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Swag Kits A Plot to Imprison Media?

April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Industry, Media

I’m too low on the totem pole to get swag kits in the mail. But it looks like EA is sending out very posh swag for press tapped to cover Godfather II. The packages include brass knuckles. A friend suggested that this is a nefarious plot to get all the games media arrested before they […]

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Big Huge Games For Sale

March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Big Huge Games, Industry

This was a rumor floating around most of yesterday, but I didn’t want to say anything until it was confirmed. This is yet another in a growing list of signs that THQ could have major viability problems. Big Huge Games hasn’t done an original AAA game since Rise of Legends, though its Asian Dynasties expansion […]

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Underdogs Update

March 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Underdogs Update · History, Industry

Eumel made a comment about this in the earlier post, but for those of you who don’t read the comments, Sarinee Achavanuntakul has made a public statement about the future of Home of the Underdogs.

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Combat Missions Campaigns Killed

February 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Battlefront, Industry, Wargames

It was too fun an idea for it to make any economic sense. Not sure if it was actually a good idea.

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Robot Entertainment

February 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Ensemble, Industry

The Ensemble exiles have officially named and announced their new studio. Details on the studio’s current projects are unavailable, and it’s unclear whether Robot Entertainment will maintain a focus on the PC realtime strategy genre in which the Ensemble team specialized, or try new arenas.

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RIP HotU

February 13th, 2009 · 41 Comments · Industry

EDIT: Since this post still gets a lot of traffic, I thought I should direct people to the new HOTU. May they prosper. All the notice we had was a February 9 Twitter from the proprietor. “Home of the Underdogs webhost went bankrupt T_T.” And with that sad note from Sarinee Achavanuntakul, one of the […]

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