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December 30, 2011
The 3DS Still Beats Out the Vita in Japan
Despite that it's not out here in the states, the PlayStation Vita is currently out in Japan. Its release was met with the usual kinds of enthusiasm and long lines. And it has met tons of favorable praise from the hordes of Sony faithful as well as local Japanese media outlets. However, when it comes to making comparisons with its competitor, Nintendo and its 3DS, that's a bit of a different story.
The sales numbers from the latest reports show that Nintendo still dominates the portable gaming console market, despite the huge sales of the Vita. According to some
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December 29, 2011
Ellen McLain Will Be Voicing Characters in DOTA 2
Ellen McLain, who is known for voicing the Administrator in Team Fortress 2 and GlaDOS in the Portal series, will be returning to voice a couple of characters in DOTA 2 (according to an article on Joystiq). DOTA 2 (aka Defense of the Ancients, aka the reason why my homework was neglected in college) will be released sometime (read: Valve Time) in 2012.
In a recent interview, Ellen stated that she and her husband John Patrick Lowrie (who voices the Sniper in Team Fortress
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December 29, 2011
Peter Moore of EA Claims BF3 Dented Modern Warfare 3
Modern Warfare 3 left its mark during November, video gaming's biggest retail month. And it still continues to dominate the video game scene right now. However, Peter Moore, EA's CEO, insists that it's game, Battlefield 3, managed to take a chunk out of the huge series' market share.
"I think when the dust fully settles, maybe when we're looking at the end of our fiscal year, we'll do an analysis and I think we will have taken [market] share...I don't think there's any doubt about that, unless everything BF3 sells is just incremental."
Moore
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December 28, 2011
California Pulls Portal Prank on New York Public Sculpture
In the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan Island sits Alamo, a giant cube sculpture by Tony Rosenthal which was created in 1967. The cube is not that far from from New York University, The New School, and few other New York landmarks. It's been known to show up in various videos as well be the victim of a few pranks, like being turned into a giant Rubiks Cube.
Just recently, reported on Kotaku, the latest stunt involving Alamo turned into the Weighted Companion Cube from Portal. Oversized pieces of fabric were laid over the famous sculpture
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December 28, 2011
3DS Owners! Want the Second 3DS Pad? It's Only at Gamestop.
So if you're a 3DS owner, you've heard about the new add-on for Nintendo's portable console, the Circle Pad Pro. The Circle Pad Pro, a $20 add-on will add a right analog stick and two more shoulder buttons, will only be sold at Gamestop, according to Kotaku.
So you'll only be able to get this peripheral via your local Gamestop or through their website. Which I think from a gamer's standpoint to be exclusively stupid and inane. I was born and raisedin middle of nowhere
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December 16, 2011
A Wiimote Explodes Due to Parents Putting Lithium Batteries instead of Regular Alkaline Ones
Just recently, a Belleville, Michigan family came home to find their room full of smoke. However, it wasn't a fire that created the smoke, it was one of their Wii remotes. How? Well it exploded. Luckily nobody was hurt since they were out of the house while it happened. The only damage was the shrapnel flying through the room and damaging a few parts of the house.
So how did the Wii-mote explode? Well the family didn't know that in the manual for the Wii, Nintendo advises for its users to not use lithium batteries. Unfortunately the family didn't know and had installed
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Japan's Sales Charts Show That They Love Modern Warfare 3.
So according to some news from Joystiq, it seems that Japan really likes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on both consoles, they just like the PS3 version more. But that is expected if you have read my earlier blog posts about the relationship between the Xbox 360 and the land of the rising sun. Anyway, the numbers show that Activision's latest FPS title has topped the Japanese game sales charts at number one with over 180,000 units sold. As for the Xbox
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December 14, 2011
Dark Orbit is Selling Overpriced Virtual Starships
So a while ago, Eve decided to start selling vanity items well...people didn't take much liking to it. And the reason is because most people think that shelling out nearly seventy dollars for virtual goods isn't such a grand idea. However this idea wasn't one of its kind,
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December 08, 2011
The World's Most Popular MMORPG Turns Seven.
You know, it's funny. These days when a developer makes a great game, things can change within a few months. Either it will be populating the used game section of your local Gamestop or Walmart has recently slash its price in half.
However for World of Warcraft (the probable reason that I have no social life) has just seven. You heard me, seven, which is the same age of the average Horde player. Actually, when you think about it, maybe seven is a bit too young to state the game's age. The reason why is because the game was announced back in 2001. Which
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Around 53% of Battlefield 3's Players also Played Modern Warfare 3
According to an article on Kotaku, gaming research firm Raptr decided to track how many hours people spent both playing EA's Battlefield 3 and Activision's Modern Warfare 3. The reason for this study predicted that Modern Warfare 3 was going to outsell Battlefield 3. Thus, using a combination of data from 10-million gamer network plus the addition of a 6,000-person survey, the firm found that users