Leaked from ESRB’s Website! Damn Official!

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Yes, yes, we know. While some just seem to be figuring this out, Final Fantasy XIII is coming to the Xbox 360 *and* the PC. Square Enix announced this way back at its E3 press conference. Probably going lost in the jaw-dropping Xbox 360 announcement. To review, here’s how the FFXIII development cycle is going down: First do the PS3 version, then th

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After months of speculation, board game maker Hasbro has sued the creators of Scrabulous, an online game that the company claims copies its game Scrabble, and has asked Facebook to remove the game from its site.

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PC gaming wasn’t a huge factor at this year’s E3, but it seems that Microsoft was merely biding its time before making its big moves to try and perk up the waning PC gaming market. The company made a variety of positive announcements at the GameFest technology conference in Seattle this week, including the announcement of DirectX 11

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With the arrival of downloadable content like WiiWare titles and Virtual Console, as well as dedicated games channels, the laughable storage [0.5GB] on the Wii console has jumped to being a priority for Nintendo.

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So, for all of you who hated the new dashboard, here’s some good news: it’s optional. You can still use the blades if you don’t like it, so Microsoft is giving you some option.

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At its GamesFest event in Redmond today, Microsoft shared the first details of DirectX 11 – the numerically superior successor to DirectX 10.1 – which will feature full support for Windows Vista, as well as future versions of the popular operating system. Worried about hardware? DirectX 11 won’t just ignore your fancy DirectX 10 or 10.1 cards – nop

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Start hoarding the rockets, Quake ]I[ is back and free to play on your web browser.

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MAG was shown to a focus group less than a month before E3. One among that group reached out to me, under a promise of anonymity, to describe what was shown and asked of the group. Put simply, MAG will be a mercenary combat MMO. It will more than likely carry SOCOM branding, as Zipper Interactive is behind it.

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Breaking News: Activity on the World of Warcraft beta page, along with reports that the beta downloader is active are the final indicators that Blizzard has begun the beta testing phase of the next upcoming expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.

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Speaking with Valve’s Doug Lombardi earlier this week at E3, we got onto the topic of the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade version of Portal. I wanted to know what gamers could expect from the game and why Valve decided to tweak it for the XBLA release.

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EA boss John Riccitiello finally spilled the beans on the long-rumored Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic MMO.

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Blizzard has won the first round of a legal battle against the maker of software that automates game play in World of Warcraft.It brought the case against MDY Industries claiming its WowGlider program infringed its copyright.An Arizona district court has ruled MDY does infringe Blizzard’s copyright but not in the way the game maker claimed.

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Don Mattrick explains why Microsoft blocked the planned announcement of a new Bungie Halo game.

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Podcast Notes for July 13th 2008

Makin the Rounds
Pre-E3 Show
Call of Duty PC discussion

News Articles
http://www.aggravatedgamers.com/2008…in-game-ads-2/
http://www.aggravatedgamers.com/2008…ation-3-price/
http://www.aggravatedgamers.com/2008…es-like-store/
http://www.aggravatedgamers.com/2008…0gb-model-299/
http://www.aggravatedgamers.com/2008…target-stores/
http://www.aggravatedgamers.com/2008…ed-by-koreans/
http://www.aggravatedgamers.com/2008…rger-official/

Bumper Music:
Intro - Freeplaymusic.com
Outro - RushJet1

 

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