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Reviews
A Blackjack Role-Playing Game? Hit Me.
Proving once again that absolutely everything is better with careful application of hit points, magic and stat-based equipment, Sony Pictures Television’s Suits And Swords is the more fun than a Blackjack game has any right to be. Remember iOS hit Sword & Poker, the hybrid role-playing/card game? Much like that series is the best way…
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Kraven Stalks The First Trailer For The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Game
Cunning, resourceful and deadly, spiders are some of nature’s most perfect predators. Movie universe Peter Parker has potential, but he’s going to need help to hone his abilities. Enter Kraven the Hunter, teaching stalking 101 in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game. Kraven the Hunter is one of Spider-Man’s most memorable villains, largely thanks to…
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Culture
Think Of The Most Horrible Chip Flavors Imaginable
Last year Lay’s “Do Us A Flavor” contest awarded the wrong person a million dollars for suggesting potato chips that tastedvaguely like garlic bread. Now the contest returns, and we have a chance for redemption. Flavor showdowns. Wayne Brady singing about potato chip flavors. And most important, a place where your bizarre tastes can shine…
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Steam Controller Ditches Touchscreen For Real Buttons
The strange-looking Stream Controller Valve introduced to us in September was innovative, ambitious, and unworkable from a backwards compatibility standpoint. Today Valve announced the release version of the controller will drop the screen in favor of a d-pad and standard controller buttons. Creating a whole new way to play games is a great idea, but…
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A pig with a man’s head eating a corpse? Creepy. Coming to the PlayStation 4 and Vita, Kodoku is a self-published horror game from the fine folks at Carnivore Studio, and not the bastard child of a gaming website and popular number puzzles. Until we have more information, I am going to assume the basic…
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Offensive Combat Creators Abruptly Close Up Shop
A year ago I raved about Offensive Combat, an old-school, free-to-play, browser-based competitive first-person shooter with a heaping helping of attitude. Today, with very little fanfare, developer U4ia Games closed. The announcement came by way of atweet last night, with a link pointing folks to an post on the company’s website. It is with a…
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Now That’s An Impressive Boss Monster, Guild Wars 2
The living story that ran through 2013 in Guild Wars 2 escalates in 2014, as the arch-villain Scarlet Briar unleashes a massive mechanical monstrosity on the unsuspecting denizens of Tyria. Meet the Twisted Marionette. Unimpressed? Perhaps some perspective will help. Those little colorful specks on the ground are players. They’re going to have to team…
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Ten Games To Play Instead Of Candy Crush Saga
2013 was the year of Candy Crush Saga. It was on television, in music videos, and — most importantly — it was in the hearts and minds of millions of mobile gamers around the globe. Let’s see if one of these ten alternatives can’t dislodge it. I probably played Candy Crush Saga more than any…
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A New Game Mode Is A Great Excuse To Watch More Garden Warfare Footage
The Gardens & Graveyards mode in the upcoming Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is an objective-based multiplayer mode in which the Zombies must capture Plants bases so we can watch five more minutes of gameplay footage from one of my most anticipated Xbox One games. Gameplay on my Xbox One looks bleak now, but the…
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Mew-Genics Demonstrates How New Kittens Are Made, More Or Less
The first footage (of sorts) from Team Meat’s upcoming cat breeding sim explores the miracle of kitten birth with 100 percent scientific accuracy, give or take a couple dozen percent. See, when two cats love one another or just feel like having sex, they have sex. Then the mother cat swells up, and new kittens…
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North America’s New Disney Game Is Last Year’s Japanese Hit
This morning Nintendo surprised us with the announcement of Disney Magical World, which sounded like Animal Crossing with Disney characters, coming to the 3DS April 11. It’s actually a port of this Japanese game, which did quite well for itself when it launched last August. Courtesy of the eagle-eyed folks at Siliconera, Disney Magic Castle:…
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ReviewsThe Childhood Memories Locked Inside Our Lost Toys
Few physical objects are as emotionally charged as children’s toys. They absorb our memories and moods, holding them until an errant look or touch brings them flooding back. Lost Toys from Barking Mouse Studios is a taste of that. Mobiles filled with forgotten childhood icons hang in a forgotten room, wooden idols charred and misshapen.…
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All The Joy Of The Legend Of Zelda In One Plunderphonic Masterpiece
Artist Jeesh, who we’ve featured here before, plunders sounds from more than two and a half decades of The Legend of Zelda and mixes them all up to to create some of the most delicious ear candy I’ve heard in ages. This is going on everything I have that’s capable of outputting music. It’s a…
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Yoshi’s New Island surfaces on the 3DS on March 14. The sequel to Super Nintendo classic Yoshi’s Island has a lovely Friday release date now. Yoshi and Baby Mario are playing middle men to February 28’s Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy and the newly-announced Disney Magical World, releasing on 3DS April 11.
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They Made A RoboCop Game Out Of Deer Hunter, And It’s Not Bad
You’re not fooling anyone, Glu Mobile. The official RoboCop game you put together for the new movie is obviously a slightly more action-oriented take on the oddly-popular Deer Hunter 2014. Not a bad choice. Rather than following the plot of the movie, the RoboCop mobile game pits our cybernetic law enforcer against an extensive training…
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No Cat Is Complete Without A Set Of Leather Battle Armor
Of course your cat just lays about the house sleeping, eating and pooping all day — it doesn’t have proper protection. Unlock your cat’s full potential with a suit of hand-crafted leather body armor. Dogs are the fearless warriors of the pet scene, charging into battle, heedless of danger. Cats are rogues, slinking silently through…
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Ten Things You Should Know About PlayStation Now
Announcedearlier this week, Sony’s PlayStation Now service will stream cloud-based games to Sony consoles, handhelds, TVs and more. PlayStation Access put together this lovely little primer covering the how, what and whens of PlayStation Now. It’s basically Onlive for PlayStation Games. Games are run on remote servers, accept remote input from the player’s Dualshock controller.…
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