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Video Games’ Strangest Disappointment: When the Ref Doesn’t Screw You
This Saturday was about as throwing-things livid I’ve been over a sports contest in a decade. The last time I was this angry was in 2003, when Jorge Posada doubled off of Pedro Martinez to tie the seventh game of the American League Championship Series. I kicked a trashcan across the newsroom of the Rocky…
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Fez Really Looks Like It’s Going to be Worth the Fuss
I’ve bagged on Polytron and Phil Fish and the development hell in which they’ve been stuck for four years. And Fish recently said some intemperate things about Japanese games development, and gamers. Standing apart from all of that is Fez, which just looks sensational in this six-minute video of gameplay from its trial version. And…
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour Resurrects Shaq (Doing Kung) Fu
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Golf is probably the one thing people wouldn’t look silly playing when they play Kinect. Well, EA Sports will fix that, bringing back Shaq Fu (no, really) in this humorous YouTube promotion for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 featuring Woods and Shaquille O’Neal.…
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Is It a Dead Ball Situation When MLB 2K12‘s ‘Zombie Player’ Walks on the Field?
If this is the end of MLB 2K12, I suppose we couldn’t say goodbye to the series without one final, terribly embarrassing glitch. Everyone, say hello to the zombie player, thanks to this video by YouTube user bobtrain. Zombie player walks to his position in the middle of play when you pull a double switch,…
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Biff Tannen Gives You All of March Madness’ Winners—and Biggest Losers
What’s up buttheads. Need some help picking your bracket? Stop agonizing over useless statistics and half-assed talking head analysis. I have every single winner in the NCAA Tournament right here, so just do what I say and you can start spending that money right now. Note: Information presented for entertainment purposes only. If you consult…
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Street Smarts
Silent Hill: Downpour and the return of FIFA Street highlight a week kicked off today by Mario Party 9. Some decent downloadable titles hitting PSN and XBLA round out the lineup. Today • Mario Party 9 (Wii) Monday • All Zombies Must Die! (PC) Tuesday • FIFA Street (360, PS3) • Ridge Racer (PS Vita)…
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Double Fine’s Kickstarter Funding Nearly Matches Grim Fandango‘s Budget
With about two days to go on its jaw-dropping Kickstarter campaign, Double Fine’s next adventure game has acquired $2.7 million in grassroots backing from fans like you. Double Fine’s Tim Schafer provides a little perspective on the size of the kitty. “Um, people… three million dollars… that was the budget of Grim Fandango!” Schafer tweeted…
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So, There’s a Fan Campaign to Change the Ending of Mass Effect 3
My opinion of Internet petitions remains unchanged: They are worth the paper they are printed on. (Hint: They are not printed on paper.) They’re a manifestation of the distorted expectation—cultivated in grade school—that First Amendment rights extend to your relationship with a private business. That said, there’s a particularly amusing poll out there, gathering 20,000…
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Alan Wake’s Boxed Edition Gets a Release Date
After extending a collector’s edition launch on Steam by a week, Remedy Entertainment has found a publisher for the boxed edition of its Alan Wake release for the PC. Legacy Interactive will distribute the game and release it in North America on April 3. The boxed edition wil also include “The Writer” and “The Signal”…
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Part of Mass Effect‘s Controversial Day-One DLC is on the Disc, Video Alleges [UPDATE]
The fury will not abate over Mass Effect 3‘s “From Ashes” extension, a downloadable content package available on the day it was released (and within the game’s collector’s edition). A user has produced a video alleging that one of the characters available in the DLC is actually on the disc. [UPDATE] This story should have…
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Title Stripped from Pokémon Champion Who Crapped in Hotel Hallway
Two-time Pokémon champion Ruben Puig Lecegui was stripped of his his title at the United Kingdom Video Game Championship following a scandal in which he and members of his team are accused of leaving their hotel rooms to take a shit in the hall “According to several eyewitness acounts,” reports the site Pokébeach, Lecegui and…
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Madden Effect
This week, Newegg sent customers copies of Madden NFL 12 instead of Mass Effect 3. Whoops! Hey, they both begin with the letter M and are published by Electronic Arts, right? That gives me an idea … What if this really was the game they were supposed to receive? By that I mean a you-got-peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Connor honed his assassin’s skill as an army surgeon, apparently. Good morning, and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. Feel free to discuss anything on the subject of video games in our comments below. If you’ve got a good idea and the skills, take a shot at whipping up a #TAYpic. Post your masterpieces in…
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Sunday Comics: Love Means Never …
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Dueling Analogs by Steve Napierski published March 7.—Read more of Dueling Analogs Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 5.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…
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Kart-ography: The Winners
A lifelike and life-size Mario Kart was the number one exploitable for the ‘Shop Contest this past week, We’ve got 20 winners inside, plus sciteach’s homage to one of the greatest driving sequences ever filmed. beans4028 blueTunic Brandon0151 Crinjin DarkNemesis25 GiantBoyDetective Gyaruson 2.0 halfbeast IndispensableNobody jersalv1 laxbenderman Nude_Eskimo pan1da7 Pedro Silva razrjab sciteach Snufkin TEL9021…
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The Saints’ Bounties Are Nothing New—to Video Games, Anyway
When something happens in real life sports, my first instinct is to see if I can replicate it in a video game. It’s partly why they exist, after all. But the New Orleans Saints’ infamous “bounty” system, which paid premiums to players who delivered devastating hits, would seem to be beyond the means of a…
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Whatever the Hell ‘Full Contact Bingo’ is, EA’s Trademarked It
Weekends were made for trademark applications, and Electronic Arts went to the trouble of filing to protect “Full Contact Bingo,” reports trademark/domain hawk Fusible. It’s definitely for a video game, per the terms of the application. What form it takes, who knows. Odds are this would be a Facebook game. If it’s a downloadable console…
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‘Stop Thinking You’re a Producer,’ Former Mass Effect Designer Tells Gamers
Christina Norman worked for BioWare on Mass Effect. She’s with Riot Games now. But she must have felt pangs of sympathy when BioWare got raked by gamer complaints about day-one DLC in Mass Effect 3. Because she basically gave them a double-barreled middle finger in a rant at GDC. “There’s no point in releasing DLC…
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Trine 2 Gets Six New Stages in DLC Release This Summer
Frozenbyte, the makers of Trine 2, informed the site XBLA Fans at GDC that the game will be getting six new stages plus other content in downloadable content to arrive this summer. The package will also include a new story and new character skills. Frozenbyte’s Mikael Haveri said fans should expect plenty of puzzles. Additionally,…
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