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Some big names in gaming are jumping on the Facebook bandwagon recently. EA-owned Bioware announced today that they have just released their first Facebook game, entitled Gift of the Yeti.
Gift of the Yeti is a holiday-themed game that tasks players to take the role of a Yeti, filling in for ...
Gaming
BioWare
Electronic Arts
Child's Play
Dragon Age: Origins
GamePolitics reported today that the video game industry came out ahead of the music and movie industries in the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) most recent report on Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children. The games industry scored high for not marketing games outside of their ...
Gaming
Music
Entertainment Software Association
Following in the steps of World of Warcraft , today Microsoft launched a new feature for avatars on the Xbox Live Marketplace -- pets. For 240 Microsoft Points each ($3), Xbox Live users can purchase a companion pet for their avatar. There are currently 10 pet options: a black cat, a ...
Gaming
Xbox
Microsoft
World of Warcraft
Major Nelson
Been interested in local DJ Hero two-player battles, but unwilling to shell out $120 for another complete set (or $200 for the deluxe Renegade edition)? You're in luck -- publisher Activision announced this week that it has begun selling standalone turntable controllers via the Guitar Hero ...
Gaming
DJ Hero
Wii
Activision
Guitar Hero
Microsoft
In our descriptions of video games on What They Play, we report each game's rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board , known more commonly as the ESRB. In addition to offering an age-related rating for each game released into the retail market of the United States, the ESRB ...
Gaming
iPhone
The NPD Group, known throughout the games industry for it's monthly report on video game sales, has released the results of a survey they conducted about shoppers' motivations for braving the Black Friday crowds. Via a chart on Joystiq , "The Anatomy of Black Friday 2009" ...
Gaming
Sony
Nintendo
Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero owners looking to expand their musical libraries will have several new options through the end of the year, as publisher Activision revealed today the complete listing of downloadable songs coming for both titles in December.
Metal band The Fall of Troy kicks ...
Gaming
Band Hero
Guitar Hero 5
Wii
Activision
Microsoft
D3Publisher announced today that it plans to follow-up its popular 2007 puzzle hit, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords , with a sequel for Nintendo DS and Xbox Live Arcade next spring. The follow-up, simply titled Puzzle Quest 2 , will again be developed by Infinite Interactive, and build ...
Gaming
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
DS
Xbox Live Arcade
Ubisoft has announced another Prince of Persia game will be coming out in 2010, alongside the release of the feature film. Entitled Prince of Persia, the Forgotten Sands, the new game will return the story to the original trilogy. Last year's outing reinvented the franchise with an entirely new ...
Gaming
Prince of Persia
Ubisoft
We here at What They Play wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving. We're sure your Thanksgiving feast was lovely and that everyone at your table popped at least one button on their jeans, but how far did you go to make your turkey visually memorable?
"Thanksgiving Dinner Video ...
Gaming
Legend of Zelda
SackBoy
Looking for a sweet gaming deal this week? You won't have to wait until Friday for this one -- right now, several PlayStation Network downloadable games for PlayStation 3 are half off , including this year's critical darling, Flower , and six others.
In addition to Flower, a soothing ...
Gaming
PS3
Prince of Persia
Bomberman Ultra
Smash Cars
Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao
Football fans not particularly into the simulation approach (or $60 price tag) of full-fledged Madden NFL iterations have a new option this week, thanks to the release of Madden NFL Arcade on the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
Priced at $15 (1200 Microsoft points), this pint-sized ...
Gaming
Xbox 360
PS3
Xbox Live Arcade
Microsoft
Is Sackboy set to become the smiling new face of education? President Obama announced on Monday a new school program that aims to get kids interested in logic and construction. The program, STEM, focuses on teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and is part of a push called ...
Gaming
Sony
LittleBigPlanet
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Game website NextGen Player reports that GameStop has
made a significant overhaul to its online services for...
Canadians . Shopping online with GameStop was previously impossible in the frosty North, where GameStop is still best known as EB Games. But now, GameStop.ca is on equal footing with ...
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Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues was recently released across numerous platforms, but for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners who remember playing together with online friends in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga , the lack of online play in this latest Lego iteration must have ...
Gaming
PS3
Xbox 360
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
The downloadable version of LittleBigPlanet for PSP was expected to launch alongside the retail release last week, but technical problems prevented the original plan. Instead, as detailed on the PlayStation.Blog today, Sony will launch the game on the PlayStation Store tomorrow.
"We ...
Gaming
LittleBigPlanet
PSP
Sony
The Mark
SCEA
Amazon.com has already kicked off the holiday shopping season in their "Countdown to Black Friday." Everyday the online retailer plans to offer special "Lightning Deals" on a variety of games. At the time of this post, you could snag EA Sports Active for $39.99, but earlier ...
Gaming
EA Sports Active
Call of Duty 4
Pikmin
Rock Band 2
Silicon Era reports that Sega and Sony are working together for a speedy LittleBigPlanet treat: downloadable Sonic the Hedgehog Sackboy costumes .
The characters said to be available are Sonic, Beast Sonic from Sonic Unleashed, Tails, Knuckles, and Dr. Eggman.
The costumes will reportedly ...
Gaming
Sonic the Hedgehog
LittleBigPlanet
Sonic
SackBoy
Sega
Sony
Ladies and Gentlemen, prepare to start your 16-bit funnykart engines: Super Mario Kart is coming to the Virtual Console by the end of this year , along with two other long-awaited retro classics.
You risk starting a war if you ask a pack of Mario Kart fans about their favorite game in the ...
Gaming
Mario
Gamecube
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wii
Nintendo
The National Institute on Media and Family, NIMF for short, has announced that it will be closing it's doors at the end of this year due to a lack of funding. The organization is best known for its annual "Report Card" on various aspects of the gaming industry, including retail ...
