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Has Someone Already Won a Million Dollars from MLB 2K11?
Yesterday someone uploaded a YouTube video purporting to show him completing 2K Sports’ Million Dollar Perfect Game Challenge in MLB 2K11. While it’s confirmation of nothing, it may signal another early end to the game’s sweepstakes promotion. [Warning: The audio gets very loud and NSFW after the final out.] Excusing the lag-fest and skipped audio,…
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EA Sports’ ‘Persistent’ Player Profile Would Mean No More Starting from Scratch Each Year
Each year the new title comes out, sports gamers must re-enter their preferences, their profiles, must re-create themselves in singleplayer careers, must restart dynasties and franchises and online franchises. Remarks by EA Sports’ president hint that their titles may soon put all of that under a persistent experience, imported from a previous version into new…
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The World Bank Proposes Fair Trade Gold Farming
An analysis by a World Bank initiative recommends that gold farming – you read that right – is a substantial growth opportunity for developing nations’ economies, and that NGOs – bureaucrat speak for do-gooder agencies – begin connecting the rural poor in these nations to gold farming enterprises under a fair-trade modeling. That shit-you-not-proposition is…
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A Visit from Photo-Flo
I like the fact this incredibly painful nutshot occurs in what appears to be a hotel suite. That’s where nonsense of this sort should ideally take place. Reminds me of a day long ago – well before digital photography – when half of the school paper checked into the Marriott Marquis of Atlanta for a…
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Get Tired with UFC Personal Trainer
UFC Personal Trainer, the MMA-branded exergame coming soon for Kinect from THQ, dares to ask the question of what is a more ridiculous workout activity: Deadlifting a dumptruck tire in real-life, or in the comfort of your living room? Coming in June, UFC Personal Trainer joins EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp as sports-branded products…
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“Sam B” Performs Before Quite a Dead Crowd
Another set of screenshots dumped today tell the tale of Sam B, a “one-hit wonder rap star of fading fame,” booked for the ill-fated resort of Dead Island the weekend the apocalypse went down. Decked out in pirate garb, Sam B will be the game’s Tank class, according to an accompanying release from developer Deep…
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Game Wall: The Game on a Wall
Here is a video game projected on the side of a building, which sounds like a familiar idea, but Game Wall, by the Swiss film group &Söehne, incorporates the features of the wall into the game itself. The ship in Game Wall must navigate the wall as a maze, using the brick as traversable space…
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Sorry, You’re Grounded
Shutdown Eve | With a budget deal unlikely, the U.S. federal government appears headed for a shutdown, meaning widespread closures of government agencies and suspensions of service. That includes the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, a favorite tourist stop in Washington for more than four decades. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Four New Fighters Enter…
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Watch the Dragon Pop Out of Someone’s Chest With This 3DS Augmented Reality T-Shirt
So, we’ve seen the 3DS’s augmented reality games played on an iPhone, on an Android phone and on a white board. We’ve seen giant cards spawn giant Miis and Marios. Now, thanks to this t-shirt, you may see the AR dragon pop out of someone’s chest. Level Up Studios has printed up this AR Card…
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Custom Tron Light Cycles Board Game Glows With Brilliance
Physical design, gameplay design, either way this custom Tron Light Cycles Board Game is a straight-up winner. Built by a modder to play with his sons, this one-of-a-kind, laser-etched board with tinted acrylic jet walls is like a Franklin Mint Chess Set from a very, very awesome future. The pieces are die-cast Tron vehicles, which…
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Here’s an Unlicensed Game Featuring Tiger Woods at The Masters
The Masters Tournament, which graces Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters (duh), begins with its opening round tomorrow at Augusta National. Hecklers and disturbances are either unanticipated or flat impossible thanks to the golf club’s otherworldly security – in this flash game’s case, a sniper ready to take out any troublemakers. Masters Assassin: The…
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NCAA Football Radios In For Artillery Help
Several weeks back we mentioned NCAA Football 12’s developers were looking for some crowdsourced research on where the bands sit at all 120 college football stadiums. Now they need to know if your alma mater fires a cannon at the games and, if so, what type. The game is bringing in cannons this year –…
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Madden Creator Disputes Developer’s Influence on the Series
The guy suing Electronic Arts for, potentially, tens of millions in royalties from the Madden NFL series, has overstated and overrated his importance in developing John Madden Football, according to the series’ creator. Robin Antonick, in a lawsuit EA has blasted as “utterly without merit,” alleges the game currently published today still draws on work…
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The Japanese PSP Game That Screams the Pants off Schoolgirls
Frankly, I’m not sure where to begin with this one. Yes, something called a “Soul Nude” combat system, in which using “soul words” leave your opponent naked, is an obvious start. But Gachitora!: Abarenbou Kyoushi in High School also features batting practice, back rubs and, of course, the obligatory fishing game. Needless to say, this…
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Hope You Like Ads, Because Battlefield 3 Will Shovel Lots at You
This may have been a prediction. It sure as hell sounds like a threat. This year, Activision and Electronic Arts will both spend more on the marketing for two games than many publishers will ever spend on developing one, said Electronic Arts’ CEO. As he was speaking to a conference of advertisers, it was surely…
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Smithsonian Extends Voting for “Art of Video Games” Nominees
The fed’rul gummint may shut down in the next two days, but voting on which games will be featured in 2012’s “The Art of Video Games” won’t. It’s been extended another 10 days to April 17. Winners still will be announced May 7. The show will open March 16, 2012 at the Smithsonian American Art…
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 Brings Plenty of Touch to Its Golf Game
Golf, with an emphasis on precision, and players always initiating rather than reacting to the action, is a natural for the mobile platform. That doesn’t mean any offering – even one with the weight of Tiger Woods and EA Sports’ names behind it – is automatically on the green in two. Following up last year’s…
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Hit for Six
World Champions | All of India is rejoicing, including these expatriates in New York, at the nation’s World Cup triumph. Yesterday’s victory over Sri Lanka gives Sachin Tendulkar, considered one of the greatest batsmen in the sport’s history, a legacy-cementing world championship in his final try. It’s the second title for the cricket-mad nation. (Photo:…
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Teaching First-Graders with Minecraft
When his five-year-old daughter built a treehouse by herself in Minecraft, Joel Levin, a computer teacher at Manhattan’s Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, got the idea to try incorporating the PC game into his lesson plan at school. He worried about numerous possibilities that the game would simply be incompatible with students that young, but…
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Triple-As Take the Week Off
Very little in the way of big releases this week. Among games we’re likely to play around here, Hoard arrives on the PC and Mac, five months after its console release. Spiral Knights, a free-to-play game from Sega, launches tomorrow. The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, an Xbox Live Arcade game, is probably the biggest game with…
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