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After cutting over 1,500 employees from its workforce , Electronic Arts has revealed that it will also be reducing the number of games it releases next year, according to a report from Reuters . The company, which will release around 50 titles this year, plans to cut that ...
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Electronic Arts
John Riccitiello
Have we really been without an F1 game since 2007 ? In the long months since, Codemasters has snapped up the license for the sport, and the relationship is now bearing fruit with a 2009 Formula 1 game on... the Wii and the PSP? There is plenty of reasons to be skeptical, and ...
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Codemasters
Formula 1
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a great game, but how would it look running at 1080p? A video released to YouTube should answer that question. Its creator claims that the game is running under a PC emulator called "Dolphin," and the game is running at a solid 60 frames per ...
Gaming
New Super Mario Bros Wii
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Mirror's Edge had middling reviews— you can read our thoughts on the game if you'd like to catch up—but, more importantly, it was new and interesting. The game was beautiful, had some interesting scenes, but just didn't come together in a way that was compelling ...
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iPhone
Mirror's Edge
Electronic Arts
arstechnica.com - 19 hours ago
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EA and DICE began a grand experiment in
North America with Battlefield: Heroes , a free-to-play, casual...
shooter that would allow anyone to download the client and play for free. You could buy certain items to give yourself an edge, ...
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EA restructures Battlefied: Heroes pricing; fans enraged
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The video game industry is in something of a downturn compared to the beginning of the year, but the big three have begun to share their results from Black Friday and the rest of the Thanksgiving week. If you thought Nintendo had reached some level of saturation with ...
Gaming
Microsoft
Nintendo
Wii
Sony
PS3
Serious Sam has a warm place in the hearts of PC gamers as something of a bastard child of Duke Nukem . He's a character with all the attitude of Duke with none of the hopes of doing anything other than blowing the holy hell out of everything he sees. Serious Sam was something ...
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Serious Sam
PC
Duke Nukem
Pick of the week: Avatar The Game (PC, DS, Wii, PS3, 360)
With the majority of the big holiday blockbusters already on store shelves, this week's pick falls on a licensed title, based on James Cameron's upcoming film Avatar . The game will be hitting most ...
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Wii
PS3
PC
DS
PSP
These days, video games and controversy are old friends. Unsurprisingly, the biggest controversies seem to arise whenever the topic of sex in video games appears in the public forum. Whenever the topic rears its ugly head, critics come teeming out of the woodwork, condemning ...
Gaming
Have you ever met a PC gamer in person? Your experiences may be different than mine, but they tend to resemble normal human beings. Some may even live in your very home. Most of my friends are PC gamers, and they buy their games, have fun playing online, and go about their ...
Gaming
PC
"This would make a good intro for your article."
That's Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development for Valve. You know, the guys who make Half-Life , Left 4 Dead , and a little service called Steam. We're wandering around a packed hotel in downtown Montreal trying to ...
Gaming
Valve
Steam
Left 4 Dead
PC
arstechnica.com - 7 days ago
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In the video game business, gamers often have
a healthy amount of distrust for the companies that...
publish the titles they buy. It's not an unreasonable reaction; after all, every gamer can remember a time or two when he or she felt ...
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The first-party bloggers who connect devs and gamers
Early this month, Epic Games released the Unreal Development Kit, a free version of the popular Unreal Engine 3 available for anyone to download. The UDK gives students, independent developers, or just enthusiasts the chance to use the same tools as the developers behind games ...
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The Mark
Epic Games
Gears of War 2
Unreal Tournament
Call of Duty: World at War was a great game, even though it tread where so many other FPSs had gone before . The finest part of this title, though, was arguably the unlockable co-op "Nazi Zombies" mode that pit players against, well, Nazi zombies. Now, we get to take the best ...
Gaming
iPhone
Activision
Call Of Duty: World at War
arstechnica.com - 6 days ago
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In an interview with Heise.de, IBM's VP of
Deep Computing, David Turek, confirmed that the Cell processor...
has reached the end of the line. Turek then put a more positive spin on the news by stating the obvious truth that ...
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End of the line for IBM's Cell
There are few worse feelings than getting ready to play a new game and finding your wireless controllers are filled with dead batteries. This is a problem easily avoided by making sure your junk drawer is filled with spares, but wouldn't it be great to not have to worry about ...
Gaming
Wii
How important is it for readers of game reviews to understand the conditions under which a review was written? Would it change things if you knew all the early reviews of a game were written based on play time given in one location, under a managed schedule? What if the ...
Gaming
Modern Warfare 2
Activision
2007's Assassin's Creed was a divisive game. While it was full of ambition and great ideas, it ultimately boiled down to a fairly repetitive experience with plenty of potential but even more gameplay "issues." For the the sequel, the team at Ubisoft Montreal attempted to fix ...
Gaming
This week has been filled with games that are worth your time and money. Classically trained gamers will enjoy the newly multiplayer-enhanced New Super Mario Bros. Wii, while Left 4 Dead 2 is a great entry into the co-operative gaming space, and the God of War Collection is a ...
Gaming
DJ Hero
New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Left 4 Dead 2
God of War
When it comes to role-playing games, there isn't a bigger name than Square-Enix. PopCap Games enjoys a similar reputation, albeit in the casual games market. When the company behind the Final Fantasy series and the developer responsible for titles like Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies ...
