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App Review: Reiner Knizia's Samurai app makes it fun to influence Buddhas, peasants and helmets
<!--CONTENT START--> Samurai is the most in-depth, "heaviest" game design by Reiner Knizia to make an appearance on the App Store, and it arrives in all of its interesting glory. Medici and Small World, two other games we've reviewed in this series, are meaty Euro board games we can compare...
Read more »August 25, 2010, 10:00 am| Read full article | More articles from tuaw.com
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EA takes hard-line stance against Medal of Honor controversy
<!--body--> If a game lets players take on the role of the Taliban and takes place during the current war in Afghanistan, it's only natural that it will garner a good deal of controversy. And that's exactly what has happened with EA's upcoming Medal of Honor reboot. But after receiving...
Read more »August 25, 2010, 7:37 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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iControlPad heads into production, support for other phones promised
It's been promised for years and was said to have gone into production before, but it looks like this time it's for real -- that's the very first iControlPad fresh off the production line pictured above. No orders are being taken just yet, but that's promised to be announced soon...
Read more »August 25, 2010, 7:10 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com
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Sony ponders charging for 'online pass' game functionality
We specifically told you guys not to tell your friends at Sony about a certain "feature" of EA Sports whereby the player is charged $10 to unlock online content and multiplayer functionality. And what do we have here? It looks like someone spilled the beans, because GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that...
Read more »August 24, 2010, 10:33 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com
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Marvell says Armada chips will power new game platform
Marvell's been teasing potent little processors for over a year now, but we've yet to see the firm's Armada appear in anything we'd actually want... but co-founder Sehat Sutardja just let slip that Marvell silicon will power a genuine game console of some sort. "Approximately 15% of the sequential increase...
Read more »August 24, 2010, 4:55 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com
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Homemade Fallout 3 plasma rifle makes our post-apocalyptic future seem less bleak
The A3-21 Plasma Rifle is quite the little devastator in Fallout 3 and it doesn't look half bad in the so-called real world either. Lovingly pieced together by one Ryan Palser, this homebrewed replica (the lower of the two in the image above) took five months to complete and involved...
Read more »August 24, 2010, 10:59 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com
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College Curriculum Requires Undergrads to Play Video Game “Portal”
At Indiana’s all-boys Wabash College, the critically acclaimed video game Portal will appear alongside The Epic of Gilgamesh, Hamlet, and Aristotle as required material for undergraduate students seeking any degree.The game will be part of a mandatory Freshman seminar called “Enduring Questions” that will explore “fundamental questions of humanity” through...
Read more »August 24, 2010, 10:41 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Call of Duty: Black Ops: dedicated servers, dev console, mods
<!--body--> Modern Warfare 2 was not especially loved in PC gaming circles because of the lack of dedicated servers, the inability to tweak the game's settings, and the absence of support for user-created content. It looks like Treyarch is swinging for the fences with the latest entry in the series, which will...
Read more »August 24, 2010, 8:57 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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Together we kill: first look at Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
<!--body--> Just one year later, Ubisoft is returning to 15th century Italy with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Though it's being released so close to the well-received Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood doesn't seem to be a simple cash-in. Instead, it looks like an attempt to refine the formula further, adding new elements...
Read more »August 24, 2010, 7:38 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

