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I Cannot Stop Playing Pet Society
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey RE: The Biggest Non-Gaming News In Japan Today Involves A Naked Man While you’ve got your hands full with naked Japanese men over there, I’m busy trying to shake my addiction to Pet Society, a Facebook game from a company called Playfish, in which you create a pet and take care…
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Epic Boss Responds To Exploitative Working Condition Claims
Epic Games president Michael Capps speaks extensively with Joystiq regarding accusations of employee exploitation that have recently been causing a bit of a stir. The uproar began when industry critic Greg Costikyan called out Capps for comments made during an Independent Game Developers Association panel last year. During the talk he indicated that working 60…
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PAX 2009 Programming Details Emerge
The 2009 Penny Arcade Expo slowly begins to coalesce into an actual event, as organizers deliver details on some of the exhibitors and musical talent attending this year’s show. While many of us would attend the Penny Arcade Expo 2009 even if it were one guy in an auditorium playing Metroid music on a harmonica,…
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Wolverine Behind-The-Scenes Teases Secrets
The latest developer diary video for X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a dirty, no-good secret snikt-tease. Developer Raven hasn’t so much created levels for the game as they have crafted environments for players to romp about it. Forest environments; jungle environments; snowy forest environments – they’re all represented here. It’s all very interesting, until they get…
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Play As The Joker In Arkham Asylum PS3
A new advertisement appearing earlier than expected in Sony’s PlayStation Home reveals the ability to play as The Joker in PlayStation 3 exclusive challenge levels for Batman: Arkham Asylum. Several readers sent us in blurry photos of the new sign, which has appeared in various spots throughout the Home service today, featuring a grinning Joker…
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Star Trek D-A-C Boldly Goes Official
Paramount Digital Entertainment officially announced Star Trek D-A-C for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and PC today, delivering new screenshots of the movie-themed space shooter to the masses. The official announcement for Star Trek D-A-C doesn’t really offer anything new in the way of game information. From McWhertor’s report at GDC we learned that…
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Fable II Adds 250 Achievement Points In The Future
The upcoming See the Future downloadable content for Fable II could add up to 250 gamerpoints to your Xbox 360 gamerscore, if you get lucky. I say if you get lucky, because one of the thirteen new achievements requires that the player “make love” twenty-five times, which for some of us represents many more times…
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EA Sports Complex Races Onto PlayStation Home
EA has launched the first phase of their EA Sports Complex in PlayStation Home, delivering new things to see and do in Sony’s virtual world. The EA Sports Complex is a massive new area to explore in PlayStation Home, with trailers to watch, teasers to view, and a couple of mini-games to whet your appetite…
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The Chronicles Of Spellborn Is Now Open For Business
Acclaim Games officially launches their massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Chronicles of Spellborn in North America today, with free two-week subscriptions on offer for all newly registered players. The Chronicles of Spellborn is an online role-playing game that takes place in a unique, otherworldly post-apocalyptic setting. It features a very interesting action-based combat system,…
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Fuel Tells Players Where To Go
Magical floating sky arrows replace the standard GPS system in the post-apocalyptic world of Codemasters’ Fuel. I’m not exactly sure what Codemasters’ marketing folks were thinking when they decided to create a trailer that compared modern-day car navigation systems with red arrows flying through the sky in the direction you are supposed to be heading.…
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TimeGate And Paramount Reach Section 8 Agreement
TimeGate Studios once again successfully defends the name of their game, reaching an agreement with Paramount in the lawsuit over the name Section 8. TimeGate filed the lawsuit earlier this month, after Paramount sent out a press release announcing an interactive web series called Section 8, days after cancelling a meeting with TimeGate regarding their…
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Battlefield 1943 Drops In June
DICE advances World War II by a year in June, announcing the release month and pricing details for their downloadable online multiplayer shooter Battlefield 1943. A small slice of World War II is coming to the PlayStation network and Xbox Live Arcade in June in DICE’s Frostbyte-driven update to Battlefield 1942. It’s the US Marines…
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Red Faction: Guerrilla Demo Now Available For Everyone
The dark days of pre-order exclusivity have passed, and the demo for Red: Faction Guerrilla is now available to all that would venture onto Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network to find it. In a show of supreme confidence in their game, THQ releases the single player demo for the next game in the Red…
By Mike Fahey