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Use Kinect to Chat With Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Shouting at your Kinect will allow you to switch Halo's graphics modes on the fly. Speaking with 1UP at Tokyo Game Show, Halo franchise development director Frank O'Connor revealed <a...

Activision Discusses Call of Duty Fatigue "All the Time" Call of Duty's developers don't think the franchise is heading the way of Guitar Hero. In a recent interview with GamerZines, Sledgehammer Games CEO Glen Schofield said Activision is wary of fatiguing Call of Duty players...

Deus Ex Gets Augmented with Star Wars Advertisements If the bewildering amount of recent Star Wars advertising, hype, and skepticism has you annoyed, you'd best not boot up Deus Ex. A recent patch for Deus Ex: Human Revolution inserts advertisements for the <a...

Tell Gearbox How They Can Take Your Money Gearbox is asking the community for suggestions about awesome collectors edition bonuses for Borderlands 2. Let's all say it: most collectors editions are a bit weak. Art books, bonus discs, and soundtracks are hit or miss, and a lot of...

Tech-Testing Ghost City Comes Straight Out Of Sci-Fi A D.C.-based company is funding a $200 million ghost city that will be used for testing purposes. New Mexico is already associated with a <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident>bizarre incident, so why not add more...

Atari's Founder Hopes to Hack Three Years Off High School Nolan Bushnell believes cloud computing can fix the "nightmare" that is modern education. In what might be confused as a doomsday prophecy, game industry legend Nolan Bushnell described some glaring faults of contemporary American...

Your Beautiful Voice Could Be in Assassin's Creed: Revelations Ubisoft needs someone with a "soft, melodic voice" to sing the theme song for Assassin's Creed: Revelations. Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight and Inception) and Lorne Balfe, two musicians composing the soundtrack for the next...

Abandoned Call of Duty Had Dead Space-like Elements Before focusing efforts on Modern Warfare 3, Sledgehammer Games was working on a creepy Call of Duty. Speaking with Gamerzine at the Call of Duty XP event last week, Sledgehammer Games boss Glen Schofield revealed that his studio's...

Ubisoft Dishes Out Free Driver: San Francisco Content Starting September 15, Ubisoft will release free downloadable routes for console owners of Driver: San Francisco. News that Driver: San Francisco would use Ubisoft's infamous always-on DRM - which forces the player to maintain an...

Modern Warfare 3 Controller Has "Night Vision" Try not to throw this Modern Warfare 3 controller when children assault your mother, skill, and sexual preferences. Last month we were shown limited edition <a...

Driver: San Francisco Dev Stands Up For Ubisoft's DRM Practices One <a href=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=driver+san+francisco&x=0&y=0>Driver: San Francisco developer says DRM is financially and morally a good idea. Coming hot off the heels...

See Your Battlefield 3 Pre-Order Goodies in Action This trailer shows off the rewards you'll receive for pre-ordering Battlefield 3 from <a href=http://www.gamestop.com/browse?nav=16k-battlefield+3>GameStop or EA's <a href=http://store.origin.com/store/ea/pd/productID.224766400>Origin...

Battlefield 3 Producer Says Sequels Should Take Time Battlefield 3 executive producer Patrick Bach proposes that continual updates - not annual sequels - are the proper way to support a franchise. Speaking with Rock Paper Shotgun, Bach discussed the respectful, often forgotten practice...

It's Danish. I'm not sure why I typed Swedish in the first place. I recently spoke with a friend from Sweden, so that may be it. Sorry about that, everyone.

Limbo Developer Escapes Financial Hell Limbo's success allowed Danish developer Playdead to purchase itself from investors and fund a new, more ambitious title. After a successful showing on Xbox Live - and later on PC and PSN - Limbo developer Playdead has managed to pay back...