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via Joystiq

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I don’t know about you guys but I remember having my parents turn off my SNES when I refused to stop playing Zelda: A Link to the Past. Sure I was pissed, but I never did anything as close to this 12 year old from Bangkok, Thailand.

As the story goes, the 12 year old was banned from playing video games because his parents suspected he was addicted. Obviously discourged the boy proceeded to go to school the following day, went to the 6th floor of the building and jumped thus ending his life.

What’s even worse Thailand’s Ministry of Health blamed it almost entirely on his parents saying that they should have handled the child’s addiction much differently.

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Despite securing the title of having the worlds largest playable game environment, FUEL may find its way onto store shelves a week later than originally anticipated.

We are going to have to hold judgement on this one until Codemasters comes out and confirms this one as VG247 (the site that first reported this) is based in the UK. Does this mean that US gamers wont be getting their FUEL fix until early June instead of May 26th as well?

Again, there is no telling until Codemasters actually tells us but then again, it is just a week. As for the PC version of FUEL, Codemasters originally said it will be released shortly after its console counterpart so if the delay stands true expect the PC version to also be delayed.

Sure, Terminator: Salvation probably isn’t one of the best games on the block but apparantly some users haven’t even been able to experience its suckery. Joystiq says that a bug in the software has left some gamers unable install the game at all.

Acting quickly, Evolved Games issued a recall for the defective copies and has just announced that they will begin offering a replacement which you can read more about here.

Of course they also apologized for “any inconvienence that end users may have suffered”. Gee thanks Evolved, at least we know you care!

Sony is proud to announce that their karaoke themed series, SingStar, has just turned 5. Better yet the series has sold over 16 million copies since it’s creation.

Kotaku says that this number can be attributed to the fact that there are 70 different individual titles of the game as pretty much every region recieved their own indiviudal version.

Me personally? I’d take Rock Band or Guitar Hero: World Tour over SingStar anyday.

Valve has release the latest update of Team Fortress 2, which includes the Sniper and Spy updates. Furthermore, some of the discovered bugs have already been fixed in a recent patch:

Patch fixes:
Fixed Ambassador not using hitboxes to trace against players. It now works like all other bullet-firing weapons in the game
Fixed Ambassador shooting through gates
Fixed Ambassador not critting during the round win period
Fixed control point not being named correctly on Arena Sawmill
Fixed cloaked Spies being able to taunt attack
Fixed Spy feign death not being reflected in scoreboard
Fixed Jarate effect on DX8 machines
Fixed rare crash in Spy “A Cut Above” achievement
Fixed the backpack icon appearing over the “Could not connect to Steam” message in the client inventory
Fixed German localization string for respawning players showing %1

As you can see above, Asobo Studio’s has recently secured themelves a spot in the Guiness World Book of Records for the “largest playable videogame environment”.

The game Asobo will recieve the award for is FUEL, a racing title set in a world annihilated by global warming. Players will be able to take to the enormous open world on both two and four wheeled vehicles. How enormous you say?

Well, Destructoid says that the side of FUEL‘s environment is 5,560 square miles, roughly the size of Trinidad & Tobago. So Rockstart, it looks like you will really have to go over the top for Grand Theft Auto V.

It seems that a game studio founded by developers working on Fable II, Crackdown and GTA entitled Ruffian Games, has announced their expansion. 

The infant game studio will expand their employee base by 15 but still are unable to let the world know what they are working on. Joystiq quoted Ruffian exec Gaz Liddion as saying “Now we’re in full production, we’re itching to share the fantastic work these guys have been producing,” going on to say that the announcement “won’t bee to far away”.

Hmm, I wonder what the project could be? Crackdown 2 anyone?