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Powerful Mobile Destruction Physics Dedicated to Beating Up a Poor Old Woman
The rollerskating Granny Smith is a spry old bird. She has to be, as developer Mediocre has dedicated substatial technology towards beating the living hell out of her. Granny Smith falls from great heights onto her back, her intense pain communicated through the loss of the large gold coins she’s collected. She jumps off of…
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In This Week’s Nintendo Download, Meet the Majestic Animals of Africa. Then Shoot Them.
In Africa Unleashed 3D for the Nintendo 3DS you charged into Africa to hunt wild animals like the leopard, rhino and elephant, bringing more than 30 weapons to bear on 15 different types of wild beast. Shouldn’t this be called Hunter Unleashed 3D? Granted I don’t believe any of the animals roaming deepest Africa are…
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Escape from Aliens: Colonial Marines at PAX Prime
Sometimes you stand and fight. Aliens: Colonial Marines new Escape multiplayer mode, debuting this weekend at PAX Prime, is not one of those times. PAX attendees, including our own Tina, Jason and Kirk, will have the chance to try their hand at some player-driven survival horror multiplayer this weekend, as a team of four Colonial…
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron PC’s Got Problems. High Moon Has Solutions (in the Works)
The single-player portion of the PC version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is pretty great, capturing all of the action and adventure of the console versions aptly. The online multiplayer, on the other hand, isn’t so hot. High Moon and friends are working to make it better. Connecting to multiplayer is hard. Getting together with…
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And Then Every Light Switch In My Home Was Replaced with an Arcade Joystick
New at that repository of all things awesome that is ThinkGeek, the Power-Up Arcade Light Switch Plate transforms your boring light switches into amazing arcade-style joysticks that I would be happy to catch between my shoulder blades on a regular basis. Things poking out of your wall is generally not a good idea, unless those…
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Reviews
Digital Storm’s Budget Gaming PC Doesn’t Sacrifice Power for a Reasonable Price
Digital Storm is a boutique gaming PC maker that I’ve traditionally associated with putting together mind-blowing systems that cost more than the vehicle I drive. So when they announced a new line of affordable gaming rigs starting at only $799, I was taken aback. What could the company that’s built the “world’s most advanced PC”…
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This Gorgeous Persona 4 Art Book should Tide You Over Until Golden Comes Out
Now available from UDON Entertainment, Persona 4: Official Design Works collects the amazing work of acclaimed character designer Shigenori Soejima into one gorgeous 192-page tome, complete with an extensive interview and artist commentary sprinkled throughout. What better way to while away the hours until Persona 4 Golden‘s November release? I’ve got a copy of the…
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A Morning of Pleasantly Surprising 3DS News Direct from Nintendo
This morning’s Nintendo Direct event was chock full of news, views, and not a few surprises about the latest titles coming to the 3DS. What’s going on with Animal Crossing? Is that really the last Professor Layton game? What are the Pokémon people working on? We’ve got you covered. Behold, 3DS joy! First Look at…
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Capture Tiny Electric People in this Strange-Looking 3DS RPG Sequel
Denpa Ningen no RPG was one of the oddest-looking titles to hit the 3DS. The title literally means “Electro-Magnetic Wave Human’s RPG”. In Denpa Ningen no RPG2, you catch these electro-magnetic wave people, make a party, and then go on adventures with them! The series is developed by Genius Sonority, the folks behind Pokémon Colosseum,…
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These Amazing Mass Effect 3 Costumes Are on Their Way to DragonCon
Prop creator extraordinaire Bill Doran and his wife, Brittany Sheppard Doran, gear up for DragonCon 2012 in style with a pair of expertly-crafted suits of Mass Effect armor. If that’s not justification enough for me to hit up the show this weekend then I don’t know what is. With Bill in his N7 Defender armor…
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The Internet Game Critics Carry Madden NFL 13 to the 95 Yard Line
In a stunning upset over Madden NFL 13, Michael Fahey of the Atlanta Kotaku attempts to carry a football analogy too far and fumbles the ball. Then he explodes. And then there was a Frankenreview. It’s that time of year again. The time that I get swept up in the wave of Madden NFL fever,…
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Black Ops II Hardened and Care Package Editions Offer Compelling Arguments for Spending More Money [Update]
As it does every year, Activision is stepping up to the plate to represent Call of Duty fans so dedicated that spending merely $60 on a video game does not properly express their love and devotion. A pair of images appearing on NeoGAF in advance of an official announcement demonstrate two ways to pay significantly…
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Xbox Indie Darling Shoot 1UP Finally Makes it to Mobile
Back in 2010 when we were first getting to know Windows Phone 7, indie developer Mommy’s Best Games demonstrated the platform’s power with a mobile version of its unique Xbox Live Indie bullet-hell shooter, Shoot 1UP. Two years later… I’m not entirely certain why Shoot 1UP took so long to make the transition from Xbox…
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Build the Dragonborn’s Dream House and Raise a Family in Skyrim‘s Hearthfire
Coming September 4 to the Xbox 360, the latest downloadable content for Skyrim has players purchasing land, planning and building their dream house, moving in their spouse and adopting neighborhood children. This is Hearthfire! Hearthfire is a name that really could have gone either way. It’s could have been an action-packed adventure in which the…
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They’ve Narrowed Gamers Down to Eight Fundamental Types. Which Are You?
Over the years countless researchers and marketeers have sought to split the ever-growing gaming population of the world into easy-to-understand categories. This latest attempt, crafted by predicative gaming analytics company Playnomics, makes more sense than many of those, narrowing us all down to eight gamer archetypes. Which are you? Playnomics is teaming up with global…
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GameStop Exclusive Borderlands 2 Content Leads Players to the Slaughter Dome
We don’t need another four heroes. We don’t need to know the way home. All we need is a way to get Borderlands 2‘s Creature Slaughter Dome without having to preorder the game through GameStop. Not that I have anything personal against GameStop. I’m just not fond of the whole content limited to a single…
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It’s a Guild Wars 2 Launch Night Dance Party!
Come tomorrow, everybody that wants to play Guild Wars 2 can, as the game officially launches for the people drawn in by everyone else talking about the damn game all weekend. You know what this calls for? You read the headline, fool. DJ Person, give us a beat! I know what you’re thinking. That other…
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Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Presents: My Little Portal
Off-Kilter’s Unlikely Crossover Fan Fiction Battles feature has traditionally involved written fan fiction, but today we have something completely different, and slightly wonderful. It’s episodes one and two of My Little Portal, where friendship is science. It’s the battle of the all-powerful sentient AI robot things, as CELesTIA does battle against DISCoRD, a twisted sequel…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Chrono Trigger‘s Robo Gets the ‘Girl’
What would you do if a powerful magician could make exact doll duplicates of everyone you know? Yeah, that’s what I thought, so don’t go looking down your nose at Robo for this little indiscretion. Man, someone at Dorkly loves role-playing games, don’t they? Between last week’s Earthbound video and this week’s Chrono Trigger (oops),…
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