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Above: “How many Peta members does it take to change a lightbulb?… None, Peta can’t change anything,” says Super Meat Boy developer
Super Meat Boy developer Team Meat has started a Twitter throw down with animal rights organization PETA. “How many Peta members does it take to change a lightbulb?” asks Team Meat via Twitter. The answer: “None, Peta can’t change anything,” says Team Meat. Zing!The delicious drama follows the release of Flash game Super Tofu Boy, a parody of Team Meat’s Super Meat Boy, which was developed by PETA to promote a vegan lifestyle… …
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Microsoft gets in the Christmas spirit.
Microsoft is giving away 400 free points when you buy two Xbox Live Arcade games before 20th December.
What’s the catch, you ask? Well, the deal only applies with certain games but fear not, they’re all various shades of ace. Well, apart from Blacklight. Here’s the list:
To take advantage of the deal, you need to download the Arcade Offer Gamer Picture. Go to Xbox Live Event Registrations on your dashboard, select “Arcade Offer” from the list and select “Download to Xbox 360”.
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Console’s microphone peripheral now available only at “limited retail locations”; Nintendo says it could be brought back “if consumer demand increases.”
In late 2008, Nintendo released Wii Speak, a microphone accessory for its Wii console. The peripheral allows for speaker-phone-style voice chat with an entire room, versus the headset-based chat used by other consoles. The device also has its own dedicated channel on the console, letting users chat with one another via their Mii avatars.
However, it appears that the Wii Speak’s days are now numbered. Nintendo has confirmed that the peripheral is being phased out and is now available only “at limited retail locations.” The company did leave the door open for the add-on, saying “additional shipments can be made if consumer demand increases.”
In the meantime, the company suggested consumers also use Performance Designed Products’
Headbanger Headset to use voice chat on the Wii. The company said that peripheral will continue to be available for the Wii and will work with such games as Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops and Sega’s Conduit 2.As for the Wii Speak Channel, Nintendo was tight-lipped. “We have nothing to announce regarding the future of this channel, and it currently is being enjoyed by many gamers,” a spokesperson said.
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A novel based on Crysis 2 is in the works, to be released alongside the game next year.
Titled Crysis: Legion, it’ll be published by Random House off-shoot Del Rey Books and will embellish the events of Crytek’s forthcoming FPS sequel.
“Terrifying armored alien invaders stalk the streets of New York, while a nightmare plague strikes down its human population with brutal speed,” reads developer Crytek’s synopsis.
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Legacy of Kain duo to pop up too.
In one of the stranger gaming crossovers of recent years, Kane and Lynch will soon be playable in Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Hacked PC footage on YouTube, spotted by Joystiq, showed four as-yet unreleased DLC packs for Crystal Dynamic’s co-operative top-down Tomb Raider spin-off.
Two are new Challenge Packs called ‘Things That Go Boom” and “Hazardous Reunion”, one is marked “Kane & Lynch Character Pack” and another is titled “Raziel and Kane Character Pack”.
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Breathe easy, PS3 vampire slayers.
The PlayStation 3 version of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has just been patched, with a game-breaking save issue among the bugs ironed out.
“The patch will help resolve the ‘save game’ issues related to user interaction with controller buttons (PlayStation button and SELECT), or disconnection of the controller while the auto-save icon is on-screen,” Konami explained.
“The patch will also offer cosmetic upgrades such as ability for the loading screen text to scroll improving user readability.”
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Find out why you have to wait.
Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has explained why it can take as long as five weeks for reported bugs and glitches to get patched up.
In a lengthy post on the game’s official site, Treyarch community manager Josh Olin painstakingly described each stage of the patching process.
First up, “As soon as the game is released, we scour the forums and play online with fans to gather feedback.”
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Microsoft Store Update: Bungie’s $10 map pack for sci-fi shooter drops onto download space; Unbound Saga hits XBLA; free DLC for Monday Night Combat also arrives next to Trails HD paid content.
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Kotick gives Facebook cold shoulder too.
Activision boss Bobby Kotick believes the publisher’s immediate future lies in traditional gaming platforms rather than mobile phones and social networks like Facebook.
As reported by Reuters, speaking at the news agency’s Global Media Summit, Kotick said “We don’t view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games.”
He didn’t rule out working on the iPad in the future, but right now the publisher would be focussing on key core franchises like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero.
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Kotick gives Facebook cold shoulder too.
Activision boss Bobby Kotick believes the publisher’s immediate future lies in traditional gaming platforms rather than mobile phones and social networks like Facebook.
As reported by Reuters, speaking at the news agency’s Global Media Summit, Kotick said “We don’t view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games.”
He didn’t rule out working on the iPad in the future, but right now the publisher would be focussing on key core franchises like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero.
