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Enjoyment Optional, Part Two: Six Settings to Satisfy

Last week, we discussed seven games in which the options menu wasn’t merely a place to adjust your TV display, but rather the key to unlocking the full potential of some truly stellar titles. While the post was primarily meant to inform gamers of the remarkable possibilities they might have overlooked in their own collection, [...]

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Microsoft Lawyer Says UT3 Master Chief Mod is A-Okay; What about Halogen?

Two days ago, BusinessWeek’s Matt Vella prognosticated a beautiful future for user-created content should console game companies like Microsoft “start opening up and letting devoted players tinker with the bits inside.” Now, it looks like Redmond’s giant software company may have set just the precedent required to catapult us into that very future.

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Teenagers in a Library: Time to Rejoice?

Over in the New York Times, they have an article discussing the efforts of the New York Public Library to draw a younger audience into their hallowed walls. The library is now lending video games from 18 branches, and the organizers publicized the initiative with a free gaming night on March 21st. The original press [...]

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Sales of Mature-Rated Games Up From 2006

According to some excellent analysis by Matt Matthews at Next-Gen, despite the drop in the number of M-rated titles in 2007, those titles made 64% more revenue than M-rated titles in 2006. Follow along as I break down the results:

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The Ascension of the PS3

In January, the PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 by 17%, for the first time beating out their main competition for the hardcore demographic. Now, the Sony executives are getting chirpy about the rise of the PS3 and the fall of the Xbox 360. Are signs of optimism for Sony simply fata morgana, or will [...]

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