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These old Nintendo promo videos are a national treasure
A collector of gaming antiquities has provided an incredible public service to the world, by uploading six extremely rare, extremely retro Nintendo corporate promotional tapes to YouTube. The six videos (above and after the break) were originally used as sales pitches to promote various products ...
Dead Space 3 resource farming glitch won't be patched, is intentional
A recently-discovered glitch in Dead Space 3 that allows players to farm infinite resources for item crafting isn't a glitch after all, according to EA's statement to GameFront. The method for obtaining said resources, skirting the game's microtransaction system, won't be patched out, either. "The ...
Aliens: Colonial Marines 'Bug Hunt' DLC coming in March, more on the way
Aliens: Colonial Marines will receive four add-on packs starting with the launch of the Bug Hunt DLC in March. Bug Hunt has players cooperatively taking on waves of enemies in three new maps. The other three content packs, a mixture of campaign and multiplayer DLC, will be available by the end of ...
Triptych Games, Borderlands 2 DLC dev, Kickstarts 'Fuzzy Slaughter'
If you've played the Borderlands 2 DLC campaigns Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt or Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty, then you're familiar with Triptych Games – even if you didn't know it. Triptych was behind those two DLC campaigns, and helped out on Duke Nukem Forever and its Doctor ...
Ubisoft promises exclusive Wii U demo for Rayman Legends
Forget that there has been a Rayman Legends demo on the Wii U for over a month now – it's old hat. Ubisoft is planning on releasing another demo, this one exclusive to Wii U. Ubisoft announced the exclusive Wii U demo as a sort of consolation prize to upset fans complaining about the delay ...
Obsidian has a new Star Wars game pitch for Disney
Obsidian Entertainment, developer of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, has an idea for a new Star Wars game, and is eager to pitch it to new IP holder Disney. "We pitched a between-Episode III and Episode IV game [to previous Star Wars owner LucasArts]," Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart told ...
Ouya game approval process to begin this month
Ouya developers should be in for a relatively simple approval process for submitted games, CEO Julie Uhrman tells our friends at Engadget. Once games are submitted, they will be checked for "intellectual property infringement, and malware, and excessive pornography," says Uhrman. "Ultimately it's a ...
Why Bill Gates said no to buying Sega, according to former MS exec
Before there was an original Xbox, rumors ran rampant that Microsoft was looking to purchase Sega as a means to get into the console business. Joachim Kempin – who worked at Microsoft from 1983 until 2003 and rose to senior VP – says that Bill Gates ultimately decided not to purchase ...
Journey composer Austin Wintory lends a friendly hand to Beatbuddy
Beatbuddy is a platform action game in which all of the on-screen elements are musical – the arrangements of the enemies and other things that make up levels each sync to part of a song, Sound Shapes style. One of those levels will be set to new original music by Grammy-nominated Journey ...
Origin officially launches on Mac
Origin has had an alpha client on Mac since back in September, and today the service officially launches. Origin features on Mac are pretty much the same as on PC – you can upload saves to the cloud, interact with friends and the community through Origin's social feeds and, uh, play games. ...
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Epic closes Impossible Studios, Infinity Blade: Dungeons now 'on hold'
Posted on Feb 8th 2013 3:00PM