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Sega Announces Aliens: Colonial Marines Bug Hunt DLC and Season Pass

Sega has announced the first DLC pack for Aliens: Colonial Marines as well as a “season pass” that will grant discounted access to ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 8, 2013

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Activision Boss Predicts Rising Game Development Costs

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says every new console generation has resulted in higher development costs and this one will be no exception. We ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 8, 2013

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Brett Ratner Signs Up For FarmVille Television Series

The X-Men 3 director will serve as executive producer on an animated series based on Zynga’s best-known Facebook game. You may remember Brett ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 8, 2013

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Activision Reports Record-Setting Results For 2012

Thanks to Call of Duty and Skylanders, Activision made even more money in 2012 than it expected. Say what you will about franchise ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 7, 2013

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GameStop Warns Against Anti-Used Game Technology

GameStop says sales of the next Xbox will be “significantly diminished” if reports that it blocks access to used games turn out to ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 7, 2013

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Colorado Mayor Drops Violent Game Tax Plan

A clinical psychologist and the city attorney’s office have both spoken out against the idea of imposing special taxes on violent games. Aurora, ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 7, 2013

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Open Source Death Star Kickstarter Might Actually Work

The U.S. government refuses to build a Death Star, so the internet is taking it to Kickstarter. Back in January, the U.S. government ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 7, 2013

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BioWare: Next Mass Effect Isn’t Mass Effect 4

Like a cat in a box, BioWare Montreal boss Yanick Roy says the next Mass Effect game both is and is not Mass ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 7, 2013

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Kongregate Boss Claims “Core Gamers” Spend Big on Free-to-Play

The CEO of online gaming site Kongregate says core gamers drop an average of $60 per month on free-to-play games. A few days ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 7, 2013

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New Zealand Mint Issues $2 Transformers Coins

The New Zealand Mint’s new limited-edition currency will add an interesting twist to coin tosses: heads, you win, tails, Megatron! Currency typically features ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 7, 2013

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Warhammer Company Makes “Space Marine” Trademark Claim

Warhammer 40K publisher Games Workshop appears to be lining up a claim that the term “space marine” belongs to it and it alone. ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 6, 2013

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Connecticut Ponders Two More Videogame Laws

Connecticut legislators have introduced two more bills aimed at protecting children from the dangers of violent videogames. It turns out that Connecticut isn’t ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 6, 2013

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