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Bubble Witch Saga Makes Me Appreciate Facebook Games’ Manufactured Limitations
Take the addictive bubble-popping gameplay of Bust-a-Move, toss in the enticing random chance of Peggle, and you’ve got Bubble Witch Saga, a Facebook game so addictive I’d be playing it right now if I hadn’t run out of lives. The last time I played a full console version of Taito’s Bust-a-Move bubble-popping puzzle game was…
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The Week in Gaming Apps is Gonna Make You Sweat
I turn my back for just a second and the Week in Gaming Apps goes fitness crazy, or at least two apps more fitness-centric than my restroom-based iPhone gaming sessions will allow. I mean, I guess I could run around in the restroom while playing Zombies, Run!, but there is limited space in there, and…
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Spectacular Modern Warfare 3 Thowing Knife Kill Foiled by Pesky Portable Radar
YouTube user TehPadre would have had a pretty spectacular cross-map throwing knife kill on his hands, if not for the courageous efforts of a portable handheld radar. Missed it by that much! Good thing TehPadre checks his replays after every long-distance throwing knife attack. If not he never would have known the man that shot…
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Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Brings All 56 Fighters to the iPhone Next Week
Long before Capcom started packing its discs with downloadable content, there was Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. No “downloadable” characters, no EX Super Hyper version; just perfection. On April 25 that perfection hits the iPhone and iPod Touch. Who’s excited? If you answered “Mike Fahey is excited”, then you win my admiration. I’ll also accept “me”,…
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Spec Ops: The Line Multiplayer Pits Brother Against Brother Against Sand
How refreshing is it to have a tactical shooter set in Dubai without one side having to be some sort of terrorists? It’s The Exiles versus The Damned in Spec Ops: The Line‘s online multiplayer sandbox. Not that Spec Ops: The Line is a giant, open-world free-roaming experience. In this case sandbox actually means boxes…
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Live-Action Mileena’s Special Mortal Kombat Power is Walking on Loose Gravel in Heels
The UK’s live-action Mortal Kombat Vita ad campaign continues, swapping out Kitana for another of the game’s femme fatales and making a poor model navigate treacherous terrain in the least-sensible shoes imaginable. I keep expecting her to fall over screaming, clutching her twisted ankle. Perhaps that’s coming in the full version of the ad.
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Everything You Need to Know About Team Fortress 2 Lore in One Minute
If you’re only hopping onto Team Fortress 2 to shoot at people you’re missing out on a rich history of greed and betrayal dating back to the 19th century. The latest Lore video from The Game Station gets you fully caught up in 60 seconds, or your money back. The makers of the best Pokémon…
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Disappointed With the New Kid Icarus? Play the Original in 3D Instead
Everyone remembers the original Kid Icarus, right? The classic platformer everyone begged Nintendo for a sequel to? What do you mean you never played it? I’ll admit it. I never played Kid Icarus on the NES. Was I excited there was going to be a sequel to it? Sure, but it was more a general…
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Splash Damage’s Rad Soldiers is a Turn-Based “Guns with Friends”
The folks behind Brink pull back on the action but throttle up the style with Rad Soldiers, a turn-based multiplayer strategy game for the iPad and iPhone they’re heralding as “guns with friends”. That’s an idea I can get behind. Mysterious McGuffin Rockets have landed in London, causing a city-wide evacuation, followed immediately by an…
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The Witcher 2 Kicks Reviewer Ass No Matter What Platform it Shows Up On
It would take a lot to ruin game powerful enough to make me write what is essentially fan fiction in my review of the PC version. Looks like CD Projekt just didn’t apply themselves enough to failing. Jerks. I suppose if I was dealing with attempting to make a hero like Geralt of Rivia look…
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Want Access to The Secret World Beta? Play The Secret War
Funcom’s supernatural MMO The Secret World isn’t due out until June, but the struggle between the Dragon, the Illuminati, and the Templar secret societies begins today with the launch of The Secret War, a browser-based battle for world domination. Choose your side, recruit your Facebook friends, and begin spreading propaganda in order to secure real-world…
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Disconnect at the Global StarCraft League Finals Has Fans Shouting “We Want LAN!”
That Team Prime’s MarineKing won the Global StarCraft II League finals held during the Starcraft II IPL 4 tournament in Las Vegas earlier this month comes as no surprise to fans of competitive gaming. The fact that he might have lost if not for a last-minute dropped connection, on the other hand… StarTale player Won…
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Nvidia Lets Everyone Know It’s Coming
It’s coming, everybody. Nvidia’s GeForce Facebook page updated this morning to ensure fans of the video card line knew that. And now you know. Don’t thank me. Wait, what’s coming? Nvidia was understandably tight-lipped about what exactly they are teasing; one wouldn’t want a high-quality image like this going to waste. Speculation is leaning towards…
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My First Tentative Steps into the Turn-Based Tactical World of Wakfu
I’ve wandered through dozens of fantasy worlds in my massively multiplayer online gaming career, but Wakfu is the first one I’ve played where my wanderings were tied to a grid. Released in North America by Square Enix, Wakfu is one of a trio of online games by French developer Ankama Games (Dofus and Dofus Arena…
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Digital Storm Unveils Its Most Affordable Gaming PCs Yet
When I think about boutique gaming PC maker Digital Storm, the first image that pops into my head is large stacks of money. Having reported on machines that can run upwards of $8,000, I never thought I’d see the day when a Digital Storm machine was priced at under $1,000. Enter the Marauder line, the…
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First Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Starts April 27
Players that have preordered pre-purchased (different thing) Guild Wars 2 for guaranteed access to the beta will be able to take advantage of said benefit April 27 through April 29, when ArenaNet hosts the first of many weekend events. Huzzah!
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Skyrim‘s “Arrow in the Knee” Makes a Guest Appearance on NCIS
I used to think the CBS Naval Intelligence procedural NCIS was a show aimed squarely at the extremely mature crowd, until a recent episode took an arrow in the knee. So the NCIS writers were a little late to the party; they’ve got a production schedule to adhere to. The fact that they managed to…
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Diablo III‘s Female Monk Comes to Life in this Stunning Cosplay
Blizzard and master cosplayer Christina Sims team up to present her amazing Diablo III Monk cosplay from BlizzCon 2010 in a more natural setting. When were first introduced to Diablo III‘s Monk class, Blizzard gave BlizzCon 2009 a chance to play the combo-driven character in a desert setting, hence Christina “ZerinaX” Sims trekking through the…
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