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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.19.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Lightsaber Duels come to Wii, just as disgruntled former LucasArts staffer revealed; producer interviewed at (IGN) Disgruntled staffer kicks himself for forgetting to leak info on the stylus-driven DS clone (IGN) Crysis Warhead runs well on $620 PC, Crytek claims (PC Games via Shacknews) Walking is [...]

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Crytek To Begin PSP Development?

Though we’ve known since late April that Crytek would begin developing titles for multiple platforms, it never crossed our minds — not for a second — that the team responsible for lush, tropical videogames that eat state of the art videocards whole might find themselves creating a portable title. But unless June 16th is the [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.9.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Updated on the fly: Enthusiast: Call of Duty 5 subtitled World at War, detailed in OXM; set in WWII Pacific theatre; features online co-op over Xbox LIVE (Official Xbox Magazine via CVG) iPhone gets first original game in September, an action-adventure named Kroll (Joystiq) Crytek clarifies “no more PC [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.5.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Gaming: Kojima Productions’ Ryan Payton debunks MGS4’s rumored 90-minute cutscenes, retroactively clarifies reviewer-unfriendly NDA (Kotaku; Kotaku) Despite Crytek CEO’s promise of no more PC exclusives, Crysis: Warhead turns out to be PC-exclusive parallel story starring secondary squadmate (BusinessWire) Metal Gear Solid 4 receives coveted 40/40 from Famitsu, [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.4.08

Today’s top news revolves around the growing market for in-game advertisements… and the works of Uwe Boll notwithstanding, big-budget video game films. Gaming: Sony cancels Eight Days, The Getaway (CVG) Jun Takeuchi finally talks about RE5 racism allegations (Kotaku) MIT develops rhythm-based PC title for the blind, playable using Wiimote (CNET) Tecmo responds to Itagaki’s departure, lawsuit (IGN, Tecmo [PDF, [...]

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Windows Vista Finally a Viable PC Gaming Alternative?

The Windows Vista operating system may have sold 140 million copies, but it has developed a lackluster reputation among gamers for traditionally offering poorer performance than its predecessor Windows XP, and is considered by some to actually be a downgrade. However, a recent test at ExtremeTech indicates that over a year later, the SP1 update [...]

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Award-Winning Composer Inon Zur Scores Fallout 3

When you’re traversing the expanses of a massive, free-roaming game, it’s important to have a good, adaptable soundtrack — and for Morrowind and its successor Oblivion, publisher Bethesda Softworks hired a master: Jeremy Soule. While rumors abounded that Soule would score Fallout 3 as well, we’ve learned today that Bethesda has instead left the project [...]

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No More PC Exclusives for Crytek, But No Crysis Port Either

Croatian gaming mag PC Play has a revealing interview with Crytek president Cevat Yerli, in which we find that piracy is forcing the German studio to develop multi-platform titles.

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 Lights Up, Smokes Crysis

Today, NVIDIA launches their new flagship video card, the GeForce 9800 GX2. For your wallet-busting $600, it sure does boast some impressive numbers — and the plethora of reviews that sprouted up today had mostly praise for its supreme performance.

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