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[Updated] COD5 Beta Invites are Fake, Says Infinity Ward
Interesting tweet went out from Infinity Ward — if you get a beta invite from [email protected], delete it. It’s B.S. Not sure if it’s phishing, but the studio says it is not legit. [Update] Robert Bowling has a post about the fakery. Says it’s an exact copy of the beta invite he sent for Call…
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Nice Underpants
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Rockier Trail Deductive reasoning reveals a number of disturbing things about this pic (it’s not mine. Found it rooting around teh interwebs today). For starters, you have two dudes creating a Mii with their droodies down about the ankles. Next, Mr. Dark Socks is showcasing panties, and worse, they look…
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The Week in Games: Mirror Sledge
Mirror’s Edge for the PC arrives this week, and one wonders if the vision behind its gameplay will be more easily realized with keyboard and mouse. Lord of the Rings: Conquest joins it in a Tuesday release on four platforms. The rest of the lineup seems rather thin. The count: Five titles for the Wii,…
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Looking at “The MMO Crash of 2008”
Hellforge posits that 2008 was the worst year on record for MMOs. But the “collapse” had nothing to do with the genre’s viability, and everything to do with hubris and poor decisions by game-makers. The wreckage includes three titles whose names are either punchlines by now or dangerously close: Hellgate: London, Age of Conan, and…
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Rumor: Bioshock OTW for Mac
Oh yeah, there was another big tech expo this past week: Macworld. And the magazine is reporting Bioshock will be out for the Mac in the first half of 2009. At online retailer Feral Interactive’s booth, exhibitors wore shirts with Bioshock’s Big Daddy on the back. Writer Chris Holt checked with Feral reps, who confirmed…
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Great Dane Gaming Mobilizes SWAT Team
We’ve heard of this in the States before, but if you game super loud in Denmark, especially in shooters with loud bang-bang noises, someone might sic a police strike force on you too. Working off a Google translation of this news story, it appears the po-po in the Land o’ Legos rolled up with machine…
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Super Stage Production of Super Mario
Japanese variety show Kinchan no Kasoh Taisho pulls off what’s probably the best live-action literal interpretation of Super Mario Brothers I’ve ever seen. Readers FarmboyInJapan and Zuri F. sent this along overnight. I’ve already watched it about five times. This is a huge, complicated production, as you can see by all the people dressed in…
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Following the Game Industry via Twitter
If you’re on Twitter and have nothing useful to say or, worse, have no friends, here’s a listing of dozens of accounts used by the game industry — some official, others personal accounts. The list runs the gamut of industry presences, from large publishers and well-known studios to indie firms and community managers. The maintainer…
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Miyamoto-Autographed Pure White DS for $5.50
Well, that’s its price on eBay as of now. Better believe the reserve’s nowhere near met for this sucker. The seller got Nintendo’s cult figure to sign it at E3 2005. You might remember the Shigeru Miyamoto-scrawled GameBoy Advance that went for more than two grand back in 2007. With nine days left on the…
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