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BioWare explains recent spate of SWTOR bans

January 3, 2012
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BioWare has explained the recent spate of Star Wars: The Old Republic bans – and promised to adjust areas players are exploiting. Last week a number of players were banned from playing the sci-fi MMO for looting containers in planet Ilum at too low a level – a move that sparked outrage from the game’s [...]

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Bethesda and Interplay settle Fallout Online suit

January 3, 2012
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The long-running dispute between Bethesda Softworks and Interplay over the proposed MMOG Fallout Online has apparently come to an end after the parties reached a settlement. Duck And Cover reports that a settlement was reached on the day of the trial itself; after lunch, the courtroom was locked to everyone but attorneys and clients because [...]

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Modern Warfare 3 ads don’t sanitize war, they reveal game’s truth

January 3, 2012
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Modern Warfare 3 earned $1 billion in sales in 16 days, proving the series has become an influential force in American entertainment. It sold millions of copies in its first day of release, and the sales of content packs have only just begun; the game is going to have legs at retail. But it hasn’t [...]

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The most pirated PC, Wii, 360 games of 2011

January 3, 2012
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The most pirated PC game of 2011 wasn’t Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3 or Skyrim – it was Crysis 2. Specialist site TorrentFreak estimated, using several sources of data, that Crysis 2 was downloaded illegally nearly 4 million times (3.92 million). Modern Warfare 3 was the second most pirated PC game, having been downloaded 3.65 [...]

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