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He Raised $25,000 To Make A Game. Then All His Programmers Quit.
2012 in gaming may well be remembered as the year of the Kickstarter. Crowdfunding, in all its forms, took off into the stratosphere with the DoubleFine drive back in February, and has just kept going since. Many gaming projects have been successfully funded, from little $5000 art and experimental games to multi-million dollar juggernauts like…
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Goldfinger Is A Silly Movie. It’s An Even Sillier Chapter of 007 Legends.
Goldfinger might be the most iconic of all the James Bond films. Even if you’ve never seen it (or, like me, saw it once, long ago, at about three in the morning while not really paying attention), you know its big beats. Goldfinger is the one where Bond is strapped to a table with that…
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This Miniature Replica Portal Gun Does Not Actually Shoot Miniature Portals, But It’s Still Cool
Do you need an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device? Of course you do! Sure, there’s a life-sized replica out there in the world, but for those of us with smaller living rooms (and smaller budgets), this miniature edition, from ThinkGeek, is just the ticket. This model, admittedly, can’t actually make a wormhole in your wall.…
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If I Ever Play Mass Effect On PS3, It Will Have To Be On This Gorgeous Custom Mod
I have a PlayStation 3. It works perfectly well. In well over four years of loyal service, it hasn’t failed us yet and it most certainly does not need replacing. And yet. I don’t even want to play Mass Effect on it. I’ve got that trilogy on PC, and I like it better that way.…
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Watch The Continuing Drama Of Halo Soldiers-In-Training
The Forward Unto Dawn live action webseries continues with this week’s installment. In Episode 3, personal drama of every sort comes to a head—but a poorly-timed (or well-timed?) invasion will change everything. How does teenage angst fare against an alien invasion? Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn-Part 3 [Halo Waypoint]
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Six Reviewers Are Shaken, Not Stirred, By 007 Legends
This week’s 007 Legends puts players into the iconic (stylish, expensive) shoes of Britain’s most famous secret agent, Bond. James Bond. A famous secret agent may be a puzzling concept, but more puzzling still is this pastiche of his most classic adventures, reviewers seem to find. Does 007 Legends leave players feeling like they have…
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Star Citizen Pledge Drive Adds Kickstarter Support
Game designer Chris Roberts, known for the Wing Commander games of yore, made a big splash last week when he announced Star Citizen, a return to the spaceflight genre. The announcement was so well-received, in fact, that Roberts Space Industrties, the website set up for the in-house crowdfunding initiative, crashed. Hard. Although the website is…
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I’m Sure I’d Love Dishonored… If It Didn’t Make Me Sick.
I really want to keep playing Dishonored I have a digital copy, all neatly installed via Steam. It works perfectly well. I’ve loaded it and started playing, more than once. The controls are nothing I can’t handle, and I have the long patience for a game full of stealth. I play nearly every game slowly…
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Aveline’s Backstory And Ass-Kicking Ability Shine In This Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Story Trailer
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation stars Aveline, a woman who winds her way through every social stratum in colonial New Orleans. She is, from everything we’ve seen so far, a devastatingly effective Assassin. But what brought her to the Assassins in the first place? This trailer teases out her story, wrapped in the dark side of…
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Here’s What Is (and Isn’t) Included In Free-to-Play Star Wars: The Old Republic
We’ve known since July that Star Wars: The Old Republic would be going free to play this fall. Now, developer BioWare has published a detailed list showing just what the free tier of the game includes. Players who keep paying a monthly subscription fee of course have access to all features and content. Free players,…
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Asari Biotics Liara and Samara Look Fantastic As a Mage And a Templar In Dragon Age
Andrew Ryan, the artist behind the spectacular, brain-bending Dragon Age and Mass Effect crossover art, has continued adding to his glorious gauntlet of crossover characters. The most recent additions are deadly asari Liara and Samara. Liara has taken the role of High Enchanter and Samara, with her strict justicar’s code, makes a perfect Knight-Commander. (Preferably…
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Apple Pulls Most Recent iPhone Game About Foxconn From App Store In Less Than An Hour
Surprising more or less exactly nobody, In a Permanent Save State, a serious game based around the suicides of Foxconn employees in 2010, was pulled from Apple’s App Store shortly after its listing. The game became available on iTunes on Friday morning and, according to The Verge, got yanked within an hour. Even artist and…
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World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Log Three: I May Be Broke, But At Least I Can Ride
Some weeks you have a lot of time to be a panda-person. And some weeks, you don’t. Though I didn’t have as much time to take my ferocious little blue-haired pandaren rogue around the Eastern Kingdoms as I had hoped, still, I made some progress. I killed things and completed quests and uncovered areas of…
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It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This Detailed Custom PC.
Here’s something Link never found inside a treasure chest: a microATX motherboard. I don’t really know what he’d do with one, to be honest. Surely something in Hyrule is susceptible to silicon and electricity? It’s probably less useful to him than a sword and horse are, let’s be honest. But here in our world, wandering…
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Six Reviewers Travel From The Past To Shoot Their Way Through Doom
The Doom 3 BFG Edition arrived on store shelves (and in online storefronts) this week. This remastered version of 2004’s Doom 3 looks grand and supports fancy future tech like head-mounted displays. It takes the classic franchise off of the PC and onto the Xbox 360 and PS3, and even adds new levels But what…
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Minecraft On Xbox 360 Gets A Big Pile Of Updates, Including Creative Mode
The Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft received a big patch today, to version 1.8.2. There’s a big pile of little tweaks and additions included in the update, from animations to new items to tweaked drops. The most fun, though, is the addition of Creative mode to the console version of Minecraft. In creative mode, enemies…
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You Should Go Get The Indie Royale Fall Bundle If You Still Haven’t Gotten To The Moon Yet
The Indie Royale Bundle, er, bundlers are still at it. The new Fall Bundle, announced today, is completely worth it if for no other reason than to get To The Moon, a poignant, powerful game The bundle also includes strategy titles Oil Rush and Reprisal, adventure game The Blackwell Deception, and musical puzzler AVSEQ. Buyers…
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Xbox 360 Gets a $50 Price Cut And a Bunch of New Bundles for the Holidays
The Xbox 360 is getting a set of holiday bundles as well as a short-term $50 price cut, Microsoft announced today. As Kotaku reported over the weekend, the $50 discount promotion applies to the 250GB Xbox 360, the 4GB Xbox 360 with Kinect, and the 250GB Xbox 360 with Kinect. (Not included: the 4GB Xbox…
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The Past, Pandaria Present, and Future of World of Warcraft
Reactions to World of Warcraft‘s newest expansion, Mists of Pandaria have been more or less positive, overall—but the expansion has sold fewer copies, and those more slowly, than WoW‘s previous expansion, Cataclysm. WoW, while still a popular and beloved juggernaut among MMORPGs, is aging, and the world of gaming in which it competes has changed.…
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In A World Full of Fantastic Fictions to Try, Guild Wars 2 Players Remain Fixated On Humans
Guild Wars, the first game, didn’t offer a whole array of character races for players to choose from. Players were always human, even while free to play with variations on appearance. And it seems that Guild Wars players who got used to their looks have brought that bias with them into Guild Wars 2 GW2,…
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