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Gawker Gains GameCenter CX Streaming Rights

All Things Digital reports that Gawker has attained the rights to stream episodes of GameCenter CX, a TV show that is pretty awesome. In it, the comedian Shinya Arino — who is not very good at video games —... Continue »
By Lawrence Sonntag | 20 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Get Your Club Nintendo Coins Quick

This is something of a PSA for any of you guys that are using Club Nintendo. The cutoff for 2011 status is on June 30, and that’s approaching quickly. If you’ve earned at least 600 coins from July 1,... Continue »
By Lawrence Sonntag | 20 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Microsoft paid to keep Tales of Vesperia an XBOX 360 exclusive

Microsoft paid Namco Bandai to keep Tales of Vesperia an XBOX 360 exclusive. That’s why the PS3 version never made it off the island of Japan. However these types of exclusives occur often among the major platforms. “Microsoft paid... Continue »
By Cullen Lea | 20 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

BITMAPS 101: Finding 3DS eHope in the eShop

Maybe it was the unusable button, constantly taunting me from the 3DS home screen, but using my 3DS without the eShop felt like a tortuously incomplete experience. The moment that the feature went live, I dove in — mostly... Continue »
By Lawrence Sonntag | 20 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Valve Making Free-to-Play game

Valve marketing boss Doug Lombardi confirmed during a recent interview that Valve will be making a micro-transaction game. Last week, Valve’s Steam network unveil its support for in-game transactions, setting up the free-to-play model for future titles. Some of... Continue »
By Cullen Lea | 20 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Terraria Fanart is Awesome

The headline pretty much tells all here. TerrariaOnline.com collected some awesome fanart for Terraria, and if you want to see more, clicky click your mouse right here. I’ve spent a few long evenings in Terraria, so seeing that giant... Continue »
By Lawrence Sonntag | 20 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Take-Two Discusses Wii U Plans

Take-Two contemplates a Wii U future Continue »
By Ben PerLee | 19 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Duke Nukem Preorder from 2001 Honored With High-End Swag

So Duke Nukem Forever is a terrible, terrible game. I think we can all agree on that. It’s a given that after nearly 14 years though, the game is out, and that’s cause for some sort of celebration. No... Continue »
By Ben PerLee | 19 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Sega hacked, 1.3 million customers’ details leaked

Another day and another company that gets hacked. This time it was Sega, with hackers breaking into their Sega Pass service, stealing usernames, passwords, date of births, and email addresses of 1, 290, 755 users. No financial data was... Continue »
By Ben PerLee | 19 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Infinity Ward and Activision Court Room Battle to Commence

Ok, well maybe not Infinity Ward proper, but the two co-founders of Infinity Ward, Jason West and Vincent Zampella, who have just been given acknowledgement from a LA Superior Judge that they have a right to take Activision to... Continue »
By Ben PerLee | 18 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Bob Hoskins Clearly Hates Super Mario Bros. Movie

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 6 years old, and the school book fair was rolling in to swindle little kids out of money for crappy picture books.It was an exciting time for this little proto-nerd,... Continue »
By Ben PerLee | 18 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Crytek Not Working on Microsoft’s Next Console

Rumors this last week indicated that Crytek was one of the earliest developers to get their hands on dev kits for Microsoft’s next console. Call it the Nextbox, the Xbox 720, the Ybox, whatever, but I think we could... Continue »
By Ben PerLee | 18 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

LulzSec claims to have released XBOX Live account info

They're baaaack... Continue »
By Cullen Lea | 17 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Minecraft 360 Port Developed by 4J Studios

Markus “Notch” Persson revealed via Twitter that Minecraft for the Xbox 360 is being developed by 4J Studios, the porting specialists behind the XBLA ports of Banjo Kazooie and Perfect Dark. This counters the natural assumption that Mojang Studios... Continue »
By Lawrence Sonntag | 17 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

E3 2011: Star Trek — First Look

There's a lot to like, but still a lot of questions to answer and ideas to be executed, but this team has time. Continue »
By Rob Smith | 17 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Dramas Abound Over DNF Review Scores

The critical backlash against Duke Nukem Forever has provoked a response from Gearbox President Randy Pitchford and Duke Nukem Voice Actor John St. John, creating what may be the first major schism between critical and popular reception of a... Continue »
By Lawrence Sonntag | 17 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Windows Kinect SDK Released Today

embedded by Embedded Video If you’ve dreamt of touching a girl, then break out the cigars. Microsoft has officially launched the Kinect SDK for Windows today, legitimizing numerous hacks that look way cooler than most of the official games... Continue »
By Lawrence Sonntag | 17 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

E3 2011: Wii U – First Impressions

We knew going into E3 that Nintendo was going to announce their next console. We knew it was going to be playable and we knew that it was going to get a release date of 2012. Beyond that, everything... Continue »
By Billy Shibley | 17 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Mortal Kombat Offering Season Pass DLC

embedded by Embedded Video Warner Bros Interactive is trying out this “Season Pass” idea with Mortal Kombat, following in the footsteps of L.A. Noire. Later this month, you’ll be able to buy a $15 pass for Mortal Kombat which... Continue »
By Lawrence Sonntag | 17 June 2011 | 0 Comments   

Madden Producer leaves EA sports after 14 years

EA Sports announced today that Madden NFL producer Phil Frazier has left the company after 14 years of service. “We appreciate Phil’s 14 yeas of work on the Madden franchise and recognize he was looking for a new opportunity,” the... Continue »
By Cullen Lea | 17 June 2011 | 0 Comments