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Speculation: Marvel To Buy THQ And Make Video Games In-House

THQ’s in dire straits, financially. Marvel — now a wholly owned division of Disney — has lots and lots of money. Maybe, if one buys the other, they hold hands and make beautiful games together?


October 14, 2011
In Real Life

Locked Out LeBron Finds Work In Madden

With the first two weeks of the NBA season canceled thanks to the lockout, some players have gone looking for alternative employment. Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz, for example, was in a Starcraft pro gaming tournament this past weekend, just barely finishing out of the money.


August 9, 2011
In Real Life

If You Were A Video Game Console, Would You Be As Cool As Ellen?

“If you were a video game console, what would you be?” is not the sort of question one would expect to find on the Facebook page of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, yet here we are.


October 28, 2010
News

People Who Made GoldenEye Were Almost Purchased By The People Who Are Making GoldenEye

Giant video game company Activision, who are publishing a Wii homage to GoldenEye next month, were thisclose back in the day to buying Rare, the studio behind the original 1997 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter, according to an interview in Develop.


July 7, 2010
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Obsidian Wouldn’t Mind Tackling A Chrono Trigger Sequel

Now that they’re working on Dungeon Siege 3 for Square Enix, are there any other Square Enix series the company would like a stab at? “Chrono Trigger,” says CEO Feargus Urquhart.


April 4, 2010
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Duke Nukem Forever’s Gold Date Would Have Been April Fool’s

Had the farce of its development not abruptly dead-ended in May of last year, April 1, 2010 was to have been the date Duke Nukem Forever went to gold master – that is, was at last finished.


February 9, 2010
News

Shakespeare As Video Game Designer

There’s not much Shakespeare in video games, no major Hamlet games and only scattered hopes for a Macbeth one. The lead creator of Dante’s Inferno thinks the writer himself, could have been a game design visionary.


September 1, 2009

The Disney Marvel Team-Ups We’d Like To See

Now that Disney will soon be the parent company of Marvel Entertainment, we can begin brainstorming the ultimate video game crossovers between the House of Ideas and the Magic Kingdom.