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Games Get Huzzah in Parliament
MP Edward Vaizey last week introduced a motion recognizing (sigh, recognising) games recently honored (sigh, honoured) by BAFTA. He also used the motion to decry “the complete lack of support from Government” of the industry. Fable II (Lionhead Studios), Race Driver: GRID (Codemasters) and LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule) were all developed at UK studios, and all…
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Leaked Footage Gives a Shaky Look at Mass Effect 2
This 2 minute clip came from a Bioware presentation at GDC about the development of Mass Effect 2. The gameplay is at a very, very pre-alpha stage. No spoilers per se, and the shakycam makes it hard to take in any visual differences. If you listen closely you might be able to piece together one…
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Gamer Girlfriend Makes Left 4 Dead Cuddly
Reader Trevor H. so casually mentions his girlfriend’s hobby – making plush toys “for every wicked Valve game that comes out” – that this almost sounds too good to be true. Still, there’s a huggable, wuvable Smoker all ready to be tucked in and constrict your sweet dreams. Trevor’s squeeze also made a plush headcrab.…
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Braid Delayed (for the PC)
PC gamers looking forward to Indie hit Braid are gonna have to look forward a couple more weeks. Jonathan Blow is delaying his game til April 10 to work out some bugs. Says Blow, on the official Braid Blog: The delay is just to fix some problems that came up in testing with various versions…
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Iwata Asks, Rhythm Heaven Team Overshares
Nintendo top man Satoru Iwata subjects the creative team behind Rhythm Heaven/Rhythm Tengoku to a five part, comprehensive deconstruction of all of the development processes put into this franchise. It is a whopper of a read. But I plucked this from the kicker. It’s real fun when the company’s top boss asks three guys all…
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When There’s Nothing to Blame, There’s Always Games
Last October, Stefan Martin-Urban shot up a suburban cul-de-sac, killing two people and then himself. Investigators found no drugs, no journals explaining his motives. But they did find video games, and so that’s the answer. That’s the line pressed by law enforcement in Grand Junction, Colo., where Martin-Urban’s killing spree took place. Although the specific…
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Trailer: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
And here’s another goddamn WORLD EXCLUSIVE from Gametrailers. Cinematic teaser, no gameplay, but it’s Ratchet & Clank, which should whet fans’ appetites for now. Or make them jump up and down and chant “Ratchet and Clank!” and do the peepee dance, like Fahey did this morning when he brought this to my attention. Ratchet and…
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Aussie Classification Board’s Site Hax0red, Deface-0red
Someone PO’d at the Australian Classification Board, which rates games and other media down under, hacked into its Web site on Thursday and placed anti-censorship messages on the front page. The site was taken offline to remove the graffiti and investigate the breach, but while it was up, here’s what visitors saw: This site contains…
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ECA Membership Delivers Amazon Discounts — UPDATED
What’s in it for you if you join the Entertainment Consumer Association? Well, now the $20 membership gives you 10 percent off games on Amazon. UPDATE: From a forum admin at the ECA, it seems the discount codes they’re handing out now are one-time use only. The ECA describes this as a glitch – “the…
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Alfie Patten, You Are … Not the Father!
Remember Alfie Patten? The Saints’ Row II-playing toerag whom the British tabs said became a father at age 13? Well, everyone can stop worrying about little bastards who father little bastards. He ain’t the daddy. A DNA test cleared Alfie of fatherly responsibility, but rather than celebrating his freedom by spending the diaper money on…
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Weekend Coupons: Gamecube? Really?
Everyone form a nice orderly line because – are you sitting down? – Gamestop is offering 20 percent off. Games. Gamecube games. Used Gamecube games. The offer expires April 2. Of this year even! Other deals for frugal gamers out there: • Beginning tomorrow and lasting through April 4 (next Saturday), Sam’s Club is offering…
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Midway’s Wheelman Devs Getting Right Back to Work
Midway’s European operations are not part of its chapter 11 reorganization, which means the devs there, having finished up on Wheelman, are looking ahead to other things. Like an open-world game expanding on Wheelman’s technology. In an interview with Play.tm, Simon Woodroffe of Midway Newcastle said his team is pressing on under the assumption that…
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Kotaku Originals: GDC Overload
This is when the gig starts to scare me, because there were forty-leb’m-million billion things coming out of GDC this week, and somehow I’m supposed to follow that act. Let’s start with an originals roundup. For starters, if you want to recap all of our fine corinthian GDC coverage, there’s two ways to do that:…
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