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Skeleton crew cleans up at Big Huge Games in Timonium
Big Huge Games, a studio in Timonium that designed rich, immersive video games, has closed its office and only a skeleton crew of employees remained as its parent company in Rhode Island appears to have gone out of business, according to online reports. ...
Tags: Television Industry, Lobbying, Curt Schilling, Zynga Inc., Baltimore County
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Timonium video game maker closes, lays off 100
About 100 employees of Big Huge Games, a Timonium-based maker of video games, lost their jobs this week as the studio and its Rhode Island-based parent company abruptly shut down because of financial problems. The 12-year-old company was one of the...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Lincoln Chafee, Lobbying, THQ Inc., Curt Schilling
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Friday Buffet: Bravo, 8-bit 'Community'
News Roundup •••• Former major league pitcher Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios, which released “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning” in February, is in financial hot water with the state of Rhode Island. Taking cash from the...
Tags: Snow Storms, Concerts, Stock Market, Curt Schilling, Community (tv program)
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'BioShock: Infinite' release delayed from October to February
Take-Two Interactive announced that “BioShock Infinite” will be pushed back from an Oct. 16 release to Feb. 26, 2013. The reasoning for the delay was stated in a press release by Ken Levine, Creative Director of Irrational Games, which is...
Tags: Gaming
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Friday Buffet: First look at 'Assassin's Creed III' gameplay, 'Minecraft's' record-breaking week and more
News Roundup •••• "Minecraft's" release on Xbox Live has gone about as well as anyone could have hoped. Early sales figures project that the game sold over 400,000 copies in the first day it was available. [Major Nelson] ••...
Tags: Piracy, Xbox 360, HBO (tv network), Library of Congress, Theft
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Friday Buffet: Adam Sessler leaves 'X-Play' and 'Tetris' makes a comeback?
News Roundup •••• Adam Sessler, host of G4TV’s gaming flagship “X-Play,” has left the network and the long-running show. Sessler was a fixture on the network’s previous incarnations, ZDTV and TechTV, having co-...
Tags: YouTube, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Journalism, Skype
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Monday Meltdown: 'Witcher 2' arrives, and are Apple and Valve collaborating on gaming hardware?
News Roundup •••• The “is Valve making a console?” rumors got a lot more interesting as Apple is now being linked to the Steamers (as I like to call them), but in terms of “wearable computing” (i.e. Google&...
Tags: Google Inc., Project Glass, Video Games, Gaming
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Game cash: the current economics of buying, selling and renting
Even if the rumors about the next-generation consoles not supporting used games are false, we appear to be entering a problematic stage in physical videogame media. The growing ease of digital distribution as well as mandatory online passes and DRM have...
Tags: eBay Inc., Netflix Inc., Games, GameStop, Amazon.com Inc.
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Essay: Social gaming for the anti-social
This is a quandary about the future of video games, but it also has a lot to do with text messages, phone calls, headsets and millennials. The backlash to the “Facebook Age” cries out for more human connection, more “real”...
Tags: Xbox 360, LinkedIn Corp., Lobbying, Sociology, Words With Friends (game)
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Friday Buffet: 'Halo 4's' release date and the gaming connection to the Norway tragedy
News Roundup •••• “Halo 4” got a November 6th release date, announced in completely subtle fashion through a 10-minute spot on “Conan.” Details of the gameplay have already started to surface. To make you...
Tags: Anders Breivik, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Eric Harris, Andy Richter, Action (genre)
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Crime Log: Front door of High's dairy store in Arbutus smashed and cigarettes stolen
The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872....Tags: Abusive Behavior, BP Plc, Theft, Gaming
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Friday Buffet: Kinect support for 'Skyrim,' a $1300 game and 'The Atlantic' piece gamers will hate
News Roundup •••• It was a busy week down in Bethesda, with the “Skyrim” developers trademarking the game’s signature “Fus Ro Dah” shout. Crap, now I owe them $17. More pertient to gamers is the...
Tags: USA Today, Xbox 360, National Collegiate Athletic Association, ESPN (tv network), Ice Hockey
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