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VVVVVV Creator Makes Super Meat Boy a Tad More Impossible
Super Meat Boy is no joke. That’s a hard game, and that’s part of its appeal. Put it in the hands of the maker of another, harder game, and it collapses into a singularity of motherfucker-what-do-you want-me-to-do difficulty. There’s now a playable flash game of Super Meat Boy done in the style of VVVVVV, by…
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Chillin’ with Chell
After a few weeks of tortured crossover themes, we are back in the land of no-brainers with that image, taken about two weeks ago at the Anime Expo. This one, frankly, should ‘Shop itself. You need instructions? That’s already funny. Add more funny. As the image already is video-game themed, you may do as you…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Sundays in my home used to begin with that trumpet solo and a jowl-sloshing Charles Kuralt bidding everyone a good morning. Now it begins with you guys and TAY. Keep it on topic, or I will have to chide you in a gentle, avuncular way. Once again Incursor delivers the goods for this morning’s TAYpic.…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
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 July 11. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published July 13. – Read more of Nerf…
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Old School DLC Winners
Last week’s ‘Shop Contest posed the challenge of creating downloadable content well ahead of its time—like, back in the 1980s and 1990s. Could our smart shoppers take classic franchises and serve them up with virtual tchotchke’s just as money-grubbing and half-assed as modern games? Find out inside! Leading off, Halfbee (5) supplied a nice zinger.…
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Uncharted 3 Beta: 1.5 Million Played, Over 1.9 Billion Got Served
1.9 billion kills, 48 billion shots fired, and more than 362 years worth of matches later, the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta was the largest ever held on PlayStation Network. More fun facts can be found on the PlayStation Blog, or check out McWhertor’s detailed impressions of his time spent in the beta.
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More a Trip Down Memory Lane Than a Road to Glory
Two weeks ago the offers started pouring in. Duke. Vanderbilt. Wake Forest. Places well beyond what my parents could ever hope for me, much less pay for. They aren’t real offers, as I’m not really a football player. That’s OK, I’m not a real college student either. Mom and Dad stopped worrying about how to…
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Free-to-Play? Star Wars: Galaxies Cannot Make “a Change of this Magnitude”
When Sony Online Entertainment said it would shut down Star Wars: Galaxies by the end of the year, many teeth were gnashed and many garments were rent. A lot of people, thinking SOE failed to consider this, postulated about taking the game to a free-to-play model, and voila, the orphanage is saved! If only they…
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Epic Exec Says ‘Stupid Acquisitions’ Lead to Studio Closures
Noting the string of studio closures lately, the chief of European operations for Epic Games says there’s a pretty simple cause for them. “It happened because of stupid acquisitions,” Mike Gamble told Eurogamer at the Unreal Engine University Day in London. “What was the point of a well-known children’s IP holder buying a hardcore racing…
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Steam Client Update Pointedly Mentions Dota 2 is Coming ‘Soon’
Valve rolled out “all-new server and client code” supporting downloads over its Steam digital distribution service, intriguingly noting that, “soon, Dota 2 will be delivered using it.” Dota 2 as yet has no release date (late 2011 is the last we’ve heard), so it’s hard to say what “soon” actually means here. The new server…
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Activision Seeks to Sieze Nettlesome ModernWarfare3.com Domain
It appears that Activision is fed up with the owner of ModernWarfare3.com. The publisher filed a complaint with a dispute board seeking to sieze control of the domain, after noticing this week that it was redirecting visitors to Battlefield 3‘s official site. Before that, ModernWarfare3.com had simply hosted anti-Call of Duty propaganda. When the redirect…
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Unpaid Overtime
The record for overtimes in an NBA playoff game is four; in a regular-season game, it’s six. But when the Indianapolis Olympians and Rochester Royals hooked up for a four-hour contest, the final was only 75-71; the game pre-dated the introduction of a shot clock. When Kotaku commenter Frox and the Boston Celtics played a…
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Metacritic Calls on Writers to Review More Shitty Games
Metacritic’s founder made a little bit of a stir earlier in the week when he went on the A Jumps B Shoots podcast to discuss a wide variety of topics, one of them being that game reviewers were obligated to “review all the shit,” not just good games or those expected to sell well. GamePro…
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Raw Deals
I love that doo-doo line. That boy’s got TALENT! Never again will there be a comedian who defines the word “superstar” like Eddie Murphy did in the 1980s. The lengths we went to, as children, to hear the forbidden fruit of his filth-flarn-flarn-filth-flarn tree. In the summer of 1985, my friend Craig and I would…
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Take a Hint, Tails
Pondering why Sonic’s fourth game paired him with Knuckles, and not Tails, Dorkly envisions this uncomfortable meeting with the hedgehog’s agent. The audience wants unlikely allies, right? Even as hated, as Jar-Jar-class loathed as Tails is, somehow, we can’t help but think this is where it all started to turn south for the series.
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NCAA Football Fans, Your Real Rosters Have Arrived (for Xbox 360)
There’s always a race to publish the first complete, accurately named roster for NCAA Football 12, and this year it was available on the day of release. However, that doesn’t usually address depth chart placement, equipment details, or for some players, position changes and attribute re-ratings. For those Xbox 360 players waiting for truly accurate…
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Still We Wonder Who’ll Stop Mortal Kombat‘s Rain
The story of Rain, the latest fighter coming to Mortal Kombat is a story of revenge. Furious that he would be denied the rank he felt he deserved, Rain joined the faction that orphaned him. I’m not sure how being second-in-command there is any better, but there you have the motivation for this character when…
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Cliffy B’s First Game was a Sequel
“Just stumbled upon my first real game I made…on disk,” writes Epic Games’ design director and the creator of the Gears of War series. Weighing in at a whopping 1.44 megabytes is The Palace of Deceit II: The Dragon’s Plight. We’re awaiting a gameplay trailer, Cliff.
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StarCraft MMO Mod Releases Its Debut Gameplay Trailer
StarCraft Universe, the “World of Starcraft” MMO project that touched off a tense week for the StarCraft II modding community back in January, has released the first trailer of gameplay from its alpha version. You get a wide look at a lot of features of the game in that four-minute trailer, above. Ryan Winzen, the…
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