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News Blips: The Witcher 2 piracy, Skyrim jumps past BF3 on XBL, South Park RPG, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 2, 2011
2 min

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings publisher CD Projekt's advocacy against digital rights managment systems apparently involves a shrug of unconcern toward the skull...

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Video Blips: Syndicate, Yakuza: Dead Souls, The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 2, 2011
1 min

For those late-night rendezvous with your corporate rival's security force, nothing delivers a gentle appreciation of their efforts quite like a 6,000 RPM minigun....

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Skyrim development tools being handed to gamers

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 2, 2011
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Any PC gamers interested in playing with Bethesda Softworks’ development tools, as used to create their hit game Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, will get their...

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Japanese PSP-to-Vita transfer program has limited support from major game publishers

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
2 min

Sony today revealed an initial list of retail PSP titles that will be transferable to Japanese Vita systems for a fee via a download...

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Former BioWare/Pandemic boss raises $15M for mobile-web gaming studio

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
3 min

Rumble Entertainment, a new mobile and browser-based game developer and publisher, announced today that it has raised $15 million in a first round of...

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Rovio cracks nut market with new pistachio-branded Angry Birds game

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
2 min

The newest version of mega-popular game franchise Angry Birds isn’t a downloadable mobile app, but rather a web-based promotion built around California nut producer...

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Infinity Blade II review: more is actually more

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
5 min

Infinity Blade II is debuting today, and the mobile game reminds us of the attractions of iterative game development. The risk is low, the...

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Sony loses two key executives from its North American game team

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 1, 2011
1 min

Two key executives at Sony’s U.S. game business have left the company. And one of them, Rob Dyer, has joined social game maker Zynga...

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Saints Row: The Third stat tracker goes live — purple dildo kills 2 million

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
1 min

Players of Saints Row: The Third, the controversial open-world game from Volition and THQ, can now accurately measure the level of carnage they have...

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Call of Duty Elite password reminders sent out in plain text

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 1, 2011
2 min

Activision’s troubled gaming service, Call of Duty Elite, has been sending out password reminders to its users in plain text. Activision either stores player...

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