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Spore Honcho: We Toats Pwn LBP for User Content
It was recently suggested to Maxis producer Morgan Roarty that LittleBigPlanet has horned in, maybe even stolen the user-created content crown away from Spore. Pish-tosh, said Roarty. “They don’t have anything near our numbers of things created,” Roarty told CVG. He said about 250,000 creatures, buildings and vehicles are created every day by Spore’s install…
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Oklahoma Considers Tax Break for Devs, Excluding M-Rated Games of Course
Oklahoma’s no friend to M-rated games. But, still smarting from the defeat of an unconstitutional anti-games law back in 2006, some legislators still want the state’s contempt for mature games known. Through tax breaks. GamePolitics reports that a proposal before the Oklahoma legislature would offer tax breaks to developers of video games, but only if…
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Kotaku Originals: Bidness
The ceaseless tide of terrible news in the economy continues to dominate the storyline for this week’s originals. EA axed Black Box, of course, but not before they made them patch Need for Speed: Underground Undercover. Is there an end in sight? Who knows. The whole country’s either completely given up or determined that it…
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Onechanbara – Easy On the Eyes, Not On The Wallet
Half the appeal of the Onechanbara hack-‘n’-slash games on PS2 was the price. With that gone, all you’ve got is the other half – the one with the boobs. Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers for the Wii retails for $29.99 while Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad will set you back $39.99. The Wii game is supposedly a…
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AJ on X-Play – Yes, I’m a Girl, You Can Stop Speculating
A couple of weeks back, I climbed on a soapbox about the media frenzy surrounding video games in connection with real life violence or tragedy. This week, I got to go on X-Play’s Head-to-Head segment for a repeat performance with considerably less bearing* and more boob. Enjoy! Head-to-Head: Videogames in the Mainstream Media *When you…
By AJ Glasser