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It’s a damn shame Disney buying Marvel doesn’t affect Sega. Who’s going to make Mario vs. Sonic vs. Mickey vs. Iron Man and His Marvelous Friends at the Olympic Games now?
News Blips:
Sega’s not scared of Disney. As a sort of follow up to yesterday’s news about Disney’s acquisition of Marvel, Sega is reporting that this does nothing to affect their development of the Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America video games. After those all come out, though, we’ll see who makes the Avengers game. [gamesindustry.biz]
A new study shows that Tetris can alter the structure of your brain. It turns out that playing Tetris actually gives you more efficiency in some areas of the brain and thicker cortexes in others, which in the end can help fight against mental decline in the older years. Tetris has also unscientifically been proven to help you go number two from what we hear. [Wired.co.uk]
The ESRB ratings summary for Brutal Legend is totally epic. “Players can also perform ‘face-melting solos’ (literally melting enemies’ faces), meet humanoid creatures dressed like dominatrixes and brandishing whips…” and so forth. Telling it like it is has never been so awesome. Click the link for the rest of the summary. [ESRB]
Take-Two has reached a settlement for the Hot Coffee class action suit. They’re coughing up $20 mil for knowingly putting the minigame in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Man, people still care about last generation ploygonal sex scenes? [Kotaku]
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