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The Future of Sports Doesn’t Seem Set in Motion
I have this silly daydream of a Kinect-enabled baseball game. In it, you can call for your runner to steal by going through the signals of a third-base coach. Then touch the cap, touch the belt, touch the letters, indicator, sign, corners of the mouth, batter-up fists, clap, let’s go. Or you can, you know,…
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Be True to Your School and Make a Video Game Better
NCAA Football 12 isn’t out for another 10 days, but there’s something you can do in the meantime—with the new version of the game, even—that will add to your experience, and others’ too, when it arrives. You can create your high school’s uniforms, using TeamBuilder, the web application for NCAA Football now in its third…
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Cup-Art Bandit Strikes Again With Metroid
Last month’s Mega Man mosaic of painted cups in a chain-link fence has a sequel, and an artist claiming responsibility for the acts of awesomeness. Here is Samus and a metroid by Pixeled Fence, “a gamer’s urban art project.” It and the Mega Man mosaic appeared on the Carterville Road overpass of University Avenue in…
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Here’s Ice-T’s Chainsaw Kill in Gears of War 3
As we all know by now, Ice-T voices a character in Gears of War 3. This minute-long montage of gameplay, courtesy of Gamespot, features him as “Aaron Griffin,” and Ice-T’s catch phrases over Griffin’s attacks. Now we know why the actor/rapper was so fired up that he wrote this tribute to the game and performed…
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Talkin’ Bubbles … Sixto and the Hoot
When you get deep into the weeds of a player-management mode, you test the limits of the game’s ability to randomize reasonable names as it seeds the roster with fresh talent. Reader Justin is a decade into MLB 2K11‘s franchise mode as the general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, and shares this gallery of gems.…
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E3: Go for the Games, Remember it for the People
How long ago was E3? Until yesterday, it was the day after I last did a laundry. And that’s a hell of a long time. I sat there in the laundromat with my 3DS, looking at the 134 people I met at E3. I’ve not had a StreetPass notice since. Ultimately, that’s what E3 is…
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Savings are Your’n on the Fourth of July
You probably think it’s just a hamburger. A patty’s just a piece of meat, but it can have character. See that doughnut hole? Gets 18 patties to the pound instead of 16. Saves me about $40,000 a year. That’s serious money, Ron. I plug the hole with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, spices. I cover it with…
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D.C. Universe Online Adds Microtransaction Support
D.C. Universe Online has launched something called the “DCUO Marketplace,” and while its shelves are pretty bare, what it could portend down the line is worth paying attention, if not cash. Currently all you can buy are “Proto Repair-Bots” (tune your gear without visiting a tech in HQ) and extra Vault Tickets. Given that you…
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Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife, Bed Intruder‘s on Rock Band 3
Like a civil court filing just beating the statute of limitations, Bed Intruder has officially made it to Rock Band‘s catalog of downloadable songs, 11 months after it was first uploaded (July 30, 2010, for those keeping score.) The song is 160 Microsoft Points/$2 [h/t Kariodude]
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Pac-Man Fever Duo Stake Their Comeback to a Mobile Game
When they cashed in on the video game crazy nearly 30 years ago, Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia didn’t have to worry about licensing. Columbia/CBS records took care of that as Pac-Man Fever soared to No. 8 on the charts in 1982. Of course, the price they paid came later, in the form of CBS’s…
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Second Time’s the Charm, or at Least a Trend, in Xbox Live SWAT Griefing
Instead of bogus pizza deliveries, sending a SWAT team to your door appears to be the hip new griefing trend in online gaming. Earlier this month we told you about a gamer in Eugene, Ore. who answered the doorbell to a police raid, thanks to some douchebag he met in FortressCraft. Now it’s happened to…
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More DLC Coming for Red Dead Redemption? [Update]
Out of nowhere, Rockstar Games on its official Twitter has suggested that more downloadable content for Red Dead Redemption is coming, with a release date details to be provided “in the coming weeks.” Update: At the beginning of the month, Rockstar said it had planned for “some fantastic and entirely FREE DLC coming your way…
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This First Glimpse of NBA 2K12 May Be the Only Pro Basketball You See Next Year
On a day when the NBA lurched toward its inevitable lockout—with labor and management even further apart than in the NFL’s contentious negotiations—NBA 2K12 released this first in-game screenshot, depicting Dirk Nowitzki and the world champion Dallas Mavericks in their series against the Miami Heat. Other than the player modeling, there’s not much Where’s Waldo…
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Utah Pol Throws In The Towel on Anti-Game Bill After Supreme Court Ruling
Most of the time, a Supreme Court ruling has its intended effect of being the final word on laws, be they good or bad. On some issues, you can count on the defeated side looking for a way around the decision. The Utah state legislator behind an anti-games bill says he won’t pursue it in…
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Teen Who Tore Modern Warfare Mom a New One is Embarrassed and Sorry [Updated]
[Updated] Last night, the fury took over. The first time in three weeks he fired up the Xbox 360, and some little shit was griefing him in Modern Warfare 2. Hell, he normally plays Battlefield. As the two yelled at each other across Xbox Live, Cody, 17, heard the voice of his antagonist’s mother coming…
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Judge Tricks Child Burglar Into Surrendering Xbox 360
In Northern Ireland, a 13-year-old boy was hauled before a judge to answer for a string of burglaries. The judge asked to know what among the boy’s possessions matter most to him. The Xbox 360, the lad replied. Dumbass. When judges ask a thing like this, they mean to trick you, young criminal. And now…
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World of Fourcraft is Like Real-Life Risk, Played in New York
Foursquare, the hot social network expansion that … does … social things … yeah, actually, that’s sort of the problem. Sensing an opportunity to make the “check-in” utility for Twitter “more compelling for long-term use,” some people have used it to turn New York into a giant game of Risk Foursquare, if you don’t use…
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Internal Memo Addresses Madden Losses, Lays Out EA Sports’ Expansion Plans
In an internal memo obtained by IGN, a senior EA Sports executive says the label will soon open a third studio in Texas, and addresses the departures of key developers from its flagship Madden NFL product. Daryl Holt, EA Sports’ chief operating officer, informs employees that he will be visiting Austin, Texas “this week” to…
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