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Entries for July 28th, 2010

Who could Guillermo del Toro be working with to make games?

Speaking to MTV News, film director Guillermo del Toro said he plans to announce a deal with a video game studio “soon” to make games. There are a few clues as to what kind of game he’d like to make — but not many on with whom del Toro could make them.
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Uncharted 2 & BioShock 2 get multiplayer patches

With the bountiful slate of holiday shooters about to be unloaded on the gaming public, two older but still popular games are sprucing up their multiplayer modes to make the most of the brief time remaining before the onslaught. Read on to find out how BioShock 2 and Uncharted 2’s multiplayer modes are being patched.
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Activision announces Nintendo DS version of Call of Duty: Black Ops

When Call of Duty: Black Ops hits the market November 9, look for it on Nintendo DS as well as every other system under the sun (excepting PlayStation 2). Activision announced a Black Ops companion game for the handheld, developed by n-Space.

Aside from the developer and the confirmation that it’s a companion game (as opposed [...]

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Fairytale Fights creator Playlogic files for bankruptcy

Playlogic, a development and publishing company that released its largest scale game this year in the form of Fairytale Fights, has filed ’surseance van betaling’–the Dutch version of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The company filed a Form 8-K in Delaware today in order to notify its shareholders of the financial situation. In filing the ’surseance van betaling,’ [...]

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R4 cards banned in the UK

A London High Court ruled today that R4 cards — devices that allow Nintendo DS users to run homebrew applications or pirated games — are illegal in the United Kingdom. What could this mean for the U.S.?

Nintendo, understandably, is pleased. In a statement obtained by MCVUK, the publisher claimed it initiated legal action against R4 [...]

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Colbert caps BP spill coverage with a game-related gag

During the opening monologue on The Colbert Report last night, political comedian Stephen Colbert offered his own guess on the mysterious Samaritan who played an instrumental role in helping plug the BP oil leak. Here’s a clue — he’s a video game character.
There have been a few gags regarding the oil spill relating to this [...]

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Daily (Stale) Bread: The news we didn’t post July 27, 2010

Not a bad news cycle for a post Comic Con-Tuesday — Disney made a second big buy of a smaller developer, and amazingly StarCraft II only occupied one slot in the news story feed. Here’s the stuff we didn’t post:
07/27 — Who’d’ve thought the SCII crowd could be so well socialized?
AJ: Curt Schilling is moving [...]

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SouthPeak and Majesco embroiled in custody battle over MyBaby franchise

The child-raising MyBaby simulation series has been a success for SouthPeak thus far, and the company is arguing that it should continue to reap the young franchise’s rewards, claiming it owns the rights to the next game in the series instead of Majesco.

Majesco recently announced that it would be publishing the next installment of the [...]

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Original Shining Force due on App Store this Thursday

Sega is in the process of bringing tons of classic games to the iPhone like Ecco the Dolphin and Golden Axe. This week, old school tactical role-playing game Shining Force joins the lineup.

TouchArcade reports that this iteration of Shining force is a port of the original Genesis version that came out in the early 90s [...]

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Undead Bread: Why Jackson zombie should or shouldn’t get yanked

When Plants vs. Zombies launched more than a month before the death of pop artist Michael Jackson’s death, the game included a high-level enemy that appeared to be an homage to Thriller-era Jackson. As of today, that zombie is no longer going to be in PvZ.

What follows is a discussion between GamePro editors about whether [...]

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