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The Doctor Doesn’t Pay
You know, I hate to come down from Wayne County. I have businesses in Lansing. I have muffler shops, chicken chains. I got slums to collect the rent from. I have a chiropractic practice. I make adjustments to the human spine! And this little trip has cut far too much into my professional time! Dan…
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Five Years Later, Mom in Warcraft Neglect Death Goes to Prison
It took five years, but a woman who played World of Warcraft day after day as her three-year-old daughter wasted away, dying of malnutrition and dehydration, is headed to prison. Rebecca Colleen Christie of Las Cruces, New Mexico was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday. Christie’s case was at the vanguard of the horrifying…
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Tetris Hits the 3DS in October
Tetris, which skyrocketed to all-time popularity on Nintendo’s first handheld, will be adapted for its latest. In a statement released today The Tetris Company said Tetris for the 3DS will be shown at E3 and will arrive on shelves in October. The news release also boasted of 132 million paid mobile downloads of the game,…
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Papo & Yo is a Bittersweet Allegory of Growing Up With an Drug User
Imaginary childhood friends can be adorable in any form, even as a giant pink rhino. It’s the rhino’s craving for poisonous frogs that makes him a monstrous threat, and the center of a poignant tale that deals with one developer’s troubled childhood. This is Papo & Yo by the Montreal studio Minority, touted today on…
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Activision on Call of Duty Elite: ‘Even Haters Can Play for Free’
That is a direct quote from the FAQ Activision just released [.doc] for Call of Duty Elite, a final plea for you to not hate the shooter’s paid subscription service, and an argument that needs, oh, just six pages to summarize. That’s not to say they beat around the bush. The first set of bullet…
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EA Sports Celebrates NCAA Football 12 with the Sexy Sax Man
College football is all about tradition. The tradition of the NCAA Football 12 development team is the godawful annoying “Alpha song,” played every night while the game is in its alpha build. This year’s song was Wham!’s “Careless Whisper,” the signature tune of the Sexy Sax Man. You may have heard of him. (This video,…
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Madden NFL Dynamic Player Performance
Tampa Bay’s Josh Freeman. The pause menu will show how players progress and change in effectiveness during the game. Each player will have a set of new traits that govern his tendencies and behaviors Atlanta’s Matt Ryan. The pause menu will show how players progress and change in effectiveness during the game. Each player will…
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Madden‘s Dynamic Performance Serves Sundays with More Flavor
Beat on a quarterback for 45 minutes of an NFL game and you’ll see a different guy in the fourth quarter. Some start forcing every throw. Some will run like hell. Some go catatonic. But in Madden NFL, you’d see the same guy after four sacks that you saw in warmups. Players, especially CPU-controlled players,…
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Cops Tase Man with PS2 Tucked In His Pants
Cops trying to get a man to stop walking in traffic had a tougher time convincing him when they found out the dude was strapped—with a PS2. We’re guessing this was a PS2 Slim that Timothy Jones Sr., 36, of Lincoln, Mo., had tucked in his pants. (“Unless they were enormous pants,” says Luke.) Whatever…
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UFC 3 Puts Pride In Its Work
Pride Fighting Championship rules—these would be ones permitting head stomps and soccer kicks to the noggin—are among a set of features for the officially announced UFC Undisputed 3 that will expand on the leading mixed martial arts simulation title and incorporate many qualities of its short-lived competition. Officially announced by THQ this morning, Pride rules…
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One-Off Penny Arcade Strip Gets a Movie Deal
In October, Penny Arcade shook things up a bit with a series of three mini-stories, each forming a cinematic opening to a larger story left unexplored. Hollywood wants to explore one of them a bit further, acquiring the rights to “The New Kid,” imagined as an animated feature. “The New Kid” was the best of…
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No Metal Gear Solid: Rising at E3 as 2012 Release Reaffirmed
At Konami’s pre-E3 event this evening, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima said the series’ next entry, Metal Gear Solid: Rising will not be appearing at E3, giving no further details why. Kojima said a 2012 release date for the title is still targeted, as originally planned.
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Silent Hill Also Getting HD Collection; NGP Silent Hill Announced
At its pre-E3 event today, Konami revealed that Silent Hill 2 and 3 also would be getting the HD collection treatment, and a new entry in the series is being built for Sony’s NGP handheld. Silent Hill: Book of Memories is the NGP title; a disclaimer shown with the game’s logo noted that the concept…
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Clearing Up—Sort Of—Where Colonial Marines Fits in Aliens Canon
When Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ official game announcement billed it as a “true sequel to James Camerson’s classic Aliens,” diehard fans of the film trilogy took that to mean the game would undo the events of the controversial Alien 3, harshly criticized by Aliens director James Cameron and some of its principal cast. Not so, says…
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Capcom: ‘We Got it Wrong’ on PC Super Street Fighter DRM
Capcom will remove the “limited offline” restrictions DRM places on the PC versions of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, saying its community convinced it that such measures meant legitimate users would have a worse experience than the pirates the DRM means to thwart. “We’ve heard you loud and clear and here’s what we’re going…
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Those Who Preordered Duke Nukem Forever Get First Dibs on DLC
The “First Access Club,” i.e. those who preordered the game from 2K and Gearbox (or bough the Borderlands GOTY edition) will get “the very first Duke Nukem Forever multiplayer downloadable add-on for free!” So, the lack of specifics means maybe it isn’t a map, but probably a skin or a weapon of some kind. Duke…
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These are the Big Sports Games of E3 2011, We Think
Because of the assurance—death, taxes and Madden—that they come out every year, sports video games aren’t typically the biggest newsmakers at E3. For diehard fans, however, it is often the first time their favorite series gets a gameplay demonstration. We’ll be there to see all of these, the biggest sports games of E3 2011. This…
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What has Two Thumbs and an Ocarina? This Guy
The plastic ocarina that Nintendo’s sending around with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is quite the coveted piece of swag. Until we got ours, only French journalists and Australian customers were on the chosen list of recipients. Does the thing actually work? Joel Johnson put it to the test. You may not…
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