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This Week’s Nintendo Download is Full of Coins to Collect and Puzzles to Solve
It’s getting cold out. There’s a major storm coming this weekend (on the East coast, anyway). You really don’t want to go out to a store to get your games fix. Lucky for you, here’s this week’s Nintendo Download! The brand new Professor Layton game will be downloadable starting this weekend. It’s also a good…
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You Get To Be Mayor And Go Swimming In The New Animal Crossing
Not going to lie. I put way, way more hours into Animal Crossing: Wild World, the first DS entry in the franchise, than I ever should have. After managing to catch a coelacanth on my first day I was, well, hooked. Catch fish, collect bugs, cultivate flowers, buy clothes, decorate your home… these are the…
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New PlayStation 3 Hack May Be One That Sony Can’t Stop
The PlayStation 3 has been around since 2006, and since roughly 2006 hackers have been trying to have their way with it. The system has proven a relatively tough nut to crack, though not an impossible one. The last major rooting incident was back in 2011 Sony released a major firmware update for the PS3…
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This Browser-Based Text Adventure Is the Best James Bond Game of the Fall
The most recent James Bond game to grace consoles, last week’s 007 Legends is, sadly, just not good. Fans of the British super-spy need not despair, however: there is a genuinely good James Bond tie-in game out this fall. And it’s a text adventure. The British Intelligence Officers Exam puts players in the shoes of…
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It’s Time to Celebrate The Spooky Season In MMORPGs
Halloween is still a week from today, so you’ll have to wait until next Wednesday if you want to go trick-or-treating in the real world. (Or at least, if you want to do it without getting the cops called.) But if you’d like to dash around a virtual world in costume, gathering treats and performing…
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The Best Gaming-Themed Jack-O-Lanterns
Dedicated gaming fans can create high-quality fan art from pretty much anything. Even squash. Squirtle and Charizard come from the DeviantArt page of joh-wee, who has a truly astonishing array of carvings on her site (along with other art). Garrus is a painstaking work by Mass Effect fan and tumblr user weemiji, who created it…
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Why Propose With a Diamond When You Could Propose With Portal‘s Companion Cube?
We’ve seen Portal proposals and Portal jewelry before. But putting them together into a Companion Cube engagement ring is a new one on me. The ring is stainless steel and, yes, the cube is a tiny exact replica with its little heart on every side. It was custom made by bmf jewelry for Justin Palmer,…
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Mornings Just Fall Into Place When Your Coffee Comes From a Tetris Mug
To be honest, this Tetris mug would probably drive me crazy. I would fill it with my morning coffee and then wait for that one long piece to fall. And I’d be waiting forever, because it never, ever will. But the board will vanish as if it had, when I finish my coffee (or when…
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown‘s First DLC Takes The Alien Fight to China
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is getting something new with its Slingshot DLC: a self-contained story. Players tend to create a number of their own stories in XCOM, through customizing their squads and telling stories about what happens to them as they undertake missions. The Slingshot DLC is a little different: it comes with a specific background,…
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Zynga Just Laid Off More Than 100 Game Developers During Apple’s Big iPad Event [Update]
Zynga has shut down their Boston office entirely and performed significant layoffs in their Austin office this afternoon, reports say. Boston-area game developers are reporting on Twitter that Zynga Boston has been completely shuttered today. The Boston studio, known as Conduit Labs before being acquired by Zynga in 2010, created the Indiana Jones Adventure World…
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The Strange Beauty of Killing Zombies In Horrible Ways
Halloween is on its way, and while ghosts and ghouls may have been the undead horrors of decades past, here in 2012 it’s all about the zombies and their ilk. What better way to get in the mood for spooky doom than with this weirdly lovely, thoroughly instructive image from Left 4 Dead 2? See…
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This Is What It Looks Like When a Pikachu Explodes
This exploding Pikachu is not actually the creepiest of photographer Alan Sailer‘s explosions series. (That would be the doll head.) But it’s still plenty off-putting. Sailer is a photographer who specializes in high-speed images—in particular, high speed images of things being shot or blowing up. As he describes it, the destruction of an innocent Pokémon…
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Yes, You Will Have To Use Origin To Play EA Games On The Wii U
Since 2011, all of EA’s games released on PC have been tied to Origin. PC gamers who wanted to play Battlefield 3 or Mass Effect 3 logged in through the orange-hued Steam competitor, and now it seems that Wii U owners will do the same. As IGN reports, recent changes to the EA privacy policy…
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Destruction of One Tiny Ship in EVE Online Costs Player $6000 Worth of Cargo
It’s no secret that you can get your virtual self killed—or at least space-shipwrecked—pretty easily in EVE Online. It’s a game of shifting alliances, of diplomacy and economics and war. A player flying around solo, in a small ship, is likely to find himself easy prey. One player, stewie Zanjoahir, apparently wasn’t thinking about how…
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The Ugliest Images From BioShock Infinite Are the Ones That Make Me Want to Play the Game
I enjoyed the new trailer for BioShock Infinite. It’s the best look we’ve had in a while at a game that I’ve been looking forward to since 2010, when the first gameplay footage surfaced. It’s not Booker that particularly intrigues me, or Elizabeth, or even the enemy types they face. And while Columbia looks very…
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Master Modder Makes Xbox 360 Into A Surprisingly Sleek and Slim Laptop
Benjamin J. Heckendorn, more easily known as Ben Heck, makes a lot of cool stuff. He’s made laptops out of the Atari 800 and Commodore 64. He’s used household objects to help make a controller that severely physically disabled gamers can use. He’s even made an Xbox 360 controller dispense Hot Pockets, because why not?…
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League of Legends World Championship Draws Over 8 Million Viewers
On October 13, the League of Legends season two world championship tournament concluded, and one team, the Taipei Assassins, walked away with the $1 million prize. Today, Riot announced just how many LoL fans watched it happen. The stadium where the competition took place held 8000 spectators. Another 8,282,000 unique viewers—well over eight million people—tuned…
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US Senator Really Hates It When Federal Money Goes to Video Games
Prom Week is a social game and a social simulation game, an IndieCade finalist designed by a team at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The game, which follows the social trials and tribulations of a set of teenagers during prom week, is in a sense a proof-of-concept work, designed to show off how…
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