The NFL has blitzed Blitz.
NFL Blitz (EA Sports)Late hits, one of the signature features of the bone-jarring arcade football franchise, won't be a part of its next iteration. The league has asked EA to remove them from the game.
That's a call likely to upset long-time fans of the Blitz series, which specializes in extreme tackles and behavior that would never be tolerated on the real-world field.
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)Famed Princess Zelda, who's been getting herself into trouble for a quarter of a century, is back at it along with her would-be savior Link in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, releasing Sunday for the Wii.
An epic action-adventure drawing upon one of Nintendo's most-beloved franchises, Skyward Sword is perhaps the last great hurrah for the waning Wii console. As with past iterations of the series -- among them 1998's The Ocarina of Time, viewed by some critics as the greatest video game ever made -- this Zelda is cleaning up in the reviews. Mostly.
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Get your hands on these!The holiday season is always a special time for gamers, but 2011 will go down as one of the greatest holidays in gaming history.
Why? Just look around. Fantastic entries in nearly every major game franchise are lining shelves. A new Mario? Check. Uncharted? Check. Call of Duty? Check. Zelda, Assassin's Creed, Batman, Elder Scrolls, Gears of War? Our checkbooks cannot keep up.
And likely, neither can yours. Regardless of which platform the gamer in your life prefers, there are loads of titles worthy of tossing under the tree. Start with these 15 favorites.
Read More »from Yahoo! Games Holiday Guide 2011: Must-Have GamesThe retro craze is going big.
Rampage (Midway)New Line Pictures has announced that it plans to make a cinematic adaptation of Rampage, the 1980s arcade game that centered entirely around three giant monsters with a penchant for demolishing buildings, punching tanks, and eating people, food, and toilets.
That said, it still sounds better than Jack & Jill.
The film's still in pre-production, so don't start lining up at your local theater just yet. John Rickard, who co-produced 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Horrible Bosses' for New Line, will oversee the adaptation and is currently meeting with writers to come up with what we can only hope is a slightly deeper story than the one found in the original game.
Read More »from Monster game ‘Rampage’ to become monster movieIt's Call of Duty's world, people. We're just playing in it.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision)Having already toppled day-one entertainment sales records, Activision announced Thursday that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has smashed another entertainment launch sales record by bringing in $775 million in its first five days of worldwide availability. That tops the two previous record holders, Call of Duty: Black Ops ($650 million) and 2009's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ($550 million).
Here's a good way to ensure your kid gets his lunch money stolen on a regular basis.
Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer
Meet Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer. That's right, Dovahkiin. As in, the protagonist of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Born 11/11/11 -- the same day that the game was released -- he's made his family the winners (?) of a contest that ensures free Bethesda games for life.
Bethesda, in a publicity stunt announced in February, promised lifelong free games to anyone who named their child (which had to be born on 11/11) after the character. Whether the company expected anyone to take it up on the offer is another matter entirely.
Read More »from Parents name child after ‘Skyrim’ characterEver wondered about the real length of a Slinky? Or how, exactly, an Etch A Sketch pulls off its magical disappearing act? You'll find these classics lurking in every toy closet, but how much do you really know about them? Read on for some curious facts about five legendary playthings.
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An image from 'Super Tanooki Skin 2D'Oh PETA, you crazy kids. First, you get the gaming world up in arms by squaring off against one of its most-loved characters. Then, when the backlash hits, you quickly claim the whole thing was "tongue-in-cheek."
After slamming Nintendo icon Mario for wearing a 'Tanooki' suit in his latest game, the animal rights organization says the outcry, which included the creation of a disturbing parody video game called "Super Tanooki Skin 2D," was just a publicity stunt.
Shocking, huh?
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda)Bethesda Softworks says it has shipped 7 million copies of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to retailers, with about 3.5 million copies being sold through in the first 48 hours. Making that number even more impressive? That was just for the Xbox 360 version.
The game, of course, was also released for the PlayStation 3 and PC -- and while Bethesda didn't address sales for Sony's platform, it did note that within the first 24 hours of release, Skyrim set a record on Steam with more than 280,000 concurrent players.
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Has it really been ten years since the launch of the first Halo?
Apparently so, according to Microsoft, and they ought to know. Launching alongside the original Xbox a full decade ago, Halo's one of a handful of games released this century that can genuinely claim to have made a permanent impact on the development of video gaming, turning the console first-person shooter from a curio into the dominant genre it is today.
In celebration, Microsoft is going right back to where the adventure started, re-releasing the original game in a revamped, remastered Xbox 360 version sporting all the bells and whistles modern gamers have come to expect from their shooters. High-definition visuals, online multiplayer: it's all here.
But can a ten-year-old shooter really compete with the latest and greatest Modern Warfare installment? Yes and no seems to be the answer, though with average scores well into the 80s, it's more of the former than the latter.
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