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Nintendo will make the money for your YouTube fan videos
f you fancy posting a video to YouTube of yourself playing Nintendo games, do it for the adulation only; Nintendo will make the cash from it. That's the message coming from Zack Scott, a prolific poster of game walkthroughs on the video site - which can be found on his popular channel. He was shocked to find t ...read more
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Gears of War: Judgment gets 'Lost Relics' multiplayer DLC next month
Epic lays down Gears of War: Judgment with new multiplayer DLC in June. The 'Lost Relics' pack a new gametype and four further maps, including the return of 'Checkout' from Gears of War 3. Also bundled in are new armor and weapon skins. The gametype is called Breakthrough. It features one ...read more
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Lulzsec hacker group given jail time following Sony, Nintendo attacks
Four members of hacking group Lulzsec have been handed jail sentences following high-profile cyber attacks on several companies, including Nintendo, Sony and EA Ryan Cleary was given 32 months in jail, Jake Davis is to serve two years and Ryan Ackroyd was jailed for 30 months. Mustafa ...read more
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Xbox Wire blog launched ahead of next-gen reveal
Xbox Wire will feature blogs from Microsoft executives and "everyday people" on the Xbox team, as well as occasional posts from director of programming Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb. The launch proceeds the official reveal of Microsoft's next-gen Xbox, which is set to take place in Redmond on Tuesday, May 21. Xbox Wire editor, Li ...read more
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Apple announces 50 billion App Store downloads
More than 50 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple's iOS App Store since its 2008 launch, the company has announced. The impressive number, which excludes re-downloads and updates, equates to over two billion app downloads per month - or 800 app downloads per second. The 50 billionth app was 'Say the Same Thing' by Space ...read more
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Black Ops 2 Uprising DLC out on PS3, PC
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's multiplayer offerings grow stronger -- and undead-er -- with today's release of the Uprising DLC map pack for the PlayStation 3 and PC platforms. The pack is priced at $14.99. Uprising adds the Magma, Encore, Vertigo, and Studio multiplayer maps, the latter of which is a reworking of the classic Firing Range level fe ...read more
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EA has no Wii U games in development
Mega publisher Electronic Arts has no games currently in development for Nintendo's Wii U. EA recently confirmed the detail to Kotaku, following mounting evidence the publisher was no longer planning to make games for the struggling console. It was previously revealed that some of EA's biggest franchises would not make their way to the Wii U this ye ...read more
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Angry Birds flick flies to cinemas July 1, 2016
A release for the upcoming Angry Birds flick has been narrowed to July 1, 2016, with Sony distributing the movie worldwide, Rovio announced on its website today. Rovio's intent on creating a feature film was made public late last year, when the studio tapped producers John Cohen and David Maisel from Despicable Me and Iron Man t ...read more
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PSN hacking suspect sentenced to house arrest for destroying evidence
This week, 23-year-old Ohio resident Todd M. Miller was sentenced to a year of house arrest for destruction of evidence and obstructing a federal investigation into a 2008 hacker-led PlayStation Network breach. The Columbus Dispatch reports that US District Judge Peter C. Economus sai ...read more
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EA puts an end to its Online Pass program
EA has announced it will discontinue its Online Pass program. "Yes, we're discontinuing Online Pass," EA's senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg told GamesBeat in an e-mail. "None of our new EA titles will include that feature." Reseburg added that "many players didn't respond to the format," despite EA going on record ...read more
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