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Stargate: Resistance Developer Files for Chapter 11

After more than a year of dodging bullets, Stargate: Resistance developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Cheyenne Mountain’s financial ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 22, 2010

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Ubisoft Clarifies New Online DRM Scheme

Ubisoft has clarified a few details about the DRM in the upcoming PC version of Assassin’s Creed 2, reassuring gamers that they don’t ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 19, 2010

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ESA Wants Canada Kept on Piracy Watch List

The Entertainment Software Association has asked the United States Trade Representative to keep Canada on its “Priority Watch List” of countries with “inadequate ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 19, 2010

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Sony Files Patent for Universal Game Controller

Sony has filed a patent for a universal game controller that will also work with Microsoft and Nintendo consoles, and configure its buttons ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 19, 2010

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Metro 2033 Dev: “No Relationship” With STALKER Tech

Metro 2033 developer 4A Games says there’s no truth to rumors that the technology behind its upcoming shooter is based on the X-Ray ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 18, 2010

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Small App Store Games Facing Big Trouble

The director of an iPhone game studio says small-scale games on the platform could be facing the end of days as major publishers ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 18, 2010

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Switzerland Considers Tougher Rules for Game Sales

The government of Switzerland is pursuing efforts to impose tougher restrictions on the sale of “mature” videogames in the country and is also ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 18, 2010

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Nintendo Wins R4 Lawsuit in Australia

Nintendo has been awarded almost a half-million dollars in a lawsuit against an Australian online retailer who which selling the R4 mod chip. ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 18, 2010

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Ubisoft Online DRM: It’s Worse Than Expected

It looks like Ubisoft’s new online DRM scheme is going to be even worse than we thought: Gamers will need a constant internet ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 17, 2010

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The World of LordCraft is Coming!

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but it can also be a great way to get yourself sued or at least ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 17, 2010

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Alabama University Shooter Played Dungeons & Dragons

Sources have revealed that Amy Bishop Anderson, the University of Alabama biology professor who killed three faculty members last week, was a “devotee” ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 17, 2010

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EA Announces More Game Server Closures

Electronic Arts is planning more online game server closures, saying that it wants to focus its efforts on maintaining games that people are ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorFebruary 17, 2010

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