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First Screen from NFS MMO Shows Customizable UI
A post on Need for Speed: World Online’s official blog explains its “a user-selectable gadget interface designed specifically for the PC.” Pretty much anything can be added to, deleted from, or moved about the readout. “We think its about time PC gamers had games that allowed them to arrange their information their way,” says a…
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Good Night, Good Game?
Here’s a gameplay trailer for "Night Game" a WiiWare title that looks to be one of 2009’s it-games in the indie community. The physics look a little LBP-esque to me on some of these levels. The mood and the lighting and the music are very relaxing, too. In fact, I suddenly want to take a…
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UncategorizedAnd How Much Does *Your* Dad Love You?
About two years ago, a proud father began work on a custom pink arcade cabinet for his then 2-year-old daughter. Well, now she’s four, and he just moved it into her room. Welcome to “Bella’s Arcade,” built by James, who has built and restored other arcade cabinets. This cabinet is built 80 percent to scale,…
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RB Classic Rock Track Pack Coming to Retail
I love it when the ESRB rates music games, because it means someone, somewhere, is marking down every “damn” “ass” and “bitch” they hear on a clipboard. In this case, we can piece together a few of the songs that might be on the Rock Band Classic Rock Track Pack, which just got rated and…
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Landmark Baseball Sim Being Ported to iPhone
Earl Weaver Baseball, the heavyweight of baseball simulations in the late 1980s and one of the titles that helped create EA Sports, is being ported to the iPhone by its original programmer. It won’t be called Earl Weaver Baseball, as he’d need to be paid for his name, and this is probably a $4.99 iPhone…
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Michael Gallagher Probably Had a Better Year than You
ESA top dawg Michael Gallagher took home more than $800,000 in cash and prizes in his first year on the job, GamePolitics reports. That compensation package came in an IRS filing covering April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008, so it precedes the 25 percent decline in ESA membership, and the fun-size, booth-babeless E3 of…
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New ‘Late Night’ to Treat Game Debuts Like Movie Premiere
Jimmy Fallon, who takes over “Late Night” from Conan O’Brien beginning on Monday, says the show under him will cater to the interests of a younger audience “into tech stuff, gadgets, video games.” Speaking to Movieweb, Fallon – the former Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live – says appealing to the coveted 18-to-34 year…
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L.A. Times Asks State to Let a Bad Law Die
Calling California’s violent video games law “an embarrassment,” the L.A. Times says the state shouldn’t create another by appealing its overturning to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Times pointed out the law’s obvious flaws – too broadly defined, zero causal link between violent games and the harms claimed, etc., before winding up with the common…
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Rock Band 2 on PS3 and Wii Dated for UK
Our friends across the pond who don’t game on the 360 will be pleased to learn Rock Band 2‘s finally gotten its Great British release dates. PlayStation 3 and PS2 gamers get the game March 27; Wii gamers will see it April 24. The game had been Xbox 360 exclusive in the UK since its…
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Weekend Coupons: Here to Console You
So Lost Planet is $5 on Steam and Warhawk’s down to $20 on PSN. That we knew. What other values can be had out there? • For those waffling on getting into PS3 gaming, Best Buy is hoping a console bundled with either Guitar Hero III or Guitar Hero; Aerosmith (game and guitar) AND a…
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UncategorizedNo, Apple is Not Resurrecting the Dreamcast
But this is a working Dreamcast inside an iMac G3 case. Modder logicdustbin had some spare G3s and a 15-inch LCD monitor laying around, had a moment of inspiration, and soon the iCast was born. “So I started taking shit apart,” he says, and seeing the monitor fit in nicely the Dreamcast was the next…
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EA Honcho: “We Didn’t Make Hits” in ’08
Remember EA boasted that last year it put out 15 games getting 80 or better on Metacritic? Guess that’s no longer an operative statement. A senior exec told investors “We didn’t make hits” last year. John Pleasants, EA’s chief operating officer, told a Goldman Sachs conference last week the company’s plans for success last year…
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Kotaku Originals: Punch Out and PSP
Significant announcements for the PSP and Nintendo led the charge this week. Buzz about a UMD-less PSP almost outshone word of major titles releasing on Sony’s handheld and Ninty’s upcoming catalog. The week in originals: PSP Three Reasons This Could Be the PSP’s Year LittleBigPlanet PSP to Feature Creation, Interoperability With PS3 Perry: PSP 2…
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