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You Can Vote on the Cover of the Next … Lacrosse Game?
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • EA Sports has gone cover-vote crazy of late, but Madden NFL 13‘s all-star 64-man scrum for cover honors isn’t the only contest taking place this spring. College Lacrosse 2012, the third edition of the Xbox Live Indie Game sports simulation, will hold a…
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Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Cover Girl Shows MLB 2K12 How to Push Her Buttons
Kate Upton’s boobs made the front of yesterday’s annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, fairly bursting from that smedium-size top. She took time out of her supermodeling to show all-star pitchers David Price and Justin Verlander just what kind of twirling motion she wants them to do with their thumbs. Cincinnati’s Jay Bruce looks like he…
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The Video Game Version of Jeremy Lin Is Unrealistically Bad at Basketball
A re-rated update to the NBA 2K12 roster failed to appease America’s feverish Linsanity—the phenomenon surrounding the New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin—and so a second update, giving the point guard even more of a boost, is due by the end of the week. Lin, who went from the end of the bench to leading a…
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Duke Nukem‘s on a Roll
Duke Nukem‘s on a Roll | A games store employee applying price tags supplies this zinger. Not sure I’d pick that up used. (via Reddit.) Bruticus Leads Transformers: Fall of Cybertron‘s Toy Store Invasion Only four of the sexy robot designs from Transformers: War for Cybertron ever made it toy store shelves, a tragic missed…
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Culture
Let’s Twist Again
The reboot of the car combat standard-bearer Twisted Metal arrives on Valentine’s Day for PS3. Also, though you can’t play them until Feb. 22, many of the launch titles for the PlayStation Vita become available in North America this week. UFC Undisputed 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3 also arrives Tuesday. Monday • Rhythm Heaven…
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Don’t Know Much About Physics
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 10 Hilarious Physics Fails in Skyrim [GamingBolt] Aggregating glitches in Skyrim is kind of like discharging a firearm upon aquarian lifeforms packed inside a…
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Power Outage Knocked Out Valve, Steam; All Services Being Restored [UPDATE]
[Update 3:58 p.m. EST] On the Steam forums and via Twitter, Valve has said that a power failure in their data center’s uninterruptible power supplies was responsible. “The power is back on now and we’re working to get service restored as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.” [Update 3:06…
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Unreal’s Next Engine Will Need a Console At Least Ten Times More Powerful than the Xbox 360
The human eye can only perceive 72 frames per second. We’ve been seeing games at 60 frames per second for some time. And as graphics approach photorealism with current computing power, some suggest that the days of giant leaps in visual quality are past us, and we’ll be seeing smaller refinements going forward. Not so,…
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Link, Ryu, Samus and More Return to Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 Today
The highly anticipated—and it says a lot that term is being used with a flash game—Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 is available to play now from Jay Pavlina and Exploding Rabbit. You can reacquaint yourself with its new features in that video or just head right over and see for yourself. The cast from the…
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European Gamers Get a Shot at Early Mass Effect 3 Demo Starting Today
North American gamers have been trying since about Friday to win their way into early access to the Mass Effect 3 demo, which begins on Tuesday. European gamers also get a chance with their own Facebook game. Europe’s Mass Effect Mission Command app involves a hacking minigame but the chances of winning also seem to…
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Gotham City ‘Shoppers
No, we are not doing a special Whitney Houston-themed ‘Shop Contest, as I threatened. We’ve got some Gotham City exploitables, courtesy of a viral marketing stunt for the game that released earlier this week, that are just waiting for you to apply some vigilante funny. To the ersatz Batpoles! Source Image: Actual People Dressed as…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Good morning and welcome back to Talk Amongst Yourselves, where you may feel free to discuss all topics related to video games. Whitney Houston is not one of them, though I did put out a bounty to find a news obituary that led with her contributions to video games. Outside of the odd song in…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Me Time
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. Legacy Control by Javis Ray published Feb. 6.—Read more of Legacy Control Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 6.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…
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Tebow Time: The Winners
Testing the limits of human overexposure, we put Madden Bowl XVII champion Tim Tebow up as the subject of last week’s ‘Shop Contest. Twenty of you, many not knowing what the hell football is, responded with brilliant depictions of the NFL’s messiah. We’ve got all of them, including winner pnkero, inside! Getting started, I want…
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DLC? Title Update? Whatever, Gotham City Impostors Promises a Big, Free Update in March
I’m not sure whoever’s writing up these notes is properly classifying what’s to come from Gotham City Impostors, the downloadable shooter that released this week. “In March, we’re going to release our very first DLC for the low, low price of FREE,” they say. Considering one of the features is the ability to mute other…
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Outgoing Twisted Metal Creator Would Consider Kickstarter Funding for His New Projects, Too
Despite his fears—as only he could express them—that crowdfunding for video games could become “a dick measuring contest,” Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe says he’d consider a Kickstarter project for backing, as he embarks on life starting up a new development studio. Of course the games development world sat up and took notice of Double…
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Having Made This Bed, Will MLB 2K Lie In It Next Year?
Mark Little flicks the joystick and opens a special developer’s menu in Major League Baseball 2K12. The screen jumps to an empty ballpark, with a few lines representing the trajectory of a pitch and the timing of the batter trying to hit it. Little starts fooling with some ratings, creating a situation involving a high-contact…
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Machine-Gun This Truck from the Comfort of Your Computer Desk on Valentine’s Day
Out in the middle of the desert, a remote-controlled M249 Squad Automatic Weapon will unload its magazine into Sweet Tooth’s iconic ice cream truck from Twisted Metal, releasing on Tuesday for the PlayStation 3. The trigger will be thousands of spacebars from across the Internet, and the finger on one of them can be yours.…
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