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CultureMaple Bacon Fudge: The Homemade Snacktaku Review
Give a man a snack, you keep him sated until dinner; teach a man to create a snack, and he’ll make it once, tell everyone about it, and then never make it again, no matter how excellent it is. This weekend I made maple bacon fudge. I may never make it again, but I am…
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Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battles: When Diablo Meets My Little Pony, Horrible Things Happen
Lar’zak looked on the tent with horror clawing it’s way into his brain. Pony’s corpses littered the grounds around the tent, and those who females who hadn’t been killed suffered a fate worse than death. Fan Fiction author The Red Blade doesn’t pull any punches with his epic multi-part Diablo / My Little Pony crossover,…
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The Dorkly Weekly: The Pokémon Bug Catcher Who Waited
There are Pokémon players that take great pains to make sure they fight every NPC trailer that they cross paths with, but sometimes even the most dedicated fan can overlook the lowly Bug Catcher. The Bug Catcher doesn’t mind. He hasn’t really got anything better to do anyway. He’ll stand out there in his field,…
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Tower of Fortune Puts a Fresh Spin on Retro Role-Playing
Chance has been a huge factor in role-playing games since the earliest days of pen-and-paper games. Normally represented as the roll of a die, Tower of Fortune swaps dice for slots. Is it a winning combination? Yes. Thanks for reading. Crafted by a Rodan and Rin of Game Stew Studio, Tower of Fortune is as…
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The Diablo III Starter Edition Lets You Play Before You Pay
Too terrified of a little clicking to put your money down on Diablo III? Perhaps you can talk someone out of a Diablo III Guest Pass and gain access to the free Starter Edition, AKA the purgatory of the undecided. Much like it did with StarCraft II, Blizzard is releasing a fancifully-named demo for its…
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Pikmin 2 Makes Its North American Wii Debut June 10
Nintendo’s Selects line of $19.99 Wii titles expands by two next month, when Mario Power Tennis joins the long-awaited North American release of New Play Control Pikmin 2 in retailers “games too inexpensive to be in the case” sections. One of the best alien plant-based real-time strategy games ever created, Pikmin 2 originally hit the…
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Robot Unicorn Attack Evolves into Something Even More Glorious
The single greatest thing to come out of Adult Swim since Adult Swim just got even greater. How could Robot Unicorn Attack get any better? Panda, Wolf, Gorilla, and Dragon. Yes. The sequel to the award-winning (probably) Flash, Facebook, and iOS game doesn’t screw with a good thing. It still features a Robot Unicorn, gracefully…
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Get Drunk and Shoot Up the Mother-Lovin’ Neighborhood This Week in Gaming Apps
Do you want to mix some drinks, or turn your neighborhood into a war zone? Anything is possible with the magic of mobile gaming, probably! It’s another eclectic mix of genres and themes this week. There’s an augmented reality shooting app; downhill skiing with an added hint of desperation; the obligatory physics puzzler; a game…
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Getting Prepared for Diablo III the SteelSeries Way
As I prepare to spend Tuesday through eternity putting Diablo III through its paces, SteelSeries sent along a care package of diabolical PC accessories to help make the most of the experience. Red glow abounds! While other manufacturers release their own non-branded peripherals, SteelSeries, a Blizzard partner for a number of years, has the official…
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And Then The Secret World Got All Naked
When I first installed and started The Secret World earlier this week, I encountered a tiny graphical glitch: everybody was naked. Not completely naked, mind you. I mean, they all had underwear on, and some of the shirts still showed up. There were just an awful lot of topless women and pantsless men running about.…
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Eight Lessons Learned During My First Foray into The Secret World
The first beta weekend event for The Secret World kicks off today, giving countless players their first tantalizing taste of Funcom’s modern day massively multiplayer paranormal role-playing game, but there are tales of a hidden server — a server where members of the gaming press have had days to explore the dark corners of the…
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This is Not a My Little Pony T-Shirt, It’s a Final Fantasy T-Shirt
Look, I know there’s a very vocal segment of our readership that doesn’t appreciate the warmth and humor of My Little Pony. What if we changed them to something else? Something a bit more… Final Fantastic? What, those obviously aren’t ponies. That was the problem, right? Cute animals outside of the context of a video…
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Diablo III Just Became the Most Preordered PC Game in Amazon History
With just five short days before Blizzard’s diabloical threequel hits store shelves, Amazon declares Diablo III the most preordered PC game in the online retailer’s history, surpassing StarCraft II and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Blizzard must hate itself right now.
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Grab a Drink, Light a Smoke, and Watch the Max Payne 3 Launch Trailer
Max Payne is so very emo. Or is that noir? Is noir just emo with more smoking, drinking, and guns? The answers to these questions and more will probably not be revealed on May 15. I’ll be too busy playing Max Payne 3 anyway. Well, in all honesty I’ll be playing Diablo III, but should…
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Enter Dishonored‘s Neo-Victorian Steampunk Society October 9
I knew absolutely nothing about Bethesda’s Dishonored until Totilo told us 18 things we should know about the steal action game. Now I know a 19th thing: Dishonored hits the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on October 9. Oh, and it has some incredibly sexy box art, if you can get past that nasty…
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Monster World IV Makes Its North American Debut in Today’s Nintendo Download
The Wii Virtual Console springs back to life this week with two classic games from the fine folks at Sega, including one that never even made it stateside. Time for some old school action role-playing! Wonder Boy in Monster Land and Monster World IV hit the Wii Virtual Console today, giving owners of the console…
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I Hope This Doesn’t Rule Out a Big Boy Transformers Prime Game
While the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 get what’s shaping up to be a pretty spectacular Fall of Cybertron, Nintendo Wii, 3DS and DS players get this. Now I am not saying this isn’t an excellent Transformers Prime game. I’ve not played it, so for all I know it could be spectacular. It just looks…
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The Nintendo DSi Drops to $99 May 20
One of the best values in gaming gets even better on May 20, when Nintendo drops the price of the DSi to $99.99, with its larger sibling the DSi XL at $129.99. That’s a $50 drop over current retail, with the $149.99 DSi’s price effectively slashed by 33 percent. What a wonderful price point for…
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Skylanders Moves More Than 30 Million Colorful Pieces of Plastic
In today’s first quarter financial results announcement Activision revealed at more than 30 million Skylanders toys had been sold as of March 31. That’s enough toys to feed 30 million plastic-eating children a day for an entire… day.
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