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BioShock Delivers Two Convincing Arguments for Picking Up LittleBigPlanet Vita
In case you were on the fence about preordering a copy of LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation Vita, LittleBigDaddy and LittleLittleSister are here to push you over the fence, and maybe kill you just a little. This wonderful pair of costumes comes the BioShock Pack, one of two preorder packs for the Vita version of Sackboy’s…
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The Official New Mass Effect 3 Ending Can’t Be as Good as These Fan Fiction Ones
Early tomorrow morning BioWare releases the free ending-enhancing downloadable content for Mass Effect 3, hopefully laying to rest the concerns of countless players that were disappointed with the game’s ending. But what of the gamer’s that took it upon themselves to write their own epilogues? FanFiction.net‘s Mass Effect archives are loaded with entries from players…
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Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” is Much Better When It’s About Star Fox
YouTube artist Beau “EpicBeau” Brians doesn’t let the stoic people of Japan get in the way of shooting the public dancing-filled video for his Star Fox song parody “Use Bombs Wisely”. Once upon a time a young man named Beau Brians and his friends created a Super Smash Bros. parody of Cee-Lo Green’s “Forget You”.…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Bowser is a Horrible Father
When I was a kid my dad would pick me up to spend the weekend at the house of whichever girlfriend he was living with at the time. It wasn’t pleasant, but at least he didn’t make me guard the airship from Mario. Super Mario Bros. 3 is a legendary game, but it didn’t do…
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Fake Gamer of the Week: Don’t Laugh, She Never Learned How to Use a Couch
She’s a model. She’s a gamer. She’s a nuclear physicist. She’s an incredibly accomplished young woman. She just never learned how to sit on the couch. It’s not her fault. The youngest daughter in a family of professional stock photo models, growing up surrounded by flashbulbs and fashion doesn’t afford one many opportunities to sit…
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The Most Profitable Final Fantasy Game is the One Players are Still Paying For
In case anyone was wondering how ten-year-old Final Fantasy XI scored a brand new expansion pack while you’re still waiting for a Final Fantasy VII remake, consider which one makes Square Enix the most money. According to a picture-filled account of this weekend’s Vana Fest 2012 event at Famitsu (translated by Andriasang), Square Enix CEO…
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First We Fix 3D, Then We Get Our Holodeck
As demonstrated by the sharp decline in people giving a damn over the last two years, 3D isn’t quite the transcendent experience everyone wanted it to be, but with minds like Sharp’s 3D expert Jonathan Mather on the case it could lead to the true revolution in entertainment: holographic 3D. Mather, a research supervisor in…
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I Bought Facebook Credits This Weekend, and I am (Mostly) Not Ashamed
Until yesterday I prided myself on the fact that I never spent a single cent on Facebook’s fake game money. Now that pride is gone, but the cause was just: I used real money to kick someone’s ass. It almost sounds cool when I put it that way. Not so much when I expound. I…
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LEGO Batman 2 and Friends Team Up to Take Down the Diabolical Game Reviewer Gang
Game reviewers are a powerful force, capable of bringing even the most powerful games to their knees with a few clicks of their keyboard keys. Who can save us from their diabolical machinations? Who can shed light on the shadow of malevolent opinion spreading across the internet? I have no idea. Hey look, a LEGO…
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Global Thermonuclear War and the Single Man: It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
Heeding Luke Plunkett’s warning from Monday, I’m going to talk about The Act, Centipede Origins, and WarGames: WOPR, purposefully avoiding any mention in this week’s roundup of the insanely addictive Pocket Planes Oops. I’m considering instituting a moratorium on writing about games from Tiny Tower developer NimbleBit until they stop creating games that sap the…
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The Amazing Bruce Campbell Gets Extreme in The Amazing Spider-Man
Since his role as the ring announcer in the first Spider-Man movie, B-movie and television star Bruce “Ash” Campbell has been a fixture in the webslinger’s video games. Next week’s The Amazing Spider-Man is no exception. Campbell plays an over-the-top journalist in the game, putting Spidey through his paces in a series of challenges that…
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Let’s See How Nintendo’s New 3DS XL Sizes Up to the Competition
Nintendo is releasing an extra-large version of its 3DS in August, so it’s time to start stretching out those pockets. How does the 3DS XL size up to other portable gaming machines? Let’s answer that question with a handy-dandy size comparison chart. I spent the better part of my early morning rendering a bunch of…
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Tips & Guides
Five Tips for Forming the Perfect Pokémon Team from the Greatest Player in the World
Having been crowned the Pokémon World Champion two years in a row, Ray Rizzo is the man to beat at this year’s competition. One would think a player of his caliber would keep his secrets to himself, but he’s ready to share them with the world. With the 2012 Pokémon U.S. National Championships rapidly approaching,…
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Official My Little Pony Games Bringing Friendship and Magic to Mobile Devices
While fans around the world slave over their own video game creations, Hasbro has teamed up with the mobile masters at Gameloft to deliver official games based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, with the first offerings due out in time for Hearth’s Warming Eve, er, Christmas. While there have been official My Little…
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Save the Furries on Your Wii in This Week’s Nintendo Download
The unfortunately-named Lemmings-style survival puzzler Save the Furries makes its WiiWare debut this week, leading us headlong into another fine installment of the weekly Nintendo Download. Smack Down Production finally gets its hit iOS game Save the Furries onto the Nintendo Wii, challenging players to guide cute little green things across 60 levels of pitfalls,…
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From Skyrim to Mario, No Video Game is Safe From Conan O’Brien
Conan O’Brien and crew debuted a fresh batch of new video games last night, and I’m not sure which ones I should pick up first. Which sounds better, Super Diabetic Mario Brothers or The Elder Scrolls: Skymall? I’m all about Grand Theft Auto: Texting While Driving Edition myself, but only because the feature Conan’s writers…
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How Was Metro: Last Light‘s Gut-Wrenching Live Action Trailer Made? In the Cold.
Completely bereft of gameplay footage, the stunning live action “Enter the Metro” trailer for THQ’s Metro: Last Light generated more interest in the game than any amount of rendered shooting would have. Let’s see how it all came together. The video is even more chilling once you realize the cast of more than 150 were…
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Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Trades Its Massive Controller for Really Low Review Scores
In 2002 Capcom released Steel Battalion for the Xbox, a mech game so complex it was bundled for $200 with a massive proprietary controller. It didn’t sell particularly well, but Capcom didn’t let that stop them from creating a sequel that will probably sell worse. By combining the Xbox 360 controller with Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect…
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