It’s been a long time since proccessor pundits at AMD have had something to brag about. Both their CPUs, and now their GPUs (gobbled up from ATI), have had to wait in the shadows of Intel and Nvidia’s enourmous performance and sales leads.
But, the dawn of a new era is here, or at least that’s [...]

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Electronic Arts: Hey Take-Two, are you sure you don’t want to go back to my place in Redwood, and consummate our shareholder love?
Take-Two: You dirty pig! You are devaluing my body. I bought these two bigger “assets” with some surplus GTA4 profits. Now I don’t need your chump change!
EA: Cmonnnn baby, I’m not as evil [...]

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Starting next month, browsing the infinite product wisdom of the Sky Mall catalogue won’t be the only form of free entertainment on passenger airplanes. Northwest Airlines and Nintendo have partnered up to subsidize Wii consoles for every row of seats, including coach, which NWA officials concluded as a “flawless idea”.
Safety belts will now serve two [...]

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Advertising in the middle of a video game isn’t the dumbest idea anyone has ever had. Cheese-less cheeseburgers for vegans took that crown. Still - it’s pretty far up on the disaster list.
Alex St John, CEO of WildTangent (former spyware-spewing jerks), knows a thing or two about making money from video games. He quadrupled his [...]

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Liar, liar, pants on fire! Ken Levine is a dirty stinkin’ two-faced pencil pusher!
OK…maybe he didn’t lie outright. They could have started development much later. BUT, 2K games was still denying Bioshock PS3 three months after the game came out for PC and 360. Do I feel deceived? Not really. 2KGames is spreading the Bioshock [...]

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For the past 15 years, the mouse and keyboard have ruled my heart with an iron fist. I found out this weekend that a good gamepad can enhance your gaming experience ten-fold, even if your thumbs may get a little raw. What? I haven’t built up a hard callus, like you console punks.
When a Xbox [...]

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The Developer Gobbler. The Consumer Crusher. The Franchise Obliterator.
If EA had a nickname in college, it would probably be a combination of all three. But in the past two months or so, Electronic Arts has made a couple public decisions that lean away from their evil side. Are they trying to change for the better, [...]

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Piracy102 Terrabytes
Electronic Arts would love for you to think their recent ‘removal’ of SecuROM DRM from Mass Effect and Spore [...]

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Who needs to think of a creative title either? When you put this week’s two biggest stories in gaming right in the same article, the blog writes itself.
A new Doom game, and a movie based on killing little girls? Hell. Yes.

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What?!? Another Service Pack for a Microsoft product? I was under the heavy impression that Steve Ballmer’s minions didn’t make mistakes, or else they are forced into rubbing baby oil on his over-sized forehead. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it (writing code, not lubing Steve up).

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Obesity 43 Lbs.
Joystiq informed us that Amazon.com had already sold out [...]

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Hello. It’s 6AM, and I haven’t gone to bed yet. But shhh…keep this on the down-low. Lono would castrate me quicker than a penis-hating lumberjack, if he saw an article on the front page that he didn’t get to chop to pieces first.
Here are three things I’m pondering which are keeping me awake:

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On a warm summer’s day in Dawnville, only a split second remained to enjoy the scenic French village before a flock of grenades appeared in the sky, thrown from halfway across the map. Side-stepping the American frags, you took the best option and ran for the church.
Yankees were advancing in the graveyard, and letting them [...]

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