Keane Ng Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Community Games Sales Disappoint

Microsoft has released sales figures for its Xbox Live Community Games service, and some of the developers who took a risk on the ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 31, 2009

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Mount & Blade Gets Expansion

Medieval combat sim/RPG Mount & Blade will be getting a expansion later this year that will add 32-man multiplayer battles, upgraded graphics and ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 31, 2009

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Kojima Wants To Get “Crazy” With iPhone

Hideo Kojima is considering his options for upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch projects, and he says he wants to do something crazy. And ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 30, 2009

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Dante’s Inferno Gets Animated

The animated movie based on the game based on the poem. Literary snobs, you’re probably not going to want to hear about this. ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 30, 2009

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Journalist Tells Industry To Grow Up

During a journalist rant session at GDC last week, Heather Chaplin, a writer who covers the games industry for grown-up outlets like NPR, ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 30, 2009

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Bungie: ODST Is Really The End of Halo 3

Though they said earlier this week that they’d be working on Halo 3 content for “probably” two more years, what Bungie really meant ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 28, 2009

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Stardock’s DRM Solution Is Gooey

Not content to let Valve hog the spotlight, Stardock has revealed their own solution for DRM headaches: a healthy dose of Goo. Earlier ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 27, 2009

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Blizzard Reveals Item Drop Secrets

Wondering why suddenly it doesn’t seem so painful to farm a dozen wild boars for quest drops? It’s because Blizzard changed World of ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 27, 2009

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Mega Man 2 Gets iPhoned

Another classic gets ported to Apple’s wonder phone, and this time around it’s Capcom’s beloved 8-bit sidescroller, Mega Man 2. Seems that the ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 27, 2009

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Level Grind, Learn Chinese

Now you can perform one horribly mind-numbing and time-consuming activity – learning Chinese characters – by doing another one: playing a MMOG. The ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 27, 2009

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GDC 09: BattleStations: Pacific Hands On

Finally, a World War II game that gives us a history that’s written by the losers. Winston Churchill said that history is written ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 27, 2009

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Meet Final Fantasy XIII‘s Battle System

Combat in Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII will center around pseudo-real-time battles and chaining attacks. No word about super attacks with five-minute-long animations and ...

By Keane Ng Legacy AuthorMarch 26, 2009

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