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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 30, 2007 06:19 PM
At the Game Developers Conference earlier this month, we met with Nintendo general manager and design legend Shigeru Miyamoto for a thirty-minute interview. Just the day before, Miyamoto had taken the stage at San Francisco's Moscone Center for a keynote...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 30, 2007 05:51 PM
You see a lot, don't you doctor? Why don't you turn that high-powered perception at yourself and tell us what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to. --Clarice Starling to Hannibal Lecter in " The Silence of the Lambs " Last week, we kicked off our most recent...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 29, 2007 03:37 PM
The end begins ... now, with today's final round of Vs. Mode. In Round 3, MTV News reporter Stephen Totilo countered our storytelling-focused haymakers from Round 2 with a flurry of jabs about his gameplay likes and dislikes about God of War II . Our...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 28, 2007 04:48 PM
50 Cent and The Game. Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell. Mario and Sonic. After today's announcement from Nintendo and Sega, we're going to have to scratch Mario and Sonic from the " $25,000 Pyramid " category of "People Who Just Can't Get Along?" The...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 28, 2007 12:14 PM
During Round 2 of the inaugural edition of Vs. Mode, MTV News reporter Stephen Totilo declared that God of War II is one of the first sequels that is unable to outstrip its predecessor because the original was simply too good to be surpassed--and that...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 28, 2007 10:28 AM
UKR...weeps, as PS3 sets console sales record in Britain CJR...or GSW? GameSetWatch examines game journos HUH... New publisher focuses on licensed games, VH1 hisses RND...Battlestar Galactica creator answers questions...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 27, 2007 11:39 AM
In Round 1 of the debut edition of Vs. Mode, MTV News reporter Stephen Totilo praised God of War II's epic feel, but accused it of covering familiar territory in its level design and story. We countered with our position that the quality of gameplay is...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 26, 2007 11:39 AM
In last month's rave about Sony Computer Entertainment's God of War II for Playstation 2, we termed MTV News' Stephen Totilo our gaming sensei. That's because back in 1999 when we began seriously covering videogames at NEWSWEEK, Totilo was an intern fresh...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 26, 2007 11:17 AM
Part of the joy of blogging stems from the flexibility of the form. From our High Score link roundups to our guest contributors at Player Two (NEWSWEEK colleagues), Outsourced (people who work in the videogame industry) and P2P (folks who are observers...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 26, 2007 10:12 AM
OY!...See PS3's bizarre European ads for yourself DNF...The first step: admitting you have a problem PPT...Should Wii become a tool of The Man ? PS3... owners come together to aid protein research RND...Rapper uses MySpace to try to foment G.I. uprisin...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 23, 2007 12:09 PM
CEOs, analysts, journalists , bloggers : we're all struggling to put this generation of consoles into perspective. The truest thing we've heard on this subject came from Electronic Arts' incoming CEO John Riccitiello, who last year said of our relentless...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 21, 2007 03:27 PM
"You're not the champ until you beat the champ." The entire staff of Level Up is seated in the Manhattan speakeasy Little Branch , opposite two Microsofties--one former, one current. Several drinks into a conversation about the console wars, Former has...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 20, 2007 02:18 PM
At the cocktail reception at the February D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, we ran into fellow Canadian Denis Dyack, better known as the president of Silicon Knights . But rather than discuss hockey or beer, our conversation quickly turned to the progress...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 20, 2007 12:03 PM
In the end, the good news was simply too good to last. From the beginning of 2006 through the first of this month, the Playstation division has plagued by bad news and negative buzz. There was the Spring 2006 worldwide launch that never materialized,...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 19, 2007 10:20 AM
In!...the Navy: Crackdown's U.K. in-game recruiting ads MP3...Should Metroid Prime 3 focus on campaign or online ? MMO... Music , smell and taste are what one MMO fan wants WHY... do we love games when not all games are worthy? WAR...is hell when your...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 16, 2007 01:33 PM
We've been intrigued by Electronic Arts' upcoming Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 game Army of Two ever since we got an early look last year at some video footage. The mixture of ingredients assembled for the project at EA Montreal--the reputation for artistry...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 16, 2007 10:06 AM
ALL...Work and no play makes Jack a dull boy No3...Playstation Germany's new mag is, um, interesting EDI... The truth about Warhawk's struggle to take flight P2P...Our Tuesday guest post continues to get coverage DOG...Fable 2 creator on how the industry...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 15, 2007 12:29 PM
At the end of January, Electronic Arts senior producer Joel Wade gave us some insights into the process of adapting The Godfather from PlayStation 2 and Xbox to Nintendo's Wii. That new version is set to ship on March 20th alongside the Playstation 3...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 15, 2007 10:40 AM
TOO...Human creator vs. game journalists and the Net : fight ! SDF...Mark Rein on the champ: Sony is " still the one to beat ." SAD... Metacritic says Japanese DS games > Western ones UGH...Rumor: no unified ID for Wii games; what will Ozy say ? BOO...Film...
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Rolf Ebeling
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Mar 14, 2007 02:35 PM
At Newsweek HQ, most of our colleagues are either boomers in name or boomers in spirit, which means there haven't been many serious gamers among our ranks. But from the increasing number of game-related conversations we've had with our office mates, it's...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 14, 2007 01:50 PM
P2P...Level Up guest post gets strong reactions , comments WOW...NDAs: made to be broken , ground up for haterade GOW...Cory Barlog speaks: " THIS! IS! SPARTA! " BYE... Computer Games Magazine is no more PS3... Neil Young loves Sony . No, not that Neil...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 13, 2007 02:16 PM
As we announced last week, P2P is the forum for industry observers--journalists, bloggers, analysts, academics, politicians and even regular gamers--to speak their minds on topics of our choosing. We were in the midst of an email exchange with Kevin Cassidy...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 13, 2007 12:10 PM
At Newsweek HQ, most of our colleagues are either boomers in name or boomers in spirit, which means there haven't been many serious gamers among our ranks. But from the increasing number of game-related conversations we've had with our office mates, it's...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 13, 2007 10:07 AM
GAY...characters a "non-troversy"? Comments say otherwise . $$$..."300" director Zack Snyder on videogames PS3...Phil Harrison spills more details on Home RND... Iranian official says "300" is U.S. psyops cultural attack...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 12, 2007 11:17 AM
GIV...Videogames get their own " We Are the World " PVP... Duelling rumors of a PSP redesign , plus flashback SID...Suda 51 argues for more anarchic game designs BIZ...A look at Fairy Godmother Tycoon RND... Thank you, ma'am . May I have another?...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 8, 2007 12:29 PM
Seth Delackner is a rarity: born and raised in the U.S. and directing videogames for a Japanese company in Japan itself. His first game, Hiite Utaeru DS Guitar M-06, developed a passionate following for the clever way that it transformed Nintendo's wildly...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 8, 2007 12:01 PM
In Part II of our interview with Game Developers Conference executive director Jamil Moledina, he talked about why this year's keynotes might be more to Level Up's liking and why publishers and developers were taking more of an interest in GDC as a place...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 8, 2007 09:01 AM
If Level Up were a weekly magazine like our parent company, we'd have to call the current edition Exclusiveweek. Today, we alone are bringing you the news that in June, Ubisoft will release Jam Sessions, a game that turns your Nintendo DS portable into...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 7, 2007 09:01 AM
Novelist Arthur C. Clarke famously said that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That would be a very bold statement to apply to any equipment being demonstrated at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco....
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 6, 2007 12:39 PM
In Part I of our interview, Game Developers Conference executive director Jamil Moledina discussed Apple's relevance for game developers as well as some of this week's conference sessions. Here, in Part II, he addresses our charge that last year's keynotes...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 6, 2007 11:25 AM
The Producers Guild of America typically honors such Hollywood luminaries as Steven Spielberg and John Wells. But on the evening of January 20th at L.A.'s Century Plaza hotel, the organization bestowed its prestigious Vanguard Award upon none other than...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 6, 2007 10:33 AM
DX3...please, Warren Spector . Your fans demand it. WOW...you will say, when you see this ad HOW...to get your girlfriend to play games; reactions NOW...41 percent of U.S. homes have a console HOT... 100 Developers list makes you click every page SQU...are...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 5, 2007 03:15 PM
Here's the genesis of our debut post for P2P, the section of Level Up where folks outside of Newsweek who are observers of the videogame industry--j ournalists, bloggers, analysts, academics, politicians and even regular gamers, as we said in our announcement...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 5, 2007 03:15 PM
During the nearly six months of our existence, our recurring Player Two feature--where our Newsweek colleagues post about their videogame-related experiences--has become one of Level Up's most popular sections . One of our dearest friends in the game...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 5, 2007 12:00 PM
The older we get, the more we here at Level Up believe that everything happens for a reason. In January, we spoke with Game Developers Conference executive director Jamil Moledina in our New York offices. During the intervening weeks, we fully intended...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 5, 2007 10:40 AM
In Part I of our exclusive interview with Greg Richardson, the newly-minted CEO of Elevation Partners-owned VG Holding, he discussed his initial sadness at John Riccitiello's decision to return to Electronic Arts and his high hopes for the future of VGH's...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 5, 2007 10:40 AM
Last week, Electronic Arts announced that its former president John Riccitiello, who had subsequently become a managing director in the $1.8 billion private equity fund Elevation Partners, would be returning to EA as its CEO. We spoke on the day of the...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 5, 2007 10:01 AM
BET...Producer Just Blaze gets ill with Fight Night Round 3 CRY...German developer Crytek talks mods XMU... Xbox gets 512MB memory card; XBLA file size upped FIT...Story claims Wii promotes health benefits RND...It's never too late to get an educatio...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 2, 2007 11:08 AM
From our recent trips to Miami (Super Bowl) and Las Vegas (NBA All-Star Weekend), our loyal readers know that the staff of Level Up have become mildly obsessed with Sony's automotive-painted-and-laser-etched Playstation 3s. And from the exclusive preview...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 2, 2007 10:00 AM
PSH...Playstation vs. Kotaku : drama for your mama 2nd...John Edwards' Second Life HQ trashed by cyber-GOP BUF...Sony + Immersion = Sevenaxis controller ? SWF... Play Flash games with Wii remote buttons POD.. Insomniac starts podcast; flOw and Braid folks...
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N'Gai Croal
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Mar 1, 2007 10:57 AM
In Part III of our voluminous four-part interview with Sony Computer Entertainment worldwide studios president Phil Harrison, he detailed the success of SingStar, defended his nonstop evangelism of MotorStorm (in stores March 6th), and acknowledged that...
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