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Stephen Hawking Thinks The Earth Should Probably Start Packing
“I see great dangers for the human race,” begins noted theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. As a human myself, that’s exactly the sort of thing I don’t like to hear. Perhaps they are words I , or more accurately we need to hear, however. As part of website Big Think’s Dangerous Ideas series, Hawking suggests that…
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Aeris Is Dead, Get Over It Already
The latest episode of GameTrailers’ Mythbusters-esque Pop Fiction series adds a few more nails in the coffin of Final Fantasy VII’s flower girl. Are fans still insisting there’s a way for Aeris (or Aerith, in Japanese) to come back to life thirteen years after the release of Final Fantasy VII? Can’t we just let the…
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Assault Horizon Rebuilds Ace Combat From The Ground Up
After yesterday’s trailer piqued our curiosity, Namco Bandai delivers more details on Assault Horizon, a game being called a “complete rebirth” for the Ace Combat franchise, or “steel carnage in the sky.” According to today’s press release, Project Aces has always wanted more out of the Ace Combat series. They wanted a game that not…
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Everything Exciting About Guild Wars 2 In One Video
From now on whenever anyone asks me what excites me about Guild Wars 2 as an MMO player, I’ll save myself a lot of time and just point them to this video. Click to view ArenaNet and NCsoft could have saved themselves a lot of time as well, skipping the past year’s worth of blog…
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Valkyria Chronicles II Demo Marches Onto The PlayStation Network
War spills across a much smaller CANVAS today as Sega releases a demo of Valkyria Chronicles II for the PSP on the PlayStation Network. Check out the sequel to the underappreciated PlayStation 3 game ahead of its August 31 release. The original Valkyria Chronicles for the PlayStation 3 is an amazing game, with striking visuals…
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It’s Time To Stop Looking At Legends And Killers Screenshots
This post contains the last four screenshots of Red Dead Redemption’s Legends and Killers downloadable content you’ll ever need, as the pack goes live today for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Pig Josh is now in your hands. That’s right, there’ll be no more screenshots, trailers, or stories telling you about the eight characters…
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The Two Sides Of Brink’s Civil War
There ain’t no good guys, and there ain’t no bad guys. There’s just the revolutionaries and the security forces, and they just disagree with bullets in this first developer diary for Bethesda’s Brink. Developer Splash Damage lives up to its name with the waterlogged world of Brink, detailing the two sides of the civil war…
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Blockbuster Rolls Out Games-By-Mail Nationwide
After testing out the service in several regions over the past year and a half, Blockbuster adds free video game rentals to its Blockbuster By Mail service, giving the specter of death hovering over the company brief pause. Blockbuster started adding video games to its DVD by mail rental service in February of last year,…
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Xbox Indie Clips: So Many Girls, So Little Time
Do you want to date all these women? What the hell is wrong with you? No, you do not want to date all of these women, but Silver Dollar Games’ latest Xbox Live Indie Game assumes the answer is yes, plunging you into the sort of hell you’ll encounter if you do decide to date…
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Pinball Wizards Are Not Welcome In Beacon, New York
Fred Bobrow, owner of the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, New York, might not look like a criminal to you, but he has broken Beacon Law, and paid the price. Eighteen months after opening the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, Bobrow was forced to shut it down, thanks to an old law on the books…
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Ace Combat Returns To Consoles With Assault Horizon
Namco Bandai takes to the skies on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year with Ace Combat Assault Horizon, a rebirth for the franchise featuring helicopters, turret-gunning, and quick-time events. Fans hungry for a new console version of Ace Combat since the 2007 release of Ace Combat 6 on the Xbox 360 are on…
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Ferrari Racing Plus Giant Robot Arm Equals Awesome
The only thing I can imagine that would be more exciting than racing a Ferrari F2007 at high speeds, is pretending to drive a Ferrari F2007 at high speeds while being swung about by a giant robot arm. Now this is scientific research I can fully endorse. Paolo Robuffo Giordano and colleagues at the Max…
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Tetris Finally Has An Official World Champion
Yesterday at Los Angeles’ Downtown Independent Theater, 29-year-old loan coordinator from Redondo Beach, California Jonas Neubauer was crowned the first-ever Classic Tetris World Champion. Over 200 players showed up to test their Tetris skills against the best the world had to offer at the Classic Tetris World Championship, organized by former Nintendo World Champion and…
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The $100 Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Collector’s Edition Is Worth Every Penny
With two different intricately-detailed, creepy cool jack-in-the-box collectibles packed inside the collector’s edition of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, the question isn’t if you should buy it, but where. The collector’s edition for Assassin’s Creed II, with its lovely tin and Ezio action figure, was quite a nice little package, but Ubisoft has outdone itself with the…
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CGI Snooki Beats Obama With A Wine Bottle
Next Media Animation continues to make a game out of Taiwanese news, with a summation of trash TV show Jersey Shore that captures Snooki’s true essence. Ashcraft spoke to the folks at Next Media Animation last month, after the company’s Wii molester monk and Tiger Woods videos caught our attention. During the interview, Next Media…
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This Could Be The Worst Nintendo Download Ever
This week’s Nintendo Download brings a collection of six downloadable games so underwhelming you probably shouldn’t even bother reading about them. Did you read Lisa’s column? It’s pretty awesome. Go read that instead. Still here? You must be really bored. Are you at work? Perhaps you should find a job that keeps you too busy…
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Seventeen Expansions Later, EverQuest Gets Player Housing
Eleven-year-old MMO EverQuest is getting its 17th expansion pack in October, raising the level cap, adding more than 450 new spells, 18 raids, 13 zones, more than 120 quests, and finally giving players somewhere to live. Just because Sony Online Entertainment is already teasing the fourth game in the EverQuest series doesn’t mean it’s forgotten…
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