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My First Gaming PC: A Love Story
In the fall of 1992, my father drove me to a nondescript computer store in Alpharetta, Georgia and changed my life. Amidst the hum and buzz of countless white and beige boxes I found my first gaming PC. I wasn’t a newcomer to keyboard set, but my experience up until that point had been limited…
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Lollipop Chainsaw Deploys Writhing Zombie Cheerleader Squad to England
After spending months parading about multiple live-action versions of Lollipop Chainsaw heroine Juliet, the game’s marketeers dress up four models in cheerleader outfits and bad zombie makeup and have them pile on each other. I can’t believe it took this long. It’s marketing 101: before you even set your eyes on the product you’ll be…
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Six Video Game Reviewers Team Up to Take On Dragon’s Dogma
It takes a strong party of adventurers to take down a dragon, but an even stronger party to dissect a game as massive as Capcom’s ambitious action role-playing game Dragon’s Dogma. Do these six brave heroes have what it takes? What a silly question, this is what they do for a living. They play through…
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We’ve Waited a Terribly Long Time for Fieldrunners 2
One of the most popular tower defense games of all time, Fieldrunners has been charming and challenging players on the iPhone, iPad, Android devices, the PSP, PlayStation 3, and the Nintendo DSi since 2008. Subatomic Studios is finally ready to release a sequel, giving fans only a month to get their affairs in order. Featuring…
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Three Dollars Adds a Pack of Penthouse Pets to Saints Row the Third
THQ continues to milk the living hell out of its best thing going with today’s release of the Penthouse Pack for Saint’s Row the Third, bolstering the ranks of players’ gangs with a quartet of models from America’s minor league nudie mag. Minor league might be a little harsh, really. I’d say that Penthouse has…
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The Sandbox Proves That God Really Just Wants to Draw Simpsons Fan Art
Pixowl’s The Sandbox places players in the role of a fledgling deity, grants them the power of pixel-particle elements, and sets them loose in their own single-screen world, free to do as they please. What pleases them seems to be drawing fan art. Starting with a blank canvas, players can lay down some water and…
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The Next Star Wars: the Old Republic Takes the Pain Out of Finding People to Play With
Now that the massive 1.2 update for Star Wars: The Old Republic is behind us, it’s time for BioWare to start winning back those 400,000 lost subscribers with some oft-requested features. Soon finding a group won’t be such a massive pain in the ass. The current looking for group system in BioWare’s massively multiplayer online…
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Return to Dead Island This Summer with the Game of the Year Edition
The Dead Island Game of the Year Edition, due out June 26 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, combines the game, both bouts of downloadable content, and the blueprint for the Ripper weapon mod in one $29.99 package.
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The Game That Got Me Excited About the PlayStation Move Quietly Arrives
Nearly two years ago at E3 2010, Sony showed off a game that demonstrated the true potential the PlayStation Move. Today it quietly slips onto retail shelves. Anyone excited for Sorcery? Hell, I didn’t even realize the game was coming out today until I showed up at the GameStop midnight launch for Ghost Recon and…
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The Most Suspenseful Gaming Moment I’ve Encountered Happened in Diablo III, and I Could Only Watch
A capable party of three was accidentally whittled down to one last night while playing Diablo III, an unfortunate event that predicated ten minutes of tension and anxiety unparalleled in any other game I’ve played. My level 14 Barbarian, accompanied by another Barbarian, level 16, and a level 17 Witch Doctor, were just about to…
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Hoof-Life, Mares of War, and Other Games Reimagined Under Pony-Power
I know what you’re thinking. Don’t we get enough My Little Pony images in our comment section on a daily basis? No, especially not enough video game parody covers from a guy that remembers the PlayStation classic Evil Zone (Evil Pone). Commenter Raso719 tipped us off to these imaginative video game covers, lovingly crafted by…
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CultureCelery with Peanut Butter: The Snacktaku Review
In the comments section of my most recent Snacktaku review, a reader accused me of (and I am paraphrasing here) “eating nothing but crap”. Perhaps this review of the healthy, wholesome combination of a vegetable no one likes and chocolate’s pale understudy will convince him otherwise. Sometimes I eat things that only look like crap…
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Great Moments in Gaming Humor? The Jaxter Factor
Humor is a subjective thing, and never has video game humor been more subjective than in the case of Naughty Dog’s contribution to PlayStation platforming sidekicks, the obnoxious ottsel, Daxter. Depending on who you ask, the smaller, fuzzier half of Jak and Daxter is either a delightful character that added much-needed levity to an increasingly…
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Your Favorite Video Game Characters, Only Now They’re Undead
People often complain that there’s an overabundance of zombie-based video games, or that zombies are the new bacon, overindulged in to the point of nausea. Judging by pieces like Deviant artist Dantemustdie00’s “Sonic Zombies”, perhaps we’re just injecting the undead into the wrong titles. I mean, Call of Duty is nice and all, and war-plus-zombies…
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The Dorkly Weekly: The Third Mario Brother? Not So Super
Who runs the Mario Bros. plumbing business while Mario and Luigi are off busting ghosts, saving princesses, and teaching typing? Why it’s-a-him, Giuseppe. What, you thought they just left the business to rot? You think they subsist on nothing but pixelated gold coins and mushrooms? No, the Mario Bros. maybe (for the most part) pretty…
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Fake Gamer of the Week: Don’t Trust the Pretty Redhead, Mr. Orange
Being an orange is hard. You grow up on a tree, surrounded by friends, only to be plucked at your ripest, crated, and shipped off to a grocery store, destined to be devoured by health-conscious shoppers. So when you found yourself in bed with a lovely redheaded woman gamer, you thought you had avoided your…
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ReviewsDiablo III: The Kotaku Review
Plagued with disconnects and shot through with lag, the May 15 launch of Diablo III had players and press alike railing against the always-online nature of the latest entry in the genre-defining action role-playing series. While not entirely unexpected, those unfortunate events punctuated the problems with requiring constant external server access for a single-player game.…
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