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This Lil’ Cablinasian Will Make Cash If You Play Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Right

4:00AM Today | Evan Narcisse

Announced yesterday during EA’s Spring Showcase, PGA Tour 13′s Legacy Mode will let players of the publisher’s next golf sim step inside the golf great’s cleats at various points of his life. Including, apparently, Tiger’s awkward yet fashion-forward adolescence. More »


Mobile

That Battlefield 3 iOS Game Just Spawned Into The App Store

3:45AM Today | Evan Narcisse

Anyone who’s been watching EA knows that the publisher’s going to be tethering portable spin-offs to its big releases. Last year’s Dead Space game for iOS and Android proved such games could be great and yesterday we saw the debut of Mass Effect Infiltrator. This sector’s a big deal for EA. More »


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EA, Atari Founders Unite For Gamers At Work

2:40AM Today | Jason Schreier

EA founder Trip Hawkins and Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell both lend their stories to Gamers At Work, a new book that features interviews and anecdotes from a whole bunch of well-known game designers and developers. More »


PC

Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning: The Kotaku Review

9:00AM Yesterday | Mike Fahey

The lead designer of The Elder Scrolls III and IV, a New York Times bestselling fantasy author, and one of comics’ most notable creators walk into a development studio to create an action role-playing game based on an entirely original fantasy world. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. More »


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Tiger Woods PGA 13 Will Let You Live Out The Golf Star’s Life, Starting At Age 2

7:42AM Yesterday | Kirk Hamilton

EA’s upcoming Tiger Woods PGA 13 will feature a sort of “Jordan Challenge Mode”, which will allow players to enter the shoes of its titular golf star and live out the major events of his career, starting at age 2. More »


Mobile

BioWare’s Mass Effect IOS Game Is The Third-Person Shooter Mass Effect: Infiltrator

6:48AM Yesterday | Kirk Hamilton

At a press event in New York today, EA announced that BioWare’s hit Mass Effect franchise will be coming to iOS as a new game called Mass Effect: Infiltrator, which will tie in with their upcoming game Mass Effect 3. More »


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Looks Like There’s Another Medal Of Honor Coming

1:41PM February 7, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

Not that anyone who finished the first game (or bought Battlefield 3, or is just paying attention) will be surprised by this, but an invite for a press event just turned up in our inbox looking like this. More »


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Firemint, Iron Monkey Employees Lose Jobs, 10 Gone So Far [Updated]

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1:30PM February 4, 2012 | Logan Booker

A rumour hit us yesterday that Melbourne mobile developer Firemint was forced to let up to ten of its employees go, with redundancies made on Thursday and Friday of this week. We can now state that this is indeed fact, with several sources confirming the cuts. More »


In Real Life

BioWare To ‘Patch’ Error-Laden Mass Effect Novel

10:30AM February 4, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

Mass Effect fans recently tore into the many errors and inaccuracies in William C Dietz’s new spin-off novel Mass Effect: Deception, putting together a thoroughly damning document cataloging scores of lore-errors and mistakes in the book. More »


PC

More Than 200 Hours Of Kingdoms Of Amalur

3:00AM February 4, 2012 | Mike Fahey

Perhaps proving that you can have too much of a good thing, a recent total completion playthrough of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning clocked in at more than 200 hours, which has the lead designer wondering if maybe they might have overdone it a little. More »