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Record attendance at Tokyo Game Show

Some in the video-game press may assert that it’s dying, but the attendance numbers from the Tokyo Game Show may prove otherwise, as the event saw more than a record 200,000 visitors.
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA), the organizer of TGS, said in a report on Andriasang that over four days, 207,647 people attended the [...]

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Briefs filed in Supreme Court on California video-game case

More than 180 First Amendment experts, researches, and elected officials filed briefs Friday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that California’s ban against the sale of violent video games is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court plans to hear oral arguments in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association/Entertainment Software Association on [...]

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Good Old Games closes down its service UPDATE

Classic PC gaming service Good Old Games has shut down. In a statement on its website, the operators said after long consideration, the digital-rights-free download service concluded it could no longer operate the site in its current form.
“We have recently had to give serious thought to whether we could really keep GOG.com the [...]

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Best Trailers of TGS 2010

We wade through the flood of trailers that came out of the Tokyo Game Show this year, select the very best ones, spit-shine ‘em and lay ‘em out to give your eager little eyes a taste. YUM!
The Last Guardian: Teamwork Trailer

Shadows of the Damned: Announcement Trailer

Devil May Cry: Announcement Trailer

Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Story [...]

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Steve Wiebe once again the King of Kong

Steve Wiebe — the schoolteacher/arcade whiz profiled in the Donkey Kong documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — has recaptured the record from Billy Mitchell, the same man he dueled with in the 2007 film.

Wiebe broke the record during a recorded session taped on August 30, which was verified by Twin Galaxies [...]

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Second episode of King’s Quest-inspired The Silver Lining available

The Silver Lining: Two Households, the second episode of Phoenix Online Studio’s King’s Quest-inspired adventure game, is now available for free download.

Two Households continues King Graham’s quest as he searches for ingredients to a spell that could wake his children from a deep coma – and provide clues to who attacked his children.

Phoenix released The [...]

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Digital PC game sales outpace retail in first six months of 2010

According to data released by research firm NPD Group, digital purchases of full PC games have outpaced traditional retail in the first six months of 2010.

NPD reported that full game purchases online hit a record high of 11.2 million, compared to 8.2. million boxed retail units sold during the January to June 2010 period. This [...]

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Alien Breed 2: Assault deploys in September

The second chapter in Team 17’s trilogy of top-down action games is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and Steam September 22.
Alien Breed 2: Assault is a science fiction-themed shooter built using Epic’s Unreal 3 engine technology. Players take control of Chief Engineer Conrad as he fights his way to safety aboard the dying [...]

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Weekend (Stale) Bread: The stories we didn’t post on September 18-19, 2010

With the Tokyo Game Show winding down, our news feeds struck more of a balance between East and West-based stories. As a result, our weekend’s surplus stories have led to a more worldy morning stale bread.
9/18 & 9/19–Sayonara, TGS
The Silver Lining Episode 2: Two Households released
Jason: The Activision-sanctioned, fan-made King’s Quest-influenced adventure franchise now has [...]

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Three Tokyo Game Show trends for 2010

From families to insecurity, Tokyo Game Show 2010 has a lot of trends for us to track. Here are AJ Glasser’s top three.

Seriously, you call this dead?

1) It’s not about “us”
For the last two years, other games journalists filled my head with the message that the Tokyo Game Show is dying — an increasingly irrelevant [...]

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