-School,” which has yet to appear on any next-gen versions. Tuesday, the back side of a GameStop placeholder for the game made its way to the forum NCAA Strategies. One of the details listed is…
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Apple Approves, Quickly Removes “Baby Shaker” App
This is probably not how Apple planned to celebrate the week it hit a billion downloads from the iTunes App store. It’s apologized for admitting the unabashedly tasteless “Baby Shaker” for distribution, and removed it. Baby Shaker makes revolutionary use of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s accelerometer to simulate killing a crying infant. When the…
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Weekend Coupons: Cou-pwnage
We’re back again with another round-up of price-cuts and sales events for the frugal amongst you. As stated earlier, this is the week The Orange Box can be had for the stupid-low price of $9.99. The guiding principle here at Weekend Coupons is we tell you about deals on stuff you might actually want to…
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Microsoft Refunds Braid Overbill, Plus a Little Extra
If you bought Braid back in February when it was XBLM’s first “Deal of the Week,” check your points balance. Microsoft mistakenly overbilled for it, but they’ll be refunding the difference plus 100 points. We’ve gotten word through a few readers about the mistake, which Microsoft attributed to a “technical glitch.” The virtual money should…
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Activision, Gibson Guitar Settle Claims
Sometime last week, Activision and Gibson Guitar decided to end their legal wrangling over a patent infringement claim made against the Guitar Hero franchise. Terms ain’t disclosed. Gamasutra dug up the docs, which indicate only that Gibson and Activision shook hands on April 17 and a federal judge in California terminated the case. A federal…
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Kotaku Originals: If It Ain’t Broken, We Break It
Let’s recap a week slam-slap full of breaking news that got the gamer gums a-flappin’. Fallout Vegas? We was there. Lego Rock Band? Done tole you about it. The biggie? Stephen Totilo, newly minted editor-mans. Sony had a couple attention-snappers, too – the existence of Uncharted multiplayer (and its beta), and Arkham Asylum’s exclusive play-as-Joker…
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