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Sunday Comics: Get Well Soon

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Special note: Please do keep Matthew Taranto, creator of Brawl in the Family, in your thoughts. You may have noticed his comic has not published for a…

By Owen Good Published March 18, 2012

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This Week in the Business: ‘Is Microsoft Thinking About Dropping the Disc?’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Is Microsoft thinking about dropping the disc?” — Rob Fahey, former editor at GamesIndustry.biz, discussing whether Microsoft’s new console will go completely solid-state STAT | 66 million — Number of iPads that Apple could sell in 2012, according to some analyst…

Steve Peterson Published March 17, 2012

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I Have a Hard Time Believing This Duke Nukem 3D Map Was Drawn From Memory, But Okay

We’ve written about Mapstalgia a couple times before. On the tumblr, people submit maps of classic games that they’ve drawn from memory. This map of the Red Light District from Duke Nukem 3D, strains the whole “from memory” aspect of things, but it’s still impressive. (You can view the full version by expanding the image…

By Kirk Hamilton Published March 16, 2012

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BioWare’s Least Awkward Love Scene

But when it comes time to seal the romantic deal in a BioWare game, do things really need to be so awkward? Because damn, things have gotten weird. As Tom Bissell puts it in his Grantland critique of the game—”In fact, could we, as gamers, maybe politely band together to convince BioWare to can the…

By Kirk Hamilton Published March 16, 2012

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The Boardroom Battlefields of the New Syndicate

Say what you will about the game’s departure from both the look and feel of the original, there were sections of the latest Syndicate that looked just great. Mostly anything involving an office from the future. Or anything that flew. Those looked awesome as well. This environment and vehicle art from the game is the…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 16, 2012

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Why Kickstarter is Best For Old Games & Dead Genres

Not very long after adventure game legend Tim Schafer proposed resurrecting a long-dormant genre, and made a ton of money for doing it, another long-dormant kind of game – this time an 80’s RPG – did something similar. The amount of money Brian Fargo and his Wasteland team has already made is raising eyebrows. Where…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 16, 2012

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Lay Down Your Guns, Nintendo, Sega & Atari

It’s The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, re-enacted by 1980s video game light guns. I’ll leave you to decide which is which. [via OMG Barry, via VGJunk]

By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2012

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Yes, a Games Writer was Fired Over Review Scores

What was once just heavily rumored has now been confirmed by those involved

By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2012

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In Which Jennifer Aniston & Matthew Perry Teach us About Windows 95

An oldie, to be sure, even by this feature’s standards, but still a fun watch. Especially when you notice it was put together by GT Interactive, the company which would later try to pass itself off as Atari

By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2012

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Street Fighting Across America

You don’t really see America’s iconic Mount Rushmore in many video games. You do see it in the original Street Fighter, though, as the background for the stage in which you fight a dude called Mike.

By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012

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There is a Fighting Game Based on Les Misérables

Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel Les Misérables is a literary giant. You’re probably also familiar with its long-running theatrical adaptation, which has been treading the boards for over thirty years now. But have you ever played the Les Misérables video game? You really should. Especially since it’s a 2D fighting game. The game is called Arm…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012

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Hell is a Dennis Hopper Video Game

Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller was a PC adventure game released in 1994. It’s OK if you’ve never heard of it, or can’t remember it. Actually, no, it’s not OK. Because you really should know as much as you can about a video game that didn’t just star Dennis Hopper, but Grace Jones as well. Hell,…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012

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This Wonderful Mass Effect 3 Art is Full of GIANT SPOILERS

Matt Rhodes is one of my favourite concept artists in the business. Why? Because his style, using bright, colourful cartoon characters for games that are often very dark and serious in tone, is a breath of fresh air in an industry where a lot of art ends up looking exactly the same. We’ve featured his…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012

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George Washington & Ben Franklin, as Seen by Video Games in 1993

Two of America’s founding fathers, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, will be starring in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III. It’s not, you know, their first time in a video game. They’ve been in plenty, some serious, some less so, but my favourite in both cases is 1993 adventure game classic Day of the Tentacle, in…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012

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How to Look Like C-3PO. Or Mark Hamill. Or a Stormtrooper.

Collector Jason Liebig has uploaded six of the greatest Flickr images you’re likely to ever see: cereal box scans that include giant masks for some of the main characters from Star Wars From a Canadian cereal cash-in (the cereal itself branded C-3POs) dating all the way back to 1984, there were six in all, for…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012

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Science Proves Old Video Games Were Super Hard

Sitting down with a bunch of old games in the Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon and Metroid franchises, Belgian scientists have proven beyond all doubt that those games are way hard. To showcase their work, they’ve written a scientific paper outlining their findings. Greg Aloupis from the Free University of Brussels…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012

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RIP Jean Giraud, aka Moebius

The French artist has left a legacy that is almost impossible to put into words

By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2012

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Street Smarts

Silent Hill: Downpour and the return of FIFA Street highlight a week kicked off today by Mario Party 9. Some decent downloadable titles hitting PSN and XBLA round out the lineup. Today • Mario Party 9 (Wii) Monday • All Zombies Must Die! (PC) Tuesday • FIFA Street (360, PS3) • Ridge Racer (PS Vita)…

By Owen Good Published March 11, 2012

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Sunday Comics: Love Means Never …

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Dueling Analogs by Steve Napierski published March 7.—Read more of Dueling Analogs Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 5.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…

By Owen Good Published March 11, 2012

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This Week in the Business: ‘We’re Very Far From Seeing Everything the PS3 Can Do.’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “We’re very far from seeing everything the PS3 can do.”–David Cage, designer of Heavy Rain, talking about the still untapped horsepower of the PS3 QUOTE | “Traditional developers are scared.”-Colt McAnlis, Developer Advocate for Google, talking about how game developers feel…

Steve Peterson Published March 10, 2012