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One More Delay for Duke Nukem Forever Isn’t Really a Trick, Swear

When they heard the news Duke Nukem Forever would be delayed until June, many folks thought what I did, frankly: Maybe Gearbox and 2K Games planned all along for a June release, but gave it a May date so the game, 14 years in development, would get one last round of “Duke is Delayed” buzz…

Do You Know Where the Menudo Concert Is?

This block is being designated a Neighborhood Watch Area. There’s a guy up here named Snake. He’s wearing garage-sale clothes and the top of his head looks like a parakeet. He also has $50,000 in small bills in a briefcase. As his neighbors, it is your responsibility to make sure there are no suspicious characters…

The Art That Takes a Bazooka to Bullshit Art

Jeff Koons, if you know anything about modern art (you don’t? Doesn’t everyone?) is quite the polarizing figure. His specialty is the grandiose reproduction of a kitschy object – balloon animals, for example. He’s sold one such piece for $25 million. That pisses off people, some so much they want blow up his work with…

The Drill Plus is a Little Bit of Fun

The premise of The Drill Plus, a top down, uh, drill-em-up, is your scrawny hero transforms into a drill in times of need, in this case, an invasion of monsters who look like they came from a Frankenberry commercial. This is like Beck lyrics. Actual words strung together in a grammatically correct fashion that make…

That Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters Ad is Fabulous — and It’s Real

This stand-up-and-cheer golfer’s fantasy for EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters, seemed a little too good to be true. C’mon, right? No way Augusta National Golf Club, which prizes its privacy and exclusivity, would let a camera crew and a bunch of actors walk all over its storied course for an ad…

A Fistful Of Dollars Gets You An Earful With Turtle Beach’s PX5

Like cleavage, the $249.95 price tag is front, center, and something always on your mind even as you list off the other good reasons you want to spend time with Turtle Beach’s Ear Force PX5. You can talk about the fully customizable audio presets, the 7.1 channel surround sound quality, the Bluetooth support with multiple…

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Russian Devs Blame Antiseizure Requirements for Crummy Sturmovik

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, bravely carrying the flag for the decimated flight combat genre, has released in Russia where its devoted following is complaining of crippled gameplay and terrible framerate issues. One of the game’s developers says anti-seizure controls mandated by Ubisoft, the game’s Western publisher, is the culprit. Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is…

Fanfare — and a Green Jacket — for the Common Man [Update]

One thing you can count on in the NCAA basketball tournament, playing now, are the CBS promo spots for The Masters, full of pomp and grandeur, with Jim Nantz invoking the Tradition Unlike Any Other. That’s what makes this spot for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters so fantastic. I don’t know if any…

Fight Night Champion DLC to Include Bare Knuckle Fighting

Fight Night Champion notably included bare-knuckle fighting during the prison chapters of its narrative mode, but the fighters in the main roster didn’t participate in such bouts. Now some will. The game’s first DLC extension, due out next Tuesday, adds bare-knuckle “Old School Rules” to online and offline play. Bare-knuckle boxing will play out like…

Why Put a Cartridge in a Console When You Can Put a Console in a Cartridge

I get the feeling I’ve seen this before somewhere, and the creator, dany32412 on Instructables, himself says it was inspired by another source. That’s still a functioning Nintendo Entertainment System within a modified NES cartridge, which is a great novelty mod. The difference here is the original gamepads are supported. NES in a Cartridge [Instructables]

Here’s Who’ll Win Madden‘s Battle of the NFL Stars

The day before the Super Bowl, I handicapped the field of potential Madden NFL 12 cover stars, coming up with seven candidates and settling on Aaron Rodgers, the quarterback of the eventual champion Green Bay Packers. I buzzed Anthony Stevenson, Madden’s lead marketer, to ask if I any of my picks were on-target. “You’re close,”…

Cops Called on the Only Man Camping Out for the 3DS Launch

This guy has been waiting outside a New York City Best Buy since Tuesday, a one-man campout line waiting for the Nintendo 3DS. That is, until store security called the cops to shoo him off. Look, I don’t mean to stir the pot, but we know what’s going on here: It’s because store security is…

Forza 4 Has 500 Cars, Lets You Touch Them (And Drive With Your Face)

We’ve known that Forza Motorsport 4, when it releases later this year, will support Kinect as a control method. A marketing survey now hints at what some of those features might be, such as head tracking to move the game’s camera, and a casual mode that allows players to steer with their hands, similar to…

PS3 Hacker Didn’t Flee, Did Hand Over Hard Drives, Says Lawyer

The attorney for George Hotz, the hacker being sued by Sony for jailbreaking the PlayStation 3, denies that Hotz fled to South America to avoid a court order and says he has delivered his impounded hard drives as required to a neutral party. Sony, in a court filing, had alleged the drives were delivered with…

EA Sports is Working on a Baseball Game — Probably for Facebook

EA Sports, whose beloved MVP Baseball series went into exile when 2K Sports won an exclusive contract back in 2005, is working on a Major League Baseball-licensed property, according to ESPN’s Jon Robinson. Before you get all giddy, a close reading of contracts leaves the impression this will be another Facebook game. Robinson points out…

What Sort of Person Plays Marvel vs. Capcom 3?

Roughly one month after its release, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds churns up fun facts galore that gaming demographer (and social network) Raptr has culled and interpreted for your enlightenment. The full size is at bottom. More analysis, plus an explanation of Raptr’s methodology, is at the link. Marvel vs. Capcom 3…

Tapper: World Tour Looks Great and is More Fulfilling

Tapper was one of the best examples of the ingenuity that defined the early arcade games, when novel premises, fast action and a lot of imagination were needed to flesh out games running on primitive architecture. As a natural for the multitouch controls of the iPhone and iPad – what’s its name, after all –…

Two Years in the Slammer for Hacker Who Stole $300,000 from Zynga Poker

The British hacker who fleeced Zynga Poker for 400 billion chips, which have an official worth of $12 million, $300,000 on the black market, will serve two years in prison. Ashley Mitchell did a poor job of covering his tracks after breaking into a Zynga server running the casino game and robbing it of the…

Madden‘s Cover Competition has 32 Candidates, and the Fans are One

Here is the 32-player field of candidates for the cover of Madden NFL 12. Well, 31 players and “The 12th Man,” a salute to the diehard fans of the Seattle Seahawks (10th seed, versus Patrick Willis of the San Francisco 49ers). EA Sports is holding this vote-off competition at www.ESPN.com/MaddenVote from now to April 27.…