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Microsoft Investigates Factory Worker Suicide Threats

Microsoft has looked into the whole workers-threatening-suicide thing and has determined it wasn’t a working conditions issue. As we reported earlier in the ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2012

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Revisit 2004 with Killzone on PSN

Guerilla Games’ PS2 “Halo-killer” Killzone joins the PS2 classics lineup on January 24th. The PSN release is a direct port of the original ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2012

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Microsoft or Sony Dropping Out of the Hardware Business, Predicts Gaikai

Are Microsoft or Sony thinking of giving up on the next-gen console race? They are, according to Cloud-based gaming company Gaikai. “Not all ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 11, 2012

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Is Anakin Skywalker a Positive Role Model?

Sure, he was a petulant, child-murdering, republic-betraying monster, but he really loved his mum. Game Developer Ross Mills is not a man to ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 11, 2012

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Japanese Censors: Sexually Aggressive Women Turn Kids Gay

These minutes from a Japanese prefectural authority meeting show manga censors have some … odd ideas. Back in 2010 Japan signed into law ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 11, 2012

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EA ‘Couldn’t Be More Happy’ With The Old Republic Launch

Despite issues ranging from the serious to the hilarious, EA reckons the launch of Star Wars: The old Republic has gone swimmingly. The ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 11, 2012

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Xbox 360 Factory Workers Threaten Mass Suicide

Over 300 former employees of a Foxconn Xbox 360 manufacturing plant in China threatened to commit mass suicide over missing compensation. According to ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 10, 2012

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Deus Ex

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] I never asked for this shitty sense of humour, etc. It doesn’t seem so long ago that I was expressing doubts ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 10, 2012

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Xbox 360 Reaches 66 Million Sold

Microsoft sells nearly 10 million Xbox 360s over the holiday season, and Kinect sales reach 18 million. According to the video on the ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 10, 2012

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Analyst: 360’s Focus on Entertainment Means Fewer Exclusives

One market analyst reckons Microsoft’s focus on turning the Xbox 360 into a “media center” explains the console’s lack of exclusives. We’ve all ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 10, 2012

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Star Trek Online Free-to-Play Access Begins

Star Trek Online has gone where nearly every MMO that doesn’t end in “craft” has gone before; free-to-play. Players with a current or ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 10, 2012

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The Old Republic Is Looking a Bit Smoother

An upcoming patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic will add new content, fix a few bugs and enable anti-aliasing. Like a lot ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 9, 2012

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