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Teens Construct Stellar Battlestar Galactica Flight Sim

A group of five students, ranging from 8th to 12th grade, want you to gun down virtual toasters using a functional Colonial Viper ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 26, 2012

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Eve Online Panel Encourages Harassing Suicidal Player

CCP is investigating an Eve Online FanFest panel for sharing a severely depressed player’s contact info, then encouraging others to harass him until ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 26, 2012

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Mass Effect 3 Outrage Causes Unrelated Game to Change its Ending

If you beat Frozen Synapse this week, don’t be surprised to find a t-rex in a sweet hat waiting near the credits to ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 23, 2012

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Enhanced Baldur’s Gate Headed to iPad

Overhaul Games’ upcoming Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition is going mobile, and we’ve got the screenshots to prove it. It wasn’t too long ago ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 22, 2012

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ModNation Racers Dev Creates LittleBigPlanet Karting

Sony has hired the developer behind ModNation Racers (a game many would call Mario Kart meets LittleBigPlanet) to develop LittleBigPlanet Karting (a game ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 22, 2012

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ArenaNet Explains Guild Wars 2 Microtransactions

ArenaNet hopes that a new in-game economy and a more integrated design will make its upcoming MMO’s microtransactions as fair as possible. Somewhat ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 21, 2012

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GAME Gets Delisted, Enters Administration

News on GAME’s future came earlier than expected, and sadly, things aren’t looking good. Much like an asteroid tumbling through our galaxy on ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 21, 2012

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Portal 2 Crowned BAFTA’s “Best Game”

Portal 2, Battlefield 3, and Batman: Arkham City clean up at the 2012 BAFTA Awards, while Skyrim gets skunked. The 2012 British Academy ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 19, 2012

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BioWare Reveals Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Stats

A new infographic on Mass Effect 3’s online coop mode proves that most of us make boring choices and stink at the game. ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 19, 2012

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Microsoft Hiring For New “AAAA” Xbox Title

Do you have strong business acumen, creative vision, and game development/production experience to define, build and lead a world-class production team? Then crank ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 19, 2012

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Artificially Intelligent Being Designs Videogame for Humans

Creative AI (and real-world GLaDOS wannabe), Angelina, has designed a game about humans fleeing sentient robots who want to kill them. Nope. Not ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 17, 2012

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Notch Calls Origin “a Good Thing”

While the influential indie developer doesn’t think EA’s service is perfect, he’s glad that platforms like Steam now have some competition. One of ...

By Mike Kayatta Legacy AuthorMarch 16, 2012

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