By Nate Ralph December 09, 2008 | 2:29:00 PM Categories: Business Matters    Infogrames, parent company of Atari, has announced the purchase of Cryptic Studios, bringing the developers of the popular City of Heroes and City of Villains MMO games under the w...
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Over 500 songs are now available in Harmonix's impressive library. By Kyle Stallock , 12/09/2008 According to a report from Shacknews (via Xbox360 Fanboy ), Harmonix claims that over 28 million songs have been downloaded for their plastic instrument golden child Rock Band . Additionally...
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Beleaguered developer must raise average share price above $1 within six months. By Kris Pigna , 11/23/2008 Midway has been having a great deal of financial troubles recently, and now it seems it's catching up with them. GameSpot reports that the struggling developer has been served a ...
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Underperforming holiday titles force additional budget cuts for the company. By Dustin Quillen , 12/09/2008 Like many other businesses in this harsh economic climate, holiday sales for EA haven't been going exactly as planned. According to a Gamasutra report , things are looking so grim ...
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Could Microsoft's epic RPG lead the way for fully downloadable 360 games? By Philip Kollar , 12/10/2008 "Any way that more people can play it, the better," was Lionhead Studios boss Peter Molyneux's brave response when asked about major price-slashing on Fable 2 taking place in E...
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By Earnest Cavalli December 12, 2008 | 3:03:42 PM Categories: PC Gaming    It's almost 2009 and we still don't have any idea when a Resident Evil 5 demo will be hitting American shores. Why not relax with a bit of zombie pugilism to ease the pai...
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Classic album includes "Jeremy," "Even Flow," and "Alive." By Steve Watts , 12/14/2008 Adding to its ever-expanding pile of songs and albums, Pearl Jam's debut album Ten will be coming to Rock Band 2 in March of 2009. The reveal comes from a casual exchange be...
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By Earnest Cavalli December 11, 2008 | 3:07:27 PM Categories: Downloadable Content    Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, Xbox Live's director of programming, posted some interesting statistics on his official blog this morning, detailing the success o...
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By Chris Kohler October 10, 2008 | 1:56:31 AM Categories: Tokyo Game Show 2008    TOKYO -- Noby Noby Boy is looking a lot different these days. The last time anyone saw Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi's new game, it looked like this -- a bizarre ...
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European service manager convinced it will become a reason to buy a PS3. By Garnett Lee , 12/15/2008 Game designer David Jaffe noted on his blog last Friday that he'd logged into Home and had some first impressions: I was actually on HOME last nite, started a club and everything (Sweet Too...
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By Chris Baker December 02, 2008 | 6:06:00 PM Categories: LittleBigPlanet    Attention, New York City geeks! One of the creators of LittleBigPlanet will be speaking at the Wired Store this Thursday. Alex Evans is a co-founder of Media Molecule, the develope...
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By Jean Snow October 16, 2008 | 2:59:00 AM Categories: Console Games    You've seen the screenshots of Keita Takahashi's mysterious PlayStation 3 title Noby Noby Boy . Now experience the video trailer shown at last week's Tokyo Game Show. The game has apparently...
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The next Metal Gear game will be shown soon...whatever it is. By Sam Kennedy , 12/16/2008 UPDATE 8:00 PM: IF it is to be believed, an apparent scan of the Japanese magazine Famitsu has hit the web confirming the teased game as Metal Gear Solid for the iPhone . Maybe the magazine's story hit...
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By Chris Kohler December 18, 2008 | 2:14:23 PM Categories: Virtual Worlds    Sony's latest PlayStation Home patch kills the virtual world's voice chat feature, but adds beards. Fair trade? In an official blog post Wednesday, Sony said that Home would be ...
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By Chris Kohler December 17, 2008 | 7:05:20 PM Categories: Portable Gaming    You might have seen this elsewhere already, but I just wanted to make the public service announcement that i Love Katamari , released on iPhone this week, is ludicrously awful. Yes, i...
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Finalized script turning up in a few weeks. By Patrick Klepek , 10/23/2007 A looming strike in Hollywood has fast-tracked a number of projects, including the oft-mentioned Castlevania adaptation in the hands of Paul W.S. Anderson ( Resident Evil, Event Horizon ). Anderson had previously been a...
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By Earnest Cavalli November 19, 2008 | 2:42:46 PM Categories: Downloadable Content    As if you weren't already inundated with endless amounts of Street Fighter nostalgia leading up to the respective releases of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and S...
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Year-end poll also includes uniquely Japanese questions such as "kanji that best represented 2008". By Nick Des Barres , 12/26/2008 In a traditional year-end poll, Japanese hardcore gaming magazine Famitsu asked its readers and select retailers to rank the top gaming news stories of ...
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By Earnest Cavalli September 19, 2008 | 1:20:59 PM Categories: People    Yesterday, we told you about Ultima creator Richard Garriott's scheduled appearance on the Colbert Report last night. Today, Comedy Central released a clip to the teeming internet masses....
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Switch to 65nm chip a step towards a price drop. By Patrick Klepek , 03/13/2007 When Sony said they were removing the Emotion Engine from European PlayStation 3s, they admitted it was a move to reduce costs associated with producing the machine. Sony loses money on each PS3 sold, and the soon...
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