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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...

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Sony’s PlayStation Network suffers big outage

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 22, 2011
2 min

The good news is that Sony has more than 70 million registered users for its PlayStation Network online service for the PlayStation 3 and...

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Video games’ photorealistic graphics fetishism

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 20, 2011
3 min

Damn, dude. Killzone 3 looks good. I mean, dude, just check out that hangnail on that dude's hand! Did you not hear me?! You. Can. See. The....

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Hi5 becomes a top ten online game site

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2011
2 min

Perhaps it was the sumo wrestling. Alex St. John, president of social network Hi5 and a man who took on a real sumo wrestler...

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Rivet Games raises second round for web, social and mobile games (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2011
2 min

Rivet Games said today it has raised a second round of funding for its as yet-undisclosed web, social and mobile games. The San Francisco...

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LOLapps launches Ravenstone Mine expansion for Facebook game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2011
2 min

In February, LOLapps announced an expansion of its hit Facebook game Ravenwood Fair, called Ravenstone Mine. But just before the launch date, the company...

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Argentina’s MetroGames targets hardcore gamers on Facebook

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2011
2 min

One of these days, hardcore games are going to find a big audience on Facebook. That’s the hope of MetroGames, an Argentine social game...

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