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Video Blips: Medal of Honor, Red Dead Redemption, Eve Online, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 7, 2010
1 min

Nothing guarantees success like an injection of heartstring-tugging kitsch in the middle of humdrum violence. Video Blips: • Sobering phone message aside, the soldiers...

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Who’s a Good Boy? — Pets in Video Games

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 7, 2010
3 min

Editor's note: You know what? Liam is dead on target. I'd never really considered it, but developers should use animal companions more often. They...

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Blizzard predicts biggest year ever with Starcraft II and World of Warcraft Cataclysm

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2010
2 min

Mike Morhaime, the president of Activision Blizzard’s Blizzard Entertainment division, said the coming release of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty was the company’s “most...

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Activision Blizzard CEO defends firing of Infinity Ward leaders

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2010
2 min

Activision Blizzard chief executive Bobby Kotick used his company’s first-quarter conference call to justify to investors why his company fired the two leaders of...

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Nintendo’s net income falls for the first time in six years

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2010
1 min

Nintendo today reported its year-end fiscal results for the year ended March 31. As expected, the company’s profits took a hit, sliding 18.1 percent...

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Nexon in talks to acquire Korean online game developer GameHI

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2010
1 min

Going for two deals in a week, Korean online game publisher Nexon has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire online game developer GameHI, a...