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LA Noire shows off its seamy side with vice trailer

Given the tone of some of its more recent trailers and previews, it can be easy to forget that LA Noire isn’t all serial killers and murder investigations. Beforehe works his way up to homicide, however, Cole Phelps will have to pay his dues as a uniformed beat cop, a …

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EA cracking down on concussions in Madden 12

Concussions are one of the most dangerous injuries a football player can sustain, and EA is seeking to drive this message home by tweaking its Madden NFL series to treat concussed players in a dramatic new way. In Madden 2012, players who receive a concussion during a match will be …

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Burnout Crash outed by Australian ratings board

The Burnout series is big on crashes, and ifEA’s filing with theAustralian ratings board is to be believed, those crashes are being embraced in a new multiplatform title called ‘Burnout Crash.’If you’re excited, curb it for now, becauseEA’s April 1st submission reveals little else. 2008’s Burnout Paradise was well-received, as …

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Anonymous declares war on Sony in support of GeoHot

Sony’s legal dust-ups with PS3 modders George ‘GeoHot’ Hotz and Graf_Chokolo have earned it the ire of the ‘hacktivist’ group known as Anonymous. This weekend, the infamous online entity issued a less-than-subtle threat stating that Sony “saw a hornests nest, and stuck [its] penises in it,” and would therefore face …

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BloodRayne: Betrayal announced for XBLA and PSN with teaser trailer

Today, Majesco announced BloodRayne: Betrayal, a 2D side-scroller being developed by WayForward for XBLA and PSN. Yes, another BloodRayne game. But wait just a boob-burdened vampire, didn’t WayForward develop Contra 4 and Shantae: Risky%26rsquo;s Revenge? It did?! Glad we asked ourselves that. Well, this could be interesting… check out the …

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Bradley Cooper befriends Green Lantern rival

Bradley Cooper’s Limitless may be a worldwide box office hit but the Hangover 2 star couldn’t manage to wrangle the lead of The Green Lantern from Ryan Reynolds during auditions. “Ryan and I got to know each other through testing for Green Lantern ,” Cooper told TF exclusively. “They tried …

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Update: Metacritic removes developer career scores

Metacritic has made changes to its controversial developer ratings. In response to community concerns over the legitimacy of assigning an average career score based on an incomplete (and disproportionate) list of reviewed games, the site has removed the overall rating from its individual developer profiles. Effective today, the entries will …

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Adam McKay talks difficulty of adapting The Boys

The Other Guys director Adam McKay has offered an update regarding the status of his adap of gritty comic The Boys. The original comic is a brilliant, filthy deconstruction of superhero culture full to bursting with swearing, nudity and bloody violence. The titular Boys are bad-ass mofos who are tasked …

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Duke Nukem dev insists recent delay isnt a gimmick

The most recent delay of Duke Nukem Forever seems like it couldn’t possibly be anything but a tongue-in-cheek gimmick, but developer Gearbox is claiming that it really wasn’t in the cards from the beginning. “No trick – we believed May when we announced it,” said Gearbox head Randy Pitchford ina …

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Robert De Niro to join 50 Cent in Freelancers

In altogether unsettling news, Deadline have announced that Robert De Niro will co-star with Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson in police drama Freelancers . Forest Whitaker is also in talks to join the movie, which is produced by 50 Cent’s production company Cheetah Vision, co-founded by Fiddy and Randall Emmett. So …

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