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Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:10 AM

Level Up's Top Six Gaming Tidbits for July 31st, 2008

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  1. WAS...Denis Dyack right? January ruling may have implications for game forums
  2. WHO...are you going to believe: Metacritic, or your own lying eyes?
  3. CAP...com May Cry: rep says PC version of Devil May Cry 4 flopped, pirated 
  4. OFF...message: Playstation Europe boss suggests Bittorrent to impatient gamers
  5. HAS...neon ever looked so explosively beautiful as it does right here?
  6. RND...Cee-Lo and Thom Yorke enter the steel cage. Who will emerge victorious?
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Posted By: briancollapsing (July 31, 2008 at 6:58 PM)

RE: gnarls...

they did this at the hollywood bowl show as well. great choice for cee-lo's vocal style; he seriously wailed on that song. had all the hipsters flipping out but kept with their groovy soul vibe. that's how you do an encore.

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Posted By: Switchbreak (July 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM)

That's a crying shame about Devil May Cry on PC. It's by far the best version of that game out there. A lot of the press and opinion of it out there seemed to be that it was simply too console-ish and didn't "fit" the PC, but honestly, I would like to see the PC diversify as a platform and adopt things from consoles in the same way consoles adopted FPS, RTS and online multiplayer from the PC. If an idea is good, spread it around to all platforms.

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Posted By: ColbyCheese (July 31, 2008 at 4:44 PM)

RE: #2

Hopefully, as gaming becomes more "mainstream", we will have the opportunity to see more discoveries of this nature by people more familiar with the subject matter being simulated.

I'm no football strategist, but even I have seen these types of ridiculous AI "glitches" before. Previously, you could just buy the "other guy's" football game, and wait to see if EA improved things next year. Now that we have all these multi-year exclusive licensing deals, EA needs to bring their "A Game" out, because they're the only game in town.

It would be really funny if the NFL started to lose viewership because of the Madden series.

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