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EA Sports is Working on a Baseball Game — Probably for Facebook
EA Sports, whose beloved MVP Baseball series went into exile when 2K Sports won an exclusive contract back in 2005, is working on a Major League Baseball-licensed property, according to ESPN’s Jon Robinson. Before you get all giddy, a close reading of contracts leaves the impression this will be another Facebook game. Robinson points out…
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What Sort of Person Plays Marvel vs. Capcom 3?
Roughly one month after its release, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds churns up fun facts galore that gaming demographer (and social network) Raptr has culled and interpreted for your enlightenment. The full size is at bottom. More analysis, plus an explanation of Raptr’s methodology, is at the link. Marvel vs. Capcom 3…
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UncategorizedTapper: World Tour Looks Great and is More Fulfilling
Tapper was one of the best examples of the ingenuity that defined the early arcade games, when novel premises, fast action and a lot of imagination were needed to flesh out games running on primitive architecture. As a natural for the multitouch controls of the iPhone and iPad – what’s its name, after all –…
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Two Years in the Slammer for Hacker Who Stole $300,000 from Zynga Poker
The British hacker who fleeced Zynga Poker for 400 billion chips, which have an official worth of $12 million, $300,000 on the black market, will serve two years in prison. Ashley Mitchell did a poor job of covering his tracks after breaking into a Zynga server running the casino game and robbing it of the…
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UncategorizedPaper Train Is Fight Control For Dummies
Paper Train takes the traffic management features of games like Fight Control and puts the whole thing on rails, with the player controlling when the trains start, stop, and crash into cows. It looks good on paper, but is it challenging? The answer is a little sketchy. Anyone that’s played the iPhone classic Fight Control…
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UncategorizedThe First Templar Slices A Bloody Path Towards The Holy Grail
The secrets of the Order of the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail unravel in The First Templar, Kalypso Media’s combat-heavy cooperative third-person historical action game. The blood flows like wine in the latest gameplay trailer. Due out in May for the Xbox 360 and Windows PC, The Last Templar is the tale of a…
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