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This morning, NBA 2K11 revealed its box art featuring Michael Jordan, billed as "the greatest cover of all time." But there are many others also among the greatest in their respective sports who've graced a game's cover. Here's a sampling. More »
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Here is Michael Jordan on the cover of this fall's NBA 2K11. Cool image, a long time coming, but isn't Muhammad Ali "the greatest of all time"? More »
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Drew Brees, quarterback of the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, has a couple of TV talk show appearances booked for Thursday and Friday. Know what else happens Thursday? EA Sports announces its Madden NFL 11 cover athlete. More »
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What you're looking at is half of the sixteen covers that will be shared out among Issue 73 of Games TM Magazine. That's right, Games created a cover for each of the playable Street Fighter IV characters. Imagine Publishing thinks it may be the biggest split run ever done on a games magazine. I hope they reprint all of the covers as a poster. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5033352&view=rss&microfeed=true GameSetWatch has trawled the vast, vast waters of user-created content on YouTube and come up with their very own top 12 list of 'Still Alive' covers. Some of them are pretty neat, several of them are incredibly cringe-worthy, as befits a lot of user-generated content, especially of the YouTube variety - but worth a listen through for the sheer entertainment value. Above is their chart-topping pick, of which the creator said: "Everything on the terminals and sound is controlled by an Intel 8080 Microprocessor at 2MHz. The sound chip is a MOS SID (From a Commodore 64)." Mmm, geeky! More »
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Over at our favorite mainstream gaming news site, 1UP, Kurt Kalata has put up just an excellent history of video game cover art, from the bizarre imaginings of early cover artists attempting to extrapolate a four-pixel sprite into an incredibly detailed painting to the modern disparity between American, European and Japanese cover designs. More »
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As I've somewhat shamefully admitted before, I'm a big fan of Eric S. Nylund's Halo novels. Just superlative toilet reading. So I'm pretty psyched by his upcoming Halo novel, Ghosts of Onyx. And now the cover's seen the light of day. More »
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I love this little picture of Samus rocking out with her 8-bit guitar. What is she thrashing? Metroid tunes gone metal, naturally. More »
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