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Windows Live Support Moves To Forums

By pthurrott

Microsoft is moving its Windows Live support to online forums, which sounds like a step down, until you realize that it was previously... »

 

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Scribblenauts sequel gets big, blue, hairy, etc.

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Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment announced the next Scribblenauts game (not pictured; that's the original up there) for the Nintendo DS, due out this fall. ...players use the stylus and touch screen to help Maxwell, the game's hero, acquire the "Starite," the prize earned from solving the puzzle in even more robust challenges and... »

Heavy Rain vs. Deadly Premonition: Round Four

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Some people named Sid Meier describe gameplay as a series of interesting decisions. »

Details revealed, Portal 2 no longer a mystery

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If you're like me and not smart enough to follow elaborate ARGs that announce new games, you might not have caught all the details Valve has recently dribbled out about Portal 2 . For instance, the above image was hidden away on some old-school BBS, indicating co-operative gameplay. But now VG247 has culled... »

March 8, 2010: wallet threat level yellow/green

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I imagine a lot of you care deeply about the release of Final Fantasy XIII , but it's completely beyond my ken. I wasn't even sure if it was the MMO one »

Google Begins Implementing Auto-Captioning on YouTube

By pthurrott

And just like that, it renders my arguments about the company being evil completely moot. Because, as it turns out, I have a deaf son with cochlear implants. »

Live Mesh: It’s Alive!

By pthurrott

Because I use and recommend the ever-in-beta Live Mesh service from Microsoft, I get a lot of questions about it, and how I use it. But with Microsoft not updating its Live Mesh blog since last summer, fears have grown that Microsoft had given up on one of its best offerings »

Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising raised from the dead by unlikely publisher

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I remember seeing Gods & Heroes four or five years ago at E3. It seemed at first like a typical fantasy MMO, but with ancient Roman trappings »

Darwinia creators unveil sexy new high-tech heist game

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Introversion, the folks behind the haunting virtual world wars in Darwinia and Defcon , have finally revealed some details about Subversion , their next game. Chris Delay posts an account of the presentation he gave at the Darwinia+ launch party. »

Insane Blogger Fools Reporter, Gets Fired

By pthurrott

In Friday's Short Takes, I included the following blurb: Stupid People Writing Stupid Stories About Stupid Non-issues Surveying my so-called peers in the tech press can be depressing. This week is a typical example, with IDG News running a complete non-story FUD episode examining a so-called "Windows 7 issue," in which the new... »

Has THQ decided too late to support Darksiders?

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This is normally good news: Gamers will be able to get to grips with Darksiders™' true essence in the upcoming release of a 90-minute game demo for Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3 based on THQ Inc.'s critically acclaimed action-adventure game. The demo contains the entire first dungeon encounter from the game, the sprawling Twilight... »