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Littlest Pet Shop Online Has Cutest Hourglass Ever

12:40AM Mike Fahey | Why spend your evening waiting in an queue to play Aion when you can watch an hourglass spin around in EA’s new MMO, Littlest Pet Shop Online? More »
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Soundwave Get!

10:20AM Mike Fahey | After two days of misery, the 25th Anniversary Transformers Soundwave is mine. I can now go home, leaving McWhertor to cover the remainder of Comic-Con on his own. More »
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EA Re-NERFs The Wii

12:20AM Mike Fahey | Packaging a video game with a NERF gun worked so well the first time that EA’s doing it again, adding secret decoder functions to the arsenal in NERF 2: “N-Strike” Elite for the Nintendo Wii. More »
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PSAs You Won’t Be Seeing in GI Joe Game

5:00AM Brian Crecente | Corny early 80s public service announcements will be rearing their kitschy head in the modern GI Joe video game, but not the ones you really want to see.
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Trivial Pursuit Invades All Gaming Consoles

1:40AM Brian Crecente | Because there apparently aren’t enough trivia video games out there, Electronic Arts just released one based on Trivial Pursuit for all major gaming consoles. More »
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G.I. Joe Game Detailed Now, Unveiled Next Week

10:30PM Brian Crecente | Electronic Arts’ take on toy-turned-cartoon-turned-movie, G.I. Joe, will be unveiled during next week’s Toy Fair in New York. More »

More Littlest Pet Shop On The Way, Still Just For Girls

5:20AM Mike Fahey | EA continues to capitalise on its lucrative agreement with Hasbro, with Littlest Pet Shop Spring for the DS bringing even more adorable big-headed animals that boys aren’t allowed to play with to Nintendo’s handheld.

EA Applauds Their Hasbro Family Lineup

1:40AM Mike Fahey | EA dropped a press release today to announce the overwhelming success of the family games resulting from their long-term agreement with Hasbro, with 2 million titles sold globally since launch. More »

Hasbro Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit

1:20AM Mike Fahey | RJ Softwares, the creators of the popular Facebook game Scrabulous, can now rest easy as Hasbro drops the copyright infringement lawsuit they filed in order to protect their precious Scrabble.

EA Rides Pogo To Austin

12:20AM Mike Fahey | EA casually makes it’s way into Austin, Texas, with the announcement of the opening of a brand new studio formed to create games for Pogo.com. Pogo Austin’s tiny initial team of 12 are tasked with developing family-friendly games based on popular Hasbro properties. Their first game will be Pictureka! Museum Mayhem, due out on Pogo.com in November with a retail release to follow in early winter. “We are thrilled to open a studio in Austin as there is such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable game development community,” said Andrew Pedersen, Pogo General Manager. “It’s great to be a part of that spirit and I feel privileged to be working with a team full of game makers who bring such tremendous talent and experience to the Pogo team.” More »