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Dropped Connection Sends Starcraft Swede Into Stabby Rage
A balky Internet hookup is said to have triggered a Swedish Starcraft enthusiast’s random knife attack of a 15-year-old girl. According to Sweden’s Metro, the unnamed 18-year-old assailant “became angry when his internet connection wouldn’t work.” He then consulted a troubleshooting manual which apparently told him “grab a knife and go outside, that’ll solve everything.”…
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Week in Games: Amöng Greatness
Uncharted 2 is the glamor pick for this week’s releases; the PS3 exclusive has scored incredibly well in all reviews so far. Brütal Legend is another release bringing high anticipation and expectations, in a week of more than 50 games. Other drops of note: Marion & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, The Witcher: Rise…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. • Five Regrettable Music/Video Game Moments [OC Weekly] Really only recently have the duet between games and current, popular music hit their stride. OC Weekly…
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Reviews
NBA Live 10 Review: Amen for a Revival
NBA Live 10 opens with Dwight Howard and a dramatic reading about the meaning of revival. Of course it refers to Howard and his team, the Orlando Magic. It also clearly speaks of EA Sports‘ hopes for its own game. Last year’s version of NBA Live finally helped the franchise pick itself off the mat…
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Street Fighter, Rendered in 15 Pixels
What? Don’t tell me you can’t see it, too? The U.K. games festival Gamecity recently commissioned this and two other works – iconic games animated with just 15 pixels. Explains Gamecity: This year we commissioned design collective the Alaskan Military School to produce an animation package to communicate the ethos of the event. We recently…
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Last Two Left 4 Dead 2 Campaigns Leaked?
Somehow a Taiwanese Web site got its hands on all the posters for the Left 4 Dead 2 – and if these are real, that means the names of the final two are known: “Dead Center” and “Hard Rain.” Dead Center – “Prices Aren’t the Only Things Getting Slashed” – appears to be a shopping…
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Prop Billboard Gives Up Resistance 3 Date?
Here’s a billboard spied by a NeoGAF user down in Shreveport, La.. Note the details of the frame – bombed-out gas station, prices are 80 cents higher than the area’s average. This is a movie set. The NeoGAF user (goldsoundz) who spotted this says it’s in an area of Shreveport commonly used for filming movies.…
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Reviews
NBA 2K10 Review: Ball, You — Man!
Without question, the NBA is the crown jewel of the 2K Sports catalog, whose NBA 2K10 released Tuesday to the expectations faced by a clear winner – stick with what works, or keep up the full-court press? To continue the metaphor, NBA 2K10 delivers both. All sports titles face a justify-your-existence question of what to…
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Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Oct. 5 PvPonline published Oct. 9 ActionTrip published Oct. 5 Digital Unrest published Oct. 5 EXTRALIFE published Oct. 8 GU Comics published Oct. 9 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published Oct. 9 Dueling Analogs published Oct. 8 Nerf NOW published Oct. 6 Rooster Teeth published Oct. 10 Monday Night Crew published Oct. 5 Virtual Shackles published…
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Toys R Us Begins Big 3:2 Sale Tomorrow
It’s another buy-two, get the third free bonanza, this time offered by Toys R Us. But it covers their entire game catalog – consoles, handhelds, everything. As you can see, the flyer above says you can pick from 800 games. The sale will last the entire week. It doesn’t sound like it coves pre-orders, but…
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NSFW: Topless Weirdo Shows Off His Neo-Geo Collection
My only coherent reaction is, “I didn’t know the Pet Shop Boys covered ‘Where the Streets Have No Name.'” Warning: man-ass at 1:24; nipple play at 2:21. Definitely NSFW. Same for the pics the Neo-Geo forum found, too. Old Crazy Topless Man Shows Off His Neo-Geo Collection [Destructoid]
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17 Inches of Brutal Legend Up for Grabs [CORRECTED]
Only 1,000 of the Eddie Riggs Brütal Legend ceramic figures have been made, and Electronic Arts hasn’t divulged just how to get one beyond getting lucky and winning it. And they’re giving you just such an opportunity now. Entering to win is simplicity itself: Edit: Well, not when a sloppy job by yours truly fucks…
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Dust 514: The MMO’s Type-A Brother-in-Law
Get a fresh look at running around, blowing s—t up in Dust 514, the console FPS that CCP is developing to coincide with its EVE Online MMO. It’s not just pretty to the eyes. Listening to this with headphones on, there’s some great sound this – although I swear that Warthog-looking thing comes to stop…
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It’s Bad When The New Yorker Trolls You Over a Game
This actually ran a month ago, but, forgive me, my subscription lapsed, for a lack of houseguests to impress with my reading material. (I also canceled my subscription to “Large Penis-Havers’ Quarterly” since I haven’t gone on a date lately.) On Sept. 9, The New Yorker put the definitive tack in Seth Schiesel’s balloon over…
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China Cracks Down on Online Gaming
You could go through the Oxford English Dictionary, pick a noun, and China’s likely cracked down on it. (Except counterfeit goods). Online games that are “unhealthy” (says the state) are the latest target, and 45 have been shut down. State authorities said the games “encouraged players to engage in illegal activities such as drug trafficking…
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Facebook, Twitter Launch Nov. 17 on UK Xbox Live
This splash page on Xbox Live’s U.K. portal says its Twitter and Facebook service will launch on Nov. 17. We assume that includes the Last.FM update as well. Crecente got a look at Facebook on Xbox Live at Tokyo Game Show. A firmware update preparing the Xbox Live dashboard for the three services went out…
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Fils-Aime on PSPgo: “What’s the Benefit?”
In an interview for Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post (posted today), the Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says the PSPgo might have “a fundamental concept problem in terms of ‘Who’s it for?’ and ‘What’s the benefit?'” “I have the utmost respect for all our competitors,” he told the Post, “but it’s interesting to…
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Runic’s Next Big Fantasy: Getting Torchlight on XBLA
The dungeon-crawler Torchlight is due for an exclusive PC release on Oct. 27, but developer Runic wouldn’t mind seeing the game offered on Xbox Live Arcade someday. The Runic CEO Max Schaefer told 1Up that he and his team “talk about it a lot. We fantasize about getting the [Xbox Live Arcade] version, and that…
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Coruscant, Where Nothing Grows — Except Power
Oh great. I’ve been calling it Corrus-kant all these years. Next someone’s gonna tell me I’ve been mispronouncing Eidos, too. Well, however it’s said, this six-minute vid shows us how BioWare built the city-planet of the Star Wars Universe. From a design perspective, Coruscant is a planet with zero percent terrain, which poses its own…
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