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BioShock 2 players report multiplayer freezing issues
by Ipetoxsed on Feb.11, 2010, under Gadgets, Hubs, Media, Video Games
We’ve received a number of reports from readers who’ve been participating in BioShock 2 ’s multiplayer component and succumbing to a variety of game-crashing bugs. The reported causes of the freezing are widespread — some Xbox 360 players encounter it during the post-game recap, while some have reported freezing up while in their apartment hubs. We’ve contacted 2K to find out if anything is being done to patch whatever issue might be causing the breakdowns. We were going to make a joke about the freezes being caused by the overzealous use of the Winter Blast plasmid, but that would have been one of the dumbest things we’d ever written.

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XSEED now publishing Samurai Shodown Sen
by Toonpyday on Feb.11, 2010, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
The odd swapping of games between Ignition Entertainment and XSEED continues. First, Ignition obtained the rights to Marvelous’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia , both initially to be published by XSEED.

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Many find Fallout 3 similar to Philip K. Dick’s ‘The Penultimate Truth’
by Avelluppy on Jun.15, 2009, under Gadgets, Hubs, Media, Video Games
Written by sci-fi superstar Philip K. Dick in 1964, The Penultimate Truth follows people living in underground shelters, for fear of a World War III that they are told is being waged on the surface above them. We could go into more of the similarities between the book and Bethesda’s Fallout 3 , but then that would mean venturing into dangerous, radiation-strewn spoiler territory. Of course, if one wants to say that Bethesda plagiarized The Penultimate Truth , then one must look to previous titles in the Fallout series, as well

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Many find Fallout 3 similar to Philip K. Dick’s ‘The Penultimate Truth’