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Building a Bill Paxton Pinball Tribute
Modder extraordinaire Benjamin J. Heckendorn always wanted to build his own pinball machine from scratch. So what did he choose as its theme? Playboy? KISS? Nope. Bill Paxton. The choice seems to be a gut-instinct one, made “several minutes” after deciding four years ago he wanted to build such a table. “I guess I could…
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Link Outfit Makes Cosplayers of Unwitting Infants
This is one part dawwww, two parts badass. Part one, it’s an adorable infant’s Link costume. Part two: that’s a BABY BOTTLE QUIVER on the back. Part three: It’s made by someone called “UpKnitCreek.” Unfortunately, UpKnitCreek’s not making this available for general sale, as are most homespun game/geek items like this that we usually post.…
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Spyborgs Combo System Delivers a Century Clubbing
Spyborgs, Capcom’s remastered old-school brawler for the Wii, is promising old school brawler bona fides in the form of combo bonuses – going up to 100-plus hit combos for those talented enough. Capcom-Unity released this gameplay video, which in addition to showing, like, gameplay, also accompanied a 10-point breakdown of how to exploit Spyborgs’ combo…
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id Vows to Punish Mentions of Wolfenstein Leaks
If you got that multiplayer build of Wolfenstein that leaked out last week, you should keep that fact to yourself. Chest-beating about it on the Wolfenstein forums will bring instant banning. Maybe worse. id Community Manager Pete Sokal says yes, they’re aware of the leaks of Wolfenstein Multiplayer. It is “now being distributed illegally through…
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Anti-Langdell Email Raises Ire of IGDA [Update]
IGDA members yesterday received an email, purportedly from an IGDA address, asking them to vote on removing Tim Langdell from the association’s board. Today, the organization denied any official connection and said it was investigating. Yesterday’s email, listed in the reply-to as from the spoofed “[email protected]” address, and was signed “Concerned Members of the IGDA.”…
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Purported Palin-Autographed 360 Listed for a Cool Million [Update]
President Obama tells us to “put away the Xbox.” Sarah Palin? She’ll sign it! This Xbox 360 allegedly autographed by the alleged Alaska governor is allegedly on eBay, for $1.1 million. Allegedly. Suspicious? You betcha. Update: Yup. This sucker’s been de-listed. Couldn’t’ve seen that one coming. Now, back to our original story … That picture…
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Aliens vs. Predator Site Says February 2010
Bit of incremental news for those who were space marine before space marine was so cool – Sega’s updated its Aliens vs. Predator site with a coming soon date: February 2010. You can catch the trailer for it here, but, yes, it involves lots of shooting, hideous deaths, seething, hissing, and guttural alien language. Rebellion’s…
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Madden 10 Pre-Sales Tracking Ahead of Madden 09
In the same conference call announcing Madden Arcade, EA Sports boss Peter Moore said this year’s version of the football franchise is doing better in pre-sales than last year’s 20th anniversary edition. As reported by IndustryGamers, Moore said that, with 10 days to go before the Aug. 14 drop, “we’re now marginally ahead year-on-year.” Last…
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Gang-Tackling Moves the Line in Madden 10
This trailer shows off Pro-Tak, the new tackle physics engine for EA Sports Madden NFL 10. If you get stacked up at the goal line, don’t expect to ricochet your way to paydirt. Similarly, it doesn’t mean it’s all over for the runner. Rather than animate a three- or four-man rodeo as a Quicktime event…
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Sports Illustrated Eschews Sneaker Phone for Madden
Sports Illustrated marketers are throwing out the sneaker phone and throwing in the kitchen sink, going after the dorm-rat gamer for growth and offering free Madden with a paid sign-up. The proposition is, admittedly, shrewd – if you’re willing to pay $60 for Madden, you can pay $50 for Sports Illustrated and get both. Of…
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NCAA 10 Generates, Then Sees Filtered, ‘Gay’ Roster Name
The ongoing controversy over language filtering on Xbox Live has another curious manifestation – rosters that EA Sports’ TeamBuilder auto-names get filtered when they’re imported into the Xbox Live version of NCAA 10. As an example, the above player was auto-named “Jason Gay” at the online TeamBuilder site. But imported into the Xbox 360 version,…
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Technical Difficulties
To: Luke From: Owen We had an unusually prolonged service disruption today; I know very little about what the problem was, or its cause, but I do know Gawker Media staff noticed it immediately and were working on it, late into the afternoon on a Sunday. Everyone’s frustrated by such problems, but I hope they…
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Casting Resident Evil: Afterlife
No secret that today’s been a tough one. We know lots of you had problems getting to the site. So let’s wind down with a game of what-if, casting the next Resident Evil film. The Bits, Bytes, Pixels and Sprites takes a look at who’d be best for the fourth installment of the franchise, which,…
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Miyamoto: Not Worshipping at DLC’s Altar
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury-News, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto downplayed the importance of digital distribution to the company’s future. Said Shiggy: Personally, I’m one of those guys who, even if I have all the songs from iTunes, I want the CD as well. I feel more reassured with that physical media. Entertainment is…
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Sex Scene of the Year Already Awarded
By Edge, anyway. They’re saying that an underworld Overlord II foursome takes the cake, precisely for what it does not show. Overlord II’s “foursome” scene is the best of the year. Yes, it’s a scene where you, the hero, have a foursome. And yes, it’s juvie wish fulfillment. But it’s also a smartly done and…
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This Would Be My Deathbed
Some day, if you get rich enough, this can be yours – a hi-tech luxury bed that combines a giant pull-down hi-def screen with built in gaming consoles and lots of other amenities. This is the HiCan bed, which takes the IKEA design of “put all the essentials on as few square feet as possible”…
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Week in Games: The Mothership Lands
Fallout 3’s Mothership Zeta, expected to be the final DLC for the game, drops tomorrow. On Tuesday, G.I. Joe’s movie tie-in bravely goes up on five platforms against Daisy Fuentes and Hannah Montana. Those are the highlights I can see this week. The count: Six for Wii, four for PSP and 360, three for DS,…
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Today’s Punishment: 3 Minutes of ColecoVision Smurf Gameplay
Even for its era, this was one of the all-time, mind-numbingly boringest video games ever developed. How boring? Walking into a fence could kill you. That’s where I checked out, 0:17 seconds. How much can you take? I hear Smurfette’s naked at the end. Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle [YouTube]
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