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GameCyte Sneaks Into Guinness World Record LAN Party

The constant hum of hundreds of monitors. The low-pitched buzzing of thousands of miniature fans. The frantic clicking of millions of keys. These are the sights and sounds of that grand PC gaming institution, the LAN party. But in a private section of the GeForce LAN beginning this Monday at NVISION 08, there may be [...]

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Ubisoft Blames Disk Manufacturer For 700,000 Pirated Copies of PC Assassin’s Creed, Files $10 Million Lawsuit

While we were busy fawning over Ubisoft’s new games at E3 2008 a few weeks ago, Ubisoft was spending its time filing a lawsuit in North Carolina, against its former disc reproduction firm Optical Experts Manufacturing (OEM). Alleging that an OEM employee took home a copy of Assassin’s Creed PC and leaked it onto the internet [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.20.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Guitar Hero: World Tour details revealed at (IGN) LittleBigPlanet will have some semblance of story, feature user-policing for adult content (PS3 Fanboy) “On September 2nd, shovel talks. You dig. Monsters die,” and Atlus sets you to work building dungeons in Master of the Monster Lair for Nintendo [...]

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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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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.12.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Cryptic Studios countdown to reveal existence of Star Trek Online [or another blatant asset ripoff] this July 28 (Hailing Frequency Forum via Ten Ton Hammer) X360 Unreal Tournament 3 gets July 7th ship date, contains exclusive new video preview of Gears 2 (BusinessWire) Game “borrowing” Oblivion assets [...]

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AMD Game-ing the System With New Marketing/Standardization Ploy

Today, AMD debuts a PC gaming initiative, dubbed “AMD GAME!” and designed to make purchasing a new gaming PC just as simple as purchasing a video game console. Based on currently available information, we predict that this initiative will fail — miserably.

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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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