#June2012

‘METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE’ TRAILER: CUT THINGS. A LOT OF THEM.

E3 is coming, and before it arrives it seems intent on dropping mad trailers on our skulls. Mad trailers! (Suburban hustle right here) The latest game to get a trailer is Metal Gear Rising: You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me That’s Not A Word, and the trailer itself seems pretty fucking awful. I love it.

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‘ZONE OF THE ENDS’ SEQUEL Revealed. Nostalgia Pants Creaming

How totally gnarl (yeah, gnarl  it’s the cool kids slang down at the local swing set) is this? Finally, Zone of the Enders  is coming back! to our consoles.

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Blowhard Schilling’s 38 Studios Lays Off Entire Staff; Industry Rallies To Help Workers

38 Studios had to lay off its entire goddamn staff. The entire thing. Not much of a surprise considering their first game had to sell three million  to break even. Thankfully the gaming industry is striving to help out the unemployed workers.

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‘STREET FIGHTER’ Box Set Is OSTENTATIOUS AWESOMENESS; F**k Yeah 25 Years

Street Fighter  is turning 25 and its partying a bit harder than my girlfriend who recently did the same. Kapow! Capcom is dropping a box set of biblical proportions, and if I was the Street Fighter  fetishist I was back in my youth I may take a run at this.

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ITC Judge Recommends Xbox 360 Import Ban To The United States. Wait, Wut?

All right, this has gone too far! Motorola and Microsoft have engaged in a high-stakes slap fight over some patents or whatever, and it is going to spill over into our frag time. An ITC Judge Guru has recommended that the Xbox 360 be banned from being imported to the United States.

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Lawsuit Reveals Infinity Ward’s West and Zampella’s Were Due A Cool $13 Million Bonus Each In 2010

We get to learn so many neat things from the lawsuit Activision rained down on the heads of Jason West and Vince Zampella, the founders of Infinity Ward. The latest? The fat loot they were due in 2010. Lots, and lots of Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers worth.

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‘MASS EFFECT 3’ Extended Cut DLC Info: Hackett & EDI Confirmed

Just today I was wondering what the fuck was going on with the Mass Effect 3: Unfucked Ending, and no sooner do I dwell on it some info turns up. My mind has fucking powers! Imagining…Scarlett Johansson. She’s here guys. Be to the right back.

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38 Studios Can’t Make Payroll, Bounces $1.125 Million Check. This Is Me Laughing.

This is me grinning as outspoken anti-Government Waste Curt Schilling descends into everything he once claimed to stand against. Demanding of the state for subsistence, incapable of providing for his own employees, bouncing checks, loving the idea of a safety net.

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‘BORDERLANDS 2’ SPECIAL EDITIONS. Or, How I’ll Be Wasting Money In September

My goodness. My love for Borderlands  is unmatched by many a franchise. It is a love so strong that it will have me doing ludicrous things, like opting into ridiculous special editions I don’t need, and really can’t afford.

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EA and Activision Settle ‘CALL OF DUTY’ Lawsuit; Aw Corporations Can F**K Nice.

The great litigation arm wrestling match between two video game Douchebag Titans is finally over. A day after settling with everyone who left Infinity Ward save  its founders, EA and Activision have finally decided to play nice.

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