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NCAA 10 Generates, Then Sees Filtered, ‘Gay’ Roster Name
11:00AM Owen Good | The ongoing controversy over language filtering on Xbox Live has another curious manifestation – rosters that EA Sports’ TeamBuilder auto-names get filtered when they’re imported into the Xbox Live version of NCAA 10. More »
Features
33 Months Of Motion Control, The Wii’s Hidden Struggle
4:00AM Stephen Totilo | The Wii Revolution has succeeded. Everyone knows this. What was once doubted and mocked now dominates and broadly entertains. But during the last 33 months of Wii success, a secret and newly relevant struggle has been hidden in plain sight. More »
Culture
Houston Chronicle: Video Game Racism “The New Norm”?
12:00PM Owen Good | No, not that guy. Norm, as in, status quo. As in, we’ve masticated the shooting-black-people argument in Resident Evil 5, now let’s pile on Call of Juarez and an unreleased game for good measure. More »
Features
The Thinning Video Game Fall Of 2009
3:40AM Stephen Totilo | It was a buzz topic last night at a still-embargoed event for an upcoming holiday 2009 game: Something’s wrong with this fall. At least for hardcore gamers. (Or maybe something’s finally right?) More »
Culture
John Carmack: Criminal Mastermind (And Apple Fanboy)
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | They say you learn something new every day. For today? You learn that when he was only 14, id’s John Carmack broke into a school to steal some Apple II computers. Apple IIs! More »
Features
12:30PM David Wildgoose | The price of games is a popular topic of discussion round these parts. Whether it’s on my Ask Me Stuff posts, in the various reader emails I receive, or seen in the comments you make every day, it’s clear a lot of you feel you’re paying too much for your games. But is this really the case? Are games more expensive in Australia than elsewhere in the world? Let’s take a closer look at the issue. More »
Monday Musings: The Price Is Right?
12:30PM David Wildgoose | The price of games is a popular topic of discussion round these parts. Whether it’s on my Ask Me Stuff posts, in the various reader emails I receive, or seen in the comments you make every day, it’s clear a lot of you feel you’re paying too much for your games. But is this really the case? Are games more expensive in Australia than elsewhere in the world? Let’s take a closer look at the issue. More »
News
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Upon first seeing the DJ Hero peripheral this morning, many people remarked on how simple it looked. Three buttons and a turntable, and that was it. But is that it? More »
Is There More To The DJ Hero Controller?
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Upon first seeing the DJ Hero peripheral this morning, many people remarked on how simple it looked. Three buttons and a turntable, and that was it. But is that it? More »
Features
2:00PM David Wildgoose | What’s the Monday Musings? It’s a new regular column designed to get you thinking and talking about game design or an industry topic. I’ll be tackling a specific subject each Monday, but today we’re looking at Fallout 3 and the idea of morality in games. More »
Monday Musings: The Morality of Megaton
2:00PM David Wildgoose | What’s the Monday Musings? It’s a new regular column designed to get you thinking and talking about game design or an industry topic. I’ll be tackling a specific subject each Monday, but today we’re looking at Fallout 3 and the idea of morality in games. More »
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