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Apple offers Rock Band iTunes setlist ... for $75
via Joystiq by Ross Miller on February 14, 2008
Filed under: Culture, Mac, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, RhythmApple is hoping you can't get enough of Rock Band, promoting on its website a playlist featuring 74 songs of the game for a whopping $73.26. At $0.99 per song, that's a savings of exactly 0% -- in other words, resist the temptation to buy the whole package (iTunes link) and feed your Phase addiction by...
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GDC08: Plenty of changes coming with Call of Duty 4 feature patch
via Joystiq by Justin McElroy on February 19, 2008
... to the game in the coming months, which we talked with IW community relations manager Robert Bowling about today at GDC.The first in the pipeline is a feature patch that's just been sent to Microsoft for Xbox 360 certification and will soon go to the PS3 for certification.Continue reading GDC08: Plenty of changes coming with Call of Duty 4 feature patchPermalink | Email this | Comments
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Ubisoft reveals DS pedometer for 'My Weight Loss Coach'
via Joystiq by Scott Jon Siegel on March 09, 2008
... of the game or DS.The special pedometer uses an internal battery to keep track of its movement while separate from the DS. Users carry the device around with them in their pocket. Once plugged into the GBA slot of the user's DS, the device then transfers that data collected into My Weight Loss Coach, which factors in the movement into its daily health calculations.Due out this summ...
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World of Warcraft 2.4 patch arrives
via Joystiq by Justin McElroy on March 24, 2008
Filed under: PC, MMOHere's hoping your computer doesn't need fixing and your office voicemail stays online, because if you need anything from the IT department at your place of business you're straight out of luck. Blame it all on World of Warcraft patch 2.4, which hit the game's servers today, adding two new "Sunwell" instances, a giant arena tourney and other features you can...
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Ghostbusters' Wii connectivity turns DS into PKE Meter
via Joystiq by James Ransom-Wiley on April 28, 2008
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo WiiThe Wii version of Ghostbusters might be headed in an uncertain direction in the hands of Red Fly, a wholly different developer than Terminal Reality, which is creating the other version, but it will at least make use of the waggle console's touchy sibling. Busting through the fourth wall, Wii's Ghostbusters will morph any old DS (sold separately, of...
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Valve: MS, Yahoo, others turned down chance to build Steam
via Joystiq by Kyle Orland on April 29, 2008
Filed under: PCNow that Steam is running 300 games and 15 million subscribers strong, Valve's grand experiment in digital distribution seems like a no-brainer. Some of the titans of the computer industry apparently didn't see it that way, though, when given a chance to get in on the ground floor years ago."We went around to Yahoo, Microsoft...and anybody who seemed like a likely candidate...
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GTA IV could be most expensive game ever made
via Joystiq by Alexander Sliwinski on April 29, 2008
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, BusinessAs we wait to hear about the bagiggles of cash Grand Theft Auto IVis making out in the land of retail, we wondered how much the production actually cost. Speaking with The Times, GTA IV producer Leslie Benzies "hazards a guess" that the game cost $100 million to make, with about 1,000 people working on it.If true, GTA IV would be the...
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The eleven-minute Automatic Mario masterpiece
via Joystiq by Griffin McElroy on May 25, 2008
Filed under: CultureIt's been months since the e-fad of creating automated levels in Super Mario World to the tune of popular Anime soundtracks surfaced -- normally, that's much longer than the lifespan of most internet memes. However, this post-mortem contribution to the Mario-on-rails movement caught our attention (as well as the collective attention of Digg-dwellers) largely due to the...
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SimCity Creator brings urban erection to Wii
via Joystiq by Ludwig Kietzmann on May 28, 2008
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, SimulationsSince it's abundantly clear that we need to grow up, allow us to tell you about our dream of becoming city planners -- nay, creators! -- as soon as we reach adulthood. According to the latest issue of Japan's Famitsu magazine (as translated by the men of IGN), SimCity Creator will prove to be the ideal training tool. First announced in...
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StillAliveDS: 2D Portal brewed for DS
via Joystiq by James Ransom-Wiley on May 30, 2008
Filed under: Nintendo DSInspired by the Flash game inspired by Portal, StillAliveDS packs all the joy of in hole / out hole, squashes it into 2D, and serves it onto your DS (with supported hardware). So clear out those pirated Pokemons and make room! This is the sort of delicious, home-baked, icing covered code that inspired you to cop a flash cart all the way from China in the first place ......
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