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Catherine’s Sexy Box Art Is Not For The Sheepish
Atlus is making its adult role-playing game Catherine as suggestive as possible. What does a tiny man with ram horns stuck in a woman’s cleavage suggest to you? Catherine is an adult Persona spin-off that deals with sex, dreams, and murder, so I suppose this Japanese box art conveys those themes in some fashion. The…
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The New Mortal Kombat Makes A TV Show Cameo
Not only did viewers of last night’s episode of Nikita get to see Maggie Q in a bathing suit, they also got a glimpse at the new Mortal Kombat and a tiny nod to another beloved fighting game classic. I’ve been watching too much television lately as it is, so I’ve not managed to add…
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Sail The Burning Sea For Free
After two years of plundering the pockets of players, Sony Online Entertainment makes subscription fees walk the plank, making MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea free-to-play. Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game in which players sail the seas of the 18th century New World, fighting on the side of the…
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The Creepiest Rebirth Of Post-Cataclysm Azeroth
Over the past six years in World of Warcraft, countless low-level Horde players have met their death at the hands of the people of Hillsbrad Town, but nothing they did was bad enough to deserve what happened to them post-Cataclysm. Music: Kevin MacLeod’s “The House of Leaves“
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A Safer Way To Throw Darts At Your Television Screen
Wagering the staggering power of the PlayStation 3 combined with the innovative motion control of the PlayStation Move, Devil’s Details’ Top Darts transforms your television into the world’s fanciest dart receptacle. As a teen I fell in love with darts, but I never quite got over the fear that I’d turn around one day and…
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Team Fortress 2 Enters Public Beta
Valve is throwing on ongoing public beta test for Team Fortress 2, and everybody that owns the game is invited! Valve loves adding new items and features to Team Fortress 2, but doing so takes testing, and testing takes people. Where are they going to find a large group of people with a vested interest…
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This Xbox 360 Controller Mod Concept Has Cash Written All Over It
Shades of the Nintendo 64 pipe, this Xbox controller pipe loses points for being nothing more than a nut placed over the guide button, but gains points for the non-smoker’s uncanny resemblance to a young George W. Found on Flickr Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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The Closest You’ll Come To Uncharted On The iPhone
Jason Cole is no Nathan Drake, but after getting a look at the hero of Gameloft’s upcoming action adventure game Shadow Guardian for the iPhone I get the feeling he really wants to be one. Gameloft has made a rather lucrative business out of copying the gameplay and concepts made popular in console games and…
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Who Wants Eight Inches Of Hot Vinyl Meat?
Do you prefer your meat pristine and untouched or vigorously beaten? Symbiote Studios has you covered either way with a pair of limited edition Super Meat Boy vinyl figures, just in time to preorder for the holidays. Symbiote Studios, the creators behind the silly anime-styled Jessica Chobot figures, has teamed up with Team Meat to…
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Wolverine Tears Marvel Pinball A Release Date
The X-Men’s resident badass Wolverine sure plays a mean pinball, and fans can too when Zen Studios unleashes four Marvel-themed pinball tables for Pinball FX next week on Xbox Live Arcade. Wolverine joins Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Blade as the stars of next week’s batch of mighty Marvel additions to Xbox Live Arcade’s Pinball FX…
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Poison-Based Bacteria Redefines Life As We Know It
Arsenic is an element that is deadly to most living creatures, but bacteria living in California’s Lake Mono thrive on it. Today NASA explains how those poison-eating organisms are changing the way we search for extraterrestrial life. News of an arsenic-eating bacteria residing in alkaline Lake Mono first came two years ago. As reported by…
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NASA Discovers Alien Life In California
Today NASA will hold a press conference revealing to the world the discovery of a form of life unlike any other on Earth. What twisted alien landscape gave birth to such a life form? Try California. Dr. Felisa Wolfe-Simon of the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California has been plumbing the depths Mono Lake…
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The Only Way To Travel In Post-Cataclysm World Of Warcraft
You can have your fancy flying mounts and your flashy teleportation spells; the Goblin Rocketway is the only way to travel in the new World of Warcraft. It’s like a love roller coaster, only with less love and more fire. No one used to go to Azshara. It was a relatively useless zone, unless you…
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CrimeCraft’s Bleedout Draws Top-Notch Art Talent
Vogster’s free-to-play online shooter CrimeCraft launches its episodic Bleedout campaign this weekend, with some of comics’ greatest artists lending their vision to each chapter. Who’s in? Check out the trailer. Some of the biggest names in comic and dark fantasy art are giving CrimeCraft a go, with Tim Bradstreet, Ben Templesmith, Nathan Fox, Zach Howard,…
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Multiplayer Space Combat Is An Excellent Reason To Return To PlayStation Home
It takes something pretty special to drag me into PlayStation Home these days. A free-to-play multiplayer space combat game complete with customizable ships and zero-G avatar exploration might just do the trick. Every day that passes without a new entry in the Wing Commander series is another day I desperately seek out any game involving…
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Is Technology Ready For Japan’s Holographic World Cup?
Tomorrow is the day Japan finds out if its promise of a fully holographic worldwide broadcast earns them the bid for the FIFA 2022 World Cup. Can the country possibly deliver? Tomorrow is the day the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) reveals which country will be hosting the 2022 World Cup. Australia, Qatar, South…
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30 Days, 25 Robots, 24 Mustaches, And One Sex Change
Last month 25 employees at Age of Empire developer Robot Entertainment stopped shaving in honor of the annual Movember men’s health awareness event. Aside from one transforming into a woman, it seems to have gone pretty well Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Check Out The Top 100 Indie Games Of 2010
Interested in playing more games from independent developers but unsure where to start? Indie DB’s list of the top 100 indie games of 2010 as voted by players is an excellent place to start. The top 100 list at Indie DB comes as a result of their quest to find the top 10 indie games…
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PETA Roasts Super Meat Boy With Tofu
After using its game parodying powers to transform Super Mario Bros. and Cooking Mama into vegetarian-friendly fare, PETA sets its eyes on the indie scene with Super Tofu Boy. Is he really better in bed than Super Meat Boy? Back in the day recording artists were sure they had made it big when Weird Al…
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Hugo-Nominated Sci-Fi Author Writes The Book On Crysis 2
Del Rey brings the story of Crysis 2 to book stores everywhere in March with Crysis: Legion, the official game novelization by Peter Watts, the Canadian science fiction author once famously involved in a scuffle with the U.S. Border Patrol Crysis: Legion tells the story of Crytek’s upcoming shooter. New York has been invaded by…
By Mike Fahey