Archive for March, 2009

No, you’re not dreaming: EA pulls Sims 3 DRM

Tweet EDGE reports the impossible today: EA taking DRM out of a game. The Sims 3 will reportedly ship with just a serial code and no online activation needed, and no restrictive and unnecessary DRM. The head of the Sims 3 studio, Rod Humble, described DRM as “overly invasive”, and added that serial-based verification is [...]

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GDC09: Halo 3 Actually Does End with ODST

Tweet Contrary to reports made yesterday about a Bungie Producer saying that the developer would be working on Halo 3 content for another two years, Bungie is now stating that there are no current plans to bring any further content to Halo 3 once ODST is released this fall.

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Modern Warfare 2 Drops Call of Duty Moniker

Tweet When the teaser trailer for Modern Warfare 2 debuted earlier today, a lot of people took notice at the absence of the “Call of Duty” title, wondering if it was a mistake. As it turns out, it was completely intentional. 

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GDC09: League of Legends Has Great Characters

Tweet Game: League of Legends: Clash of Fates Why you should care: Riot Games has come up with a tremendously quirky fun and varied cast of Champions for you to do battle with. You can choose from a tormented Minotaur that still wears the chains of his enslavement, a happy little girl that can turn [...]

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Nifty Lil’ Xbox 360 LCD Case Mod

Tweet SgtSmackaho from the BenHeck.com forums recently lost his job – presumably for smacking a ho – so he decided to use his newfound free time to construct an awesome Xbox 360 LCD case mod.

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Molyneux Confirms Spring as our Current Season, Fable II DLC Details Blossom Soon After

Tweet In a recent chat, Lionhead Studios head Peter Molyneux revealed that the current change in temperature we are experiencing is in fact Spring, and with that comes another Fable II DLC. “The next DLC comes out in the spring … We’re in the spring now so don’t think months, think more like weeks. It’s [...]

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GDC09: Project Offset Returns in Meteor Tech Demo

Tweet Hey look who it is, our old friend, Mr. Project Offset. Where have ya been, buddy? We missed you. Well, thanks for showing your face at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week. The new video for Project Offset from GDC09 is a tech demo showing a meteor striking and it looks [...]

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GDC09: ‘The Next MGS’ Awaits Us, May Star Raiden

Tweet Hideo Kojima, creator of the famed Metal Gear Solid series, held a keynote at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Towards the end of the conference, he revealed his next mission: ‘The Next MGS’. In the image, we see a person who looks like it’s definitely Raiden turning his back towards the [...]

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GDC09: OnLive Walkthrough Shows It All

Tweet Over at the Game Developers Conference, OnLive is being demoed and boy does it look amazing. It has all the features any gamer could want. First off, it has a Showcase of games displayed in such a stylistic way with a catalog of games from great publishers such as EA, Take-Two and 2D Boy. [...]

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Mega Man 2 Now on the iPhone/iPod

Tweet Well this is odd and unexpected. While browsing through the iTunes Store for some new iPhone apps, I came across a new release from Capcom. That’s right, Mega Man 2 has been released in iTunes Store today, at the low price of $4.99. The iPhone version features a virtual arcade, making it seem like [...]

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Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time announced

Tweet Shacknews reports that Insomniac have announced a new addition to the Ratchet and Clank series on the PS3, entitled “A Crack in Time”. The title will pick up where Quest for Booty left off. There are no further details at the moment, but assume that it will launch on the PSN for about $15 [...]

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Gears of War 2 “Snowblind” DLC Map Pack Flanks Xbox 360 March 31st

Tweet The boys and girls at Epic Games have been working hard on some new DLC to extend the life of your Gears of War 2 purchase. Gamers will be able to get their grubby mitts on the Snowblind Map Pack, containing four new multiplayer maps (Grindyard, Fuel Depot, Under Hill, and Courtyard), March 31st [...]

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GDC09: Ripten Radio Day 1 Impressions

Tweet Ripten’s Jon Zungre and Emily Balistrieri discuss the highlights and low points of their first day at GDC09. Ok well, technically this is Jon’s first day there … Emily has actually been there since before the event started. She even helped them set up. So nice of her. Hit the jump and have a [...]

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GDC09: ODST Not the End of Halo 3 Content

Tweet Worried that the upcoming ODST expansion for Halo 3 would be the last piece of content for the highly popular FPS? Don’t worry any longer, because it seems like Bungie has plenty more to offer for Halo 3 in the future. “Halo 3 took two and a half years to make, and we’re still [...]

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God of War 3 GDC footage leaked

Tweet The above video shows leaked footage of the much-anticipated God of War 3. It;s not just a trailer this time, though; it’s gameplay footage. Nothing spectacular, but gameplay footage nonetheless. The video shows Kratos fighting some enemies, and then fighting a bigger enemy by bashing it’s head for about thirty seconds. Supposedly the game [...]

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