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November 12, 2011

Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 has this release-date thing figured out

The magical art of Arithmancy can be a huge help to video-game marketing executives, charting the best days to hold a sale,…

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Not How It Looks Theater presents: Mega Man X (isn’t) in UMvC3

Hold all of your horses, padre, and don’t get too excited just yet. See that picture up there? That sparkling, dynamically lit…

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Fantastic Skyrim bugs #1: Horse rides a dragon

Look, just because dragons are massive, ancient and deadly creatures doesn’t mean they can’t also have a sense of humor. After all,…

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Battle of the Brick is a Halo-inspired stop-motion epic

Alex Kobbs really likes Halo. He’s also pretty good with Legos, as you’ve likely seen in the past. Today, it appears he…

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Indie game Dustforce looks so fresh, so clean

We’re pretty sure you’ve never experienced a game about high-speed platform tidying, but you will soon. Dustforce, an indie game developed by…

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Assassin’s Creed: Embers launch trailer shows Ezio’s spark renewed

Taking place many years after the events of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, this short film produced by Ubi Workshop shows Ezio as a…

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Valve offers Heavy outfit for Saints Row: The Third pre-order

To be a generic character in Team Fortress 2 nowadays is a constant humiliation, we’re sure. But if you’re a Heavy kinda…

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Modern Warfare 3 vs. Battlefield 3

Digital Foundry on how the real battle lies ahead….

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Team Bondi founder McNamara writing game based on a ‘great untold story’

Ever since Team Bondi got shuttered, Brendan McNamara has been all too willing to share his unique insight on L.A. Noire, the…

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DCUO nets 1 million new players since going F2P

Sure, a 1000 percent increase in players for DC Universe Online sounds big, but you know what sounds really big? A million…

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GDC China: DeNA Talks ‘Not Very Competitive’ Social Smartphone Game Biz

In a talk kicking off GDC China’s Social Games Summit, Japanese executive Kenji Kobayashi of major Japanese smartphone social game network Mobage…

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Microsoft talks October sales, and their hopes for the holidays

Microsoft had a good October. With 393,000 Xbox consoles sold in the US, last month saw 21% growth over the same month…

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Nintendo: 3DS likely to outperform DS’s first-year sales in US

Apparently 3DS sales aren’t so bad. Or, more accurately, 3DS sales are not great, but DS sales were also pretty bad at…

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Rock Band Weekly: Stevie Wonder

As revealed in early October, Stevie Wonder arrives next week with a five-pack of Rock Band DLC. The bundle includes the legendary…

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November 11, 2011

How Beachhead is putting Call of Duty: Elite back together again

With Call of Duty Elite still struggling to serve its much-touted blend of stats and features to the throng of Modern Warfare…

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Weekend Deals: Civilization V, Dirt, and L.A. Noire

Deals are a bit light as we're two weeks away from Black Friday in the U.S….

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Battlefield 3 Tops Batman: Arkham City in October NPDs

Xbox 360 and 3DS were the best-selling systems in the United States last month….

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October NPD: 3DS rising, a good month for games with ‘Bat’ in the title (Update: BF3, Batman, RAGE numbers)

Microsoft claims another month on top for the Xbox 360, with 393,000 units sold for the NPD’s October sales period, 20% up…

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