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Activision Suddenly Pulls Nuketown 2025 Map From Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 Multiplayer

Earlier this month, Activision announced that it would let people who pre-ordered the publisher’s latest FPS mega-hit play on a re-imagined version of the popular Nuketown multiplayer map. That part of the promotion turned out to be true. But that access to the special battleground appears to have been suddenly revoked. The sudden bad news was confirmed via tweet from Treyarch game design director David Vonderhaar:


EA Sports Cancels NBA Live 13

EA Sports today cancelled its troubled NBA Live 13 project. It is the second time in three years that sports video gaming’s dominant publisher has pulled the plug on its NBA simulation at the last minute.


Fantasy Drafts Are Returning To Madden’s Career Mode

The official Twitter feed for Madden NFL 13 today announced that fantasy drafts — a mainstay feature of the game’s franchise mode for nearly a decade — will return to the game via patch, tomorrow.


NBA Live 13 Is Delayed, But This Trailer Suggests It Hasn’t Been Cancelled

NBA Live 13 is delayed indefinitely. While EA Sports may say the game isn’t delayed because, technically, it was never given a release date, the publisher today said today it’s giving the NBA Live development team more time to shore up a game that left E3 roundly panned and had gone AWOL in the three months since.


Scottie Pippen Changes His Mind, Will Appear On The Dream Team In NBA 2K13

Scottie Pippen will appear in NBA 2K13 as a member of the “Dream Team,” 2K Sports said in a statement today. “Feedback on forums, social media and community interactions were the driving force in influencing Pippen to sign a deal, as fans had shared widespread disappointment over his absence from the 1992 roster.”


Anonymous Claims PSN Hack Affecting 10 Million Accounts [Update: It's A Hoax]

Anonymous claims it broke into the PlayStation Network and has a 50 gigabyte database of email accounts and their passwords. 10 million accounts “are at risk,” says the hacker involved. The passwords appear to be encrypted, and many of the accounts published in this document appear to be from northern Europe. This still would be a great time to double-check your password security.


Custom Halo 4 Xbox 360 Bundle Leaks Ahead Of Microsoft’s Official Announcement

A Microsoft store listing, since removed, said a limited edition Halo 4 console bundle will be released, delivering the game and a specially designed case on a 320 GB Xbox 360 configuration for $US400.


Smash Bros. Creator’s Studio Closes Down

Project Sora, the studio headed up by Smash Bros. Masahiro Sakurai, has been dissolved.


Sony Buys A Cloud Gaming Service

Sony has today gone out and bought Gaikai, an online cloud gaming service similar to OnLive.


LEGO Getting A New MMO

Online game developer Funcom revealed today that it’s signed a deal with LEGO to make an online game based on LEGO Minifigures.


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