Today in Gaming – 4/5/11: New NBA Jam and GameStop’s Tablet
EA Sports today announced a new NBA Jam that is wisely going to be a downloadable game with support for online roster updates, a very welcome feature that might be useless next season as an NFL-like lockout is very possible. Hidden alongside that news was a brief note that the next game in EA’s line of simulation basketball products will be next available during fall 2012.
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Today in Gaming – 4/5/11: New NBA Jam and GameStop’s Tablet
1UP Gameathon for Japan
Live video by Ustream Time : Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 10AM PST Location : Watch the embedded video player above.
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1UP Gameathon for Japan
Publishers are Wrong to Shoehorn Multiplayer into Games
Some types of games don’t lend themselves especially well to a multiplayer experience, and yet we often find ourselves playing games that have multiplayer components that feel out of place or unnecessary.
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Today in Gaming – 4/4/11: NGP Delay and Alan Wake 2 Rumored
The NGP has a tough enough road ahead of it, and if it turns out that the new portable can’t be released in 2011 around most of the world, that would be a significant detriment to its ability to outsell the 3DS. And as noted in today’s news story about the potential delay (as a result of production problems stemming from last month’s earthquake in Japan), the NGP will be competing with not only the 3DS, but also the iPod Touch and iPad, the latter of which might see its third iteration released around the time the NGP makes it out in North America
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Today in Gaming – 4/1/11: April Fools and Japan Sales Report
Besides 1UP’s own, there was no shortage of April Fools pranks this year. Blizzard did quite a few of its own, including the fake release of a Diablo Horadric Cube for iOS that creates brand-new apps
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Today in Gaming – 4/1/11: April Fools and Japan Sales Report
Weekend Deals: NASCAR 2011 and Tiger Woods 12
It’s not the most spectacular week for deals; there certainly isn’t much in the way of sales that’ll have you questioning if they’re April Fools jokes.
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Madden Creator Suing EA for Tens of Millions
Update: EA has issued a statement to 1UP on the lawsuit.
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Madden Creator Suing EA for Tens of Millions
Today in Gaming – 3/31/11: GameStop Buys Impulse, Magicka Vietnam Dated
Some fans of Impulse may be wary of the GameStop acquisition , but I’m personally intrigued to see what happens.
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Today in Gaming – 3/31/11: GameStop Buys Impulse, Magicka Vietnam Dated
Possible Madden Cover Star Michael Vick "Served His Time"
With Seattle’s 12th Man eliminated (the injustice!) from the voting , Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is among the 16 players remaining as possible Madden NFL 12 cover athletes.
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Dragon Quest X is Quite Far Along, Details Before Year’s End
Development on the first true Dragon Quest sequel to come to a Nintendo console since the ’90s, Dragon Quest X , is “going well” and Square Enix is currently at work on the “last parts of the game.” Creator Yuji Horii spoke about the game’s progress, which we still know very little about, with Nintendo Power . Talking about the decision to bring DQX to Wii, he said, “I feel that some users will want to play Dragon Quest on the big screen, which is why we are working toward releasing it on Wii. Of course, in the future we might develop on handhelds again, so it’s really a case-by-case basis
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