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Creator of Uncharted Picks Ico As “Best PlayStation Game”

You can add Naughty Dog president Evan Wells to the list of game-makers who idolize the 2001 PS2 game, Ico. Uncharted 2: Among ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 15, 2010

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Black Ops Blows Up UK Launch Records

Not only did Activision’s shooter outsell all games in the UK last week, it made last week the highest grossing in the region’s ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 15, 2010

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Bobby Kotick Is Ok with Used Game Sales

The Activision CEO calls out EA’s Project Ten Dollar and says he’s OK with gamers looking for value in old games. Used game ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2010

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Designers Name the Game That Most Inspires Them

Prominent game designers from the doctors at BioWare to Peter Molyneaux to Jonathan Blow from Braid sound off on the games that most ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2010

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Kinect Only Costs $56 to Make

Technicians at UBM TechInsights took apart Microsoft’s Kinect unit and determined that all of its parts are only worth a little under a ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2010

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PopCap to Add RPG Meta-game to Bejeweled in Japan

PopCap has teamed up with Taito to branch into the Japanese casual and social games market by combining all their games into one ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2010

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#IamSpartacus Campaign Supports Airplane Bomb Jokester

An Englishman made a joking threat that he was going to blow up an airport, and many Twitter-users re-Tweeted it to show support ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2010

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Japanese Pop Star Draws Crowds Despite Being a Hologram

Hatsune Miku is a rising star in the pop music scene in Japan, but she is just a piece of software. I’ll be ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2010

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Help Minecraft Look Better By Entering Texture Contest

The creator of Minecraft and Swedish website Webhallen are holding a contest to see who can design the best in-game textures. Minecraft is ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2010

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Martin Freeman Didn’t Read The Hobbit Until He Was Cast As Bilbo

The star of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings prequel had never read the source material until he scored the contract. Watching the ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2010

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THQ: The Future of Gaming Is Lower Prices, More DLC

THQ President Brian Farrell said that the company will release the next MX Vs. ATV racing sim at a lower price and offer ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2010

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GameStop Selling PlayStation DLC in Stores

For the first time, GameStop will offer digital content for sale at its brick and mortar retail stores. In a strangely ironic twist ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2010

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