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The Vita Hasn’t Been Completely Cracked Yet, But One Guy Is Getting Awfully Close
Sony wanted to make sure the Vita was difficult to crack. Earlier this year, some folks at wololo found exploitable in the Vita and were able to run custom (homebrew) software. Sony pulled some games in order to remove the code, and not too much about hacking the Vita has been heard since. Recently, however,…
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Yes, You Can Explode A Watermelon With The Power Of Your Mind
Okay, it’s not a full range of mage powers. It’s not the Force. It’s not telekinesis. In fact, it’s a fairly limited setup with only one purpose, at the moment. But it is a chance to make something explode. With your brain. A group in Kentucky hacked the setup together. It’s a Star Wars Force…
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PAX Cosplayers Need To Know: How Many Commanders Shepard Does It Take To Bring Down Kai Leng?
The answer, apparently, is seven, with the help of Legion, Joker, EDI, Kasumi, and three Tali’Zorahs. I’m suddenly jealous that I could never bring more than two companions with my Shepard in a party. BioWare had a photobooth set up at PAX, capturing many of the best Mass Effect and Dragon Age cosplayers the convention…
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PC Players Can Now Get A Look At, And Pre-Order, Their Version Of XCOM: Enemy Unknown
I enjoyed getting my hands on XCOM: Enemy Unknown last month. I even liked the multiplayer. One omission, though, kept leaping out to me: there I sat, playing a remake of one of the most widely beloved PC games I could think of, and I had only seen the Xbox 360 version. Well, no more.…
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This Is How They Sell Assassin’s Creed III To Football Fans
Readers who, like me, get most of their TV on a recorded delay may not have seen this ad starting to pop up on their local airwaves just yet. So here it is. It premiered during a football game. This Assassin’s Creed 3 commercial doesn’t exactly give the redcoats a badly-needed break, but it does…
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Sony Online Games To Start Letting Players Add Their Own Items To The World, And Make Money Off Them Too
Over the past couple of years, Sony Online Entertainment has transitioned all of their MMORPGs into free-to-play games, relying on microtransactions and a cash shop to make their money. Now, they’ve announced a plan that would let players make real-world money from SOE’s cash stores, too. The Player Studio will allow players—for now, of EverQuest…
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PC Gaming Studio Said She Ruined Their Game, But Only After She Sued The Boss For Sexual Harassment [UPDATE 2: Cases Dismissed, Motivation And Timing Of Suits Disputed]
UPDATE 2: Both cases discussed in this story were dismissed in September of 2013, with Alexandra Miseta apologizing for bringing her suit against Brad Wardell. Read that full update here Elemental: War of Magic was not a rousing success of a game. The August, 2010 strategy title was a buggy, muddled mess at launch that…
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Minecraft Is The United Nations’ Newest Tool For Solving Real-World Problems
Minecraft has become an extraordinarily popular tool for gamers worldwide to create anything they can imagine, if in a blocky kind of way. Now, it’s going to become a tool for the United Nations. Mojang announced Block by Block today, a program they will be running in collaboration with UN Habitat. The idea is to…
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Guild Wars 2, Log Two: Five Things I Have Not Done In Tyria
My adventures in Guild Wars 2 continue. I’ve logged in nearly every day for the past few weeks, if only for a few moments. I remain enamored of the art, and in my sessions I nearly always feel like I accomplished something. I tend to like play sessions about 60 to 90 minutes long, it…
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The Stalemate Against Piracy In PC Gaming Doesn’t Help Anyone. It’s Time To Let It Go.
The PC’s biggest asset, for users, is its amazing flexibility. The modern computer is both a tool and a toy, a generalist device customizable to nearly any needs. With the barest amount of prodding, comparatively speaking, it can be, and do, anything the user wants. The PC’s biggest liability, to games publishers, is its unpredictable…
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This Gorgeous Wooden PC Makes Me More Jealous Than Zen Things Should
This PC case mod is a few years old, but that doesn’t make it any less gorgeous. It’s been easy for me to miss, because I speak approximately ten total words of German, and two of them are extraordinarily impolite. This PC, called Project Zen, was designed to emulate classic and subtle Japanese styles. If…
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Freddie Mercury as an Angry Bird Is Both Wonderful And Weird
I’ll be honest, I like Angry Birds. And of course I like Queen. But I’m really not sure how I feel about the two of them together. Rovio evidently envisions the late Queen front man as a yellow bird, complete with fabulous crown and mustache. The king pig is right to wilt in sad shame…
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My Gamer Friends Need To Have More Kids So I Have Someone To Buy These For
Sadly, most of my friends who do currently have infants are not of any particular nerdly persuasion, and I do not yet have children. Clearly, the only solution is to badger my gamer friends into having babies. The same seller also has a superhero set, although those shamelessly mix DC and Marvel logos together. Surely…
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Homestuck Kickstarter Raises Over $275,000 In Hours To Make Game Of Comic That Makes Fun of Games
Homestuck is a webcomic that takes full advantage of tools the internet can offer. Or perhaps it is a piece of internet that takes full advantage of what comics have to offer. Either way, it’s an epic project that’s got more than a few fans. Homestuck has been running since 2009, and over the past…
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Save Harry From Mortal Embarrassment In This Very Silly Flash Stealth Game
Call it a new kind of stealth game, or perhaps just a riff on a very old one. Based on Prince Harry’s recent attention-grabbing Las Vegas escapades, an enterprising Dutch team has created Save Harry. It’s a flash (ha) game in which players take on the role of the titular, nude prince and attempt to…
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I Want This Fantastic ED-E Sculpture To Follow Me Around For Real
ED-E and I were inseparable, when I first played Fallout: New Vegas. Well, except for all those times that the demands of the plot separated us. But no matter: his perks, cheerfully sarcastic beeping, and killer laser were great company on an endless trek through the Mojave Wasteland. This real-life ED-E, sent to Geekologie by…
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Gaming Accessibility Project Hopes To Help More Developers Make Games Disabled Gamers Can Play
There are two kinds of accessibility that come up in gaming discussions. One is that understanding how a game works, or how to master it, can often be impenetrable to the newbie. But the other is that no matter how experienced a gamer is, if he or she has certain disabilities, the games can be…
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This Real-Life Assassin’s Creed Parkour Runner Has Great Moves
Cosplay is one thing; many men and women have worn the Assassin’s hood. Actually going out into the city and scaling buildings, though… well, that’s another thing entirely. This Assassin doesn’t quite have all of Altair’s or Ezio’s moves down—there are no convenient haystacks for ten-story leaps, and it’s just as well that he doesn’t…
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MMO Developer Paragon Studios Closing; City of Heroes To Shut Down By End of Year
Paragon Studios has announced that effective immediately, all work on superhero-themed MMORPG City of Heroes will be ceasing, and the game will be shut down by the end of the year. In a post on the official City of Heroes site, community manager Andy Belford wrote: In a realignment of company focus and publishing support,…
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