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While You Were Sleeping

Alright, I’ve just about managed to drag myself out ofbed — and that means you have to wake up too! Read this video game news. Many bothans woke up to bring you this information…


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What’s Hideo Kojima Doing On The New Z.O.E.? Not Enough.

Late last week, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima revealed a new Zone of the Enders project. Fans of the sci-fi series have been waiting for Kojima to start work on a new Z.O.E. The thing is, he won’t be doing much much work on it.


May 28, 2012
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Capcom Planning To Reduce Development Cycles

It’s strange, I’ve somehow become accustomed to associating long development periods — say three to four years — with quality products, which is a bit silly. Now Capcom has come out and stated that it wishes to reduce the time its games spend in development, and doesn’t mind if it has to spend extra cash to make it so.


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David Cage’s Goal With Heavy Rain Was To ‘Kill Game Over’

Gamasutra currently has a pretty interesting interview with David Cage, where he discusses, among other things, the development of Heavy Rain — its successes, its failures. His observation that Heavy Rain had to completely do away with ‘Game Over’ situations was perhaps the most interesting for me, mainly because that was precisely what I felt made the game so compelling.


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While You Were Sleeping

Hello everyone. Another day another dollar yall. Let’s see what video game stuff went down while you were sleeping.


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Madden 13 Swears It’s Not The Same Old Song — So It Had To Get A New One

No sports video game — no video game, I’d argue — is as harangued as Madden NFL. Read any forum thread, read the comments to any story, including this one, and the list of gamer demands for the upcoming release is quite long and quite detailed. “New music” doesn’t appear in any of it.


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Need For Speed: Most Wanted Is Confirmed

Not too much of a huge surprise, as Electronic Arts earlier this month told everyone it’d be publishing another Need For Speed title in the final three months of the year, and everyone figured that would be Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2. Yesterday, IGN reported that an EA E3 booth schedule being sent around confirms the game will be shown in Los Angeles.


May 27, 2012
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Square Enix’s US Boss Calls Activision ‘Crazy’ For Dumping True Crime: Hong Kong

Publishing executives say complimentary stuff about their upcoming games all of the time. So what. But there’s an unusual history with Sleeping Dogs, which Square Enix will release Aug. 14 — it was formerly known as True Crime: Hong Kong until Activision washed its hands of the franchise in the Feb. 2011 bloodbath that killed off Guitar Hero.


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Bogus Canabalt HD Hits App Store Just In Time To Scam Off Indie Mega-Sale

You may have heard that Canabalt’s on sale this weekend as part of the Because We May sale. But if you see something called Canabalt HD on the App Store, don’t buy it. It’s a fake.


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Curt Schilling’s Big Huge 38 Studios Debacle

For me, this week was great. The iOS title I am working on, Foodie Truck, is coming along great. The FPS that I am working on, ReKoil — Sorry, Adam — is also looking really amazing; both teams are killing it. And then I heard about 38 Studios.