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WTPT: BioWare Fan Throws a Fit Over Mass Effect 3 DLC
A portion of the gaming community hasn’t taken news of the day one DLC, From Ashes, for Mass Effect 3 lightly. Amongst them is Francis, who you may know from his many YouTube videos, rants and other oddities. He is not pleased with having to pay more for a complete game. IT’S 10 AMERICAN DOLLARS,…
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WTPT: A Guide To The Beautiful Vacation Spot Of Rapture
Bytes Breaks presents a video guide on BioShock‘s underwater city of Rapture. I’m sure many of you know this vacation spot well. The serene waterscapes, the very socially-inclined inhabitants, and the many activities available for young children. The city even provides each one of your young girls with a body guard! That sounds safe. The…
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Learn How To Make Video Games With This Video Game
Code Hero isn’t your basic first-person shooter. You’ll have enemies, and you’ll be “shooting” them, but it won’t be with assault rifles and pistols. Instead, you shoot lines of Javascript to command the environment around you. Need a platform moved over? A certain kind of enemy eliminated in one fell swoop? There’s a code for…
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WTPT: CD Projekt Won’t Stop Teasing Us With The Witcher 2 on the 360
Teaser trailers are the cruelest of trailers when done right. A second teaser trailer follows yesterday’s look at The Witcher 2 on the 360. How much teasing do we need?! I’m already anxious to finally get my hands on the 360 version, as I’ve got no gaming machine to play the PC version on (I…
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BioWare’s Boss Defends Harassed Writer
Yesterday we posted about Jennifer Hepler, one of BioWare’s writers who has unfortunately been receiving a lot of hate over the Internet. Today BioWare’s co-founder, Dr. Ray Muzyka, defended her (see statement above). In an effort to further support their employee, Muzyka posted that BioWare will be making a $1,000 donation in Hepler’s name to…
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WTPT: This Is What Assassin’s Creed Looks Like In Real Life
In the future, when we finally get some realistic virtual reality gaming options, playing Assassin’s Creed is going to be simultaneously terrifying and exciting. But I think it will take me awhile before I can leap off a building and land on a car without having a heart attack midway. This modern-day version apparently entails…
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Pass the Time Shooting Hoops as Jeremy Lin
Everyone is soaking in the Jeremy Lin insanity, so it was just a matter of time before somebody made a game out of it. LinSanity is a simple, browser-based basketball game where you never miss the hoop. The main object therefore becomes to collect the multiplier bonuses that pop up on the court. You’ll be…
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ReviewsSyndicate: The Kotaku Review
The year is 2069. The government as we know it is obsolete. In its place are various syndicates, all racing to develop the most advanced bio-digital implants that allow their host to connect to the dataverse, and even control it. Syndicate is a telling of that story, originally written by Bullfrog Productions in 1993, and…
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BioWare Writer Describes Her Gaming Tastes; Angry Gamers Call Her a “Cancer”
BioWare writer Jennifer Hepler is trying to delete her Twitter account as of yesterday after feeling the hate of gamers who are angry about what she apparently said in a 2006 interview. She’s been called terrible things on the Internet, after a flame that was lit by a post on Reddit calling Hepler, as the…
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WTPT: Try Not To Spend Your Monday Replicating This Epic Battlefield 3 Jet Swap
Are we seriously nearing the end of February already? Where does the time go? It’s not like I spent the entire weekend playing Syndicate (except, oh wait, I did). We may as well spend a little more time trying to get through today quickly, because no one likes Mondays anyway. WATCH: In today’s “holy crap,…
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A Different Interpretation on the Chell/GLaDOS Relationship
Internet Harmony | Reddit user GryphElyse drew Chell and GLaDOS in adorable kitten form. (Photo: Imgur) Why People Give a Shit About a 1988 PC Role-Playing Game Brian Fargo, whose credits include Bard’s Tale and the original Fallout, wants to make a new Wasteland game. This is a very good idea. It’s also a very…
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WTPT: Kick Off The Weekend With Some Laughs at the Mario Bros’ Expense
Before you clock out today, don’t miss the videos we’ve compiled for you, as well as our Gaming App of the Day. WATCH: This episode of Epic Rap Battles of History shown above features our favorite brother-duo from gaming history up against the famous Wright brothers. So, who won the rap battle? Honestly, I might…
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Futurama, Street Fighter and Last Airbender Leap onto SoulCalibur V‘s Stage of History
We already knew that SoulCalibur V‘s character creator is powerful enough to allow you to create all sorts of messes, but this ups the ante one notch more. From recognizable characters of other famous fighting franchises to completely random (but equally recognizable) characters like Zoidberg or the cast of Community, the gallery of characters fans…
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WTPT: A New Max Payne 3 Trailer to Watch and an Addictive Platformer to Play
It’s Thursday, which means it’s almost Friday, which means it’s almost the weekend! That’s a reason to celebrate, right? Let’s celebrate with some games and videos. I think we’d all like that. WATCH: Feast your eyes on this short film, entitled Project S.E.R.A., depicting a woman forced to watch her father turn into a zombie…
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