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Rage will require 3 Discs on 360, 8 GB Install on PS3
At Eurogamer Expo, the creative director for Rage confirmed that the game will release on three discs for the Xbox 360, and for PS3 owners, require an 8 GB install. The three-disc release wasn’t exactly a surprise. At QuakeCon, Joel reported that the game would require 21 to 22 GB of hard drive space if…
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They Found the Cluckshot, Gears of War 3‘s Awesome Easter Egg [Spoilers]
Some who have been playing Gears of War 3 noticed the name of an unlockable weapon called the “Cluckshot” but had no idea what it was or how to find it. Well, GameFront has, and supplies this step-by-step video tutorial showing you how to obtain it. The [spoiler] tag I put in the headline isn’t…
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Donks, Hoopties and Shitmobiles
Oh hell yeah. The badass Sonic donk (and its truck nutz) that graced an Illinois Walmart, and our front page, on Friday is hands-down our ‘Shop Contest subject of the week. What’s my advice? Res ipsa loquitor that’s my advice, which is Latin for “This picture practically ‘shops itself into something funnier.” Seriously, I’m not…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves: Autumnal Equifax Edition
How appropriate that that satellite burnt up somewhere over Canada, or maybe it was the Pacific, on the first day of fall. Get it? Because it fell … out of orbit … a lot of people thought it was gonna fall … never mind. A tip of the TAY top hat to first-timer TetraGenesis for…
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Culture
Sunday Comics: Elitism Isn’t Free
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 Sept. 19.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Sept. 24.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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BioWare Bosses Say They’ve Not Forgotten Jade Empire
Jade Empire, the Xbox-exclusive RPG BioWare released in 2005, is “a franchise that’s near and dear to us,” BioWare’s founders said at Eurogamer Expo today. ” It’s a setting that we’re really passionate about, and we still are.” But Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk don’t have immediate plans to bring back the series. “We’re just…
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Extras and Add-Ons Winners
Extras, extras, see all about ’em! What else can we slap on to the 3DS, besides the second slide pad introduced two weeks ago? We’ve got 19 award-winning examples of industrial design, plus drsopa’s winning concept, inside! Leading off, dummysystem (3) goes for a ‘Shop Contest callback and delivers a message to Nintendo. a.seivewright (1)…
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Minecraft‘s Little Brother Learns a Hard Lesson About Silverfish
It’s impossible to watch this and not think of Randy Parker, Ralphie’s brother from A Christmas Story. C’mon guys! C’mon! Hey! That’s not funny! Guys! One Minecraft enthusiast’s little brother just became acquainted with silverfish, the mob introduced with the 1.8 release. Attacking them, as you can see, is quite counterproductive as it just invites…
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Damned If You Demo, Damned If You Don’t
As of this writing, there are at least seven YouTube videos, all with more than 100,000 views, tracking pratfalls and slapstick glitches found in FIFA 12—the latest entry in the most acclaimed and respected sports video game series of the past three years. All of these come from regular users playing a demo version that…
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Evidently, Dead Island‘s Xian Does Not Wear Panties [NSFW]
Intrepid videographer HazardHeresy noticed that when leggy survivor Xian struggles to her feet in Dead Island, you can get a glimpse of her landing strip. No, really, she’s going commando. Fast forward that video past the stupid-long preamble to 1:53 and you’ll see what he’s talking about—helpfully zoomed in close-up. As grateful as I am…
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Divorce-Happy MMO Providing Help to Troubled Couples
About 10 days ago, Nexon, the publisher of MapleStory found three out of four marriages initiated in-game end in divorce. So MapleStory‘s next content update will include features that emphasize couples sticking together. Ascension, the next big update, will include special quests for couples. “Shower your partner with devotion in new quests to renew your…
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U.K. Culture Minister Wants a Games Room in Parliament
The Houses of the British Parliament are known to have bars. One MP, the minister for culture in fact, wishes to put in a video game room. Ed Vaizey thinks it would do some good in educating his fellow MPs on the industry that he has forcefully supported in the past. In an interview with…
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The Game That Created a Legion of Authors
MUDs and MUSHes, remember those? These were the first multiplayer online role-playing games, popular in the 1990s, largely text-based. In the case of a MUSH, playing involved writing thousands of words, a skill that’s proven useful later in life for some enthusiasts. One of them is Jim Butcher, mentioned (among other authors) today in The…
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Plastic Coathangers are Also Lethal in this Real-Life Dead Island Film
There are awesome ways to start your morning, but they probably aren’t jampacked into just three minutes, like this Dead Island re-enactment from Chris Cropper‘s Going Nowhere Show It gets everything right about the zombie survival game, from the HUD to quest-giving to—wait, can you really blow up an exploding barrel with a plastic coat…
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Get Some Beer and Some Cleaning Products
Hi, how are you. My name’s Elliot, and I’m with the Cub Scouts of America. We’re selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree. Hardware • Best value ever on the Kinect Sensor w/ Kinect Adventures bundle: $139.10 w/ a $25 bonus credit at Amazon. Previous best deal was $150 w/ $30 bonus, and the…
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Enormous Tetris Stop-Motion Animation Created in Minecraft
The merry band behind the Bomberman mod for Minecraft have struck again, creating a colossal in-game stop-motion animation of Tetris—complete with a Game Boy surround (and startup screen!). “I had to play bad or it would have take even more screenshots,” says the creator. Probably also why he ramped up the difficulty to level 9,…
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Dashboard Beta Testers Get Free Digital Halo: Reach to Replace Borked Disc
The recent title update to Halo: Reach has rendered unplayable the free disc version of the game given to Xbox Live dashboard beta participants earlier this year. Rather than say tough luck, Microsoft is giving all of them a free digital copy of the game. An email to dashboard beta participants today advised them of…
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At Last, a Twin Peaks Game for the Atari 2600
I’ll confess to knowing jack shit about Twin Peaks, David Lynch’s cult hilt surreal television mystery that lasted for a year but you’d think had a run twice as long as All in the Family the way people still talk about it. Anyway, someone has created an Atari 2600-style game based on the show, you…
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Wrongly Banned Xbox Live Users Welcomed Back with Gifts
A recent crackdown on modded consoles snared “a very small percentage” of Xbox Live users who had done nothing wrong, yet received comprehensive bans from Microsoft nonetheless. Xbox Live’s top cop today apologized for the mistake and said these gamers would be reinstated immediately. Stephen Toulouse, better known as Stepto to some, said the bans…
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Culture
Elk Strips: The $35 Snack That Made a Great Nation Great
Funyuns, Doritos, Chikin-on-a-Biskit. They conjure images of stoners and the unemployed, but no one consumes those snacks to affect said lifestyle. Jerky, well, c’mon. It’s like a meat Marlboro. If you’ve ever torn off hunks of dried flesh, wrung them out on your molars, and not once narrowed your eyes and internally complimented this great…
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