Today Activision Blizzard announced that it will “disband Activision Publishing’s Guitar Hero business unit” due to the declining interest in the music genre. The company has ceased development on its previously planned 2011 Guitar Hero game. Additionally, Activision has stopped production on True Crime: Hong Kong. The future of the franchise is unknown. On...
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Bubble Ball, a physics puzzle game, knocked the smash hit game Angry Birds out of its top spot on the Apple App Store’s list of most popular free apps. While Angry Birds was created by a 17-person company based in Finland, Bubble Ball is the work of 14-year-old Robert Nay, an eighth grader living...
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Launched just a couple of months ago, Facebook smash CityVille is not just the biggest game on the social networking platform, it’s the biggest Facebook game ever. CityVille averaged over 84 million monthly users this past weekend, which means it’s bigger than previous record-holder and Zynga stablemate FarmVille ever was: the latter’s high-water mark...
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Choosing the right videogame to give as a gift can be hard with all the choices out there. Here’s a list of the best and top-selling titles of this holiday season. You’ll want to beat a path to the store for these before they sell out. Call of Duty: Black Ops Xbox 360, PlayStation...
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EA Community Coordiantor Eduardo Vasconcellos announced “The Battle for Hastings” challenge this morning, and it goes like a little something like this: perform 69 million team actions (resupplies, revives, heals, spots, and repairs) in Bad Company 2 and its Vietnam expansion, and Vietnam’s fifth map, Operation Hastings, will be unlocked. The challenge begins with...
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The EA Store has added a pre-order listing for Mass Effect 3 for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The listing includes a description that notes the “Earth is burning” and Commander Shepard has to gather the races of the galaxy to launch “one final mission” against machines striking from beyond known space. .
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Now that AMC’s incredible “The Walking Dead” has ended its first season, you’ll need something to tide you over until the flesh-eaters rise again. Look no further than these three new iOS games: .
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The VGA 2101 Video Game Awards will air tonight at 8pm ET on Spike TV from the Los Angeles Convention Center featuring a bevy of stars from the world of video games, Hollywood and pop music.. The show will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris. .
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Wondering what’s up with all the numbers on Facebook? The idea is simple: send a Facebook friend a number, then they’ll write back in a status message that inclues that number what they really think of you. As The Number Game explains on its Facebook page, ” Facebook users can ask their friends what...
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An update to the PS3™ system software was released on December 7, 2010. You can use this update to upgrade your system software to version 3.55. If your PS3™ system software version is 3.55 (or later), you do not need to perform this update. To check the version of your system software, go to...
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