Pre-Orders for Medal of Honor Hit Record High

It goes to show that “bad” press is better than no press at all, since pre-orders of the upcoming Medal of Honor have hit a franchise record, reports Edge. Despite the recent controversy over the ability to play as the Taliban in multiplayer matches, EA said MOH will be among the company’s top pre-sold action games. EA did not specify the actual figures, though.

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North Korean Game Developer Defends Business

Two phrases that you don’t expect to see together: “North Korea” and “Game Developer”. Indeed the world’s most secretive regime develops mobile games and they are distributed by a division of  Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (Fox News) Huh??. This Gamepolitics article explores this further.

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Nintendo 3DS Software Lineup Trailer

In addition to hardware price and date, a slew of games were previewed in a preview trailer. See for yourself:

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Nintendo 3DS Coming to US and Europe in March 2011

Nintendo’s press conference last night was a cornucopia of information surrounding the 3DS, and here’s another piece of announcement.

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Nintend 3DS Priced and Dated… For Japan

Nintendo held a press conference over in Japan last night around 10 PM PST. They announced both the launch date and the price for the 3DS. At least in Japan anyways.

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Uncharted 2 Game of the Year Edition Arriving Oct. 12

Gamespot reports that Sony and Naughty Dog will release Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition October 12. It’s only fitting since Uncharted 2 is considered by many to be the best game of 2009.

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PSP2 Getting Around The Industry

The PSP2 is a little bit that button you push at intersections to change the light. Everyone knows that it doesn’t do jack, but no one has said so officially. Everybody knows the PSP2 exist, but nobody has made it official. Today Develop (via 1UP) has received word from multiple sources within the industry that the PSP2 dev kit is being spread around all over the place possibly in preparation for launch day.

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Madden NFL 11 Review

A quick riddle to get us on our way. What do you get when you purchase the license to a major sport effectively squashing any and all competition and crank your product out every year? If you guessed Madden NFL 11 you’d be correct. In what has been a long time coming the inevitable has happened – Madden has fallen off its throne and there is no one around to help salvage our NFL season.

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Coming Soon! 9/27/2010

Last week was great right? Barely anything worth mentioning. A bunch of mini-game collections. Just the time we needed to play as much Halo Reach as humanly possible right? Unfortunately, it was not meant to last. This week’s releases have decided to bury us once again in yet another flood of releases. I hope you have a boat.

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Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Review

Movies in general always require a suspension of disbelief, but it’s especially true for a kids movie. It isn’t necessarily for the more fantastical stuff like dragons and spaceships and whatnot, but just for the fact that the entire movie has been scrubbed clean of foul language and/or blood and/or excessive violence. For far too many kids movies, doing so probably doesn’t net you anything you might consider of entertainment value. The kids might fall for the sight gags and bathroom humor, but us adults will just be bored to tears. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, like all of its previous iterations and undoubtedly its future iterations as well, requires a generous amount of your suspension of disbelief.

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