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DEFENDING His company’s use of an Online Pass in their single-player–only game, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, is 38 Studios CEO and former Major League Baseball flamethrower Curt Schilling. Players angry over having discovered an Online Pass offering free DLC with their purchased-new copy of Amalur took to the official forums, leading Schilling to join the conversation. “If you don't buy new games you buy them used, and in that case you will have to pay for the Day 1 free DLC content the new copy buyers got for free,” he wrote. “This is not 38 [Studios] trying to take more of your money (or EA, in this case). This is us REWARDING people for HELPING US!” Immediately after posting that, Schilling had to take a break, because it’s really tough to type when you’ve got three giant World Series rings weighing your hands down.
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BAITING Gamers into buying upcoming beat-’em-up actioner Dragon’s Dogma with the promise of first access to a playable demo of Resident Evil 6 is Capcom. Yes, if you pick up Dogma on May 22, you’ll get first dibs on RE6 come July 3…even though the game isn’t out until November 20. By the way, is it just us or does the “6” part of the RE6 logo look like a man and a giraffe having, uh, “inappropriate relations”? (Hint: the giraffe is on the left and the man on the right. Now that you see what we mean, we apologize that you can’t un-see it. Ever.)
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DONATED To Comedy Central jokester Stephen Colbert’s mock super-political-action committee (or Super PAC) did Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos. The very wealthy cofounder of the company behind Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central was specifically called out by Colbert on his show for being the Super PAC’s top contributor. Just how much coin did Rigopulos kick in? A cool $9,600, or approximately what he could dig out from between the seats of his Bugatti Veyron.
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TAKING A 50% pay cut for 2012 is THQ CEO Brian Farrell, whose company is in a tailspin after a brutal year that has resulted in hundreds of layoffs, a restructuring, and a stock delisting threat from NASDAQ. The company boss is likely polishing his golden parachute as we speak, but in the meantime he has oh so generously decided to halve his pay for the year, from $718,000 to a meager, paltry $359k. Oh the humanity! How will his kids adjust to eating their food with silver spoons instead of gold ones? We weep for you, one-percenter. Say, did you ever think of becoming one of the Dollar-A-Year men?
cmh
February 05, 2012 at 10:53am
Keep your politics out of my gaming. I get enough biased, political BS from print, tv and online "news". Your "Occupy"-ish comments regarding Rigopulos and Farrell are not appreciated.
pmacko
February 03, 2012 at 8:57pm
TO THE STAFF EDITORS: I'VE COLLECTED ALL OF THE XBOX DEMOS WITH THE COVERS SINCE DAY ONE.....DEMO DISC 1# DEC 2001 TO DEMO DISC 131# JAN 2012 FOR THE LAST ELEVEN YEARS. I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU OFFER A POSTER INSTEAD OF THE NORMAL DISC COVER FOR #128 WHEN ALL THE DEMO DISCS ARE NUMBERED TO COINCIDE IN SEQUENCE? MY WHOLE COLLECTION IS NOW MISSING DEMO DISC 128# NOV 2011. SEEING THAT YOU GUYS ARE NO LONGER OFFERING THE DEMOS WITH THE MAGAZINE, WOULDN'T IT MAKE SENSE TO KEEP THEM ALL UNIFORM FOR THOSE OF US WHO COLLECT THEM INSTEAD OF CREATING A POSTER? ALL I AM ASKING IS CAN YOU PLEASE JUST MAKE THE LAST COVER (128# NOV 2011). IT JUST SEEMS TO MAKE SENSE. YOU STOPPED OFFERING THE DEMOS WITH THE MAGAZINE ANYWAY. CAN YOU GUYS PLEASE JUST MAKE THE LAST MISSING ONE????? IT WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY US COLLECTORS.
