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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, joins such as Ocarina of Time, Soulcalibur, Nintendogs in perfect score pantheon (Kotaku)

• Famitsu reveals Tenchu 4 in development for Wii (1UP)

• Tomy and D3 Publisher confirm Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 for Wii, claim improvement over Japanese version (VerticalWire)

• Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor helping to create free online debate game based on real law (Huffington Post via GamePolitics)

• PS3 Red Alert 3 put on hold (Playstation Universe)

Industry:

• Without head ninja Itagaki, decapitated Tecmo’s shares slump 10% (GameSpot)

• Take-Two doubles take in Q2 (New York Times)

• Ubisoft calls Sony PSP ‘directionless,’ holding back on development accordingly… (GamesIndustry.biz)

• …but happy to work with iPhone/iPod Touch (CasualGaming.biz via Pocket Gamer)

• Develop Awards finalists announced (Develop Mag)

Play: Devil May Cry 4 PC demo — see if Capcom has finally learned how to port a game (FileFront, GameSpot)

Watch: Resident Evil 5 trailer dissected, plot and gameplay details extracted (GameTrailers)

Research: So-called game addicts neither anti-social nor shy, according to study (News.com.au via GameSpot)

Download: Guitar Hero III gets whopping five new master track song packs in June (Press release via MCVUK)

Perspective: Forbes says Apple iPhone/iPod Touch could kill the Nintendo DS (Forbes)

Mad Skills: YouTube gamer nails GH3 Through The Fire and Flames on Expert, 100% (YouTube)

Trials and Tribulations: Jack Thompson walks out of Florida Bar hearing, files 4500 word objection; Bar recommends “enhanced disbarment” (Kotaku, GamePolitics)

After GameCyte discovered last week that NASA’s upcoming massively multiplayer game was still on solid financial footing, we didn’t expect to hear word from NASA Learning Technologies until mid-June, the deadline for interested developers to submit their game proposals. Thankfully, we were wrong; and now GameSpot has an excellent interview with project manager Daniel Laughlin, which provides a little more insight into what the game might become. Continue Reading

GameCyte looks at a new casual browser game that might have the power to teach. Continue Reading

Vital Passage, Sudden Thrust and Rapid Onset: their names sound almost pornographic. But these are the titles of serious games — that is, games not intended primarily to entertain — that will be used by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency to train real-life spies in a more compelling manner than classrooms afford.
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When Second Life Herald reported that NASA had lost funding for its upcoming educational MMO yet continued to seek game developers willing to work for free, we became curious. Why would NASA shoot themselves in the foot, yet continue to hobble along as if it never happened? But we soon found out the entire story lacked merit. Continue Reading