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You’ve been fighting hard for the entire match. Both teams are neck and neck, and the game can be decided at any moment. Suddenly, an opponent foolishly wanders into your crosshairs, but just before you can make him pay for his foolishness the game minimizes and you discover that McAfee really wants to talk to you about something. Or the same match in question devolves into a slideshow as your computer’s virus protection eats up your framerate.

This happens more often than we would like, and – in the past – has given us only two options. Either keep the virus protection running and risk this happening again, or shut the virus protection down and leave ourselves at the mercy of the internet. …

It’s a little raunchy and really, really funny. No topic is taboo in College Humor’s The Roast of Mario, which features Patrick Warburton from The Venture Brothers and The Family Guy. Watch Mario’s friends and rivals ridicule the plumber’s performance in bed, his weight, and his Italian-ness in this very NSFW video… …

This week, Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell gave his blog followers a glimpse at a space-faring DeSoto designed for 2005’s Sam & Max  Plunge Through Space that, like the game, never made it out of the garage… …

$360 million, folks. That’s reportedly the final tally on Call of Duty: Black Ops’ first-day sales, making it the single highest-grossing launch in entertainment history… …

APB: All Points Bulletin may be coming back soon. The MMO shooter went offline in September after receiving mixed reviews. However, K2 Network, a company that specialized in localizing free-to-play games from Asia, has just acquired the intellectual property rights for APB from Realtime Worlds for £1.5 million… …

Move over Gal Gun, there’s a new king of pathetic sex games in town! Marvel Brothel is a game in which Professor-X turns his mutant academy into the best little whore-house in upstate New York… …

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has revealed how he very nearly joined Nintendo rather than Capcom at the outset of his career.

In an interview with Famitsu, translated by 1Up, Mikami revealed how he got started in the industry.

“A friend of mine had found a flyer advertising some kind of job fair-slash-buffet party Capcom was holding at the Hilton and he gave it to me because he knew I liked games.

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UK-based MotoGP 10/11 studio trims its operations after “unexpected” shelving of unannounced project.

Earlier today, Capcom announced that it had once again tapped Monumental Games to craft the latest installment in its MotoGP motorcycle racing sim, which is due out in March 2011. However, all is not well within the studio, as Develop reports today that the British studio has laid off staff after an “unexpected” cancellation of an unannounced project.

Monumental still has MotoGP, at least.

“Due to an unexpected project cancellation Monumental has been forced to restructure its business which has resulted in a number of job losses,” CEO Rik Alexander said in a statement. “The company is saddened by the cuts and will provide the necessary support to those affected through the change.” Alexander did not say how many employees were impacted by the cuts.

Beyond its work on MotoGP 10/11, Monumental is at work on its proprietary 3D massively multiplayer online game engine, Prime. The studio’s previous work includes the Facebook title Little Horrors, as well as Hunters World and Football Superstars.

Monumental is currently shopping this engine around to a number of publishes, Develop reports. The studio also plans to continue developing games in both the social and the traditional spaces.

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A sequel to Nintendo’s much-derided 2008 effort Wii Music could well be on the way, judging by comments made this week by the game’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

The legendary Nintendo designer told Techland, “There’s a lot of potential still in Wii Music, I think. Because we’re going to change it up, a new interface is coming, and all of that.”

The interviewer responded “Wow, I think that’s breaking news, then” at which point no retraction or denial was offered.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops has no doubt found millions of fans this week, but the Cuban government is not among them. On the contrary – it’s seething about a sequence detailing a failed assassination attempt on leader Fidel Castro.

According to the Associated Press, an article published by state-run news outlet Cubadebate read, “What the United States couldn’t accomplish in more than 50 years, they are now trying to do virtually.”

“This new video game is doubly perverse,” it continues. “On the one hand, it glorifies the illegal assassination attempts the United States government planned against the Cuban leader… and on the other, it stimulates sociopathic attitudes in North American children and adolescents.”

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