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He fought the law and the law is winning. Jack Thompson, hot off the heels of a Florida Bar suggestion that he be disbarred for ten years for 27 violations of professional misconduct, is again testing if the pen is mightier than the sword. In a letter written to Chief Judge Federico Moreno, Thompson claimed his current trial was a mockery of the system and demanded a fair trial.
“We find yesterday that enemy combatants at Guantanamo are to get more due process from federal judges than what I …

Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade
Face it, everything is better with ninjas. It’s like in that movie The Last Samurai when all the ninjas attacked. It was like, “Whoa, ninjas! This movie just got even awesomer!” Imagine that feeling, only applied to Castle Crashers. See, it feels awesome, righ?. The game was already cool and now it has a ninja and is even cooler (and by cool we mean absolutely sweet). If you thought it couldn’t get any better than that, then get this: the ninja carries … a mug. …

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And another company responds to the large Intellisponse information leak. This time its Sega commenting on the video of a game called Crucible: The Evil Within, allegedly a title under development by Silicon Knights with Sega as publisher. According to Sega representative Steve Groll, who was speaking with MTV’s Multiplayer, the video leaked earlier this week is not a video of the game Silicon Knights is developing for Sega. “That video isn’t the game that Silicon Knights is creating for us. I have no idea if it is …

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Continuing the Madden fantasy football tradition, EA Sports recently announced that fantasy.easports.com will again be fully functioning this year, with new website enhancements, a Live Draft Tracker, a new Live Score Tracker and added Xbox 360 functionality where you’ll be able to import your fantasy sports team into Madden NFL 09. Details are light, but EA promises that you’ll be able to take your fantasy team into any of Madden 09’s gametypes including on the internet versus, play now and franchise modes. Quite nifty. So, we’ve to ask, …

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During the past few months of Bungie Weekly Updates, team Bungie has openly talked about two of their new and yet to be released Halo 3 multiplayer maps, giving them the code names “Purple Reign” and “Moonbase Alpha”. And ever since the Chill Out remake Cold Storage was announced this weekend, we’ve been wondering which of the two code named maps Cold Storage was. Well, now we know the truth. Cold Storage wasn’t code named either “Purple Reign” or “Moonbase Alpha”, it was never previously discussed by team …

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Eurogamer has received an official response from Activision about the metric ton of information that leaked from the Intellisponse market research company earlier this week. In this leaked information, several Activision products were mentioned, including a new Tony Hawk title and lots of Spider-Man titles (14 of ‘em!). “We regularly test all kinds of game concepts and pricing strategies using market research,” stated Activision, “All of which are options whose outcomes are yet to be determined.” In other words, don’t anticipate to see all the games mentioned actually …

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Eurogamer has received an official response from Activision about the metric ton of information that leaked from the Intellisponse market research company earlier this week. In this leaked information, several Activision products were mentioned, including a new Tony Hawk title and lots of Spider-Man titles (14 of ‘em!). “We regularly test all kinds of game concepts and pricing strategies using market research,” stated Activision, “All of which are options whose outcomes are yet to be determined.” In other words, don’t anticipate to see all the games mentioned actually …

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In an update to their insider report about good old Michael Ironside being axed by Ubisoft as the voice actor of Sam Fisher for the upcoming Splinter Cell: Conviction, Sarcastic Gamer is reporting on the supposed reason for Ubisoft’s axing ways.
According to Sarcastic Gamer’s internal Conviction source, Ironside was let go because “he was getting to way too egotistical about the project and [was] extremely difficult to work with.” The insider also mentioned that the other reason for the bad blood was because Ironside “was also …

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Coming from our French pals over at JeuxVideo.com are six new Schizoid screenshots that’ll make your inner co-op gaming enthusiast sploderific with happiness! And yes, it is an X3F stipulation to bring up the sploderific story every time we post Schizoid news. That’s just the way it is. You can view all six gorgeous new screenshots in the gallery below (is it just us, or has the game’s graphics and overall look been greatly improved?) and begin placing your Vegas bets for when we’ll see …

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Yesterday came official word that Xbox Live Arcade game Happy Tree Friend: False Alarm is scheduled to release to the XBLA on June 25th (odd, seeing that we knew that a few weeks ago) and with said announcement comes a brand new trailer. It’s a “Wacky Gameplay” trailer full of cute animals, dismemberment, screaming and enough animated blood to fill up all of Cliff’s Gears of War 2 blood buckets. We’re interested not only because we have a small chunk of our heart dedicated …