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What Is Sony Announcing On Tuesday?
Sony dropped Kotaku a line to let us know that something is going down on Tuesday, March 31st. Could it be the long-rumored price cut is finally upon us? Or could it be something completely different? Rumors have been doing little twirly things all over the internet over the past few weeks regarding a potential…
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Is Blizzard Working On A Fifth Game?
The internet is abuzz with rumors that Blizzard is currently working on an unannounced fifth game, based around an entirely new intellectual property. The source of the buzz seems to be two new job postings that have appeared on Blizzard’s job site over the past week under the category of unannounced. The two listings are…
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Stardock’s Answer To DRM: Goo
With Steamworks’ new CEG technology preparing to make DRM obsolete, Stardock has unveiled their own three-letter acronym answer to digital rights management: Goo. What is Goo? Goo stands for Game Object Obfuscation. What it does is allow game publishers to encapsulate their game’s executable file together with Stardock’s Impulse Reactor virtual platform in a single…
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Here’s How You Play The New Punch-Out!!
Direct from the 2009 Game Developers Convention, here’s someone demonstrating how to play the new Wii version of Punch-Out!! The person playing Punch-Out!! in this clip is making it look rather easy, which is a relatively good thing. Considering how badly motion controls have been implemented in another recent boxing franchise revival, ease-of-use is a…
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The World of Fable II Wastes Less Than The World of Fable I
I wasn’t sure what to think of “The World of Fable II” when they played a blues song with the chorus “gonna give you a whippin'” before the panel started. What game had I been playing? I thought maybe I was in the wrong room, but then Fable II’s Technical Art Director, Ian Lovett, started…
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Batman Takes On Arkham Asylum’s Challenge Rooms
Batman: Arkham Asylum game director Sefton Hill walks us through one of the game’s challenge rooms, demonstrating exactly what they mean by “invisible predator” gameplay. This is one of the games that really makes me regret not making it to the Game Developers Conference this year. I’m a relatively large fan of Batman, but I’ve…
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Steam Weekend Deal: Four Ubisoft Classics For $10
Steam concludes its week long sale salute to Ubisoft by offering four classic titles from the publisher for just under $10, including Beyond Good and Evil and the original Far Cry. The four Ubisoft titles – Beyond Good and Evil, Far Cry, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 – generally sell…
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The Amazing Race To Become The Average Game
CBS and Ludia have teamed up for an exciting race through exotic locales, developing video games based off the Emmy Award-winning reality show The Amazing Race. Ludia, the company that brought us Hell’s Kitchen, American Idol, and Where’s Waldo video games in the past, is looking to add another fair to middling television show adaptation…
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