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Hackers deny involvement in PlayStation Network outage

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 22, 2011
2 min

Sony’s PlayStation Network is still down today in its second day of a massive outage. So far, Sony hasn’t offered an update about when...

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Play, don’t tell: Game mechanics should convey narrative, not cut-scenes

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 22, 2011
4 min

Last week, my friend and I decided to pop in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots into the old PlayStation 3. We...

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News Blips: Activision internal memo on Call of Duty longevity, Portal 2 complaints on Metacritic, PSN outage, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 22, 2011
2 min

Comparing Call of Duty to Guitar Hero makes a sort of sense. Both franchises reward players with useless unlocks for carefully timed button presses....

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Video Blips: L.A. Noire, Prototype 2, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 22, 2011
1 min

I don't think L.A. Noire is an accurate representation of law enforcement. After all, Detective Phelps and his cohorts actually complete investigations in a...

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Game journalist may cash in on the making of Portal 2

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 22, 2011
1 min

Geoff Keighley is a well-known game journalist who hosts the show Game Trailers TV with Geoff Keighley on Friday nights on Spike TV. He...

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Japan’s Gree buys OpenFeint mobile social game platform for $104M

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 22, 2011
3 min

Japanese mobile social network Gree has purchased mobile social game platform operator OpenFeint for $104 million. Yes, it’s time to start yelling “The Japanese...