Infamous video game landfill faces excavation

One et-landfill-excavated-top630of gaming’s greatest mysteries might soon be uncovered.

You’ve likely heard the tale before: Millions of unsold copies of the disastrous ET: The Extraterrestrial game for the Atari 2600 lie buried in a New Mexico landfill. Despite a slew of believers and evidence supporting the story, doubters remain. But in the next few months, we’ll have the answer once and for all.

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Beloved role-playing great Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic hits iPad

The kotor-ipad-top630history of Star Wars games is filled with hits and misses. For every Battlefront, there’s a Masters of Teras Kasi.

But Bioware’s Knights of the Old Republic, released in 2003, has always stood head and shoulders above the rest — and now it’s coming to the mobile gaming world.

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What’s in the cube? Experimental game unveils ‘life-changing’ secret

Peter news-curiosityMolyneux is more than a legendary video game developer. It turns out he’s also equal parts Willy Wonka and Ryan Seacrest.

Six months ago, Molyneux released an experimental game named Curiosity to the app store . The game was simply a giant virtual cube that millions of players could pick away at. Molyneux teased that the cube held a “life-changing” prize for the lucky person who reached the center. This weekend, that prize was revealed: God status in Molyneux’s next game, Godus. And the winner was an 18-year old from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Problems mounting for troubled Wii U

Nintendo wii-u-troubles-top640has seen its share of rough patches over the years, but the past 12 months have been a doozy.

After revolutionizing the video game industry with the Wii, the company’s follow-up console has consistently failed to connect with core gamers, casual gamers and, perhaps most worrying of all, game creators themselves.

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Report: Microsoft to get cut of used game sales on Xbox One

The MG_1525fate of used games on the Xbox One continues to get murkier.

While Microsoft has confirmed its new console will support used games, the methods behind that process have been somewhat confusing thanks to mixed messages from Microsoft executives. But a new report sheds some light on why there hasn’t been a clear answer yet.

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Full-sized X-Wing fighter is the largest LEGO model ever

There’s lego-xwing-top630a difference between being a Star Wars fan and being a Star Wars fanatic. We’re pretty sure the folks at LEGO fall into the latter camp.

Tourists who wander into Times Square this week are going to be shocked to see a full-sized X-Wing fighter made entirely of LEGO bricks. A stunning 5.3 million of them, to be precise. That makes it the biggest ever, surpassing a LEGO robot at Minnesota’s Mall of America by a good 2 million.

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Meet gaming’s newest star: The Call of Duty dog

The call-of-duty-ghosts-dog-top630Internet might be a haven for cat lovers, but when it comes to gamers, dogs rule.

Activision has a viral hit on its hands with Call of Duty: Ghosts, but not for the reasons it likely expected. The German Shepherd seen wearing a motion-capture suit in the game’s first official trailers and screenshots has become something of an internet sensation.

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Xbox One: The unanswered questions

There xbox-one-unanswered-questions-top630were a lot of fancy features showcased in Tuesday’s unveiling of the Xbox One, but there were plenty of unanswered questions as well.

That was to be expected, of course. With E3 looming and months left before the system releases, Microsoft had to keep some of its powder dry. But the company also dodged some pressing questions and gave conflicting answers on others — and that’s infuriating some gamers.

The instant backlash against the Xbox One, in fact, has been rather astonishing. To help understand it, here’s a list of some of the things we don’t know that we probably should, as well as areas where Microsoft just made things more confusing by constantly flip-flopping.

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Xbox One will play used games, but it might cost you

Since xbox-one-used-games-top630the rumormongers starting whispering about Microsoft’s next-generation console over a year ago, one of the most controversial topics has been the fate of used games.

Some reports said the system would make it impossible to play them. Analysts scoffed at this, saying Microsoft wasn’t stupid enough to alienate a substantial portion of its audience with such a sweeping move — not to mention anger its biggest retail partner, GameStop, who sees significant revenue from used game sales.

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