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  Thousands of People Are Playing Tetris Without Realizing It

  Right now, more than 100,000 people are trying their best to control a single trainer over at ‘Twitch Plays Pokemon.’ They know that if they send in a command via the ‘Twitch Plays Pokemon’ chat, it’ll make the character in the streamed version Pokemon Red do something. What many of them don’t know is that,…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published February 18, 2014
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  The Human-Crushing Art Of Titanfall

  Hey, whaddya know. Titanfall, a good-lookin’ game about giant mechs, was born from good-lookin’ art showing giant mechs. The images you’re seeing will be part of a book celebrating the game’s art, due out later this month from Titan. You can grab it here. You can also see a flip through of the book from…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2014
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  ​Bravely Default Was Influenced By… Uh, 90210

  Play a couple hours of the terrific new JRPG Bravely Default and a number of its influences will become apparent. There’s Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, and so on. But one influence may be less evident…. the early 90s high school TV drama Beverly Hills 90210 And yet that show,…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published February 18, 2014
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  ​The New Strider Just Feels Right

  It’s hard to reboot a franchise without shooting yourself in the foot. So many times the product feels bloated, weird, and abandons the thing that made it great to begin with. Strider, however, feels just right. In the video above, I give my impressions of Strider. Thankfully, it’s a game that understands what was intrinsically…

  By Chris Person Published February 18, 2014
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  Yup, These Are The Best Star Wars Action Figures On The Planet

  The Black Series is the best thing to happen to Star Wars action figures since, well, forever. Even today, over 30 years on from the first toys, Hasbro’s main line of figures sucks. But not these babies. Three new lines have been announced in the series, consisting of eight new figures in all. In 2014…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2014
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  Microsoft Has a Fix For Xbox One Users With New Black Screen Error [Update]

  The latest update for the Xbox One may add a few useful new features, but it sounds like it adds a new bug, as well. Fortunately, Microsoft has an easy workaround. Some users are reporting that the update gives them a black screen after the system turns on. Users on Reddit report that the result…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published February 18, 2014
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  10 Things You Might Not Know About South Park

  South Park: Stick of Truth doesn’t come out until next month—why not take a moment to learn some trivia about the show in the meantime? Alltime10s compiled a list of neat facts about the show, including where Kenny comes from and even that the church of Scientology tried to uncover dirty details about Matt Stone…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published February 18, 2014
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  Your Strategy Guide To Life

  Real life is the game that everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide. Basics You might not realise, but real life is a game of strategy. There are some fun mini-games – like dancing, driving, running, and sex – but the key to winning is simply managing your resources. Most…

  Oliver Emberton Published February 18, 2014
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  Battle Of The $150 Video Cards: GeForce GTX 750 Ti Vs. Radeon R7 265

  Marking the introduction of its Maxwell architecture, Nvidia has targeted AMD’s $150 Radeon R7 265 with the new GeForce GTX 750 Ti, a card that promises to be more than another rebadge. The GTX 750 Ti’s GM107 is meant to make Nvidia’s 28nm design process as efficient as possible by splitting Kepler’s 192-core streaming multiprocessor…

  By Steven Walton Published February 18, 2014
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  Why a Train Wreck Can Still Be One Of Madden‘s Most Popular Teams

  Barely a week after the Super Bowl ended, fans of the Cleveland Browns got confirmation they were functionally eliminated from contention next year, too. The team’s president and general manager resigned after hiring a new head coach, a comical sequence that is so bass-ackwards you can’t even repeat it in Madden Since re-entering the league…

  By Owen Good Published February 18, 2014
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  How Players Actually Make Progress in ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon‘

  When more than 80,000 people band together to try to control a single Pokémon trainer via Twitch chat—and then manage to actually make progress—the question that immediately comes to mind is: just how in the world are they accomplishing it? If you tune in to ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon‘ briefly—and let’s be real, since the stream…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published February 18, 2014
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  Ken Levine’s New Game Could Be Really Fascinating

  It really sucks that Irrational Games is shutting down, and I hope that everyone who was laid off finds new employment soon. It’s a bad situation, yes, but for gamers, there’s something to be optimistic about—a new digital game by Ken Levine. Levine, an undeniably talented writer best known for his work on BioShock, also…

  By Jason Schreier Published February 18, 2014
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  Tomb Raider: Definitive, New Humble Bundle, LIVE Gold [Deals]

  Amazon’s gold box deal is Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for $20 off. In gameplay terms, it was among the best of the major releases last year, with a single-player campaign that, if anything, was too long, and tons of collectibles for those that sort of thing appeals to. The next-gen port treatment is a great…

  By Shane Roberts Published February 18, 2014
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  A Game That Lets You Swing Trash At Your Friends

  Deathmatch comes in all shapes and sizes, but some of the most satisfying modes are the ones you don’t expect. Particle Mace knows this, and lets you swing lo-fi garbage at your friends. At Indiecade East, a yearly conference for indie game developers in New York, I interviewed designer Andy Wallace about his game Particle…

  By Chris Person Published February 18, 2014
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  BioShock Studio Irrational Games Is Shutting Down

  Irrational Games, the studio that makes BioShock, is shutting down. BioShock creator Ken Levine said today that he plans to move on to smaller, narrative-heavy games that will be released digitally. Levine, who ran Irrational, announced the news on the Irrational Games website today, noting that he’ll be starting “a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at…

  By Jason Schreier Published February 18, 2014
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  Ice-T Doesn’t Actually Hate D&D

  After his comments about recording a D&D audiobook, you may be under the impression that Ice-T thinks the venerable role-playing universe is whack. Nah, that’d be dead wrong. In fact, the rap legend says “that s**t sounds dope to me.” The hip-hop icon has another episode of his Final Level podcast coming up and he…

  By Evan Narcisse Published February 18, 2014
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  Relativity Puts You In An MC Escher Drawing

  How do you design a building when gravity can change at any time? Willy Chyr is figuring that out with his first game, Relativity. Think about it as if GLaDOS gave you control over gravity instead of portals (minus the evil AI narrative). Somehow, Willy he decided that his first project should be a game…

  By Steve Marinconz Published February 18, 2014
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  Miyamoto: The Year of Luigi Will End On March 18

  Remember when we thought the Year of Luigi was over? We were wrong. Shigeru Miyamoto has just declared that it is still, in fact, the Year of Luigi, up until March 18, when we will enter the next Year, whatever that may be. The Year of Luigi began on February 14, 2013, and it will…

  By Jason Schreier Published February 18, 2014
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  Cool Anime Toys We Saw At Toy Fair

  Yesterday, we showed some cute/sexy Nintendo toys from Good Smile. They do other stuff, too, like figures and statues for Attack on Titan, Steins;Gate and Bayonetta. A giant Bayonetta. Almost as big as a Titan. Go on; take a look. You’ll also see some Kill La Kill, Hatsune Miku and Ghost in the Shell stuff…

  By Evan Narcisse Published February 18, 2014
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  Street Fighter‘s Ryu Has No Idea What He’s Saying

  Now that he’s finished harassing the X-Men, Pete Holmes takes his one-man battle against fictional characters to the streets. What does the Ryu say? Fans of Capcom’s storied fighting franchise will no doubt have used Google — as I just did — to figure out that Ryu is saying something along the lines of “Tatsumaki…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2014