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Try Not To Get Yourself Killed In This Dishonored Interactive Trailer
Dying to play Dishonored? This interactive trailer isn’t the game, but it might tide you over until Tuesday. Like other interactive trailers, this set of videos lets you choose your own approach to handle one of the early levels from Dishonored. As such, the trailer contains spoilers for this particular area of the game. That…
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The New SimCity Looks Gorgeous In This Day-By-Day Gameplay Demo
We’ve heard and seen a lot about the built-in multiplayer aspects of the new SimCity, and we’ve had stills showing off how much life there suddenly is in our virtual towns. But now, this video shows off the actual day-to-day play—and, excitingly, the nights as well— in SimCity. It all begins, of course, with choosing…
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Eurogamer Expo Begins Booth Babe Ban Next Fall
The use of paid models to advertise inside of conventions—better known as hiring booth babes—has been contentious for many years. E3 is chock full of hired promotional models; PAX (and PAX East) ban the practice The Eurogamer Expo, which takes place in London every autumn and attracts roughly 50,000 visitors, is now following PAX’s lead.…
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Mordin and Tali Look Perfect in Dragon Age as Long as You Don’t Think About It Too Much
We recently shared fan artist Andrew Ryan’s lovely Dragon Age/Mass Effect crossover art, starring our 22nd century sci-fi heroes in the roles and costumes of Thedas’s fantasy realm. That post featured a work in progress; Ryan has been adding detail and characters ever since. Today’s additions are dynamic duo Mordin and Tali. The fantasy world…
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Rapper Gets Kicked Out of Microsoft Store Mid-Performance After Smashing The Computers [Update]
There are many things in the world that go together beautifully. Chocolate and mint, for example. Or coffee and anything. Then there are some things that are much more questionable. Like, say, The Microsoft Store and live performances. Especially live rap performances on the shelves where the expensive computers sit. Cleveland-based recording artist Machine Gun…
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World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Log One: Yep, I Sure Am A Panda-Person
[The Mists of Pandaria expansion to World of Warcraft introduces new content in the starter levels as well as in the late game. This is a look at how new, low-level content appears to a new player. We’ll also be posting a look at Pandaria‘s new level 85-90 zones, and the veteran perspective, from a…
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Justin Bieber Is A Playable Basketball Pro In NBA 2K13, For Some Reason
I’m not sure why such a thing as this exists, but it does. Justin Bieber—yes, that Justin Bieber, beloved of 5th-grade girls nationwide—is a playable character in NBA 2K13. YouTube user DallasCowboys94Ware has done the world the favor of putting together this saga of Bieber’s trials and tribulations on the court, complete, of course, with…
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You Can Explore Mass Effect‘s Citadel To Your Heart’s Content In This Painstaking Minecraft Build
Players re-create all kinds of amazing things in Minecraft, from the vistas of Game of Thrones to the bright world of Adventure Time King’s Landing really was impressive, but my heart belongs to this painstaking reconstruction of the Citadel Presidium, from the Mass Effect series. The eventual scale of it boggles the mind: the creator…
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Modern Warfare 3 Gets Two New Map Modes To Go Kill Everything In
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 got two more multiplayer modes added to its playlist today, EGM reports. A tweet from Infinity Ward community coordinator Candice announced the additions. Both map modes, Money in the Denk and 3v3 Hardcore Face-Off, are available on all platforms. Have a peek at the video to see “Money in…
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I Wish The New Sherlock Holmes Game Respected My Intelligence A Bit More
One clear, overriding fact became immediately apparent, as I started up The Testament of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock is a grade-A unrepentant jerk. I’m used to Holmes being a potentially unpleasant character. From Doyle’s original stories to the more modern interpretations of the character, one of the great detective’s universal traits is that he can be,…
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Need Lessons In Avoiding The Big Yellow Monster? Go To Ghost University.
The “Soviet propaganda” art style has been trendy for fan art lately, and that’s what artist Joseph Baranowski’s Pac-Man themed design project seems to have started as. But I think the best part are the two above: posters for Ghost University! I can imagine it now. A whole campus of ghosts, flitting and flirting through…
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Mobile Gaming Apps Are The Beanie Babies Of Our Age
Remember Beanie Babies? Anyone old enough to remember the 1990s can probably remember the stuffed toys that became not only a craze, but a phenomenon. They were everywhere. Small children, old women, and a whole great swath of the American population in-between knew all about them. Collectors fought over rare ones on eBay. The little…
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Jimmy Kimmel And His Celebrity Friend Are Pretty Terrible At Draw Something
It’s hard to say, really, who is more at fault in this sadly failed guess from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. While Kimmel got sidetracked and failed to remember pertinent information that would have helped him, the celebrity—armed not with a phone, but with a full-sized iPad—could have done a much better job rendering their…
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Watch Mitt Romney Kick The Crap Out Of Rick Santorum And Herman Cain, Mortal Kombat-Style
It’s that time of year again, here in the United States: the presidential election, and the seemingly interminable campaign for it, are everywhere. Of course, even though the election isn’t until November, when you look back to the primary season, the campaign began well into last year. And Slate has taken to a video game…
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This Photo Series Is What Happens When Fashion Photography Meets Skyrim
Fashion photographer Emilie Elizabeth lives and works in Los Angeles, and has done a number of photo shoots for magazines, record labels, and advertising campaigns. She is also a gamer, and has done shoots for 2K Games and Treyarch. Her series The Dragonborn is an uncommon look at the world of Skyrim. The series combines…
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The Best Screenshot Artist in Gaming Captures The Beauty of Mass Effect 3
Duncan Harris of Dead End Thrills takes gorgeous, photographic game screenshots. He’s previously worked his magic on titles like Skyrim, Dishonored, and Mass Effect 2, among many others. Now, he’s casting his artist’s eye on Mass Effect 3. This high-resolution, lovely image of Grunt and Aralakh Company—fittingly called “Smells Like Victory”—is just the beginning. Scroll…
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This Forza Horizon Trailer Makes It Look Like A Beautiful Game To Try To Avoid Crashing In
There are no adequate words in the English language to describe how bad I am at racing games. “Laughably untalented” comes close, but more often it’s phrased as a question, like, “What, you crashed so much that your car is on fire again?” Forza Horizon, therefore, is probably not for me. Because those cars are…
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Pick Your Squad And Keep Them Alive In This XCOM: Enemy Unknown Interactive Trailer
This interactive gameplay video for XCOM: Enemy Unknown isn’t quite a demo, and it’s not quite a trailer. It’s sort of like a choose your own adventure tutorial, letting you make simple decisions about squad management and tactics. And like a choose your own adventure book, if you flip through it afterward, you can see…
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Resident Evil 6 Meat Stunt Might Make You Lose Your Lunch
Capcom is sponsoring an art installation in East London. That sounds innocuous, except that said art installation is at the Smithfield Meat Market, and is called “Wesker & Son Resident Evil Human Butchery.” Well, that’s certainly one way to get attention for next week’s release of Resident Evil 6 The meat market is not, of…
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This Great Mass Effect/Dragon Age Fan Art Kind of Breaks My Brain
I have joked about “Dragon Effect” before, when playing through BioWare’s vaguely parallel science-fiction and fantasy-franchises at the same time. Fan artist Andrew Ryan Art, though, has done one better. Miranda as Morrigan I can actually kind of buy in to. And of course Jack is a dangerous-looking blood mage. For the full set, which…
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