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FF13 Bosses Respond to Western Review Scores

Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama and producer Yoshinori Kitase have addressed concerns that the game is too linear by saying that critics ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 16, 2010

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Google Apologizes for Buzz

Search giant Google has offered an apology for aspects of its new social networking service Buzz that have been criticized as being incredibly ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 16, 2010

View From the Road

A View From The Road: Boldly Going Nowhere

Just over a week ago, we learned that Star Trek Online had reached one million users right out of the gate – an ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 15, 2010

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Learning Lessons From Cooking Mama

When you move to a new apartment and find it’s a hellhole, and need something to occupy your time, why not let Cooking ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 15, 2010

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Turning Videogame Recipes Into Tasty Treats

What would happen if you took foods from videogames and tried to make your own real-life tasty treats out of them? “Red Warrior ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 11, 2010

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StarCraft II Beta Will Start This Month

In today’s Activision-Blizzard earnings conference call, Blizzard big boss Mike Morhaime confirmed that the long-awaited StarCraft II beta would start before the end ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 10, 2010

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The Muppets Demonstrate Danger of YouTube Videos

The Internet can be a hard place to try to catch a break, as poor Beaker learns quite well. I can think of ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 10, 2010

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North America Gets Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 Bundle?

Unsurprisingly, the first-ever “proper” Final Fantasy game on the Xbox family will come with its own 250GB bundle – and perplexingly, will include ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 10, 2010

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Are Hardcore PC Gamers Using Windows 7 Over Vista?

Hardcore PC gamers may already be using Windows 7 more than Windows Vista, according to data gathered through digital gaming platform Steam. Windows ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 10, 2010

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Australians Overwhelmingly Support R18+ Rating

Respondents to the Australian government survey debating whether to institute a R18+ rating are overwhelmingly in favor of the idea. And I do ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 10, 2010

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Behold the Giant Battle.net 2.0 Preview

Do you want a giant, in-depth preview of how the new Battle.net will work? Check out the preview that just went up on ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2010

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Halo: Reach Covenant Are “Terrifying”

With the upcoming Halo: Reach, Bungie was given the chance to reimagine its Covenant baddies as something truly “terrifying,” says the game’s executive ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2010

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