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• Wednesday Shorts II: Tales of Xillia, Spiral Knights, Cthulhu, LBP2, Persona 3

  I am running out of quirky, esoteric ways to insert an off the wall header image in these shorts posts, so, today I have included one I took of a Hummingbird Moth visiting my batch of flowers on the deck.  Shorts are below.

• Capps: Fox News scandal good for Bulletstorm, bad for everyone else

  Mike Capps has commented that the Fox News controversy probably boosted new IP Bulletstorm’s sales, but mourned the wider implications for the industry.

• Saturday Shorts: Nokia loves Microsoft, Lieberman and Slash speak, SWTOR, Duke, She-Hulk

  It’s Saturday. Likely, you are enjoying eggs at the kitchen table while still in your undercrackers. As the wife yells at you for the fifth time to get dressed, continue to ignore her, and read up on smaller news stuff instead. We’ll be your character witness when you land in divorce court.

• The Weekly Wrap: February 6-February 12

  The news never stops. You can’t keep up with it all. You’d go mad. Fortunately, we’re already insane, so we’ve done it for you.

• EA responds to accusations from Fox News over Bulletstorm content

  EA has responded to a Fox News article which claimed the game was being marketed to children despite it’s M rating, and that children as young as nine could be exposed to the game’s violence and cursing, which could “significantly damage” their minds and encourage real-world violence.

• BioWare is "proud" of Mass Effect sex content, says boss Muzyka

  Speaking to videogaming247 at yesterday’s EA Games Studio Showcase in London, BioWare boss Ray Muzyka said the studio was “happy” and “proud” of the sexual content of Mass Effect, saying its inclusion was tasteful and showed the RPG was an innovator in the field of games as an emergent art form. “It’s the same content, […]

• Fox News edits story headline - Kotaku knows how to screengrab

  According to this, Fox News has edited the headline of a story about two parents that left their child to die in its cot, saying originally “Video Gamers Leave Baby To Die” before changing the words to “Parents of Baby Left Alone in Car Seat for 8 Days Face Murder Charges”. The story related to […]

• New York Post: "COLLEGE KILLER CRAZY FOR VIOLENT VID GAME"

  The Murdoch-owned New York Post has linked the fact that Stephen Kazmierczak – the guy that shot five people dead at North Illinois University earlier this week – played Counter-Strike four years ago to the other fact: he was sick as a sack of hats. “He played a lot of video games, especially Counter-Strike, really […]