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January 11, 2011
Rumors: Ghost Reporting in
A Ghost-centered Call of Duty Prequel in the works? Well that's what's being talked about rumor-wise lately. A lot of rumors with that Infinity Ward is working on the next Call of Duty which will take part in the past and focus on MW2's Ghost and how he became a member of Task Force 141. While these are just rumors, Infinity Ward's Community Manager's Robert Bowling has not confirmed but has not denied anything.
In addition it looks like that since it is Infinity Ward, it could be likely that if the rumors were true, they will build
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January 07, 2011
Game Art by Ryan Shiu
Ryan Shiu, a talented illustrator, animator and graphic designer, developed Pikasm in 2009. Shiu is one of the few artists who can bring an original touch to some of our favorite and classic video games and animated characters. Many artists attempt to capture some of the most epic moments from The Legend of Zelda but none come close to the visual creativity that Shiu is able to produce. Unfortunately Shiu has not updated his website since its birth, but much of the art work he has produced continues to be making its way across the world wide web. You
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January 07, 2011
League of Gaming Continues in Video Game Industry
If you've followed competitive gaming at all, then you've heard of MLG. Major League Gaming has been around since 2002 fighting tooth and nail for the legitimacy of competitive gaming. The uphill battle of bringing competitive gaming to the mainstream has since been won. While MLG doesn't necessarily bring in the ridiculous large market shares like the NFL, MLG has come a long way.
It was announced a few weeks back that MLG has raised over $50 million dollars in funding. For a company that's been around for only 8 years, that's quite an achievement. According to MLG's own research they reach over 4.5 million users a month with over 600,000 unique
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January 06, 2011
Black Ops goes for a record number of
CEO Bobby Kotick claimed earlier in 2010 that Call of Duty is a networking phenomenon as it is a video gaming one. Activision decided to back that up by posting the numbers that proved so...and showed that they also surpassed Facebook's numbers. With more than 20 million users on COD: Black Ops, the game and its players have logged more than 600 million hours between its release and December 24th, 2010. Computing that, it means the average player has played around 87 minutes per day, while Facebook's per-day average usage amongst its people is 55 minutes per day.
"...more than 20 million users on Call of Duty: Black Ops logged more than 600 million hours of playtime between the
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January 05, 2011
Gamer News - Don't do what this man did.
As read here:(the story of the real life frogger), a man in Clemson, South Carolina thought it was a good idea at the time to play a real life version of Frogger. He was wrong...but at least he came out alive.
The local authorities say that the man was playing the real life game in the late evening and had arrived at the hospital around 9 p.m. after he was struck by an SUV (this is where you'd insert the sound effect) while trying to cross the road. According to Chief Jimmy Dixon of Clemson, the 23-year-old-frogger-man said that he was discussing the entire event with his friends earlier in the day.
In the end, the driver of the SUV that hit
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January 04, 2011
Nintendo Latest Sports Game with Mario
Recently Nintendo of American gave confirmation of a release date for the upcoming Mario Sports Mix. The newest addition to the Mario sports games series will officially hit stores in the United States on February 7, 2011.
The game, created by Square Enix, will be available for the Nintendo Wii. It will feature games for up to four players in volleyball, hockey, dodgeball, and basketball. It will accommodate up to four players on one Wii, or up to two players can join online. Each game will include the ever-present power ups such as banana peels and green shells, and each character will also have their own special move to aid in gameplay. Different venues in the game will also provide for different experiences.
Apparently, players will be able to utilized famed Nintendo characters such as Mario, Luigi, Wario and friends, or their customized Mii characters. Other Mario friends will join the game, who have yet to be announced, but
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December 21, 2010
When Gears of War 3 got pushed back, most of the office was pretty bummed out about it, but we're excited to hear that the game Bulletstorm will include early access to the Gears of War 3 Beta. EA and Epic Games have announced that the Epic Edition, of Bulletstorm will include the beta access as well as a 25,000 EXP bonus and some multiplayer visual upgrades.
Aesthetically, Bulletstorm looks awesome. The color palette shown throughout the trailers doesn't show a gritty looking shooter with dull browns and grays nor cartoon like greens and purples, but has it's own unique look that confidently displays a sci-fi looking world with fluorescent blues and orange. Bulletstorm's unique and untested look could be why the Gears of War 3 beta is being included.
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December 18, 2010
Politics in Games - North Korea not going be lead by a Gaming Loser
One of Kim Jong Il's sons is apparently too busy playing video games to take over the reins of his father and run the world's most secluded militaristic oppressive country. Wikileaks (you know that organization that just likes to be the fly in every government's luncheon soup) has released information from a 2008 U.S. government consulate cable in Shanghai to the U.S. State Department. In addition to the information about the future prospects of North Korea and its leader being in very ill health they released this:
"...the two youngest sons, Kim Jong-chol and Kim Jong-un, far too inexperienced and incapable of effective governance. xxxxx, observing that KJI's oldest son, Kim Jong-nam, is
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December 18, 2010
Back to Future Game Available Soon
Coming soon to a future near you: the Back to the Future franchise is launching into the video game world, with the first game installment hitting stores for PCs at the end of this month.
The game will pick up where the third film left off, in the first of five installments. Players will be able to play as Marty McFly and Doc Brown, traveling through time and encountering off the wall characters and peculiar situations. However, few details have been let out about where in time the game will actually take the player.
Co-creator/co-writer/co-producer of the films, Bob Gale, has been hard at work building the games,
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December 17, 2010
Mortal Kombat Pre-Order Goodies
I've never had a huge issue with pre-order bonuses. In most cases, the content added through pre-ordering your game at a local game store always felt additional. It wasn't until recently that I've felt like pre-ordering was actually more like paying ransom. Since when did content that feels fundamental to the game suddenly get taken from the experience and split apart amongst different retailers?
Mortal Kombat 9 is a prime example. At this point I think it's safe to say that 80% of the people that will be excited for the newest Mortal Kombat have experience with the old Mortal Kombats, they've been there and done that with Mortal Kombat. We'll