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Here’s One Tricked-Out Ride on Shift 2 Unleashed
Here’s Shift 2: Unleashed being played at PAX East on three extremely large television screens, shot by our man there, Stephen Totilo. It’s video-of-video, but this setup definitely amplifies the thrill-ride sense of speed and motion delivered through driving the game in its default in-car camera view. The flag drops on Shift 2 Unleashed on…
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New Settings Highlight The Show‘s Good Cause
MLB 11 The Show arrived on Tuesday, bringing with it a set of controls and options designed to include disabled gamers. The association for these gamers, begun by a 25-year-old college student, also launched on Tuesday and gets a plug from the PS3 game. The Association for Disabled Virtual Athletes is the brainchild of Hans…
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Stop What You Are Doing and Watch This My Little Pony Video Right Now
Proving that My Little Pony makes everything hilarious and StarCraft II makes everything awesome – at the same time – is this fantastic two-minute mashup that is simply not to be missed. YouTube’s StubbornlyObsolete put this together using the audio from StarCraft II’s cinematic launch trailer and video from seventeen goddamn episodes of “My Little…
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UFC Takeover of Strikeforce Could KO EA Sports MMA After One Round
Zuffa llc, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has bought out mixed martial arts’ second largest promotion, Strikeforce. The acquisition could mean only one MMA video game going forward. Last year’s EA Sports MMA was licensed by Strikeforce, using its rules, many of its fighters, and venues where major Strikeforce cards have been…
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Homecoming Kings
The Rays and the Red Sox had an old-fashioned bad-blood rivalry early last decade, one that cooled off in animosity as the talent gap between the two clubs has narrowed. When these two American League East franchises meet, three big name players will be facing their former team. That would be Carl Crawford, who played…
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Run a Katamari All Over This (and Any) Site
Are you browsing this page on Google Chrome right now? Well, you’re going to want to. Some saint of a coder has developed an utterly delightful hack that rolls up all of a Web page’s text and pictures, Katamari-style. How’s it work? Pasting a piece of JavaScript into Chrome’s address bar activates the hack, which…
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The Moosiest Moose We Know
This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for coupons. I’m gonna have deals and you’re gonna have savings. We’re all gonna have so much fucking fun we’ll need plastic surgery to remove our godamn smiles. You’ll be whistling “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” out of your assholes! Hardware • PS3 Slim 320GB Console, Playstation…
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Imminent NFL Lockout Does Not Threaten Madden 12‘s Release
Though the NFL’s ownership is expected to lock players out, following a breakdown in negotiations with the players’ union, EA Sports repeated reassurances that will have no impact on Madden NFL 12’s release or its rosters. While the NFLPA has decertified, evidently its agreement with EA Sports still provides for the use of the group…
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MLB 11 The Show Gets In a Dig at MLB 2K11‘s Cover Boy
MLB 11 The Show’s third-wheel analyst, Eric Karros, completely telegraphs this burn of Roy Halladay, who graces the cover of Major League Baseball 2K11. If it’s any consolation to 2K Sports, I doubt many people will hear this. You can mute individual announcers in the competing product, and Karros was buh-bye on day one for…
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Yesterday Was a Great Time for a Japanese Politician to Say He’ll Ban Games
On Thursday, this guy, the current governor of Kanagawa prefecture in Japan, wagged his finger at violent video games and said he’d ban them as well if he’s elected governor of Tokyo. About 12 hours later, a tsunami smashed into northeast Japan. As the Tōhoku region is digging out, facing a rising death toll and,…
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NBA 2K11 Gets a New Voice in the Booth
Kevin Harlan, the play-by-play voice of NBA 2K, told KNBR-AM’s Damon Bruce (also a voice in the game) that former NBA executive and player Steve Kerr will join the series as analyst next year. Kerr will replace Clark Kellogg; he was formerly the analyst in EA Sports’ NBA Live series.
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Yeah, Pretty Sure This Cheat Code Doesn’t Work
I’ve tried it repeatedly and can’t get the damn thing to work. Maybe this is only for the PAL version of the game? For those who want an NES controller wallet like that one, let me Google that for you. Or make one for yourself. The Nintendo Wallet Secret [DtotheAimo, YouTube]
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Nintendo’s Just Fine, Thanks for Asking
Nintendo’s Japanese headquarters are in Kyoto, some 300 miles from the devastation of yesterday’s tsunami. Still, many have asked if the 8.9 magnitude earthquake caused any damage. Nintendo tweets: “Thanks for your concern! During the earthquake no one at Nintendo in Japan was injured and there was no apparent structural damage.”
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LEGO Wizards Don’t Stop the Motion in Their Third Games Tribute
Ninja Moped, the Swedish artists behind a series of eye-popping stop-motion LEGO animations depicting classic video games, have released another stunning video, following up these and 2009’s seminal “8-Bit Trip” The Top Gun sequence probably gets my vote for most awesome; appearances by Jeopardy, Castlevania and a really old school stumper, the last one at…
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You Can Contribute to the First Major Study of Sports Video Gamers
The games development research lab GAMBIT, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has launched a study of sports video gamers, one a researcher believes will be the first comprehensive, independent examination of a very large video game segment, but one often seen as an outlier to the wider culture. The researchers are seeking respondents to…
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This SportsCenter Anchor is Dedicated to The Show
Some ESPN personalities are known, and chided, for making product endorsements. Steve Berthiaume isn’t in that crowd. Writing a 2,500-word guide on how to create, in MLB The Show, painstakingly accurate journeymen players from the 1970s is not being a lip-service pitchman. That is a bona fide roster editor. Berthiaume, 45, a SportsCenter anchor and…
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Games Help Soldiers Manage Combat Nightmares
Research that last year suggested gamers had the ability to control their dreams – or fight back in nightmares – has been applied to soldiers who have seen combat duty, and finds that those who game have fewer and less intense nightmares about war. Jayne Gackenbach of Grant MacEwan University in Canada says about 100…
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First Time Caller, Longtime Listener, It’s Dr. Robotnik
Sonic’s arch-nemesis took time for a brief call to morning radio jocks Opie & Anthony to talk about evil. It’s a short clip but a great impersonation, and the duo’s reactions are worthy a chortle or two. They’re also NSFW, so keep the volume down if there are tender ears nearby. The guy behind Dr.…
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New Hats and Swords Turn TF2ers Into Shogun Warriors
Team Fortress 2’s offering Japan-themed hats and swords for all eight classes as part of a tie-in with Total War: Shogun 2, which is due for release next week. There are three ways to get the items. One, of course, is to preorder Shogun 2 on Steam. [Team Fortress 2]
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EA Sports Throws in the Towel on NBA Jam
EA Sports has made it official – there will be no roster update, nor any type of post release support, for NBA Jam. Carmelo Anthony on the Knicks? Deron Williams on the Nets? You’re on your own. It’s not that surprising, and certainly an arcade title doesn’t depend on accurate rosters to the degree that…
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