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Why Yes, Atlus, I’d Love Another Online-Enabled 3DS Action RPG
We’ve not written much about Atlus’ Code of Princess, and that’s partly my fault. I saw the online-enabled co-op and competitive action role-playing game at E3 earlier this year, and forgot. I know, let’s blame Persona! In fact it was sort of Persona 4 Golden‘s fault. After getting a small taste of that and the…
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Meet the Brand-New Dead or Alive Competitor. She’s My Favorite.
With her two-toned hair, spunky attitude and part-time job at a diner (free food!), Mila might be my favorite Dead or Alive fighter yet. The up-and-coming MMA fighter makes her debut in Dead or Alive 5 Considering Mila’s admiration for Tina’s father, she seems to have a thing for giant balding men with beards, so…
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It Took an Astounding Amount of Work to Make You Lose Yourself in Dishonored
From its beginnings in London of the 1600’s to the bizarre magical/industrial city of Dunwall we’ll hopefully come to know and love, some incredibly talented people have been working their asses off for years to make sure Dishonored doesn’t feel like they did. It’s fascinating to watch how the design of Dishonored transformed during the…
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Beloved PC Indie Terraria Reborn on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
PC gamers were saddened when the developers of the pixel-perfect 2D building, exploration and combat game Terraria announced an end to game updates. Well good news, sort of! Terraria is returning with brand-new content… to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. The announcement that appeared this morning on the game’s official Facebook page was…
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Borderlands 2‘s Mechromancer Has a Name, You Know
It’s always “Mechromancer this” or “Nerchromancer” that. Why does no one call the robot-riding downloadable character for Borderlands 2 by her real name? Oh, we didn’t know it. Now we do. Hello, Gaige. Nice death machine you’ve got there.
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The Next Xbox Could Transform Your Living Room Into One Massive 3D Display
It’s not quite holodeck technology, but it’s not far off. A patent filed back in March by Microsoft describes advanced display technology that extends the gaming environment from the television to all four walls of a room. Imagine playing Call of Duty or Gears of War and being able to see an enemy approaching from…
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Sifl & Olly Triumphantly Return, Review Fake Video Games
Back in 1999 I was surfing through cable channels in the middle of the night and ran across a show on MTV with a cast entirely made up of sock puppets. I fell in love instantly. I recorded every episode on VHS tape, and played them until VHS was no longer a going thing. And…
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Plants Vs. Zombies is Trying to Ruin Halloween for Everyone Forever
Plants Vs. Zombies studio PopCap games has teamed up with the American Dental Association in an attempt to steal candy out of the mouths of children everywhere, those bastards. PopCap, not the children — I mean, I can’t speak for their parentage, but damn, give them some candy. Seeking to offer a “tooth-friendly” alternative to…
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ReviewsHardee’s Memphis BBQ Thickburger: The Snacktaku Review
What most restaurants label a BBQ hamburger is generally a normal hamburger with some sort of barbecue sauce added, maybe some crispy onion straws. Hardee’s (or Carl’s Jr. on the west coast) breaks from this formula with the Memphis BBQ Thickburger, a black angus burger with barbecue sauce, crispy fried onion straws and actual BBQ…
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Sideways Bust-a-Move is the Secret to This Magical Gaming App’s Success
Take the bubble-bursting puzzle gameplay of the popular Bust-a-Move series, turn it on its side and toss in some magical spells and memory matching puzzles and sharp cartoon visuals and you’ve got Supermagical, an award-winning iOS game from Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team, a developer with an obvious appreciation for understatement. Nina, a tiny…
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If Portal Were a 2D Platformer it Would Go Something Like This
Coming this week to Steam and Xbox Live Indie Games, Gateways is a 2D retro-style platformer that creator David Johnston describes as “like Portal, only better.” Those are fighting words, Mr. Johnston. Right off the bat we can see at least one major difference between this 2012 Dream.Build.Play competition runner-up — it’s flat. More than…
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Start Building Your Borderlands 2 Character Right Now
Borderlands 2 hits store shelves on September 18. That gives you eight days to build the perfect Assassin, Gunzerker, Commando or Siren in the official Skill Tree Calculator. The 50 skill points one can gain in Borderlands 2 won’t be enough to fill the entire skill tree — it’ll get you one whole branch and…
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I Just Bought My First Wii Game in More Than a Year. Then Tragedy Struck.
I didn’t play The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. To a role-playing game player like myself, that seems particularly wrong, but I just didn’t feel like digging out all my Wii stuff and going through the motions. My Wii has been hooked up for years now, even managing to survive the theft of nearly everything…
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The World’s Most Infamous Piracy Website Wants You to Buy This Video Game
It’s not unusual to see the latest, hottest PC games available for download at The Pirate Bay, the Swedish file-sharing website that’s one of the planet’s primary sources for pirated entertainment — just not normally on the very front page. Mikolaj ‘Sos’ Kaminski’s indie adventure game McPixel is available this weekend as a free torrent…
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The Hulk Goes Toe-to-Toe With Farting Cat and Annoying Orange in This Week in Gaming Apps
I take four days off and what do I return to? We’ve got Marvel’s mightiest mashing things up, a creepy citrus fruit, a flatulent cat (had that anyway), a PC puzzler gone iOS and one hell of a hexagon. That’s one pretty damn strange Week in Gaming Apps. I’ve spent the majority of the week…
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Assembling the Most Insane Gaming Keyboard I’ve Ever Typed On
I’ve gone through dozens of gaming keyboards during my decades of PC gaming, from generic off-white Wal-Mart specials to elaborate, fully-programmable, back-lit monstrosities. The Cyborg S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 from Mad Catz is the first gaming keyboard I’ve had to screw together before using. For the $300 asking price, one would think things like using a tiny…
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Hey Kids! Now You Can Buy Skylanders Toys Directly from the Mobile Game
The Skylanders Cloud Patrol game is coming soon to the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD with exciting new functionality that will forever change the nonchalant manner we hand our tablet devices off to our bored children. Exclusive to the Kindle Fire version: in-app physical toy purchases. In the IOS version of Cloud Patrol, players…
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Violent Video Games Increase Pain Tolerance? Okay, Hit Me.
Researchers at Keele University in England decided it would be neat if they had 40 volunteers play either a violent or non-violent video game for ten minutes and then submerge one of their hands in ice-cold water. This study into the sort of silly things researchers can make subjects do yielded fresh information on the…
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Make a Gears of War 3 Designer Happy and Find This Easter Egg
You’ve had a year to play Gears of War 3 and you still haven’t found all the Easter eggs. During the Gears of War panel yesterday at DragonCon in Atlanta, lead level designer Jim Brown teased a submersible secret, and told us of the drunken Dizzy Easter egg that didn’t make it in. After a…
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