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Celebrate PlayStation’s Fifteen Years With Infographics
Did you know that 33 percent of PlayStation gamers don’t eat while playing, and that seven percent won’t date non-gamers? Learn more fun facts and explore the history of the PlayStation brand in a pair new infographics direct from Sony. The PlayStation brand turns 15 today, and Sony is helping us celebrate with a pair…
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There Will Only Be 6,000 Physical Copies Of DJ Max Portable 3
You’d be wise to act now if you want a physical copy of PM Studios’ DJ Max Portable 3 next month, as the publisher reveals only 5,000 UMD copies and 1,000 Special Bundle Editions making it stateside. The age of the digital download is upon us, or at least it is for any DJ Max…
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Unboxing The Halo: Reach Legendary Edition
The fine folks at UK online retailer ShopTo.net give us our first in-depth look at the innards of incredibly large Halo: Reach Legendary Edition, nearly breaking it in the process. Don’t you hate it when you decide against ordering the ultra-expensive special edition of a game and then see a video like this and begin…
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Memorial Fund Started For Family of Dev Killed in Car Crash
Friends of Brian Wood, the Company of Heroes developer who lost his life in a tragic car accident on Friday, have established a trust fund to aid his wife and their unborn child during this trying time. Every dollar counts. As reported earlier this week, Company of Heroes Online lead designer Brian Wood of Relic…
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Fifteen Years Of PlayStation Domination
Fifteen years ago Phillips, Sega, and 3DO were struggling to get North American consumers to accept CD-based gaming. On September 9, 1995, Sony came along and showed them how it’s done, changing the face of gaming as we knew it. Up until 1995, Sony’s major contribution to North American consumer electronics had been the Walkman,…
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Haunted House Then And Now
How do you bring a 1982 Atari 2600 survival horror game up to date? Developer ImagineEngine and Atari show us how in a series of then and now images for the upcoming sequel to Haunted House. We’ve come a long way from the plotted blocks of the Atari 2600 days. That’s the clear message I…
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Witness Spider-Man Bravely Battling Nothing
During the climactic battle with the Goblin in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Madam Web urges me to “look for areas of weakness.” I’d say my archenemy falling through the world and becoming untouchable counts. This clip is just one of many technical problems I had with my review copy of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions on the Xbox…
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Here’s A Guy Sealed In A Vacuum Bag Playing Mario Kart
Every time I think I would really enjoy spending some quality time in Japan, I see something like this, and then I just don’t know. What can I really say about this? What can anyone say, other than “Don’t do this, it is a really bad idea.” My mother spent a good fifteen years keeping…
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Power Up The Tiny Little Tractor Beams
Researchers from the Australian National University have built a working tractor beam of sorts, ensuring that those wily rebels won’t get far, as long as their spaceship is the size of tiny glass particles. We might not be towing starships anytime soon, but if you need to move small particles about a meter and a…
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Why Shouldn’t Your Console Get Its Own Tower?
LevelUp initiates tower defense against gaming clutter with a series of stylish all-in-one gaming storage solutions that make your console the base of its own video game tower. I’m constantly battling with video game clutter myself, particular with my game controllers. While I’ve yet to find a storage solution more convenient that halfway sticking out…
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Bumper Stickers For Proud Gamer Parents
Any kid can get on the honor roll, but how many can get through Super Mario Bros. without using a warp pipe? These are the sort of accomplishments any gaming parent would be proud to display on their bumper. While I’m not a big fan of bumper stickers, if I were inclined to deliver a…
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Actor Glenn Shadix Dead At 58, We Blame The MTV Video Games
Glenn Shadix might be more famous for his role as Otho in Beetlejuice, but we’ll always remember him as Father Ripper from Heathers, who blamed a teen’s death on “the MTV video games.” More specifically, he blames the death of one of the 1989 dark comedy teens on “a society that tells its youth that…
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Can You Handle Watching Street Fighter High School: The Musical?
From the creators of the original Street Fighter High fan film comes the daring sequel, Street Fighter High School: The Musical. We dare you to watch both parts without feeling at least a little bit embarrassed for everyone involved. Jennifer Zhang and crew return to the hallowed halls of Street Fighter High for a musical…
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Tour The Idyllic Islands Of Wakfu
New screens and a new trailer have popped up for Islands of Wakfu, Ankama Play’s first console title for Xbox Live Arcade that ties directly into its massively multiplayer titles Wakfu and Dofus. Islands of Wakfu, first revealed back in 2008, is the console tie-in to Ankama’s MMO titles for the PC, which themselves are…
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Xbox Live Gamer Suspended For Living In Fort Gay
When banned 26-year-old Xbox Live gamer called Xbox support to explain that his town of Fort Gay, West Virginia, was a real place and not a homosexual reference, he was threatened with account cancellation. An unemployed factory worker who enjoys first-person shooters, Josh Moore found himself temporarily suspended from Xbox Live last week due to…
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Make Your Own Papercraft Borderlands Psycho Bandit Mask
Just in time for Halloween, Gearbox Software’s Jeffrey “botman” Broome created this rather attractive papercraft Borderlands Psycho Bandit mask, and he’s sharing the plans with everyone willing to take a moderate hit to their printer’s ink cartridges. It might not look all that scary on Jeffrey’s head, but once you shave your head and wrap…
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Pirates, Ninjas, And Homicidal Teddy Bears
Pirates lay siege to the Island of Perfection in the upcoming Chapter 9 downloadable content for 505 Games’ killer plushie simulator Naughty Bear. And so the circle is complete. Naughty Bear’s gameplay structure rubbed a few folks the wrong way, myself included. Killing and smashing your way through level after level wasn’t as entertaining as…
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The Minds And Guns Behind Brink
The latest developer diary for Splash Damage’s Brink gives us a peek into the minds behind the game, and what happens when those minds get their hands on high-powered sniper rifles. One of the main downsides to working in video game journalism is the absence of good excuses to fly out to Nevada and fire…
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