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Here Are The 64 Players Vying For The Madden 13 Cover… I Think

6:00PM February 5, 2012 | Owen Good

In past years I’ve used the Saturday before the Super Bowl to handicap the field for the next cover of Madden NFL. Since the last time I did that, EA Sports put the honours up to a fan-voted, 32-player tournament in 2011, and on Thursday announced it was doubling that field to 64 for 2012. More »


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‘Xbox 720, PS4 Must Show A Dramatic Leap In Quality’

5:00PM February 4, 2012 | Steve Peterson

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … More »


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A Defense Of Video Game Cloning

4:00PM February 4, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

There have been a lot of stories about game-cloning flying around lately, from Zynga’s cloning of Nimblebit’s popular iOS game Tiny Tower to Spry Fox’s lawsuit against 6waves for cloning Triple Town. More »


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Deus Ex Designer Honoured With Game Developer Lifetime Achievement Award

7:30AM February 4, 2012 | Mike Fahey

With nearly 30 years in game development and a career spent crafting unique gaming experiences like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, Warren Spector has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. More »


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1.4 Million Unsold Video Games Won’t Be Buried

5:00AM February 4, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

Yesterday, we learned that the video game publisher THQ is sitting on 1.4 million unsold copies of uDraw, a hugely unsuccessful game designed around a tablet peripheral. uDraw was such a disastrous investment — the publisher lost around $US100 Million on production and lost revenue — that it is almost singlehandedly responsible for their dire financial straits. More »


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Microsoft To Seize Fake Halo 4 Beta Domain

5:00AM January 29, 2012 | Owen Good

Whether motivated by trolling or delusional wish fulfillment, some guy tossed up a page pretending to be a registration site for a Halo 4 multiplayer beta last week. 343 Industries, the game’s developer, quickly branded that as a fake, and the site was taken offline. That’s not good enough for Microsoft. More »


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‘PlayStation Is The Most Powerful Game Brand In The World’

4:50PM January 28, 2012 | Steve Peterson

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Square Enix Launching Site For Hitman Fans

1:00AM January 28, 2012 | Evan Narcisse

Agent 47 may just look like a bald guy in a suit from the front but that iconic barcode on the back of his neck lets you know that there’s something different about him. Something deadly. More »


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EA Lawsuit Doesn’t Mean Madden’s Exclusive Is A License To Be Killed

3:00PM January 22, 2012 | Owen Good

Of all ironies, it’s Electronic Arts now asking a judge to rule that some video game depictions of real-life names and symbols and products don’t need a licence. More »


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‘PlayStation 4 Must Look Beyond Games’

4:30PM January 21, 2012 | Steve Peterson

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … More »