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‘Operation: Game Over’ bans sex offenders from online gaming
As part of a new initiative dubbed “Operation: Game Over,” more than 3,500 registered sex offenders were banned from online gaming. Operation: Game Over is the first time the law has been applied to online video game systems.
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Anti-Gay Campaign Targets EA
EA has become the target of an on-going anti-gay letter-writing campaign. The company has received “several thousand” letters objecting to its inclusion of same-sex relationships in recent games such as Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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EA now has an incredible award to add to its collection
EA has been given the 2012 Golden Poo award. Readers of American site The Consumerist, voted in a number of polls to decide upon the eventual “winner”. EA trumped the Bank of America in the final poll winning 64.03 per cent of the vote. A statement from the site sums up why.
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Broken games? Not if Ubisoft can help it…
Everyone likes to try things, but broken things aren’t cool. So rather than release a game broken and then fix it with patches, ala Skyrim, Ubisoft are opening one of their new games up for public beta testing.
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GAME reward and gift cards to be reactivated
More good news for GAME & Gamestation customers. Game have reactivated the Reward and Gamestation Elite cards to now earn and spend points on everything in store. For the last week or so, only preowned games were eligible for points to be gained. Gift cards, which were also suspended at the time the group entered…
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A Whole New World…
To make sure that you’re on top of the world, it’s today been announced that a game that involves two of them has been granted a new multiplayer mode and five new maps.
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Mario, tennis and the 3DS
Wimbledon, it’s all about tennis. Tennis and strawberries. Yet today Nintendo have decided that tennis isn’t just for Wimbledon it’s for everyone and they’ve done this by showing the world that a new Mario game is coming out.
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Kingdom Heats Drop Distance & Theatrhythm Final Fantasy both dated
In a double whammy from Square Enix today, they have announced both release dates for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts Drop Distance for the Nintendo 3DS. The games will release on 3rd July and 31st July respectively. For Kingdom Heats this is a month later than originally planned, as the game is launching this…
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Quantum Conundrum has a guest voice over
Square Enix have announced that the voice over in their latest PlayStation Network & Xbox Live Marketplace game, Quantum Conundrum is none other than John De Lancie of Star Trek, Gamer and Crack: High Voltage fame. He will voice the main character, Professor Fitz Quadwrangle in the new first person puzzler.
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Men In Black: Alien Crisis due May
Activision have today announced that the Men In Black: Alien Crisis will launch on the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 with Move support in time for the film’s release. Both Men In Black 3 and Alien Crisis will launch on 25th May.
