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Check Out This NBA Star’s Massive Wingspan
This full-back tat by Andrei Kirilenko, a free agent most recently with the Utah Jazz, speaks to what kind of pro athlete plays World of Warcraft. Usually, it’s the iconoclast in the locker room, a guy like Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe. Once this hit Twitter, word spread of Kirilenko’s badass back tat but few…
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Test Drive Unlimited Studio Stages One-Day Strike
Atari’s plans to lay off more than 50 percent of Eden Games’ workforce, plus alleged “mismanagement,” were the catalysts for a one-day symbolic strike today by the developer of Test Drive Unlimited 2 “For several years we are witnessing multiple leader changes at its head, they did not hesitate to get rich despite financial difficulties,”…
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Samuel L. Jackson Plays Black Ops
Whether this Samuel L. Jackson soundboard is live (in which case, it must have taken at least two guys) or edited in after the fact, there’s little dispute over its comedic value. NSFW language throughout. Part of a series of YouTube Black Ops soundboard videos going back to the beginning of April, including Pee-Wee Herman,…
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Fallout-Themed Geiger Counter Monitors Japan’s Transpacific Radiation
A Seattle-area man who lived in Europe during the Chernobyl disaster, now wary of radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accidents traversing the Pacific, built that, the a Fallout-themed case for a Geiger counter that reports its findings automatically via Twitter. Redmond, Wash.-based RobCo_PIPBoy has been reporting hourly counts per minute of between 17 and 24…
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Would You Pay $90 to Attend a Minecraft Convention?
Six months before Minecraft‘s full release is due, creator Markus “Notch” Persson is pondering a gala event in Vegas on its release day – MinecraftCon, on 11/11/11, “with all of [development studio] Mojang going there, and us pushing out the final release live on stage or something.” Would you pay to see that? Notch wants…
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First Touch Football is Full-Featured Footy
Typically, upon hearing that a sports game is unlicensed, I expect completely generic teams populated by bland rosters. First Touch Soccer is hardly gimped in such a way. Yes, the team names themselves are altered. But draw up a match with “Manchester Red,” and sure enough, there is “Rooney” at forward. You can expect this…
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Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Mother’s Day
OMG Puppies | Nintendo threw a posh Mother’s Day event featuring Nintendogs + Cats in Beverly Hills, Calif. this weekend. (Photo: Chris Weeks | Getty Images) Which One Is Worse? At this point, after 17 days with no end in sight, it’s fair to ask the question. the PlayStation Network Outage, or the Xbox 360’s…
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Stephen Colbert Joins Noble Team (Well, Not Really)
After Stephen Colbert joked this week that Master Chief must have been one of the members of SEAL Team Six, which took out Osama bin Laden, Bungie dusted off that image, which it had whipped up a while back in an attempt to get a mention on the show. For those who might think this…
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Get Your Hands on an Original NES Software Development Kit
This may look like a busted up Nintendo Entertainment System, but its seller says it’s actually an NES development kit, recovered about 10 years ago from the warehouse of a defunct Las Vegas-area developer. It’s up for bid on eBay, currently topping out at $305. The seller is, evidentely, not a video gamer, saying his…
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Brought to the Brink
The long-awaited futuristic FPS Brink highlights this week of releases, promising quadrillions of unique characters – no really. If that hurts your brain, try MX vs. ATV, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean or Virtua Tennis. Tuesday Brink (360, PC, PS3)-The free-running FPS pits two factions in a battle for control of The Ark, a once-utopic…
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Bin Laden’s Compound Now Available as a Counter Strike Map
Should you lack Kuma War II, which on Saturday published a free episode recreating the raid on Osama bin Laden’s final hiding spot, you may also download a free map of the Abottabad complex created with Counter Strike: Source The map’s creator says it “may be used as a base for a bomb or hostage…
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Sex Sells
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Top 10 Sexiest Video Game Commercials [Joystick Division] Some of these are reasonably tame. Many aren’t even actual ads. All-Stars that are include the…
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Sony Ponders Reward Offer as It Insists PSN’s Security was Up-to-Date
Sony is weighing whether to offer a reward for information on the hackers behind the massive PlayStation Network outage, now in its 18th day, CNET reports. Its potential amount was not mentioned. Quoting unidentified sources, CNET said Sony is discussing the pros and cons of such a decision but has yet to get any go-ahead…
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Freestyle Championship
This image is ridiculous. You might say it’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve seen. That would be hyperbole. I think that this is just the beginning of the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever seen. That is the Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, a zillion-time gold medalist, demonstrating Michael Phelps: Push the Limit for Kinect. That’s right,…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Mornin’ gang. Hope all of you have said a very Happy Mother’s Day, not only to your mom, but to all who have mothered you. Once you’ve finished with the breakfast and the card and the gift and the hugs, feel free to talk about video games, confident in a job well done. Today’s TAYpic…
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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. Another Videogame Webcomic did not publish this week Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published May 1. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira…
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AR Games in Real Life: The Winners
Last week’s ‘Shop Contest asked readers to imagine the 3DS’ AR Games as a kind of special lens through which we see the world as it really is, not as our feeble minds perceive it. What they showed us was quite disturbing, indeed. First off, plenty of folks tried a Star Wars angle. Both ARYXANDRE…
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When Will the One-Year Career Come to an End?
It really doesn’t matter how many times My Player is an NBA All-Star, nor how durable he is on the Road to the Show, or to Glory, or to the Masters. Every one of them will suffer a career-ending injury: The release of next year’s game. More than five years into its modern concept, the…
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Valve Turns to ‘Singleplayer-Plus,’ not ‘No More Singleplayer,’ Says Chief
Practically anything said institutionally by Valve, or especially by its co-founder, Gabe Newell, is parsed for any potential meaning to the unannounced, eternally awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3. So when Newell, in an all-access feature charting the development of Portal 2, said the game was “probably” the last one with any isolated single-player experience, Half-Life…
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