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CTA Digital’s Move accessories range from ‘useful’ to ‘gloves’
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on August 4, 2010
Peripheral company CTA Digital announced two new accessories for the PlayStation Move , meant to enhance different aspects of the experience. For those of you who want to pay even more to play The Fight: Lights Out , CTA offers the Ultimate Boxing Gloves — a set of fingerless gloves into which you can secure the Move controllers.
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The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Retrofit: Overload
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on August 3, 2010
Being a giant, beloved video game site has its downsides. For example, we sometimes neglect to give independent developers our coverage love (or loverage, if you will) as we get caught up in AAA, AAAA or the rare quintuple-A titles
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NBA Jam download included with new copies of NBA Elite 11
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on August 3, 2010
EA announced this morning that customers will receive a download code for NBA Jam on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 with every new copy of its upcoming (and far more serious) basketball game, NBA Elite 11 . To some of you, it may be best to think of it as a free NBA Elite 11 with every NBA Jam
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Zynga hires new CFO, Vranesh becomes chief accounting officer
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on August 2, 2010
For those of you keeping a diligent collection of Zynga executive trading cards, that 2009 Mark Vranesh as CFO card is about to become worth a whole lot more — the social game company has just hired on Dave Wehner as its new CFO, pushing Vranesh to the chief accounting officer position. Vranesh’s new position will have him reporting to the new CFO.
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Itagaki: ‘The era of pursuing technical strength has ended’
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on August 2, 2010
When he was at the top of Team Ninja, Tomonobu Itagaki was seemingly obsessed with high-end graphics and processing power, choosing to work exclusively on the first Xbox for technical reasons. With his new Valhalla studio , Itagaki has shed that aspect of his public persona as well
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Japanese hardware sales, July 19 – July 25: Archeological refutation edition
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on August 2, 2010
It’s popular these days to call the 18th-century ship found beneath the remains of the World Trade Center nothing more than part of an old-timey land extension, helping New York City’s financial district jut that much further into the Hudson River. We, however, know the real, actual truth behind its origins.
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Mafia 2 kicking in heads with latest trailer
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on August 1, 2010
If you didn’t know, we’ve got a pizza slice-shaped hole in our hearts ready to be filled by Mafia 2 ‘s mafioso charms. The latest trailer, revealed “exclusively” on the latest episode of GameTrailers TV, only helps a little to abate our excitement for the game’s impending release. Continue reading Mafia 2 kicking in heads with latest trailer Mafia 2 kicking in heads with latest trailer originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:30:00 EST
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Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is finally havin’ a Summah
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on August 1, 2010
It seems that, at least for the moment, the temperature has cooled to something below its “melt everything” setting and we can finally — finally! — have ourselves a Summah ! What’s that? You’re scared to have a Summah? Don’t be crazy! Let the yucks linked below warm you up before getting out of that recycled air and to the boardwalk.
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Swag Saturday: Halo 3: ODST
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on July 31, 2010
Everyone and their mothers might be plugging away at StarCraft 2 all weekend, but we’ve got another grip of space marines for you to catch up with: the ODSTs .
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Command & Conquer series discounted this weekend on EA Store
Posted by Game Mania in Joystiq on July 31, 2010
Are you one of the three PC strategy game enthusiasts who refrained from picking up StarCraft 2 earlier this week due to a lack of cash-on-hand? EA’s offering a way to console yourself with some retail therapy: It’s reduced the price of a handful of Command and Conquer titles on its online store .
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