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Are You a Silent Assassin, or Do You Want to Kill Everyone in Your Way?
Now that’s a question that you’ll only hear in a video game trailer. Or at least I hope you only hear it in a video game trailer. I bet Hitman: Absolution‘s Agent 47 gets that all the time. He’s in line at Wendy’s, ordering a Frosty. They ask him if he wants fries with that…
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The Pirate Bay Speaks Out Against UK Ban, Offers Workaround
Yesterday the High Court ruled that infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay must be blocked from access by all UK internet providers due to copyright infringement issues. “The galaxy’s most resilient BitTorrent site” responded with a call to arms and a way around the oncoming ban. With torrent and file sharing sites under heavy fire…
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The Ultimate Automated Dorm Room Comes Complete with Party Mode
UC Berkeley student Derek Low is a master of science and technology. Here he uses his vast powers to create a dorm room that reacts to his every whim, even if that whim is playing irritating house music. He calls the project B.R.A.D. — Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm — and while I am not seeing…
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Science Says Don’t Play Super Mario Galaxy Before Trying to Shoot Someone in the Face
The zombie is five steps away, you’re cornered, and you’ve got one last bullet in the chamber. If you were just playing Super Mario Galaxy you might as well turn the gun on yourself. A recent highly scientific study found that when it comes to putting a bullet in a humanoid target’s brain, Super Mario…
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Epic Games’ History Unfolds in This Graffiti-Covered Stairwell
From 1991’s ZZT to Gears of War, the history of Epic Games is sprayed across the walls of one particular staircase in the company’s North Carolina offices. This wonderful series of graffiti from artist Sean Kernick was probably the most delightful aspect of my visit to Epic Games’ headquarters last week. I started at the…
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CultureGas Station Hot Dogs: The Snacktaku Review
Is the hot dog a snack, or is it a sandwich? Snackologists have long debated whether these discount sausage rolls fell under their dominion or were the bailiwick of the culinary elite. I have formulated, I believe, the ultimate answer. If you purchase a package of hot dogs from your local grocery store, bring it…
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Great Moments in Video Game Humor: Space Quest IV… or XII… Possibly X
What’s so great about Two Guys from Andromeda getting together to make a new game? For the answer, let’s look at the classic adventure Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, an adventure so epic it spans at least three different games. After ripping science fiction a new laugh-hole through three amazing Space…
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Ride Epic Games’ Massive Metal Slide with Me in First-Person
It seems as if everyone in the Raleigh game development scene have ridden the slide from the second to the first floor of Epic Games’ headquarters. Now, thanks to the magic of shaky iPhone video, you can too. “You can’t miss the slide,” everyone and their brother told me as I prepared for my visit…
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Let’s Take a Tour of America’s Most Epic Video Game Company
My trip to North Carolina to attend the East Coast Games Conference in Raleigh last week was a ruse, a feint. My real target was a (mostly) unassuming office structure in the Raleigh suburb of Cary, the birthplace of some of the greatest games of the past decade. The company that was once Epic Megagames…
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Solving a 5×5 Rubik’s Cube in Under Seven Minutes Isn’t Impressive, Unless You’re Blindfolded
Demonstrating the memorization and motor skills of some sort of humanoid robot, Hungary’s Marcell Endrey spends three and a half minutes getting to know a scrambled 5×5 Rubik’s Cube, slips on a blindfold, and solves it in just over four minutes. Not only did Endrey break the world speed record for solving a scrambled 5×5…
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Angry Birds Space Hits 50 Million Downloads in 35 Days
Rovio’s focused assault on the casual gaming public continues to pay off big time, as Angry Birds Space surpasses 50 million downloads in 35 days, breaking all previous records and making developers of big-budget console titles feel reevaluate their careers.
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A New Ultra-Compact Gaming Laptop Rises
When Alienware recently discontinued its M11x line of compact laptops, many feared the age of the 11-inch gaming machine had come to a close. Origin PC keeps the tiny dream alive with its EON11-S, so small it photographs well next to an Xbox 360 controller. A full-powered gaming PC in a tiny package, the EON11-S…
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Customize the Look of Your 3DS With a Whole New Midnight Purple 3DS
Evoking images of lilacs, hyacinth and GameCubes, Nintendo’s Midnight Purple 3DS launches on May 20 in North America, giving fans another way to “customize the look of their systems”. Nintendo’s official announcement of this new Midnight Purple color scheme, joining red, blue, black, and pink on the market just in time for Mario Tennis Open,…
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Target Specific Organs This Week in Gaming Apps
It doesn’t matter how good the rest of this week’s Gaming App of the Day apps were, we should have just dropped the mic and called it when Monday featured a hunting game that lets players target specific organs. If I had been paying closer attention, I would have had Ashcraft save Deer Hunter Reloaded…
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The Emotions Free-to-Play Games Prey on to Get Players to Pay
“In a freemium game it’s not a rational decision to pay; it’s an emotional one.” Wednesday at the East Coast Games Conference in North Carolina, former BioWare design manager Ethan Levy explained how free-to-play games can harness to emotions of their players in order to profit. Up until recently Levy, who delivered the “Game Design…
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A Minute’s Worth of Guild Wars Lore
With the first Guild Wars 2 beta weekend kicking off today and the seventh anniversary of the original game in full swing, The Game Station crew attempt to condense the lore of the first into an easy-to-digest one minute video. How’d they do? There are inconsistencies, at least that’s what the folks in the comments…
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