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Weekend Coupons: Halo 3 Legendary for $40?!
That coupon gets you another 25 percent in Gamestop store credit for trading in DS games. Elsewhere, you can get a Halo helmet for $40, and a free game for a Steam preorder of H.A.W.X. Also at GameStop, any trade-ins will get you another 20 percent in store credit toward your purchase of Resident Evil…
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Violent Gamers Immune to Pain — of Others
More scholarship suggests playing violent video games makes one – get ready to have the song stuck in your head, too – “comfortably numb” to others in pain and less likely to help them. Two perfessers cooked up a study in which 320 college students were given violent and nonviolent video games to play. After…
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Gossip Rag Says Obama is BrickBreaker Fiend
President Obama famously battled it out with his staff over keeping his Blackberry. Now we know why – he gets his BrickBreaker on every night. The Star – as in the reliable publication you often see at the checkout between this month’s BIG SEX NEWS reported by Cosmo and Glamour – reports that the Gamer-in-Chief…
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Kotaku Originals: DS-Hi!
Ninty’s two-dot-oh of the two-dot-screens handheld got a North Am release date this week, and there was much rejoicing. The news partially stole thunder from the SFIV release (OMG) and GTA DLC (ORLY) drops. Elsewhere in the news from Kotakopolis: Reviews, Impressions and Previews Street Fighter IV Review: Seth’s Soliloquy F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Review:…
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Sports and Porn and the U.S. Marines
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Valentine’s Day Stories on Sunday were largely of a type: Sports or sexual deviance. Sometimes that’s how the news cycle coalesces. In other news, I had a weird dream last night, which probably describes, in boldface type, my subconscious anxiety of late: Dad, realizing I had no full-time job and…
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Week in Games: Round Four — FIGHT!
North America readies for the first true Street Fighter sequel in nearly a decade. Gaming’s definitive fighter hits the PS3 and 360 this week. GTA: The Lost and Damned drops on XBLM the same day. The rest of the launch schedule: Five for the DS and Wii, four on the PC, three on the PS3,…
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Gears of War Patched … and Patched … and Patched
Noticed the heavies in Gears of War all sport soul patches? (Flavor savers, as we call them back in Surry County, N.C.) Here’s a breakdown of the top liphair in the FPS third-person shooter genre. Game Intestine takes a look at the labia caesar (yep, that’s “hairy lips” in latin) of Gears of War. But…
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Searching for Midway’s Mystery Investor
The Chicago Tribune went looking for the mystery investor whose $100,000 buy-up of 87 percent of Midway could reap a profit in the millions under Chapter 11 reorganization. They didn’t find much. “Mark Thomas” purchased Sumner Redstone’s interest in Midway last year for a hundred grand – fractions of pennies on the dollar – and…
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w4m? m4w? … L4D …
After a lonely Valentine’s Day, let’s head over to the infamous Craigslist Casual Encounters, see if we can find some zombies to join some hot w4mmm action. I’m clean and real, you be too. As you can see, these ads were still active on the S.F. Bay craigslist as of 1 pm Crecente time. Here…
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Rumor: Character List for Legends of Wrestlemania Revealed
A NeoGAFfer working from lists of previously confirmed characters, plus images he says will be released by IGN and WWE, has come up with at least 42 playable characters in Legends of Wrestlemania. If you grew up in the golden age of pro wrestling – what I consider it to be anyway – there are…
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NBA Dunk Champ Shouts Out to Call of Duty
Couple weeks back the Knicks’ Nate Robinson saluted before a free throw to prove to another gamer he plays Call of Duty. En route to winning the dunk contest, he gave the game another shout-out. Here, after finishing off a bounce-pass windmill, Robinson throws up another salute and calls the game out by name. But…
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Get 3 Months of XBox Live from Amazon for … $1,200!!!!
Reader Thomas M. sends along this steal – fuck, it’s a heist. Not only is it $1,200 for a 3-month XBL sub, it’s also a *used* card. And you still have to pay shipping. If you really look at it, though, that’s $400 a month for Xbox Live, and really, how much do you spend…
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Getting Paid at GameStop: Not as Simple as it Should Be
GameStop employees can’t get paper checks. True, most of the civilized world is on direct deposit by now. But for GameStoppers who aren’t, the only alternative is a cash card that nickel-and-dimes them. Consumerist talked about this in the past week. GameStop, as well as many retailers in the same market, offer direct deposit and…
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SNL Delivers Hardcore Content to Wii
In the annals of TV history, I think Alec Baldwin aggressively jerking off two Wiimotes and making every masturbation double entendre imaginable will be remembered as just groundbreaking as Edith Bunker’s menopause. You know why this is just good comedy writing? Because they make every frat house masturbation joke imaginable without once punning “Wii.” Ninty’s…
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The Games that Inspired Porn
Ah, Feb. 15. It’s the day for porn, shame and regret. So is Feb. 14 if you don’t have a girlfriend. (I do. It’s a picture of Olivia Munn). The -Minus World was feeling romantic and, noting porn’s long history of cribbing off of others’ IP (Field of Reams, Driving Miss Daisy Crazy) they found…
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MLB 2K9 Ads Pushing Toward Obnoxious
In-game advertisements in sports titles aren’t that conspicuous because, hell, real-life playing fields are littered with them. But screens in MLB 2K9 show publishers are comfortable with alterations of reality, if they turn a buck. PastaPadre, a dedicated sports video game blogger, took a look at 2K9’s screens of every stadium and noticed several inconsistencies.…
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Couple Plans In-Game LittleBigPlanet Wedding
Remember the guy who proposed to his girlfriend with a LittleBigPlanet level? They are in fact getting hitched – and are planning to do so in the game itself. Dimmujed, the groom-elect, uploaded that video yesterday, then went into the LittleBigWorkshop forums this morning to announce the happy news that he and his betrothed, Andrea,…
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10 Video Game Athletes Who Probably Roided
This past week, Alex Rodriguez copped to taking steroids and everyone went on TV and radio to bitch about it, including me. But is the world of video game sports any more pure? Pwn or Die compiled a list of 10 characters whose connections to performance-enhancing drugs go well beyond bloated physiques or cartooned numbers.…
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MadWorld Serves Up Blood and Cussin’
For your debauched, desensitized and depraved viewing pleasure, here’s uncut gameplay footage from Madworld. The stylized gorefest is entertaining – so is hearing John DiMaggio – more Bender than Fenix – say “Fuckin’ A!” DiMaggio is one of the announcers providing commentary during your black-and-white-and-red-all-over tour de brutality. In between F-bombs you can hear him…
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The PlayStation Store is Closing
After 10 years, Sony’s PlayStation Store in San Francisco’s Metreon shopping center – the only store of its kind – will close sometime this summer. The lease on the PlayStation store, home to many a launch-night lineup (the PlayStation 2, PS3, PSP, and pretty much any major title all had events there) runs out this…
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