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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves: The Memdependabor Day Eve Edition
This year we had all three barbecue holidays in the U.S. fall on a Monday. Guess who’s already off on Mondays?! That would be me. Alas. But it is Sunday morning, which means to thine own selves, be talking. Big thanks to Brian H. May for his Fanboy Wars TAYpic submission. Want to be featured…
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Sunday Comics: Don’t Look a Yoshi in the Mouth
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 Aug. 29. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Aug. 31. – Read more of Nerf…
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Up on the Roof Winners
Last week, Stephen Totilo took you up on top of Nintendo of America’s roof to reveal quite the unusual growing operation there. We asked you to plant a couple acres of more funny on it. We’ve got the 20 best ‘Shop Contest submissions, plus winner Duck45, inside! You’ll have to forgive me, I may not…
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Are Sports Video Games Worth Reviewing Any More?
Earlier this week I got several versions of a small talk question I always field this time of year: “I haven’t played Madden in X years. Should I buy it this year?” To me, that’s no longer even a relevant question for this or for any sports video game. The real question, and its answer,…
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Batman Achievements Confirm New Game-Plus in Arkham City
Crack achievement investigators Xbox360Achievements.org are back in action, and they’ve sleuthed out the 50 Achievement/1000 Gamerscore set for Batman: Arkham City. Included are two achievements speaking to a New Game Plus mode, which will allow a second playthrough with your fully upgraded Batman. Pore over the others, and then see Kirk’s impressions from PAX and…
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BioWare Offers This Sneak Peak at Liara’s Figure in Exchange for Your Feedback
BioWare tossed up three images of Mass Effect‘s Liara in Kotobukiya Bushoujo statue form. Unpainted, unfinished, but they want feedback. So check out the three images and then complain here, or go provide it at the game’s official Facebook page. No word when this will go on sale, only that a preorder announcement is expected…
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Valve’s Games Sold on Electronic Arts’ Origin [Corrected]
Electronic Arts’ Origin service is running a three-for-the-price-of-two sale, on selected titles, this weekend. Three of the eligible games are published by Valve. EA and Valve haven’t been very friendly of late, so perhaps this is a make-up gesture by Valve? [Correction] As everyone points out, EA was the distributor of these games’ retail versions.…
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We’re Betting that Slavery: The Game is an Elaborate Troll
My guess is that, 10 seconds after Microsoft and Sony are made aware that their corporate symbols are endorsing a fake slavery RTS, seen at the end of this fake trailer, this offensive piece of attention-whoring is going to be abolished from YouTube. That, or the alleged Kentuckians allegedly making this game are stupid enough…
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC Arrives in October
Earlier this week, code-crackers broke the secrets of a teaser site Eidos has put up for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, finding what appeared to be clues for the game’s first DLC extension (above). Eidos now has officially confirmed it will arrive in October. It’ll be called “The Missing Link.” According to a post yesterday on…
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Cumming Mom Vows Only to Buy New After Finding Dick Pic in Used Game
From Georgia, uh, comes the most pernicious piece of anti-used games propaganda I’ve ever seen. A mother of two small children says she will from now on buy new games because she found a hand-drawn pornographic picture inserted in the case of a used one bought at GameStop. The kicker? This all went down on…
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Poorly-Dubbed Trailer Lands Uncharted 3 in Trouble with Brazilians
As English-speakers, we take for granted a lot of things: One, that every game will either be originally published in our language or localized for it (and woe betide those that aren’t…) Two: That the voice acting, if incompetent, will at least sound poorly acted and not read off a page. As reported by Kotaku…
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You Have a Rendezvous with My Ass
Let’s face it, half the things we do are window dressing. Take running alongside that limousine: it’d take an anti-tank missile to put a dent in that damn thing. There we are, out for show, trying to make the President look more presidential. I don’t know if it was ad-libbed, but, “You have a rendezvous…
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Multiplayer Steals the Show in Madden NFL 12
In the online multiplayer era of sports gaming, I have been a Grinch-like hermit, rarely venturing forth into it except to ragequit and rant that none of what they do reflects reality, and to get off my lawn. Madden, which has a culture of elite play spanning about a decade, television shows celebrating it, and…
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Star Trek Online Goes Free to Play by the End of 2011
Star Trek Online, the MMO picked up by new owner Perfect World when it acquired Cryptic Studios back in May, will be taken to a free-to-play format by the end of 2011, says the new ownership. Perfect World’s chief financial officer told investors during a call today that it’s looking to a free-to-play Star Trek…
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Sony Says PSN has Added 3 Million Users Since Attack
Howard Stringer, the chief executive of Sony, said at a Berlin electronics show that the PlayStation Network has recovered from this spring’s attack and 23-day outage by adding 3 million new users in the three months since. “This year, we at Sony have been flooded, we’ve been flattened, we’ve been hacked, we’ve been singed,” Stringer…
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EA Sports Seeks Ex-Football Players for Games Development Fellowship
EA Sports, in collaboration with NCAA Football, will this winter begin offering paid fellowships to former college football players seeking experience in a games development or sports entertainment career. The players will work in the EA Tiburon studio, where the NCAA Football and Madden series are developed. The fellowships begin in January and will be…
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WWE All-Stars Heads for the 3DS in November
Back in May, one rasslin’ fan from Spokane brought a 3DS to the WWE. In November, THQ will bring the WWE to the 3DS. THQ announced that WWE All Stars the arcade-style fighter that released back in March, is under development for the 3DS and will release on Nov. 22. A news release said it…
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Contre Jour: It’s Unlike Anything You Haven’t Seen
Contre Jour came home from E3 with a chest full of ribbons from major league critics and became a lot of people’s most anticipated indie game or mobile game. It’s been out for a week now, and while it does a good job of living up to those expectations, the expectation of a unique experience…
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He Put Minecraft in Minecraft So You Can Play Minecraft While You Play Minecraft
Hans Lemurson builds redstone computers in Minecraft, which led to the joking question of whether he could build one that plays Minecraft. Well, the answer is yes, sort of. This is a very crude 2D platformer that allows you to move around and modify terrain. “It’s not truly Minecraft, but it’s about as close as…
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Sure, It’s Hype, but NBA 2K12‘s Latest Trailer is Still Pretty Badass
This is all marketing, OK? This is a sizzle trailer, even if it is two-and-a-half minutes long and packed with gameplay (and one outstanding choice of music). But in addition to hyping the living hell out of NBA 2K12 it does offer a few things of value: One, a look at the presentation of old-time…
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