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Nintendo Sells 3 Million Wiis in December, Breaks Record

Wii sales slump? What Wii sales slump? Nintendo moved 3 million consoles in December ’09, setting a record for the most consoles sold ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2010

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Blu-Ray Gets Bigger

Now PS3 games can cram even more uncompressed data onto one CD, as Sony and Panasonic voodoo masters have worked technological wizardry to ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2010

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Nielsen: 52% of US PSP Owners Are Female

It looks like PSPz just might be for girlz after all. Remember how we mercilessly mocked the “OMG Girlz Play Games Too!” ad ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2010

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Shoot 8-Bit Zombies in Left 4 Dead “De-Make” Today

Gamers with twitchy zombie-killing trigger fingers and a taste for all things retro might want to grab a buddy for this co-op “de-make” ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2010

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Is Dissidia: Final Fantasy Coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360?

According to a Japanese game magazine, Square-Enix’s PSP crossover Final Fantasy brawler Dissidia is bound for the high-definition home consoles. Apparently there’s actually ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2010

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China to Make Up its Mind on World of Warcraft Soon

After being caught in a power struggle between two Chinese government entities for what must have seemed like an eternity to poor WoW ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2010

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Mass Effect 2 “Best Game in the History of BioWare”

This month’s Mass Effect 2 will probably be good, but just how good, you ask? Well, according to producer Adrien Cho, it’s easily ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2010

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Fall in Love This Week With Indie MMOG’s Open Beta

One-man-band Eskil Steenberg’s procedurally generated indie MMOG Love will be hitting open beta this week for everyone to try to see what the ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 4, 2010

View From the Road

A View From the Road: New Years’ (HD) Resolutions

It’s a brand new year and a brand new decade. Time for some resolutions about online gaming that I’ll invariably break within three ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 4, 2010

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Bird Goes Nuts Over FFXIII Chocobo Drink

Here’s the question: Does he want to kill it, or does he want to have sex with it? Do birds even have sex? ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 4, 2010

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Leaked Video Shows Half-Life 2 Played on Project Natal

Don’t count your chickens just yet, folks, but this leaked video may show someone using the Project Natal beta to play Valve’s beloved ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 4, 2010

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Blizzard Helps Cops Nab Drug Dealer Via WoW

Just because a wanted man can hide out in another country doesn’t mean he can hide out in Azeroth, as one unlucky drug ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJanuary 4, 2010

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