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• 16Feb 12

  FF XIII-2's ugly titled DLC to be downloadable by Feb 28

  FF-XIII-2 next DLC is called *Waaaaiiit for it!!!!!!*

  SAZH: Heads or Tails?

  Yes, with a question mark, making you unsure if you should buy this thing. Not sure if you guys care or not considering how Mass Effect 3 is the following week after that. I got the news straight from Square Enix PR people. Even they were shaking their heads.

  Oh, there are new costumes too.

  Is this the first Final Fantasy game to make major use of DLC? XIII-2 already has 2.

  • Posted Feb 16, 2012 12:48 pm GMT
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• 15Feb 12

  Hacker gets SWAT team to show up at XBox gamer's house - who's fault is it?

  Not sure if you guys heard of this story or if Gamespot already produced it but here's somthing I've always wondered.

  Yes, the hacker was wrong for pulling the stunt...but what about Microsoft and XBox Live, shouldn't we expect more security from XBL accounts? How about the SWAT team? Why are they being dispatched without any filtering. They got their call from a hearing-impaired message center (which can potentially be hacked as well).

  What do you think?

  • Posted Feb 15, 2012 1:56 pm GMT
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• 13Feb 12

  Can Kickstarter bring so-called 'dead' genres back to life?

  First Double Fine. Now Obsidian. What is interesting about this whole crowdfunding trend is just how out of touch traditional publishers are of certain types of games (i.e. anything that's not an FPS). Even more interesting is the amount of people supporting these so-called dead genres that publishers don't want to take a chance on.

  When DoubleFine started their funding project, it was for 400k. Now they're at 1.7 million.

  That's 1.7 million dollars of of real support to a project that might fail vs. a zillion kids asking mommy and daddy to purchase the next Call of Duty.

  This is exactly what needs to happen. Developers need to go directly to the public and find out if people are interested. Nothing shows more true interest than someone betting on it with their own cash.

  It maybe tougher for smaller developers that don't have the clout DoubleFine does but who says you can't at least gauge interest?

  • Posted Feb 13, 2012 4:50 pm GMT
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