Gossips & Rumors
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David Haddad taking over Guitar Hero after Dan Rosensweig departs
After less than a year on the job, Ex-Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig is leaving his position as President and CEO of Guitar Hero to "pursue other career opportunities." Guitar Hero COO David Haddad takes hi..
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Silent Hill producer joins Grasshopper Manufacture; will create music for Suda 51-Mikami project
Akira Yamaoka, best known as soundtrack composer for the Silent Hill series, is joining Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture, with plans to create the soundtrack for the project Suda and Resident Evil cre..
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Indie dev causes a stir with "games are not art" statements
At the Art History of Games conference this week, indie developer Tale of Tales made several bold statements about games not being art. Furthermore, "video games are overwhelmingly a waste of time."In..
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Activision confirms studio layoffs, Luxoflux closed UPDATED
Studio layoffs should come as no surprise after Activision announced plans to cut production on games (especially Guitar Hero) and focus on a few core franchises. It was surprising to hear that Transf..
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Lord British's clean slate becomes social networking venture
Apparently undaunted by massive multiplayer online game Tabula Rasa's demise, game developer Richard Garriott gets back into the scene with a new social networking venture called Portalarium.According..
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Tomonobu Itagaki announces Tecmo settlement
The ex-Team Ninja developer behind Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive settles his dispute over unpaid bonuses with former employer, Tecmo. He also teases an announcement of his current project.The trouble..
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Website lightzz.com claims credit for Major Nelson account hack UPDATE
Larry Hryb, known to most as Microsoft's Major Nelson, appears to have a hacked Xbox Live account. Lewd messages in his account info fields and a YouTube video apparently walking through the steps to ..
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Bulgarian government official booted for playing FarmVille
The City of Plovdiv in Bulgaria booted council member Dimitar Kerin for playing FarmVille during council meetings. His defense? Fellow councilman Daniela Zhelyazkova was already at level 46 while Keri..
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Report: Conan O'Brien negotiated with Microsoft about an Xbox program that would 'break new ground'
With Conan O'Brien coming back to television this fall with a new program on TBS, reports are coming out regarding the other avenues of distribution the late night host was considering--one of which w..
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In case you were wondering who all is left at Infinity Ward
Reports have been rolling in about senior Infinity Ward staff walking away from their jobs for about a week after Activision filed a counter-suit against the former heads of studio who now have new di..
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Why it's not over with Bethesda and Interplay
Yesterday, the Internet jumped the gun on declaring the Bethesda v. Interplay court battle won after an overzealous source erroneously told enthusiast site Duck and Cover that Bethesda dropped an appe..
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Russia may tap 1C Company to make patriotic games UPDATE
According to a Russian business daily report read by RiaNovosti, the Russian Communications ministry is working with software and game developer/publisher 1C Company to produce "computer games aimed a..
