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The Derpface in the Middle of this Politician’s Anti-Video Game Speech Says It All
Here’s Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia, who has served in the House of Representatives since 1978. He chairs the House subcommittee that funds the National Science Foundation. Yesterday he took the floor to complain that the Obama administration was ignoring its friends in the entertainment industry while demonizing the National Rifle Association, which is baloney.…
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Mars: War Logs Won’t Come In a Box, but Does Think Outside of One
This is Mars: War Logs, a game I had no idea was coming, but evidently was announced back in December. The fact this is a console downloadable (both XBLA and PSN, it’ll also be available on PC) is intriguing to me because this trailer is promising a lot of stuff normally associated with boxed goods.…
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This Star Wars Pinball Adaptation is a Tour de Force
E3 is never a time for social calls. It’s nonstop work. Last June, the only developer I met with outside the walls of the L.A. Convention Center was over drinks with Zen Studios’ U.S. staff at the J.W. Marriott. They’d built a great name for themselves with Pinball FX2, and their profile shot through the…
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A Defense of Aquaman—From the Voice of Aquaman
I heard from many of you after this lip-curling, anti-Atlantean tract last week, in which I explained my soft bigotry of no expectations of Aquaman. Your complaints were printed out, read and thrown into my fireplace to warm my home. Then I took a phone call. From the voice of Aquaman. “This is Jens Andersen,”…
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New Caps, Old Parks Welcome You Back to The Show
Do sports video games deserve a spoiler alert? If I don’t put one here, I’m sure someone will complain about it. Over the weekend I heard various reports of MLB 13 The Show being sold before it’s supposed to hit shelves next week. Someone got their hands on a copy and have been feeding Operation…
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Conan O’Brien Wants to Protect the New Lara Croft (from Throat Impalement)
Conan O’Brien’s breezy “Clueless Gamer” review of Tomb Raider begins and proceeds predictably enough, with the late night host remarking on Lara Croft’s physique and a camera optimized for showing it off. Then he gets to one of the game’s infamous sequences, the spike-filled flume ride, which ends in a cringe-inducing death if you choose…
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From Estonia to a Top NFL Draft Pick, with Help from Madden
You’ve got to figure there’s a screenplay somewhere in the story of Margus Hunt, from his native Estonia to a potential top-10 pick in the NFL draft. The best detail, according to SB Nation, is that the guy taught himself the basics of football by playing Madden NFL—including how many players are on each side.…
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Trophy Listings Point to Dishonored‘s Next DLC, “Other Side of the Coin”
Ten new trophies for Dishonored hint that the title of its second DLC extension is coming soon, and it’ll be titled “Other Side of the Coin.” When additional chapters were first mentioned by publisher Bethesda back in the fall, it said the second installment would deal with Daud, the leader of “The Whalers,” a group…
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FBI Profilers Don’t Believe Violent Video Games Cause Violence
FBI profilers don’t view video games as a cause of shootings and other violent crime, a former profile said yesterday morning on CBS’ Face the Nation Profilers still include an interest in games when making their threat assessment of whether a person is at risk to act out violently, Mary Ellen O’Toole (above) told the…
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Development Costs Mean Next-Gen Leap ‘Won’t Be As Obvious’ as the Last, Says BioWare’s Art Director
If you’re accustomed to a new console generation delivering a big leap forward in technology, particularly visual fidelity, BioWare’s art director suggests you temper your expectations. The PS4 and whatever Microsoft is cooking up will be “a big leap, but it won’t be as obvious,” Neil Thompson told Official Xbox Magazine. Noting that the transition…
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No, the Government is Not Paying $1 Million for People to Play Video Games
Did you know the government is spending $1.2 million to pay people to play World of Warcraft? I didn’t either! Maybe that’s because it ain’t true, but truth is a relative thing when you’re one of the assclowns leading an intellectually bankrupt legislature that can’t go two months without a self-inflicted hostage crisis. That describes…
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Ready for Some Football? On the PS4, Not Really …
David Halberstam was killed in a car wreck the day I bought my Xbox 360. I don’t mean to trivialize the death of a great writer—October 1964 is one of my favorite books, in any subject—but it’s God’s honest truth that his death is the only reason I remember anything about the day. The rest…
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What If Sony Hired Leonard Nimoy to Pitch the PlayStation 4—in 1981?
Hats off to IGN for making the past into a prologue with this PlayStation 4 hype video demake starring a pornstached Leonard Nimoy from 30 years ago. My God, I think the last time I heard that opening synthesizer anthem was in a Raycom highlight show before Maryland and Duke played in the 1984 ACC…
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Cops Say Dad, Visiting Badly Burned Son, Stole Three Game Consoles From a Hospital
A five-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter set his shirt on fire and went to the hospital with serious burns on Wednesday. Cops allege that his father went to the hospital’s family waiting room, and consoled himself with a Wii, PlayStation and Xbox raided from a supply cabinet. Pittsburgh police say that Jim Skursky…
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