Archive for November, 2009

G4TV Has 1000 MAG Beta Codes To Unload Before Midnight PST Tomorrow

Tweet If you want a shot at the latest beta build of MAG on the PlayStation 3, you may want to head on over to G4TV’s MAG Beta page and enter to win one of a thousand codes the site has to offer. Entry closes tomorrow at 11:59 PM PST.

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Former Producer May Have Revealed Unannounced New BioWare IP in LinkedIn Profile

Tweet Former BioWare Producer Daniel Roy, now traveling food connoisseur and founder of “The Backpack Foodie“, describes his time spent at BioWare between January 2008 and June 2009 on his LinkedIn profile as “Senior Producer for unreleased original IP”. Was this title scrapped following nearly two years of work? After digging around a bit, I [...]

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PS3 & LittleBigPlanet Serve As Platform For “Game Changers” $2 Million Educational Competition

Tweet Sony Computer Entertainment America has partnered with the T.MacArthur Foundation to improve education via digital media with a $2 million open competition seeking out “designers, inventors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and others to build digital media experiences – the learning labs of the 21st Century – that help young people interact, share, build, tinker, and explore [...]

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Bayonetta Demo Coming December 3rd

Tweet The Xbox Live and PlayStation Network demo of Sega’s Bayonetta will be coming to the US and Europe on December third, Sega announced today. They’re particularly proud of this one, since highly respected publications Edge (from the UK) and Famitsu (from Japan) have both awarded the game perfect scores. Bayonetta is the 11th game [...]

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Crysis Mod Takes You Back to the Future

Tweet This mod for Crysis spawns a drivable Delorean from the classic Back to the Future films. That’s cool enough in itself, but somehow the modder has managed to make the car able to go back in time (see video below). It creates a time portal and sends you back through the in-game day. Fun [...]

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New 2K Shooter Spec Ops Mission Set in Dubai

Tweet Here’s an alternate take on the mysterious 2K shooter teaser trailer revealed a few days ago by Spike TV to promote their years 7th annual Video Game Awards. The trailer below features several soldiers making their way through the war torn streets of Dubai as the track “Storm” performed by artist Björk sets the [...]

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Videogames Lead to Behavioral Addiction

Tweet An article from a Southern Utah news website highlights gaming addiction in kids and talks about how dangerous it can be.

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Mike Tyson’s Paparazzi Punch-Out!! Video

Tweet Mike Tyson is apparently hard at work promoting a new Punch Out!! title pitting his fists against the faces of snap happy paparazzi. Video clip below courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel Live. 

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GameStop Buys Majority Stake in Video Game Digital Distributor Jolt

Tweet In an effort to plan for the future world of digital distribution, video game retail chain, GameStop, purchased a majority interest in U.K. based Jolt. The company distributes gaming news as well as developing and publishing free-to-play license-based titles and browser based MMOs such as Playboy Manager, the Legends of Zork, Trukz, and Utopia [...]

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Miyamoto: 3D Isn’t Everything

Tweet Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has been quoted by Nintendo Power recently, saying that not everything needs to be 3D in the games industry. The creator of Mario and Zelda, two franchises that have had success in both dimensions, says: “I don’t think everything needs to be 3D, or that just because we’re seeing more 2D [...]

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Are You A Video Game Junkie With Mad Writing Skills? Write For Ripten

Tweet Do you eat, sleep, and breathe video games? Can you mold words into masterful works of art? If you answered yes, and are looking to join a site dedicated to providing quality content without conforming its team into style guide humping zombies, you’re in the right place.

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NFL Super Bowl Champion Steelers Connect with Soldiers in Iraq for Guitar Hero Competition

Tweet Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers’ Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, Super Bowl XL MVP Hines Ward, and several of the teams running backs and offensive line members participated in a Guitar Hero 5 “Pro vs. GI Joe” competition with a group of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 336th Military Police Company stationed in Iraq.

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Emergency Alert System Broadcasts Making Their Way To Video Game Consoles?

Tweet You know those emergency “flash flood warnings” that interrupt your television viewing experience with the ever soothing sound combination of nails on a chalkboard and a car alarm? Well, they may be making their way to your video game console in the not so distant future if one government official gets his way.

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Modern Warfare 2 Writer Reveals Alien & Undead Storyline That Never Was

Tweet The Sci-Fi fans just shed a tear for what could have been. In an interview with GamePro, Modern Warfare 2 scribe, Jesse Stern, admitted that Infinity Ward actually considered a far fetched alien, and even undead, scenario for their latest CoD sequel: “In the beginning we talked about having things in Modern Warfare 2 [...]

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Sonic The Sackboy: LittleBigPlanet Goes Hedgehog with DLC Costume Pack

Tweet Sony and Sega are teaming up to skin one beloved icon with the blue spikey exterior of another. According to the pages of PlayStation’s Hong Kong site, costumes for Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Knuckles, Werehog and Dr. Eggman will be available in that region on December 17th. We will most likely see them release [...]

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