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Building A Better Ghost Pirate LeChuck
LucasArts gives us another behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge, showing us the design stages of Guybrush Threepwood’s undead nemesis, LeChuck. Like Guybrush himself, LeChuck went through a number of interpretations before settling on something relatively close to his original form. My favorite by far is the…
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Free Realms Meets Star Wars In Clone Wars Adventures
Sony Online Entertainment draws back the curtain on Clone Wars Adventures, taking the successful formula established with its free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms to a galaxy far, far away. Check out the first trailer here! Rumored in March and due out this fall, Clone Wars Adventures is a massively-multiplayer online Star Wars game for kids,…
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The Nintendo Download: Who Needs Red Dead Redemption?
Who needs a high-definition cowboy title when you can play SNES classic Wild Guns on the Virtual Console? It joins this week’s Nintendo Download line-up along with Ben 10, Beaver Defense, and the sequel to 18-year-old Game Boy title X. Wild Guns might capture the Red Dead vibe for Nintendo Wii owners this week, but…
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Virgin Gaming Partners With Sony, Counts Down To E3
A tournament ad packed inside Canadian copies of ModNation Racers leads us to a Virgin Gaming countdown clock, indicating June 14 as the date for the unvieling of Virgin’s new gaming service, along with an early partnership with Sony. Last month we reported on Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson’s return to the video game industry…
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Mass Effect Devs Looking For A Multiplayer Programmer
A job listing reveals that Mass Effect developer BioWare Montreal is looking for a multiplayer programmer to “take existing single player user experiences and make them multiplayer safe.” Is Mass Effect going multiplayer? While the job listing, posted on EA’s job site, doesn’t come right out and say the position they are hiring for will…
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Frankenreview: Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time
The power to rewind time will not save video game movie adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time from the likes of Roger Ebert and the assembled movie critics in this rare but highly warranted movie Frankenreview. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time might never live up to star Jake Gyllenhaal’s most famous…
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Dennis Hopper Dead At 74
Generations of movie-goers will remember Dennis Hopper as the rebel biker Billy from 1969’s Easy Rider, but we’ll always remember the late actor as King Koopa. While his video game contributions were few and far between, Dennis Hopper’s influence on the video game industry is a profound one. Along with direct contributions as a voice…
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Three Gaming Products Make Time’s 50 Worst Inventions List
I poke fun at the Virtual Boy as much as the next guy, but does it belong on the same list as New Coke, Clippy the helpful paper clip, the Segway, and Agent Orange? Time’s list of the 50 Worst Inventions isn’t so much a list of failed inventions as it is a list of…
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High School Swaps Out Textbooks For iPads
When the students of St. Catherine’s High School’s new middle school program arrive next year, they’ll be sporting shiny new iPads instead of textbooks, giving students plenty of games to play while they should be learning, until they get stolen. It’s a revolutionary idea, I suppose, but a very bad revolutionary idea. St Catherine’s High…
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Sex While Driving More Popular Than Gaming While Driving
A survey of drivers from six different countries found that while 15% of people claimed to have engaged in sexual activity while driving, only 5% admit to playing portable games behind the wheel. The survey, underwritten by hands-free mobile phone device maker Jabra and performed by Lindberg International, polled 300 drivers each from the United…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Offers Friendship And Romance
Han had Chewie. Luke had R2-D2. Who will you have by your side as a Companion Character in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, and will you be able to sleep with them? Showing once again that the Star Wars: The Old Republic team has a firm grasp on what makes the Star Wars universe…
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Here’s What Ubisoft Is Bringing To E3
E3 is right around the corner, and the big publishers are rolling out lists of what they’ll be bringing to the show. Ubisoft’s list includes Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Shaun White Skateboarding, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the next installment of the Driver series, and “many other titles” that haven’t been revealed yet. Keep an…
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Mario’s Voice Yearns For Waluigi Games
Three out of four Mushroom Kingdom plumbers have scored starring video game roles. The man who voices them all, Charles Martinet, wants to make it four out of four, lamenting the lack of a game starring Wario’s skinny lackey, Waluigi. Charles Martinet is a prolific video game voice actor, and if he had his way,…
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Maybe You Only Think You Smell Bad
What’s worse: Smelling bad, or only imagining you smell bad? Psychiatrists are considering adding olfactory reference syndrome – a syndrome where the victim believes they emit an imagined foul odor – to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. As a lifelong gamer and frequent science fiction convention attendee, I tend to run into…
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