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THQ Lays off Employees for Strategic Purposes
THQ has reported that they had laid off 20 employees from their marketing, and production teams. This is what THQ spokesperson had to say regarding this lay off, “THQ confirms a realignment has taken...
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PopCap Official Blog Confirms Major Layoffs
Today the PopCap founder John Vechey officialy stated that they have laid off many of their employees via their official blog post on their website. Here is the full blog post from the main man...
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Nintendo Power – Shutting Down
Nintendo Power has officially reported that the publication of their magazines is about to be over. Nintendo Power has been around for 24 years, and now the time has come an end. We do not know how...
View ArticleValve Officially jumps into Hardware Development
Valve’s job listing confirms hardware development under “Industrial Designer” “As an Industrial Designer at Valve, you will join a world-class group of electrical, mechanical, software engineers and...
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Phone style contracts are “pivotal to our business”- Microsoft
Microsoft has been announcing plenty of schemes for consumers to buy the Xbox 360 for what are eventually higher prices, but offer more reasonable paying options, like their recent $99 Xbox 360 250 GB...
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Take-Two might open an office in Las Vegas
Gamasutra reports that Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption publisher Take-Two Interactive might be looking to open a new office downtown in Las Vegas. Official proposal documents by Las Vegas...
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Sony selling $1.9 billion worth of convertible bonds
Looks like Sony is looking to earn some extra bucks- they’re selling convertible bonds worth $1.9 billion, in hopes that the resulting flow of cash will help them with the acquisition of Gaikai. Upto...
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Valve dev says gaming industry is not sexist
Christine Phelan, who has worked on games like Brutal Legend at Double Fine and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed at LucasArts, is working as an animator at Valve, and currently working on Dota 2. She...
View ArticlePC gaming will become dominated by indie titles, we won’t see many Triple-A...
We recently had a chat with ArenaNet’s Colin Johanson, who’s also the game director of Guild Wars 2. We asked him if the rise of indie gaming on the PC platform will result in the Triple-A, mainstream...
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THQ officially files for bankruptcy
THQ has now announced, after a tumultuous few months, that it has entered an Asset Purchase Agreement with a “stalking horse bidder” at Clearlake Capital Group. Clearlake will be acquiring all of...
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The idea of Sony buying Xbox is “ridiculous”- analyst
A Forbes columnist claimed yesterday that Microsoft’s gaming division will soon go under due to never making profit and will be sold off to someone like Sony while MS tries sustaining the Windows...
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EA says games are not responsible for gun violence
EA boss John Riccitiello has come out and taken a stand on the ongoing debate and issue of whether or not video games are responsible for real world violence. He says there is no real problem, but...
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Take-Two share prices fall after GTA 5 delay
Rockstar finally confirmed the release date for the highly anticipated upcoming title, Grand Theft Auto V yesterday, and while they had previously announced that the game would release in Spring of...
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Xbox One Will Allow 1000 People Per Friends List
The Xbox 360 was a social console, which allowed for a then staggering 100 friends per friends list. However, as it stands now, 100 friends is a tiny amount of people to have on your friends list,...
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Gamestop: Microsoft Sees The Value In Used Games
The speculation is that Microsoft indeed will not let used games to be played on their upcoming Xbox One console, but Gamestop’s President Tony Bartel seems to think there has been a clear...
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Xbox One Requires Kinect To Run
Well, the rumors were true. The upcoming Xbox One console will necessarily require a Kinect to run. Citing ‘integrated functionality’ as the cause in their Q&A, Microsoft said: “The all-new Kinect...
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Mountain Dew and Doritos Teaming Up To Promote Xbox One (No, Seriously)
You can’t make this up. Mountain Dew and Doritos, involved in the infamous games journalism scandal not so long ago involving Xbox 360 exclusive Halo 4 that implicated big game publishers and major...
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Xbox One Releasing in India, Singapore, Other Asian Markets 2014; No Mention...
Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One is, by its very nature, a restrictive, exclusive device. Those without internet connectivity, for instance, cannot play games on that system for more than 24 hours, not...
View ArticleThe Evil Within E3 2013 Gameplay Footage
Shinji Mikami, the mastermind behind some of the best Resident Evil games, is teaming up with Bethesda to deliver a true new survival horror game experience, in light of the butchering of the genre by...
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CD Projekt Red Reacts to Lack of Xbox One in Poland
Yesterday, Microsoft revealed the extent to which the draconian DRM and restrictions on the upcoming Xbox One would apply. Not only is the console going to completely block and restrict software usage...
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