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$100,000 Comic Book Found in the Wall of a $10,000 Home
A Minnesota man working on a fixer-upper tore down a wall and found, among the newspapers stuffed inside to insulate it, a copy of Action Comics No. 1. That’s right, Superman’s first appearance. The birth of superhero comics. It’ll go for at least $100,000—but it could have sold for a lot more. In a gobsmacking…
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Madden‘s TV Offer is the Deal That Dares Not Speak Its Name
Last week, Madden NFL 25 announced an “Anniversary Edition” that at first didn’t seem like it had much to offer. Then word started to circulate in an officially unofficial way that a promo code could be used to watch DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket NFL broadcast on a PC, with or without signing up with the satellite…
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EA Sports Has No 1st Amendment Right to College Players, Judges Say
A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit brought by a college quarterback against EA Sports, on grounds the video game publisher used his likeness without permission in their popular NCAA Football series. Ryan Hart (pictured), who played for Rutgers University from 2002 to 2005, sued years ago on grounds that the Rutgers quarterback in…
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Hey Hipsters, Looking For Your Portal Fixie? It’s On Craigslist
I’m selling a nice dicent fixie 300 obo just got the rims a week ago but I don’t even ride bikes so I don’t need it anymore every thing works fine and looks good I paid over 450 for every thing […] The seller says he’s willing to trade it for a Wii U, too.…
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Only Fox News Can Save Us From the Tyranny of Xbox One
Microsoft says the Xbox One won’t need an always-online Internet connection. But if you want to play it, the thing might need to check in with the home office once a day. Playing used or borrowed games also sounds like a real bitch. Only one thing that can save gamers from this: our old enemy,…
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The Big Xbox One Announcement, in Helpful, Hilarious Abridged Form
If you didn’t see any of the Xbox One announcement yesterday, you may be of the impression this morning that Microsoft must have gone on stage and urinated on a picture of Mister Rogers while—wait a minute, was Phil Spencer really wearing two watches? VideoGamer, which also abbreviated Sony’s PS4 announcement back in February, provides…
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PC FIFA Won’t Get EA Sports’ Next-Gen Engine
Sorry, Master Race. That superduper Ignite Engine that EA Sports is bringing to its next-generation games? Yeah, it’s not going to power any upcoming PC version of FIFA. That’s per FIFA community manager Rob Hodson, who had this to say on Twitter. Naturally, PC gamers did not react well. The truth is that PC has…
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The Xbox One Gives the First Look at the Future of Sports Video Games
EA Sports had an outsize presence at the Xbox One’s debut today in Washington, peeling the tape off something called the Ignite Engine and teasing a “very special relationship,” with the console, while offering few specifics of that beyond some exclusive DLC for the FIFA franchise. All four sports titles discussed today—FIFA, Madden, the newly…
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Xbox One is Not Backward Compatible
The Verge reports that Xbox One will not be backward compatible with Xbox 360 titles. That is according to Mark Whitten, Microsoft’s vice president for Xbox Live. When asked if Xbox One will be able to play 360 titles over Xbox Live, or by downloading them, or by some means other than a disc, Whitten…
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Steven Spielberg is Making a Halo TV Series for Xbox One
Steven Spielberg will collaborate with 343 Industries on an exclusive Halo television series to be brought to Xbox One. Last year, Halo published an acclaimed TV series, “Forward Unto Dawn.” Bungie, the series’ original creators, have moved on to making another science-fiction game, Destiny, which is confirmed for Xbox One as well as PlayStation 4,…
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Here is What Forza Will Look Like on Xbox One
With all that next-gen processing power, you didn’t expect Xbox One to launch without a Forza title, did you? Here is Forza Motorsport 5, from Turn 10 Studios. It will be available at launch. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @owengood
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EA Sports and Xbox One to Have ‘A Very Special Relationship’
FIFA, Madden, NBA Live and UFC will all launch for Xbox One in the next year, Andrew Wilson, EA Sports’ head, just said at the Xbox One event. They will be powered by the new EA Sports Ignite engine. Ignite is “new technology that allows players to make decisions with four times more calculations per…
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Under The Hood Of The Xbox One
Microsoft’s Marc Whitten just lifted the hood on the Xbox One’s technical specifications. In short: 8 gigs of RAM, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi Direct, a Blu-Ray disc drive, 64-bit architecture and “practically silent operation.” Kinect 2.0 also gets a substantial upgrade. Whitten promised the integrated camera will have a wider field of view, and the sensor…
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Watch Live TV with the Xbox One
As was anticipated, the new Xbox One will function as a set-top cable box, allowing users to switch between TV and gaming video by voice command. In today’s Xbox One reveal, the console was shown swapping between DVD/streaming video playback, the cable input, a video game, and its Internet functionalities. A voice-activated television guide will…
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Here’s The View From The Xbox Reveal Event
In T-minus, oh, 45 minutes, Microsoft pops the top on its next console. You may have heard reports of buses, badges and big tents over social media. Our editor-in-chief, Stephen Totilo sends back this look at where the big news is going down today. The big meeting hall tent Microsoft erected for this event. Another…
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist Brings a Friend for Its Latest Trailer
Sam Fisher, meet Isaac Briggs. He’s the co-op partner on loan from the CIA in Splinter Cell: Blacklist and judging by this trailer, he seems to play well with others. Well, others on his own team. As the trailer says, there are four mission types playable on 14 different maps in split-screen co-op. Splinter Cell:…
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Keep Fans Happy—Or Break Their Hearts—as an NFL Owner in Madden 25
If they can live with themselves, NFL fans will be able to do some truly sick and depraved things this year with the new Madden video game. Like charge fans $30 for a beer. Like buy out the Green Bay Packers. Like drive that franchise down to Mexico in the middle of the night, and…
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The Wii U has Nothing to Offer a Sports Fan. Does It Even Matter Now?
If it wasn’t obvious at its launch in November, then this past week should have made it clear: The Wii U is functionally irrelevant to sports video games, and there is no reason for any sports fan to buy the console. The only question now is how much that will really matter to the fate…
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