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Former PlayStation exclusive series Way of the Samurai is making the platform jump. Publisher Spike announced its intentions to bring Way of the Samurai 3 to the Xbox 360 in February.
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Original post by Michael McWhertor

Q Entertainment has given its Nintendo DS puzzler Meteos new life on Xbox Live Arcade with Meteos Wars. Why the “Wars” distinction? It’s certainly no bloodier than the standard Meteos (or even Meteos…

Original post by Michael McWhertor

I’ve seen plenty of edumacational games and I’m always delighted to explore how they surreptitiously teach people as they play a game. But this is the first time I’ve played a edu-pinbal game.
Early…

Original post by Brian Crecente

An article from the Wall Street Journal highlights some eyebrow-raising stories from the new book “The Race for a New Game Machine,” written by designers who worked closely on the Cell and 360…

Original post by Jim Reilly

A portion of a 1up interview with producer Hironobu Takeshita…
1UP: We kind of hoped to see actual NES cartridges produced. We heard rumors that Capcom discussed this very idea, which resulted in a limited run of collectors’ edition NES-style boxes. What stopped you?
HT: We all thought that it’d be great to see actual NES cartridge production! We put some serious thought into this, working with the U.S. staff. But fundamental differences in the technology prohibited us from producing cartridges without a program to bridge the NES cartridge and the current technology. This would have grown into a larger issue, so we reluctantly let it go. It was a great idea, however, so we wanted to use it somehow then thought of producing the box and cartridge case. By the way, this idea came out of our U.S. office; we are very thankful to our U.S. staff for this great idea!
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Original post by The News Team

With the latest Resident Evil movie behind us and the next game looming ahead, flick Resident Evil: Degeneration sounds like perfect filler. But at least one critic says it’s little more than a…

Original post by Brian Crecente

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Maps, Academic, Education
2008 has been a great year for Lord of the Rings Online. Not only for the exploding playerbase, but also for the amazing amount of content that has been added to the game since it launched. This includes everything from new classes, housing, hobbies, trophies, weapons, armor, and of course, new areas to explore. As a testament to this, the wonderful fan site Visions of the Ring has compiled a “before” and “after” set of maps showing the areas we had available a year ago versus the areas we have to explore now. You’ll notice the addition of Forochel, Eregion, the Mines, Lothlorien and more….
Detailed LotRO maps document a year of new content originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
 
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Original post by Shawn Schuster

Who said designing video games was hard? All you need to do is steal the best parts from each and combine them into one enormous smorgasbord of all you can eat gaming.
The Los Angeles Times went…

Original post by Jim Reilly

A portion of Bob’s latest post…
About a week ago I was contacted by a representative of a hacker-for-hire organization. They said that someone was attempting to hire them to take my site down, but they refused the job because they support me. My site is now being DDoS’d from a known commercial botnet and my servers are being scanned by another known hacker-for-hire group.
Those are some pretty big accusations, but I don’t see why Bob would lie about it. It would only hurt him at this point! Thanks to TechNick for the heads up!
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Original post by The News Team

Many of you, hopefully most of you, sat down and watched our Very Special Kotaku Holiday Podcast. But how many of you caught the director’s uncut of each in-game podcast?
Over the past week we’ve…

Original post by Brian Crecente