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Apr
15
Uhoh – over at Broken Toys, Lum has posted a story called ‘Acclaim: Being Black Is Awesome!’, which reveals: “Acclaim’s new DANCE! Online dancing-required microtransaction-driven MMO has decreed that being a black person on the dance floor is so totally awesome, you must earn the privilege.”
Let’s just cite the particular argument as Lum explained [...]
Apr
15
Xbox Live Activity for 4/9
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Here is a list of Xbox live activity from the week of 4/9. It’s the usual, but you can see Guitar Hero II is notched itself up into the 3rd spot.
Xbox 360 Top Live Titles
1 Gears of War
2 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas
3 Guitar Hero II
4 Call Of Duty 3
5 GRAW 2
6 Crackdown
7 Oblivion
8 [...]
Apr
15
Destructoid’s games of the week for 04/15/07: Count Duckula edition!
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I'm one of those people with an uncanny, and totally useless, memory for bizarre bits of pop culture minutiae, hence, this week, I had decided to write something about an ancient, British children's cartoon about an anthropomorphic, vegetarian, vampire duck; Count Duckula. After searching my local Internet tubes for pictures to go along with this [...]
Apr
15
Inside The OXM Universe
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So, I recently got Issue 70 of Future’s U.S. Official Xbox Magazine, which was my first chance to check out the ‘OXM Universe’ episodic game which is _only_ available on OXM coverdiscs starting with the April 2007 (#69) disc. And… so far, it’s not quite ‘there’ yet. But let’s explain more!
OXM’s Dan Amrich has [...]
Apr
15
Beating Capcom to the punch: RE4 PC played with Wii remote
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Tiger over at Global Donimation has a habit of one-upping big developer announcements. Not two days after the official Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition news dropped he created a GlovePIE script that allows players to get their Wii on in Resident Evil 4 for the PC, and has made the script available for all [...]
Apr
15
Luke Smith clears schedule to play Halo 3 beta, leaving Ziff Davis
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In the most shocking cliffhanger ending since NBC's Heroes hiatus, the latest episode of The 1up Show ended with news editor, Luke Smith, announcing that he will be leaving Ziff Davis. His last day will be on April 27th.
This comes as a surprise to fans of the show and Smith, who has garnered respect [...]
Apr
15
I have come to the conclusion that any anime ever can become 1 billion times better simply by adding random Super Smash Bros sound effects. Thanks to younger and sexy sister site Japanator for this odd video.
Me and God Len have decided to end our battle. We've both come to the realisation that we're both [...]
Apr
15
Despite a lack of killer software, the Wii is proving to be quite the piggy bank for Nintendo. According to the latest numbers, this little white console has sold more than 6.5 million units worldwide since its launch in late November. According to the latest numbers from Japan, the system is catching on rather [...]
Apr
15
After a pretty short run (the blog only soft-launched in December 2006), Om Malik has posted on parent site GigaOm revealing that “…we are putting [his company’s game blog] GigaGamez on hold.”
Malik notes: “With our current focus, it was one of our blogs that just didn’t catch fire. That blog struggled to get out [...]
Apr
15
TV Station Manager? Sure, No Problem!
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Got a press release which reveals a new independent PC game with a neat twist on the ‘Tycoon’ paradigm: “Winter Wolves Games has just released their new PC/Mac downloadable simulation game called TV Station Manager. The game lets you take control of a small independent television station about to go bankrupt.”
So how does that [...]