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Saints Row the Third Keeps E3 Classy with a Bikini Car Wash
Remember a couple of years ago, when they tried to make E3 a more sedate affair, without the flashy lights, scantily clad women, and overall spectacle of past shows? THQ says screw that noise. THQ’s Saints Row the Third team pulled out the bikini-wearing manual labor and the ” I Heart Rim Jobs” t-shirts this…
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LIVE At Ubisoft and Nintendo’s Mysterious E3 Q&A Event
This evening we’re sitting in with Nintendo and its mystery guest, Ubisoft, for a question and answer session regarding . . . something? What could it be? Is this something related to the Wii U? Is it about a special Nintendo-exclusive Ubisoft game? Can you taste the suspense? Using the power of liveblogging, read along…
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Here’s That Action-Packed TERA Online Combat I Was Telling You About
Remember back in our big role-playing games of E3 2011 article, when I called out Bluehole Studios’ TERA Online for its fast-paced combat and larger-than-life enemies? Here’s a video that explains what I was talking about. It’s not quite a massively multiplayer online action game, but it comes pretty close. I know it’s easy to…
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Farewell, GameCube, the Wii U Doesn’t Play You
Speaking to Kotaku earlier today, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime revealed that while the Wii U will still be compatible with Wii software, its predecessor’s backward compatibility with the GameCube will not be making an appearance.
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Let’s Get to Know Catherine‘s Hero
By night Catherine‘s Vincent Brooks climbs the teetering towers of his nightmares. By day he’s an average guy in a long-term relationship with a woman that wants him to commit. While Catherine is a horror / suspense game, at its core is a story that’s been told countless times across many forms of media. Girl…
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Kinect Fun Labs Does Dark and Terrible Things to My Cat
I should never have used my cat, Rande, as a test subject in Kinect Fun Labs‘ Build-A-Buddy. I had a buddy already. Now all I have is the horror. Oh god the horror. It seemed like the next logical step in testing Build-A-Buddy after bringing life to a purple sex toy. It worked well enough…
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Razer’s 4G Dual Sensor Technology Makes for a Ridiculously Precise Gaming Mouse
What’s better, a laser mouse or a standard optical mouse? That’s a question answered by Razer’s new 4G Dual Sensor Technology, combining laser and optical sensors to create a mouse capable of tracking at 6400dpi. Dots per inch (or more accurately CPi – counts per inch) is the measure of the number of steps a…
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Can Kinect Fun Labs Grant Life to a Plastic Purple Penis?
This morning Owen Good told me someone from Microsoft assured him that Kinect Fun Lab‘s Build-A-Buddy application had “advanced penis recognition heuristics that will reject the shape”. I decided to test that claim using a purple grape-scented vibrator we just happened to have on hand. What, don’t tell me you people don’t have emergency vibrators…
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Nintendo is Such a Close-Knit Company Its Employees are Adopting Each Other
When some people think Nintendo, the first word that comes to mind is family. That’s likely the case for Nintendo employees Ross and Sandra Titus, who recently adopted their first child, 29-year-old Nintendo executive Jillian. The woman now known as Jillian Titus didn’t feel as if she had much of a family when she first…
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Tekken Hybrid is Sexy PlayStation 3 Exclusive Combo
Take the gorgeous computer animated Tekken: Blood Vengeance movie and bundle it together with the HD remake of Tekken Tag Tournament and you get Tekken Hybrid, a Blu-ray movie you’ll want to watch with a game you might want to poke at. Tekken Tag Tournament HD is nice enough, I suppose, but the real meat…
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Kirby Wii is Exactly the Sort of Game I Want to Play on a Nintendo Console
Vibrant, colorful, and full of joy, Kirby Wii is exactly the sort of game experience I crave when I power on Nintendo’s soon-to-be last generation system. An alien ship has crash landed in the realm of Pop Star, and Kirby must travel the lands gathering pieces of the broken craft to help stranded aliens get…
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Even the Giant Flesh-Hungry Spiders Look Pretty in Neverwinter
The Forgotten Realms depicted in this new trailer and screenshots for Cryptic Studios’ online co-op role-playing game Neverwinter could have been torn from the scribble pad I kept next to my character sheet back in my Dungeons & Dragons days. This is pretty much how I imagined my adventures back then, so many years ago.…
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OnLive Brings Streaming PC Games to Your Tablet PC This Year
Cloud gaming service OnLive is going portable later this year, when the OnLive Player App brings PC gameplay to your iPad and Android tablet PCs. You can already download an iPad app that lets you watch other players enjoying the OnLive streaming service; now you’ll be able to join in. The OnLive Player App will…
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Because You Can Never Have Too Many Top Gun Games
Did 505 Games just kick off a trailer with the words “Every generation has its heroes”? I’m pretty sure that means we have to take a drink according to the new game reveal drinking game, and since this is Top Gun: Hard Lock title for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3, we then have…
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