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Originally Posted by wraggster

Animal rights group PETA has accused Battlefield 3 developer DICE of encouraging sadistic violence towards animals.A press release issued by the organisation's German office and translated byBattlefield3blog, condemns a sequence in the game's third single player mission where players can nonchalantly impale a rat with a knife."The realistic computer game Battlefield 3 treats animals in a sadistic manner. The game gives players the option to kill a rat with a combat knife in the back in order

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Despite claims to the contrary, the developers of Call of Duty say that they do not see the use of shocking content as a marketing tool for their games.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is released worldwide tomorrow, and while the mainstream media has yet to “go big” on a COD related controversy, leaked content suggests it may only be a matter of time.
And it wouldn’t be the first time a Call of Duty title has won national newspaper headlines for the wrong reasons. The infamous

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Originally Posted by wraggster

"We are still investigating, but it appears that some internal story files have been leaked," Mass Effect 3 producer Jesse Houston admitted on the company's forums. Apparently said story files aren't representative of "the final story experience," but Houston's urging fans nonetheless to skip reading them, "if they want to experience the purest form of the story in Mass

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Originally Posted by wraggster

You may not be able to buy copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 just yet (well, not all of you), but you can always get yourself queued up for battle with the game's Elite application, which is already available for download via Xbox Live Marketplace. Coming in at just under 100MB, it ... uh ... doesn't do very much until you have a copy of MW3 and some multiplayer under your belt, as we were

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Hello Games says Sony gave its blessing for the PSN exclusive Joe Danger to be released on Xbox Live Arcade, despite having backed its development with its Pub Fund.

Joe Danger, released on PSN in 2010, was one of the first titles to benefit from the Pub Fund, through which Sony matches the development costs of independent titles in return for exclusivity. Yet in an interview, Hello Games MD Sean Murray tells us Sony gave the all-clear for the upcoming XBLA release of Joe Danger: Special

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