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NES Cart Harmonica, Now Conveniently For Sale
About two years ago, a guy posted a how-to for turning old NES cartridges into a harmonica. If you lack the tools, know-how, or NES carts to make one yourself, someone’s now selling them, for $24.99. I don’t know if the seller is the same guy, and I’m not saying someone took another’s idea. All…
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No More PSP for NCAA Football
Whoops. File this one under things I should have followed. When EA Sports said Tim Tebow was its coverboy across all versions of NCAA 11, I assumed that included the PSP. It doesn’t. Because there will be no PSP version. IGN confirmed that the college football simulation is not coming to the PSP, for the…
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Crysis 2 Writer on Modern Warfare 2 Story: ‘Jesus, What Have You Been Doing?’
In November, British sci-fi author Richard Morgan said he was hired by Electronic Arts to write stories for three upcoming titles. Today, EA revealed one of them to be Crysis 2. Morgan took the occasion to rip Modern Warfare 2 “I thought Modern Warfare 2 was an immense disappointment,” Morgan told CVG. “It was a…
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Educator Claims ‘Damning Evidence’ Against Games, Offers Little
An evenhanded study last month about kids and schoolwork found “nothing evil about video games,” but not a Kansas educator, who bootstraps those findings to his claim that games are responsible for the widening achievement gap between boys and girls. John Richard Schrock, writing for The Wichita Eagle speaks of seeing “mostly women’s faces” when…
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To Make The Show Better, Go to the Minor Leagues
The mad geniuses at Operation Sports have put out a custom roster file that comprehensively updates one area that MLB 10: The Show cannot, according to its contract: Real minor league players. Any minor leaguer who has never appeared in the majors is off limits to Sony San Diego (it has to do with group…
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Walmart Said to Broaden Christian-Game Distribution Plans
The makers of the Left Behind series of religious video games says Walmart is expanding the Christian game test-market it opened last year in Texas, with an eye toward distributing such games nationally. The statement came in a recent SEC filing by Left Behind Games. The additional states weren’t specified, but the expansion was described…
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Tebow Confirmed for All NCAA Football 11 Covers
Tim Tebow getting the cover of NCAA Football 11 was part rumor, part poorly kept secret, and all but assured. EA Sports has confirmed for Kotaku that Tebow will be on the cover of all versions of the game. Tebow’s appearance was first reported this afternoon by ESPN.com. Unifying the cover under him ends the…
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Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package Arrives for PS3, PC in Early May
Modern Warfare 2‘s five-map, fifteen-dollar “Stimulus Package” will arrive for both PS3 and PC in North America on May 4, the game’s studio just said via Twitter. Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling said Australia and Europe gets the PS3 version of the downloadable content on May 5. The PC release date of May 4 is global.…
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Nintendo Boss Says Capcom’s Visuals Puts Zelda Devs Under ‘Pressure’
Monster Hunter Tri, due for a North American release this month, won critical acclaim and commercial success in Japan last year with a strong assist from its visuals. Nintendo’s chief even thinks Capcom’s outdoing his company, on its own hardware. In a roundtable conducted last year with two Monster Hunter developers (translated and posted now),…
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Monday Night Combat Sends In the Pros
Whenever Monday Night Combat hits, I’m either going for the meathead powered-armor heavy or the wiseass sniper. I know they’re stereotypes, but dammit, those classes have these reputations for a reason. This four-minute video gives you a look at all six classes’ primary and secondary weapons, plus skills and grapple moves, in the upcoming Xbox…
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UPS Turns to Video Games for Training
Troubled that its trainees were flunking out at a rate of 30 percent, United Parcel Service turned to video game simulations to train rookies how to spot sales leads and not drive over little kids. The Wall Street Journal looked at UPS’ training methods, conducted at a facility outside Washington, that drill driver cadets on…
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Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Celebrates 200,000-Year Anniversary
Via Twitter, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling just mentioned that Modern Warfare 2 gamers have logged more than 1.75 billion hours in the game, just on Xbox Live. That’s nearly 200,000 years. Other fun equivalences on the jump. Two Hundred Thousand Years is Equal To: • The combined lifespan of everyone living in Hettinger Co., North…
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It’s Spain vs. Italy When World Cup Demo Releases Tomorrow
EA Sports tucked news of tomorrow’s global release of its FIFA World Cup 2010 demo inside some marketing copy about the game’s soundtrack, which no one cares about. Talk about burying the lede. The demo matches Italy and Spain, who last met with big money on the table in the quarterfinals of the 2008 UEFA…
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Here’s Who and What You Get in the UFC Undisputed Demo
THQ, responding to community demand, has shed light on a few details about its upcoming UFC Undisputed 2010 demo. One of those details is not the demo’s release date, although THQ hopes that will arrive before April 25. While no specific demo release date was fixed, THQ did say “we’d like to release the demo…
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Driving a Real World Car Like a Video Game Car
It’s awesome enough that Rooster Teeth would rig up a Ford with a third-person camera, to attempt to drive like one does in a video game. What really makes this video shine are the Yakuza extras karate-kicking the test subjects. This is an aspect of video games that was long overdue for the Mythbusters treatment,…
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Mass Effect 2 DLC Now Live After Day-Long Delay
Kasumi’s Stolen Memory, the first DLC addition for Mass Effect 2, just reached Xbox Live Marketplace, after being delayed much of the day due to an unspecified issue with Microsoft according to BioWare. Earlier in the day a BioWare spokesperson acknowledged the delay to IGN and said the studio was working with Microsoft on a…
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EA Sports Explains Why It Didn’t Leave Tiger as PGA Tour Online Launches
Tiger Woods begins his comeback at The Masters this week, and the browser-based game bearing his name transitioned from beta to full release today. EA Sports’ boss hit the television to talk about why EA never left the scandal-wracked golfer. “We are a very different company, in regards to our relationship with Tiger, than other…
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