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The Legend of Zelda and World of Warcraft shaped Fable 2’s no-death system, but Peter Molyneux had to fight for it

The way Fable 2 handles death – or doesn’t, shall I say – was shaped by the developers’ experiences playing The Legend of Zelda and World of Warcraft. Fable 2 has a pretty unusual approach to dying, even now, almost two decades on from the Xbox 360 RPG’s launch. When your hero’s health bar completely […]

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“Butt slider?”: Final Fantasy 14’s Yoshi-P promises to pester devs about the highly-requested feature, but warns fans of the dangers of a big booty

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has pledged to poke developers of the MMO about one highly-requested option: butt sliders. Butt sliders have been one of the Final Fantasy 14 community’s most-requested features when it comes to character customization, so much so that the question bounced right back up again at a

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NBC News, MS NOW Tamp Down Party Spirit After White House Correspondents’ Dinner Chaos

WASHINGTON — Mentalist Oz Pearlman was supposed to dazzle an audience of hundreds on Saturday night here with mind tricks in a well-lit hotel ballroom. Instead he found himself doing his act for a small handful of media executives in a darkened underground event space close to midnight. MS NOW had planned to host a

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Before The Hudsucker Proxy, Sam Raimi and the Coen Brothers teamed up for an even less-loved genre pastiche

No, that doesn’t refer to the original Evil Dead, which Joel Coen worked on as an assistant editor. Small as it was in its initial release, that future classic opened on 15 screens. Crimewave, which Raimi directed from another Coens-and-Raimi screenplay, opened on two, out of contractual obligation to the studio’s HBO deal. According to

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