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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Good morning, TAYshine. The open thread says hello. Please use this place and time to speak your mind about any topic in the world of video games that you may wish to discuss right now. Big thanks to pan1da7, once again, for this Sunday’s TAYpic. Want to be featured here just like Pan1da7? Go get…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Everything but the Girl
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Nov. 7.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Nov. 78—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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Bird Games Winners
Two artificially enthusiastic child models playing the Angry Birds tabletop game supplied the canvas upon which you were called to paint your demented masterpieces in Kotaku’s ‘Shop Contest. We have 20 finalists, plus winner Riddicrash inside! Leading off, Rokeden (14) supplies the obligatory Asshole Dog entry. Gio-Dude (5) conjures the ghost of Christmases past. clumsyninja…
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Grand Theft Minecart, the Minecraft Interpretation of the GTA V Trailer
Two weeks ago we brought you the virtuoso reenactment of Grand Theft Auto V‘s debut trailer, filmed within its spiritual ancestor, GTA: San Andreas. Now comes a stop-everything version created in Minecraft, as nearly all things are these days. This is by Dennis Vareide. The soundtrack isn’t a complete match, but that doesn’t really matter.…
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Chaotic Conference Alignments Scramble College Football’s Video Game, Too
For a short time this summer, Florida State was the rumored target of a Southeastern Conference raid on the Atlantic Coast Conference, in the protracted and sometimes absurd realignment that still is reshaping college football’s landscape. Ben Haumiller, a proud Seminole alumnus, knew that change was unlikely in the real world. Florida State burned a…
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Xbox Live Adds a New Account Every Two Seconds, Says Microsoft
Every two seconds on Xbox Live, someone adds a Gamertag like xX_tehPwnz0rz69_Xx, according to the service’s chief of marketing. Addressing the London Games Conference, Xbox Live’s Robin Burrowes said that Call of Duty and Kinect have shot up enrollment to 35 million at the end of 2010, adding another 15 million today, reports Develop Contrast…
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This Saints Row Sing-Along is a Motherf***in’ Riot
At some point in Saints Row The Third the player’s character tunes into “Mix 107.77” and Sublime’s “What I Got” comes on. And then they sing along, male or female, in all eight of the voices you can give your character. So, with an early copy of the game, Daniel Comfort put together a montage…
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Boss of Ill-Fated L.A. Noire Studio Says His Next Game is About a ‘Great Untold Story’
You might think that getting slagged as an intemperate martinet who alienated and exploited an overworked staff at a studio that completed just one video game before going bankrupt would be, well, limiting to one’s future career options. Not Brendan McNamara of the former Team Bondi. McNamara tells Eurogamer he is at present writing up…
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This is What the Saints Row Dildo Bat Looks Like in Japan
Well, it’s a bat, basically. The “Penetrator,” the notorious four-foot long dickbat in Saints Row: The Third, runs afoul of Japanese laws prohibiting the display of genitalia, so Volition just turned the thing into a garden-variety aluminum baseball bat. Why not a four-foot long tentacle bat? Still no word on the whereabouts of the missing…
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Black Friday Ads Already Leaking; See Them for Toys R’ Us and GameStop [Updated]
You can get a head start on your Black Friday plan of attack with the circulars for two games retailers featured prominently in The Moneysaver each week. GottaDeal.com has just posted the Black Friday ads for GameStop and Toys ‘R Us. Highlights include several current titles dropping to $39.99 or less at GameStop. Battlefield 3,…
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Resistance Site, Forums are Down; Hacking Alleged [Updated]
Visitors to MyResistance.net, the official site for the Resistance franchise of PS3 games, say the site was serving up malware yesterday. One of them alerted Insomniac Games, and now the entire site has been taken offline for maintenance. The hacking and malware allegations could not be immediately verified with Insomniac or Sony Computer Entertainment America.…
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Tuesday’s Children are Full of Deals
Savings and bonuses for new releases for the coming week’s jampacked lineup, including Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and Need for Speed: The Run can be found inside this weekend’s edition of The Moneysaver. And if you haven’t picked it up yet, there’s one for Skyrim, too. Software • Sunday release Super Mario 3D Land (3DS) is…
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Warcraft‘s Richest 1% Control 24% of Azeroth’s Gold, but You Don’t See the Night Elves Bitching About It
With wealth distribution being a hot topic in the real world, one demographer/World of Warcraft enthusiast tried to derive what the income inequality is within Azeroth. The results of his survey of nearly 2,500 players—with an admittedly great margin of error—is that the wealthiest one percent in the game control 24.25 percent of its gold.…
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The Steam Forums are Back Online
Steam’s Forums, the scene of a Nov. 6 defacement attack that exposed a database containing customers’ private information, came back online a few hours ago. The most current topic in the general discussion forum is “So, We Getting Free Copies of Portal 2?” The answer to that is probably no. You can contact Owen Good,…
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Shinobi Takes Revenge This Tuesday on 3DS
It’s been a hell of a month for side-scrollers from 20 or more years ago. First Sonic, next Mario and now Shinobi. Joe Musashi is back, on the 3DS. This launch trailer sets up his mission of revenge and shows off what looks like some gyrometer-enabled gameplay. Players will mix a new combo system in…
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Sports and Your Morning Commute in The Week in Gaming Apps
Bowling, baseball and an crowd-sourced traffic jam navigation app headline this week’s roundup of mobile device goodies. Flick Home Run reminded me of a fruitless journey into mystery with my homecoming date in high school. Gutterball Golden Bowling Pin HD brought a grinding mechanic to a casual bowling game. Kinectimals demonstrated Xbox Live and Windows…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Look at you people, all happy and smiling with your “Skyrim” and your “Modern Warfare.” I’m winding up my time with Super Mario 3D Land, which hits shelves on Sunday. That’s right, fuck off Bowser. I’m coming to kick your ass and there’s nothing you can do about it because I’m dressed like a sparkly…
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Unable to Get Past First Base with Flick Home Run
I’ll never forget the only time I hit one out of the park, a 1-0 fastball that arrived letters high on a March afternoon in 1991, my senior year of high school. At the time all my efforts were directed at two objectives: Hitting a home run and consolidating my position with a sophomore cheerleader…
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Halo: Reach Picks Up Anniversary‘s Maps Next Week
If you have last year’s Halo: Reach and aren’t interested in the Halo: Anniversary high-definition remastering of the original game, you still can get up the four classic multiplayer maps shipping with it. The “Anniversary Map Pack” will include six multiplayer stages—Battle Canyon, Breakneck, High Noon, Penance, Ridgeline and Solitary—plus Installation 04, as a Firefight…
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All-You-Can-Eat DLC Plan Rumored for Saints Row: The Third
A post on THQ’s Insider blog, since removed, seems to have confirmed a season-ticket-style downloadable content option for next week’s Saint’s Row: The Third. Four expansions were mentioned, by name. They are: • Nyte Blayde Pack – Includes the Nyte Blayde Mobile, altar boy outfit, Bloody Canoness outfit and Bloody Canoness bike. • Genkibowl VII…
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