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What’s Inside An Atari 2600?
To celebrate the launch of video game repair guides, do-it-yourself repair website iFixit is tearing down old video game consoles all week long. Today they give us a peek at what’s inside the classic Atari 2600. By today’s standards, the Atari 2600 is downright primitive. There’s no fan and no CD-ROM drive to get gummed…
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Kane & Lynch Gets A Triple Dose Of Dog Days DLC
If you missed out on the preorder bonuses for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, fret not! Square Enix is more than happy to sell them to you as part of three packs of downloadable content going on sale today. All in all, Square Enix is releasing $11 worth of Kane & Lynch 2 downloadable…
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I Am A Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Launch Trailer
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension isn’t hitting stores until September 7 in North America, so you’ve got a week to sit and watch the game’s launch trailer over and over again. Are you ready to take on the role of four different Spider-Men in order to restore the Tablet of Chaos? I know I am. I sat…
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Consoles From Cashews?
It may sound nuts, but a new bioplastic being developed by Japan’s NEC Corp. using cashews could change the way electronics are manufactured in the future. Of course normal plastic changed the way electronics and just about everything else is manufactured, but the convenience comes with a price. Synthetic plastics often contain toxic materials. The…
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Bangai-O Brings The Missile Fury To Xbox Live Arcade
Treasure’s classic puzzle-shooter for the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast gets the big-screen sequel it deserves this fall with Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury for Xbox Live Arcade. Giant robots and fruit for everyone! Bangai-O Spirits for the DS was okay, but nothing less than a full HD sequel could truly satisfy fans of the original game,…
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Frankenreview: Metroid Other M
After all these years of spelling Metroid a certain way, Nintendo and Team Ninja go and pull an Other M on us. How will the assembled video game critics handle this new consonant? Of course there’s more to the new Metroid than another M. The team behind Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden are on…
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Getting Shot: A 103-Second Retrospective
What’s it look like to get shot in a video game? The portrait of pain has been changing over the years. We took a bullet in 18 years’ worth of games to bring you this montage. Isn’t it amazing how getting shot has evolved over the years in video games? We’ve gone from a grunting…
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Half Life Remake Black Mesa Tantalizingly Previewed
“Is Black Mesa the ultimate Half Life mod?” That’s the question Atomic MPC asked after going hands-on with a near-final build of the eagerly anticipated Half Life Black Mesa mod. I’m so jealous. The front page of the dev team’s website has us calling the mod “hot shit,” yet still they tease. It’s been years…
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Microsoft Reveals New 360 Controller With Transforming D-Pad
The Xbox 360 controller gets a little more fighter friendly later this year, with a new version featuring a transforming d-pad and monochrome buttons hitting stores on November 9. So what’s a transforming d-pad? As Major Nelson demonstrates in the video below, users can change the new Xbox 360 controller’s directional pad from a flat…
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Pinball FX 2 Is Xbox Live’s Pinball Platform
The video game pinball wizards at Zen Studios are bringing Pinball FX 2 to the Xbox Live Arcade, with free graphical updates and new achievements to every Pinball FX table released so far. Pinball FX 2 sounds like more of a dashboard update to the first game than a full-blown sequel. Perhaps that’s why Zen…
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Final Fantasy XIV Beta Is No Go
Who’s ready to get the Final Fantasy XIV open beta party started? Not Square Enix. The open beta for Final Fantasy XIV, due to kick off today at 7PM Pacific, has been postponed indefinitely while Square Enix iron out some critical bugs that cropped up at the last minute. FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test,…
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Playing World Of Warcraft In StarCraft II
There are World of Warcraft Blizzard fans, and there are StarCraft Blizzard fans. What do you get when the two meet? You get a World of Warcraft StarCraft II mod. Kotakuite Goatnuke tipped us off to this nifty little mod, which takes World of Warcraft and crams it into StarCraft II, complete with a pair…
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Apache Air Assault Takes Off In November
The all-helicopter combat game we’ve all been waiting for as Activision reveals a November release date for Gaijin Entertainment’s Apache Air Assault, with hot new screens to boot. Crecente and I couldn’t be more excited to welcome this console generation’s first dedicated helicopter combat sim on November 9 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.…
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Wonder Woman Is Looking Fine In DC Universe Online
It wouldn’t be the DC Universe, online or offline, without Princess Diana of Themyscira, and while she isn’t sporting the late-80’s short jacket look she has in the comics, she’s still looking great for a woman in her late 60’s. It looks like they’ve worked up two different looks for Wonder Woman in DC Universe…
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There’s A Light Cycle In Every Collector’s Edition Of Tron: Evolution
Fans willing to shell out $129.99 on the newly-revealed December 7 release date of Disney Interactive’s Tron: Evolution will find themselves in the receiving end of one incredibly sexy light cycle model. Tron: Evolution takes place before Tron: Legacy, so it makes sense that the game comes out a full ten days before the movie…
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Want To Repair Your Own Game Consoles?
Do-it-yourself electronics repair website iFixit is putting repair power in the hands of players, with the release of more than 200 different crowd-sourced repair manuals for twenty-four game consoles, with parts available to get the job done mostly right. iFixit’s mission is to enable and encourage to self-repair electronics community. Up until now that’s mainly…
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Xbox Live Price Increase Coming November 1
Xbox Live Gold subscribers might want to renew before November 1, when the price of a yearly subscription to the service jumps $10 in North America. According to a post on Major Nelson’s blog, after eight years’ of Xbox Live at the $50 a year price point, the service is finally seeing a price hike.…
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The Nintendo Download: Elastic Boy Saves The Day
In a week with only four downloadable Nintendo titles, two of which aren’t technically games, one small blob carries the weight of the Nintendo Download on his shoulders. THat’s right folks, there are only four downloadable titles this week across WiiWare and DSiWare, and one of them is a virtual notebook. Another is a DSiWare…
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