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Dinner After The Show
The longest Major League Baseball game ever played remains the 25-inning marathon between the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers back in 1984. One devotee of MLB 11 The Show and his brother broke that mark on Monday, playing nearly a triple-header’s worth of baseball. Wonder if Dave Campbell, The Show’s analyst, trotted out…
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Creator of NBC’s “Community” Celebrated Its Renewal with … Bulletstorm?
The Twitterverse went off like a fireworks volley on Thursday when news passed that “Community,” the critically acclaimed but low-rated NBC comedy-drama, was picked up for a third season. How did the show’s creator celebrate? “I came home and I played ‘Bulletstorm.'” What the dick? Well, Dan Harmon says it was either Bulletstorm or go…
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Your Bodyguard [Updated]
He was only 9. I practically raised him since he was 2. Drive you crazy! Tell him to sit down, he’d stand up. Tell him do his homework, he’d read a comic book. Couldn’t eat food without spitting it at you. A real shoplifter too. Go through a store, half of it’d wind up in…
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Metacritic Now Ranks iPhone and iPad Games
Metacritic, whose cumulative scores provide a thumbs-up/thumbs-down barometer that can move games publishers’ stock prices, has expanded. The review aggregator has begun listing iPhone and iPad apps. “Our addition of a robust iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch games section … reflects the critical community’s growing acceptance of the iOS platform as a legitimate, full-fledged gaming system whose games…
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Kinect Makes You the Rampaging Controller
Some folks, including the creator, describe this Kinect mod in Hulk-smash terms. It does tint the screen (and the skin of the players) green. But towering above puny buildings and smashing them into rubble, that sounds more like Rampage, to me. Either way, let’s get this one into production, stat. Next on the to-do list:…
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Kevin Butler, as You’ve Never Seen Him Before (NSFW)
Cat’s out of the bag, folks. Kevin Butler is not really PlayStation’s vice president of everything from First Person Shooter Relations to Rumor Confirmation. He is, in fact, the actor Jerry Lambert, who played quite the cringe-inducing straight man in the most recent episode of Showtime’s “Shameless” on Monday. KB, under the auspices of being…
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Stacking Piles on the DLC in April
If we had any quibbles with Stacking, Double Fine’s acclaimed downloadable game, it’s that it felt held back in a semi-conspicuous way – one that might have foretold a sequel or a DLC extension. Lo and behold, the latter is indeed coming. The Lost Hobo King, the next chapter of the ragtime nesting-dolls saga, will…
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Ducks, Limited
Duck Hunt’s erstwhile mallard joins two of its kin in flight for this mixed-media wall art, available via Etsy for $120. The pixels forming the duck are quarter-inch tiles made from salvaged book covers. The entire piece is 21″x26″, sold framed with glass. Asshole Dog sold separately.
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PlayStation’s Top U.S. Exec Cleans Up Pro Poker Tour Event
That, folks, is a 10-6 unsuited. In poker jargon, that hand is known as “garbage.” But for Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, they were the winning cards at a pro-am poker event earlier this week. Tretton was one of several executives entered in the World Poker Tour’s Silicon Valley Poker Challenge,…
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Record Holder Says “I’m Playing Donkey Kong So I Can Get Laid”
Hank Chien, the plastic surgeon who is the two-time (and current) world high score champion in Donkey Kong, is the subject of a documentary getting its second screening tomorrow. In “Doctor Kong,” Chien, who took the high score in Donkey Kong about a year ago, then won it back from “The King of Kong” villain…
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A Look at the Earlier Works of Minecraft‘s Creator
Markus “Notch” Persson didn’t succeed with his original attempt at games development, bringing us Minecraft on the first try. The 31-year-old Swedish developer has been programming since age eight. Yesterday, he shared a gallery of his earlier work, showing that success doesn’t come from one effort, but from many attempts, in fits and starts. The…
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Rare Game Pulling Five-Figure Bids, with Some Proceeds Going to Japan Relief
It’s well settled that Stadium Events is, if not the rarest video game on the collectible market, is certainly the rarest of any retail release. A year after a sealed copy of the NES game set a record for the most ever paid for a single game, another verified, factory-sealed copy is seeking to dethrone…
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Stolen PS3 Leads Cops to Double Murder Suspect
A man suspected of a double homicide eluded police for two months, until a PlayStation 3 stolen from the victims’ home turned up and led authorities to an arrest. In Gaffney, S.C., Giles Lee Palmer, 22, faces two counts of murder in connection with the Jan. 19 shooting deaths of Dominique Cintrell Morgan, 19, and…
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Even the All-Stars are Role Players in MLB 11 The Show
Sitting there with my DualShock in my lap, I struggled to recall the last time a video game blindsided me this hard, much less at a point this early in playing it. I’d ranked up at a respectable rate, gained a fast understanding of my abilities and the situations in which they were useful. I…
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Here is Strip Mining: The Minecraft Porno [NSFW]
It’s a tall order finding any sexual reference, much less anything exploitable into one, in Minecraft (outside of the obvious livestock jokes.) Yet here an enterprising soul has managed to build a Minecraft homage to a cheesy porn film. It goes from cheeky parody of porn plot tropes, with some kinky pickaxe spanking, to OMG-is-that-a-blowjob…
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The Simple Hack To Gain Full Control Over a Best Buy 3DS Demo Unit
Demo units of the Nintendo 3DS are out in many major retailers now. They autoload Pilotwings Resort, or whatever game they’re demonstrating, so you can’t access the device’s menu. Well, now you can, so you can see for yourself what lies beneath. The instruction, per a commenter at Nintendo 3DS Blog: Hold the power button…
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Kinect Technology Helps Lead the Blind
Researchers at a German university have built an apparatus that, while clunky in its proof-of-concept stage, could assist the blind as they cross streets, walk down hallways and open doors. It uses the Kinect as a sensor. In lay terms, how it works is that it scans the environment for special placards with symbols on…
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Is This Fight Night Champion‘s First DLC Package?
Two weeks ago, a video leaked out legit-looking screenshots claiming to be an alpha build of Fight Night Champion’s first downloadable content. EA Sports is announcing what’s in the first pack tomorrow, but if this video is real, it’s five all-time great fighters, plus Cowboys Stadium as a venue. Heavyweight legends Joe Louis and Rocky…
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Come Sue, My Lord
The creators of the titillatingly marketed, disabled-gamer-saving MMO Evony went on the warpath yesterday to extract nearly $1 million out of a modder accused of selling auto-playing bots and a gigantic map that exploit the game. When you’re getting sued for $825,000, it’s probably not a great idea to show up to federal court in…
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Full NFL Shutdown May Threaten Half of Madden Sales
With the NFL and NFL Players Association trading punches over who should and shouldn’t attend the league’s draft in April, it’s safe to assume a lockout will last at least that long. Now analysts are speculating on worst-case scenarios for Electronic Arts should a work stoppage eliminate the real-world season that helps drive so much…
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