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Game Industry Facing a “Collision” With Aging Gamers

A new report suggests the videogame industry is at risk of losing $3 billion in potential revenue if it fails to accommodate the ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 17, 2010

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CliffyB: Gears 2 Played With Itself Too Much

Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski says the studio got “a little too hung up” on scripted sequences in Gears of War 2 ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 17, 2010

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Treyarch Confirms Dedicated Servers for Black Ops

Treyarch boss Mark Lamia has confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops will have dedicated servers, saying he thinks they’re really quite “excellent.” ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 14, 2010

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Game Industry Suffers Fourth-Worst Sales Decline Ever

The videogame industry took a vicious pounding in April, suffering its fourth-largest year-over-year sales decline ever, according to new numbers from the NPD. ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 14, 2010

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Rumor: Raven Software Working on Call of Duty Maps

Word on the street is that Raven Software, the studio behind last year’s Wolfenstein and the upcoming Singularity, has been pulled off its ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 13, 2010

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Facebook CEO: People Who Trust Me Are “Dumb F*cks”

An old and awkwardly-honest exchange of IMs between Mark Zuckerberg and a college friend has the Facebook founder and CEO taking new heat ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 13, 2010

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Breaking Isaac Clarke’s Silence in Dead Space 2

Steve Papoutsis of Visceral Games says Isaac Clarke will do a little talking in Dead Space 2 because it’s only natural that he’d ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 13, 2010

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Nintendo President: Console Obsolesence is “Unthinkable”

Cloud gaming services like OnLive and Gaikai may be the Next Big Thing but Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata says that for the next ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 13, 2010

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Gaming Faces Its “Single Most Important Challenge” at the Supreme Court

The Entertainment Consumers Association has announced that it will file a friend of the court document with the U.S. Supreme Court regarding its ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 13, 2010

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New Mass Effect 2 DLC Coming in June – UPDATED

New DLC for Mass Effect 2 is coming next month that will set players off on a multi-level battle against a rogue AI. ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 13, 2010

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Steam for Mac Sets Portal Free – UPDATED

The Steam client for Mac is now available and to celebrate the occasion, Valve is giving away the hit puzzle game Portal absolutely ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 12, 2010

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Hurt Locker Producers Suing “Tens of Thousands” of Downloaders

The production company behind the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker is gearing up to launch a massive lawsuit against “tens of thousands” ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorMay 12, 2010

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