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UncategorizedFormer Rockstar Dev Working on Game About Iranian Revolution
A writer with credits in Grand Theft Auto III, Max Payne and, later, Alan Wake is now working on an entirely different project, likely controversial in its own way: “1979: The Game,” based on the Iran Revolution. In an interview with the Russian news site RT (above) Navid Khonsari recently discussed the project. 1979: The…
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Samurai Warriors is a Big Hit with the Ladies
One of the launch titles for the Nintendo 3DS will be Samurai Warriors Chronicles, a series whose devoted fan base is 40 percent female, says publisher Koei. Hisashi Koinuma, the developer overseeing the Samurai Warriors series, quoted the figure to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Koinuma said he thought the series was appealing because the development…
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ReviewsD.C. Universe Online is a Flawed but Heroic Undertaking
Between the action, the lives of superheroes make comic books, for better or worse, suitable to the MMO genre. It’s a crowd of unique people, all trying to be different, feeling alone in a great city of thousands. D.C. Universe Online plants a flag for massively multiplayer online role-playing games on the PlayStation 3, bringing…
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UncategorizedVegas Entrepreneur Bets on an Arcade
Fremont Street in Las Vegas is where you find the low rollers. The five-dollar tables and four-dollar steaks. It’s a district with lower rents and higher ambitions, and that’s where one gaming-themed bar is set to open this spring. Insert Coin(s) will be a gaming lounge that resembles “Tron meets Blade Runner,” says its owner,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
More Than 100,000 Register for APB Reboot
When it stopped taking applications last night, the new owner of APB, the cops-and-robbers MMO, said it had more than 100,000 requests to participate in the beta for APB: Reloaded, a free-to-play reboot. Those who signed up for the subscription-based MMO, which collapsed three months after launch, were invited back to the game by new…
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StarCraft Modder ‘Could Be Looking at Offers’ — Including from StarCraft’s Maker
StarCraft’s top designer called last month’s stir over a “World of Starcraft” mod “a big misunderstanding,” but said the mod’s creator could be seeing job offers down the road, possibly from StarCraft’s studio itself. Dustin Browder, the game design director for StarCraft II, told Eurogamer that his shop wants to shake Ryan Winzen’s hand “and…
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