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Glasses-Free 3D
Glasses-Free 3D | Spike Lee, screening his latest feature Red Hook Summer at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, enjoyed some downtime with a 3DS at a promotional event held by Nintendo this past weekend. (Jason Merritt, Getty Images). The Soul Still Burns for the Week in Gaming Apps How does one of the greatest…
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You Got to Know When to Hold ‘Em, and Know When to Flip ‘Em
The most clever twist of FlipShip didn’t reveal itself to me until, about a half-dozen rounds into this top-down shooter, I finished a game with a score of exactly zero. Then I realized that this game wasn’t predicated on twitch skills but knowing, in an arcade sense, when to hold ’em and when to fold…
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See Mecha Pac-Man and Fat Mega Man Beat Ass Galore in Street Fighter X Tekken
We’ve known for a while that Kuro and Toro, the Sony cat mascots, would find their way into Street Fighter X Tekken. Also, Cole McGrath from inFamous. The inclusion of classic (i.e. shitty) box art Mega Man and Pac-Man also weren’t much of a mystery, but their appearance is confirmed in this video, along with…
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Blizzard Selling World of Warcraft Server Blades, for a Good Cause
More than 350 retired server blades—the physical manifestations of World of Warcraft‘s virtual realms—are being auctioned off by Blizzard, which will donate the proceeds to the renowned St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Having taken the servers offline, Blizzard is giving them an honorable discharge and offering their parts to collectors and/or those whose characters may…
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Nintendo Network Announced; Digital Distribution of Games Envisioned
Hinted at in the boxshot of a 3DS game last week, the Nintendo Network was formally announced by the Japanese games maker today in a meeting with investors. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says the service will offer features different from the Wi-Fi Connection supporting its current Wii and DS hardware, and is seen as a…
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Got an Indie Game Idea You Want to Pitch? Get on the Bus
If your typical San Francisco convention-goer is cruising for anything when he’s in town, he’s probably up in the Tenderloin scouting hookers. Not Fork Parker. The CEO spokesmascot for Devolver Digital (publishers of Serious Sam) will be trawling SoMa outside the Moscone Center in that there bus, listening to new pitches for the next great…
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Capcom Apologizes to Victims of Resident Evil‘s Misspelled Box Art
Yes, yes, Capcom is aware of the typographical error on the spine of Resident Evil: Revelaitons Revelations and has vowed to fix the packaging of a Nintendo-platform game for the second time in four years. Here’s a statement from Capcom USA to Kotaku: “It has come to our attention that there was a misspelling on…
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A Puzzling Resurgence in Popularity for NBA 2K11
At first blush it doesn’t seem to stand out: NBA 2K11 cracked the top 20 of most played titles on the Xbox 360 for the week of Jan. 16. But when you peel it back, that’s actually quite astonishing, to see an old version of a sports video game resurface more than 15 months after…
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Tiny Tower Rips Off a Flash Game—and SimTower
Earlier today, the makers of mobile gaming blockbuster Tiny Tower published the kind of open letter loved by video gaming’s instantly and constantly angry fuck-the-man constituency, not least because it can be disseminated by imgur. It alleged that Zynga, the popularly despised maker of Facebook McGames, stole Tiny Tower‘s idea and was reaping a dishonest…
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Don’t Blame uDraw, Blame Yourselves, Rankled Staff Tells THQ Executives
Though THQ recently beat back rumors it was readying itself for sale, all is not happy within its house. Earlier today the company restated that it’s done with the kidstuff, blaming the commercial failure of its uDraw tablet, among other things, for its poor performance of late. The company’s stock closed at 70 cents today.…
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Reviews
You Can Take This Wheel for More than One 3DS Game
We’re a little late reviewing Hori’s official Mario Kart 7 Wheel peripheral, but I’m somewhat glad we are, thanks to some of the non-racing games I played with it on a whim. If this was just a piece of plastic meant for one game, the wheel is a $13 novelty at best, a luxury at…
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An Old Xbox Reveals the Secret Lives of a Good Friend
All my friend wanted was a simple, get-rid-of-it-on-Craigslist estimate for an original Xbox, two controllers, and about a dozen games. He knew that what he had was too common in its time, too obsolete in the present, to qualify as some latter-day Antiques Roadshow jackpot. Still, I couldn’t bring myself to appraise it at $25.…
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Huh-Huh … You Said … ‘Bust’
Huh-Huh … You Said … ‘Bust’ | Lifelike busts of 1990s entertainment icons Beavis and Butt-Head. Seen via Geeokologie. Jailed Megaupload King is Still the World No. 1 in Modern Warfare 3 Kim Dotcom is the Internet playboy who made his zillions by founding the now-defunct (and Anonymous cause celebre du jour) Megaupload, and also…
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Mass Effect Figures Will Set a Record for Most Expensive DLC
The four series of Mass Effect 3 figurines being offered by Big Fish games Toys (announced back in December) are certainly nice enough collector’s items. They will also come with a card (one per figure) promising “access to downloadable in-game content.” One figurine is $17.99; a set of four is $67.99. All four series, then,…
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Coming Full Circle, Former Candidate Herman Cain Now Sings the Pokémon Song
Herman Cain, whose campaign for the Republican presidential nomination included bizarre references to both SimCity and Pokémon, is officially out of the race. He was still on the ballot for Saturday’s primary in South Carolina, though, and made a joint appearance with TV satirist Stephen Colbert in an effort to gin up votes for Colbert’s…
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Anonymous Deletes CBS, Universal Sites; is Xbox Live Next?
Anonymous continues to lash out following the seizure of Megaupload and the jailing of its founder, having momentarily deleted both CBS.com and UniversalMusic.com. Xbox Live has been threatened, but is that credible? Put it this way, if hackers can obliterate corporate presences of that size (even if they are now back up), as well as…
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Jailed Megaupload King is Still the World No. 1 in Modern Warfare 3
Kim Dotcom is the Internet playboy who made his zillions by founding the now-defunct (and Anonymous cause celebre du jour) Megaupload, and also from the blatant hosting of pirated content there. But he also led a secret life, did you know? He is the deadliest shooter in all of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.…
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Resident Evil 6 to Feature Six-Player Co-Op?
With Resident Evil 6 confirmed, Xbox.com has tossed up a product listing. Among the details we haven’t yet heard: the game will feature six-player online co-operative play. Co-operative play of that size would be a first for Resident Evil, and might be a play on the game’s series number. Who knows. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon…
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Male Models
Earlier this week, Sony published a bunch of promotional shots that guarantee you will become a 100 percent more attractive person if you buy a PS Vita. That, or this is a marketing campaign targeted toward those who were once extras on Friends. Whatever, I smell a ‘Shop Contest, and it smells like Drakkar. You…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Ah, baccarat. Truly a game for the rich—because you pay money to the dealer to play both hands for you. DanimalCart supply’s today’s TAYpic, a tribute to the third season of Archer which debuted on Thursday. Thanks, DanimalCart! You, too, can be featured atop TAY’s daily call to communicate with yourself and others, and it…
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