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Second Life Couple Splits Due to in-game Affair, World Laughs

Meeting someone in Warcraft or Second Life and marrying them has happened before. It’s rare, but it happens. However, if that’s all this story was about, it wouldn’t be news worthy, now would it? Amy Taylor and David Pollard met in Second Life. They married in Second Life (and in First Life known as the real [...]

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New ESRB Ratings Summaries Give Out Spoilers

The ESRB recently debuted “rating summaries.” These are handy guides, accessible online or via your web-enabled phone, dive a littler deeper into the reasons for a games rating. It’s undoubtedly a great tool for parents, but for gamers, not so much. It seems that a couple of them have begun divulging story spoilers to help [...]

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World of Warcraft on Atari 2600… Now Real

One of Blizzard’s April Fools Jokes was a 2600 version of World of Warcraft. Leave it to the gaming community to make it a reality. While not technically a 2600 title (it’s not playable on an emulator), the Windows version is now available for download. The massive, hard drive filling 2MB file will net you [...]

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King of Fighters 2002 Getting Remake Treatment

SNK Playmore must of had success with King of Fighters ‘98 ReBout, as they’ll be redoing another one in the same style. The game this time is King of Fighter 2002, a somewhat unbalanced but still fun fighter. The roster will hold a massive 66 fighters, and feature fully redone backgrounds. This time around the [...]

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PC Review: Bejeweled Twist

While hardly the revolution PopCap makes it out to be, Bejeweled Twist is a fun take on the simple, addictive “match 3” genre that made the company a household name. The key to Twist is that it maintains what made Bejeweled a classic, while changing the mechanics ever so slightly to keep it fresh. The [...]

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Capcom Hitting Stride, Shares at Five Year High

The Japanese stock market has a hot one on their hands, and that’s Capcom. The publishers stock soared to a five year high, closing at $20.30. Analysts are predicting they have a strong chance to “outperform” the expect numbers. This analysis is based on Bionic Commando, Street Fighter IV, and Resident Evil 5, all coming [...]

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Massive Entertainment Swallowed by UbiSoft

It’s becoming a three way battle between Activision, EA, and UbiSoft for who can become the biggest gaming company in the world. UbiSoft has added another step towards world domination by adding Massive Entertainment to their roster. You may remember them from such games are World in Conflict and Ground Control. Note that UbiSoft may [...]

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Another Day, Another Lawsuit: EA Sued for Drum Pedal

It’s kinda hard to play Rock Band without a peddle, or at least it’s not that fun. Monte Morgan now gets his 15 minutes of fame after suing EA, Harmonix, and Viacom for what he claims is a defective foot pedal inside the original Rock Band box. He states the pedal “fractures under ordinary and [...]

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Midway Riding on MK vs. DC for Holiday Quarter

Midway? They’re the ones that make Mortal Kombat. Well, it seems the house that MK built isn’t doing so well. In the third quarter of ‘08, Midway lost $75.9 million, despite what the company calls successful titles like TNA Impact and Unreal Tournament III. As such, they’re hoping the fourth quarter will pick things up, [...]

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Starcraft II Released as Three Separate Campaigns

It seems Blizzard is making up for the long wait for Starcraft II by releasing it as a trilogy. And by “making up for the long wait” we really mean “filling the void in their pocketbooks.” The three versions were confirmed at BlizzCon by Rob Pardo, executive VP of game design. He said to look [...]

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THQ Closing Studios, More to Come

Fans of the Stuntman series have entered into a mourning stage. Paradigm Entertainment has closed its doors in a move by THQ to cut costs. Likewise, Juice Games has been heavily downsized for the same reason. More are expected, as THQ’s studio listing is only at 11, down from 16. Who the others are remains [...]

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Blizzard’s Next MMO Not Warcraft Sequel

All of you Warcraft players excited for the next installment after seeing job announcements for help on developing Blizzard’s “next-gen” MMO are in for a bit of a disappointment. As it turns out, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed that it is most definitely not a sequel to the world’s more popular MMO. In fact, [...]

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