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Half-Life 3 Trademark Update
The Half-Life 3 trademark that cropped up last week has disappeared. Briefly last week, the European Union’s Office of Harmonization (a group of intrepid researchers) discovered that a trademark had been filed under the title and heading of...
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University of Wisconsin–Madison: Video Games and Learning
University of Wisconsin–Madison is offering this course on video games and learning on Coursera. It is completely free, you simply have to sign up, and there is a forum for all sorts of game-learning related discussions. Until recently,...
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Borderlands 2 Offers Real Prizes For In-Game Hunting
Borderlands 2 is hosting a sweepstakes offering in-game guns and real world prizes for players who hunt down specific monsters. The Great Loot Hunt approacheth! Starting October 11, every day will bring a new target for players to kill and a...
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Why it's in Sony's best interest to allow Blu-ray in the Xbox One, and why it's not up to them
Blu-ray is the dominant disc format for HD content. It beat out Toshiba backed HD-DVD in early 2008, leaving a near monopoly of the marketplace to the owner of Blu-ray. And whom might that owner be you ask? Most would assume Sony; after-all,...
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Darksiders II on Humble Indie Bundle
Darksiders II is on the weekly Humble Indie Bundle Sale! If you pay $6 or more, get it before the week is over (3 more days). All other games with it are: Red Faction: Armageddon Supreme Commander Supreme Commander: Forged...
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Sue Me, Sue You
On March 30th, 2012, Worlds, Inc. sued Activision over alleged patent infringement. The former accuses the later of infringing on a variety of technologies filed as "System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual...
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Grand Theft Auto Voice Actors Talk Controversy, Violence, and why "it's on parents."
Grand Theft Auto and accusations of it influencing violent acts are like '80s De Niro and Scorsese, Los Angeles and s*** traffic, Bieber and childish behavior - all inseparable. Recently, the voice actor trio responsible for GTA V's charismatic...
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Dead Rising 3 - Expect Linear Strength of Uncharted but "Everywhere" According to Capcom
Dead Rising 3 Senior Producer, Jason Leigh, compares the games open world to Uncharted. That may seem like an odd comparison since Uncharted is for all intents and purposes a linear game. It's how he makes this comparison that sheds more...
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