Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
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Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
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38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
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Demon's Souls servers extended again
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8Beloved game creator and Maxis co-founder Will Wright (The Sims, SimCity, Spore) today revealed that he is leaving Electronic Arts and Maxis to pursue one of his old side projects.
Dubbed Stupid Fun Club, the company is described as "an entertainment think tank developing new Intellectual Properties to be deployed across multiple fronts including video games, movies, television, the internet, and toys." Read more »
Action-packed video games can improve your eyesight, according to a recent study at the University of Rochester funded in part by the US Navy's Office of Naval Research.
Researchers set one test group playing first-person shooters Unreal Tournament 2004 and Call of Duty 2, and the other The Sims 2. After 50 hours over 9 weeks, FPS players were found to have a 43% improvement in their contrast sensitivity--the ability to spot slight differences in shades of grey--while Sims 2 players saw none. Read more »
Electronic Arts is the recipient of two additional lawsuits related to SecuROM DRM technology, this time in relation to Spore Creature Creator and The Sims 2 expansion pack Bon Voyage.
Richard Eldridge of Pennsylvania is suing the publisher over the undisclosed installation of SecuROM software on his computer after installing the demo version of Spore Creature Creator, reports GamePolitics. According to Eldridge's suit: Read more »
How long can you make it before you pause? I made it 56 seconds. Breckon lasted 20.
Post your times in the comments below. The first person to honestly make it all the way through--and yes, I will know if you're lying--will receive some type of special recognition for their, er, dedication. Yeah, dedication, that's it. Read more »
Electronic Arts is responding to the ridiculous allegations by attorney Jack Thompson, who said the other day that the game contains "full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair". Very exciting, but not true.
"This is nonsense," said Jeff Brown, spokesman for EA. "Reasonable people understand there is nothing improper in the game." He added, ""Reasonable people recognize what mods are. A consumer who chooses to use a mod does so without any kind of agreement with the company. There is no nudity. There is nothing improper or vulgar in 'The Sims 2.' " [...] "Reasonable people understand the San Jose Mercury News is not responsible for vulgar things that people doodle into the margins of the paper,"" Brown said.Thompson now acknowledges the Sims 2 nudity does not come with the game, but says EA still needs to prevent these kind of mods. Read more »
I actually had a discussion with a couple of friends about this just the other day about how long it would take for Sims 2 to end up in court after the recent GTA crazyness. Looks like not long at all. There is a nude patch for Sims 2!
In a manifesto sent today to press outlets, Thompson focuses on dismantling the Entertainment Software Ratings Board and exposing what he calls the industry's "latest dirty little secret." The secret's out now, and it involves nude sims. In the statement, Thompson says, "Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise ... contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair."Read more »
Everyone can relax, because The Sims 2 is indeed planned for release next year. The sequel to the #1 PC game of all time will be all 3D and stuff. It's going to be showing at E3 in just over a week:
An entirely new 3-D engine makes the world of The Sims 2 more life-like and dynamic. The Sims 2 will also introduce an all-new "Create-A-Sim" feature. This allows you to customize the facial features of your Sim with a few simple clicks, to a level of detail never realized before. In The Sims 2, players are now able to build dwellings over two stories and have the ability to coordinate and customize the homes of their Sims to a new degree of design with all-new furniture, lighting and objects.Read more »
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
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