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THQ's Wii tablet and game, uDraw, was an unexpected hit. We checked it out and thought it was pretty cool, but we wouldn't normally place this Wii title and specialty device alongside your typical big budget blockbusters of the year. Suprisingly, this game managed to move 1.2 million units in the two months since its November launch. What's crazy is that the game hasn't even seen its international release yet. Good for them.
THQ gets it. Joystiq listened in on their financial call and said that THQ is lowering expectations on things like movie-based licenses and upping them on the cool stuff, like all PS Move, Kinect, 3DS and the uDraw stuff. That sounds like an excellent plan.
Dark Souls 2 is all about going in, guns blazing, and hoping to God it works. Oh dear.
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These days, it seems like everybody is jumping on the crowdfunding bandwagon, and it's led some to question the appropriateness of larger organizations using systems like Kickstarter. Some fear that groups who have other mea... Rounding out coverage of the gold-duplicating bug found in Diablo III last week, Blizzard has taken the game's auction houses back online following a fix for the exploit. Some players called for a full server rollback, but ul...
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