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monday

Sleeping Dogs Trailer UFG's/ Squares revival of True Crime: Hong Kong joystiq.com media aspro

New Halo 4 Enemies Outed by Action Figures Crawlers, and Watchers. gameinformer.com media news aspro

Wii 'Greatest Hits' Titles Named and Dated Pikmin 2, Mario Power Tennis on US Wii June 10, DKC Returns and Brawl discounted. joystiq.com news aspro

Minecraft 360 Sells 1 Million in Five Days The game sold for 1600 MS Points, or $20. gamasutra.com news aspro

Blizzard Defends Claims That Diablo 3 is 'Dumbed Down "...it's not that we're dumbing the systems down, so much as we're changing the balance..." eurogamer.net news aspro

GameStop Confirms Steam Voucher Cards Real Customers will also be able to use trade credits from selling the store used games toward Steam Wallet cards. arstechnica.com news aspro

Square Enix Financials Deus Ex and FF13-2 dragged them into profitability. eurogamer.net news aspro

Giantbomb Reviews Max Payne 3 4/5 "grittier and more grounded in reality, if not quite as singular". giantbomb.com impressions aspro

UK Top 40 Prototype falls off, Sniper Elite 2 takes top spot. eurogamer.net news aspro

GAME Australia (Retailer) Goes Bankrupt Largest dedicated gaming chain in the country. eurogamer.net news aspro

1UP Reviews Sonic 4: Episode 2 B+ "a better game than its predecessor, but it's not all bright.". 1up.com impressions aspro

1UP Reviews Max Payne 3 A- "impeccable presentation and superb storytelling". 1up.com editorial impressions aspro

Tomb Raider Reboot Bumped into 2013 Still looking pretty good. giantbomb.com news aspro

2012 May Be Worst Retail Year for Gaming in Six Years Projections of 19% to 27% down made by analysts. gamasutra.com news aspro

The Press Room Episode #113 Awesomenauts, Binary Domain, Saints Row the Third and more... thepressroompodcast.com editorial impressions news aspro

Smaller GameStops Dropping PSP From Shelves "...at the smallest 25 percent of stores." joystiq.com news aspro

Study: 360 is Most Popular Non-PC Video Ad Device Mission accomplished. joystiq.com news aspro

tuesday

South Park RPG Pushed to 2013 gameinformer.com news aspro

AMD Launches New Processor 'Trinity' "...has three times the graphics performance of the Intel HD Graphics 3000 GPU in Sandy Bridge" pcgamer.com news aspro

Itagaki's Latest Project is Being Shopped Around THQ no longer can afford Devil's Third. joystiq.com news aspro

Saints Row Franchise Ships Over 11 Million Third shipped 4.25 million, new game coming. joystiq.com news aspro

THQ Financials Losses widen despite an overall sales increase. gamasutra.com news aspro

Ubisoft Games go on Sale on PSN today 30-50% off rather long list of games. examiner.com news isntchrisl

Diablo 3 Launches With Server Crashes and Other Issues Highlights the problems of internet requirement gamespy.com news robio

First Impressions of Diablo 3 PC Gamer "live blogs" their playthrough. pcgamer.com impressions aspro

Pokemon B&W 2 Screens andriasang.com media aspro

Nintendo Patches a Product (Mario Kart 7) There goes the neighborhood. eurogamer.net news aspro

Eurogamer Reviews Max Payne 3 7/10 "Rockstar just isn't as good at a pure third-person shooter". eurogamer.net impressions aspro

Game of Thrones (4.0) BAD! Review An often ugly, buggy, and poorly delivered mess. ign.com impressions phantom_leo

Rovio Announces Follow Up to Angry Birds - Amazing Alex Based on another iOS game - Casey's Contraptions pcmag.com news robio

Capcom Evaluating On-Disc DLC Use Sounds like empty PR statement. giantbomb.com news aspro

Activision Pays Back-Bonuses To Zampella and West Dispute still heading to court. gamasutra.com news aspro

38 Studios (Amular) in Financial Trouble State of Rhode Island working with the studio on solving "different issues." giantbomb.com news aspro

Diablo III Console Version's Fate Unknown :| ign.com news Ravenprose

wednesday

Details on 38 Studios Financial Problems They missed a $1.25 million loan re-payment. gameinformer.com news aspro

Star Wars: Old Republic Free Trial Four days, starting now. pcgamer.com news aspro

Crysis 3 Screens pcgamer.com media aspro

Court Documents Reveal Activision's Internal Spies Not a game name, what they were doing to Infinity Ward. giantbomb.com news aspro

Job Ad Indicates Lionhead MMO for Next Xbox Not Fable, a new IP. eurogamer.net news aspro

EA Has Criterion Working on Vita Game Indicated by employment advertising. eurogamer.net news aspro

THPS HD Getting THPS 3 as DLC Remember when we used THPS? eurogamer.net news aspro

Japanese Software/ Hardware Charts, May 7-13 PSP almost doubles sales of Vita. neogaf.com news aspro

Epic Mickey 2 'Making of' Feature giantbomb.com media aspro

More Halo 4 Multiplayer Details New missions will be delivered on a weekly basis. eurogamer.net news aspro

GTA5 Details on Max Payne Disc Why Rockstar? Why? eurogamer.net news aspro

Trials Evolution for XBLA sells 500K copies in 3 weeks That's kind of the whole story. gamasutra.com news aspro

Ubisoft: "[Wii U] Can Have Great Success" Ubisoft has seven games in development for Wii U. eurogamer.net news aspro

Monolith Software Confirmed as Project X Zone's Develo New gameplay details as well. andriasang.com news aspro

Famitsu Digs Dragon's Dogma And Mario Tennis (all Famitsu scores listed). andriasang.com news aspro

FIFA 13 Preview from 1UP "Small but key refinements..." 1up.com impressions aspro

New Last of Us trailer Really cool youtube.com media Dvader

thursday

Blizzard Apologizes for Diablo III Fiasco Delays auction house, said they didn't prepare enough for launch. pcgamer.com news aspro

GameStop Looking to Influence Next Gen Hardware "They will have to be sensitive to those things consumers told us are important to them: backwards compatibility, pre-owned games, etc." gamasutra.com news aspro

38 Studios (Amalur) Skips Payroll, Fires Temps CHECK BOUNCED Government official that loaned them $75 million resigns. giantbomb.com news aspro

Unreal Engine 4 Shown Off (New Screens) UE4 has no concrete launch date set, but its demo will be revealed to the public in June. arstechnica.com media news aspro

Rayman Origins 3DS Hits June Demo available now. gameinformer.com news aspro

Eurogamer Reviews Sonic 4: Episode 2 6/10 "a very good Sonic game, judged against recent form, but he's still a long way from catching up to his peers". eurogamer.net impressions aspro

Are Casual Gamers Done with Consoles? Could Pachter be... wrong?! examiner.com editorial isntchrisl

Fewer than 8% of Surveyed Interested in Wii U or Vita Also 38% of all statistics are made up wired.com news robio

May 19 Is Kid Icarus Multiplayer Day Seems like a lackluster holiday gamasutra.com news robio

Molyneux As Impressed With Wii U As Gamers Were With Fable 3 He'll also being doing E3 analysis for Spike Tv kotaku.com news robio

Walking Dead Sells a Million (Kinda) Read the last paragraph... joystiq.com news aspro

Pokemon Black & White 2 Special Anime Movie Was leaked, now official. It's a teaser for the game. andriasang.com media aspro

Giantbomb Quicklook: Sonic 4: Episode 2 giantbomb.com media aspro

PS3 Getting "Pre-Load" Ability for New Releases Buy early, download, activate on day one. gamasutra.com news aspro

RARE Hiring for "Multiple AAA Next Gen Titles" Is Rare coming back to real games? eurogamer.net news aspro

EA and Activision Settle Out of Court Over Infinity Ward Suit with Zampella and West will continue. eurogamer.net news aspro

Eurogamer Reviews Mario Open Tennis 7/10 "after seven long years, it's a shame there aren't bigger ideas to rally around". eurogamer.net impressions aspro

1UP Reviews Game of Thrones C- "sloppy RPG presents a merely okay fanfic". 1up.com impressions aspro

friday

[Poll] Face-Off Friday: Downloadable Games vs. Discs Which do you prefer? vglounge.com editorial Uncl3Fac3

Yakuza 5 Reveal Next Week So there's that. andriasang.com news aspro

weekend

Kazesama777's Gaming Adventures- Knockout Fights 2 Tourn Yesterday was great day...and also a somewhat embarrassing one vglounge.com Kazesama777

Has Nintendo Redesigned Wii U’s Controller? proper analog sticks? ign.com media news Ravenprose

West/ Zampella Increase Claim to $1BN Their initial claim was for $36 million. develop-online.net news aspro

New Sly Cooper Game Will be on Vita The non-Sucker Punch game was previously only for PS3. gameinformer.com news aspro

Ars Reviews Diablo III "BUY" "clearly an installment in what has become the hugely successful Diablo franchise". arstechnica.com impressions aspro

38 Studios Pays Debt, Severs Ties with Government Publicizes new game "Copernicus". giantbomb.com news aspro

Runescape Getting New Combat System Will "completely revolutionise the way players fight and interact in the game". eurogamer.net news aspro

Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 nLooks to be Cancelled Ubisoft recently abandoned its trademarks relating to the game. eurogamer.net news aspro

New Fighters Sorta Confirmed for PS All-Stars Battle Royale Snake, Nathan Drake, and Cole gamenguide.com news robio

Club Nintendo Inserts To Come To An End? New patent suggests on box codes to prevent fraud nintendoworldreport.com news robio

Elder Scrolls MMO Story is 100% Solo Bethesda not getting the whole MM part. eurogamer.net news aspro

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posting for no reason just cause i can't get enough of my new avatar.
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No, but I can delete it.
Put it back. NAO

Make me do it, cupcake!

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Fri, 18 May 2012 20:54:13

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The whole 38 studios thing once again makes this industry seem incompetent, because it is. Curt Shilling has no clue what he is doing running a game company, no state will ever help fund anything gaming related, not that they should. And it is another story of game devs being treated like shit not getting paid for their work.

The old Phillies pitcher?

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Fri, 18 May 2012 20:59:11

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I'll back Activision on this one. I'm sure they employ some nice people. If it goes to West and Zampella, then 100% of the proceeds go to douches.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 21:15:00

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Well Gentlemen, the time has come. I will be gone for a few days to go and do my manly duty. Wish me luck. I'll be thinking of all of you as I do what I need to do.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 21:38:39

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Have fun, Leo. We'll be thinking of you too.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 22:13:28

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Good luck and enjoy it Leo! I assure you, it's not as unpleasant as you may have read about.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 23:07:12

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Go and enjoy yourself Leo I know I wood, oops I mean would.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 04:22:41

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Ahhhhh strippers and free tequila shots. Damn good night boys. Damn good night indeed.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 04:44:47

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The whole 38 studios thing once again makes this industry seem incompetent, because it is. Curt Shilling has no clue what he is doing running a game company, no state will ever help fund anything gaming related, not that they should. And it is another story of game devs being treated like shit not getting paid for their work.
The old Phillies pitcher?

Yeah, and the Red Sox & Rockies. He's the one who started the company. Apparently he is a big game fan.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 05:47:54

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Ahhhhh strippers and free tequila shots. Damn good night boys. Damn good night indeed.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 05:52:03

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Ahhhhh strippers and free tequila shots. Damn good night boys. Damn good night indeed.

Maybe I should have hung out with you.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 05:59:12

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Bought and finished Sonic 4 Episode 2. it sucks. Music is so awful, just high pitched repeating crap that drives you crazy. How do you screw up the Sonic 2 halfpipe?!?

The game adds Tails and some new team up moves, an interesting mechanic used in the worst ways possible. Again the get away from what made the games so great to try different stuff that just is not as good. This game controls better than the first one for sure but the level design is boring as hell. Most of it is a horrible Sonic 2 remake which just serves to remind me how much better Sonic 2 is. There are tiny glimpses of a great Sonic game but they disappear really quick. Bosses suck.

Almost all my enjoyment of the first episode was speed running it, maybe I can do the same with this one.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 05:59:42

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Godspeed Leo. Godspeed.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 06:22:15

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Maybe I should have hung out with you.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 06:58:40

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Keep deluding yourself man.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 07:38:48

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He was still wrong, family comes first.

Take him along with you?

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Sat, 19 May 2012 09:52:42

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My copy of Assassin's Creed Revelations arrived yesterday. I didn't know the box was black. It's very cool. More PS3 games should come in black boxes instead of clear ones

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