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Entries for November, 2010

GamePro Holiday Contest winners list

We offered up 20 different prizes over the weekend, with overall entries running in the thousands. We’ve rounded up all of the winners here. Are you one of them?

Here’s the winners of each prize, with their name and site listed. GamePro News Editor Dave Rudden will be contacting each of them today through the channel [...]

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8 Great Kinect Hacks

PC World’s David Daw pegs his top eight Kinect hacks from Lightsabers to Windows 7 hijacking. Did your homebrew make his list?
SAN FRANCISCO (11/29/2010) – Kinect hacking is taking off at blinding speed. Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller for XBox 360 is less than a month old, and it’s been barely two weeks since Adafruit announced [...]

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Cyber Monday deals made easy for gamers

You’re tired, your fridge is full of turkey, and now the world wants you to get out a credit card to surf the Internet for great deals. We’ll make it easy for you.

ProTip: Read the fine print. Some of these deals make it seem as though you’ll get “50 percent off this peripheral,” but when [...]

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How EA kicked the license habit

For a long time, EA made a lot of its money on licensed intellectual property games like The Godfather and James Bond. Here’s how the publisher kicked its addiction.
It’s started with Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge. Back around 2004, the EA Games Label had just those two original IPs in development at internal studios. Dead [...]

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Nintendo sells 1.5 million systems during Black Friday week

Nintendo sold a combined 1.5 million units during the Black Friday holiday shopping season in the United States, according to the company’s internal sales figures.

The company announced that it sold 900,000 units of DS family hardware (DS, DSi, and DSi XL), and 600,000 Wii systems between November 21 and 27.

Nintendo claims that the new [...]

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Overlooked: the stories you may have missed during Thanksgiving weekend

While we came down from our tryptophan highs, a few cool bits of gaming info, including a unique implementation of the Kinect and a look back at the Xbox 360 launch five years ago. Check them out here.
11/25 to 28–RIP, Leslie Nielsen
Kinect Hacked to Play Super Mario Bros.
AJ: Some guy hacked his Kinect so that [...]

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GamePro’s Holiday Contests: Secret Agent Sunday

To celebrate the season of giving, we’re running a different contest each day during Thanksgiving weekend. For the final day, we’re giving out James Bond games for almost every platform on the market.
With the holidays kicking off, GamePro is giving to its many members, Twitter followers, and Facebook friends as we’re running a different contest [...]

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Nintendo’s US Sales Boosted By Holiday Shopping

Reggie Fils-Aime estimates 9,000 consoles sold every hour last week.
Nintendo has revealed sales figures for the period from November 21 to 27 (Black Friday) in the US.
The company sold 900,000 DS handhelds (combined line) and 600,000 Wii consoles. USA Today says that for the same period last year the company sold over a million [...]

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Possible Layoffs At Ubisoft Reflections

Up to 19 staff may be affected by reorganisation plans at the Newcastle-based developer of Driver: San Francisco.An Ubisoft spokesperson has told Develop that a number of employees may be made redundant or have contracts expire without renewal.
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Game Ratings Based On Islamic Values Announced

New system revealed by Index Holding will assess titles “based on the culture, society and the special values of Islam”.
At the Dubai World Game Expo today, the Index Holding corporation and Iran National Foundation Of Computer Games announced the formation and launch of the Entertainment Software Rating Association (ESRA).   The ESRA is designed to [...]

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