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UncategorizedYouTube Copyright Fiasco Get Wilder, But This Time Someone Admits Error
Being told someone else owns your 2-million-view video is a sure way to ruin a YouTuber’s day. It can also be a real downer for the company supposedly making the claim. Especially if YouTube’s bot scanner is making thousands of these infuriating claims on their behalf, all because of a mistake. Scale Lab, a newcomer…
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UncategorizedThe Greatest Board Game Never Made
What would happens when you take every 80s and 90s board game and mash them together to create a garish monster? Pure magic. Enter BORED GAME ™ — a fictional commercial devoted to every overpriced, monstrously complicated board game ever made. It’s a hulking monstrosity, a giant, glow-in-the-dark Tower of Babel, and it can be…
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UncategorizedIt’s A Skylanders Stop-Motion Christmas Spectacular (With Ponies)
The Irate Gamerspent nearly 60 hours creating this stop-motion action figure Christmas spectacular, when he could have just filmed my office for an hour on any given Saturday. The old Skylanders go on a magical journey to welcome the new Skylanders: Swap Force figures into their home. It’s a bit slipshod, but certainly better than…
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How To Prepare For The Walking Dead Season Two
One of my favorite games of last year is returning for its second season this week. With the adorable-yet-tough Clementine from the last season returning as the protagonist, it’s sure to out-depress the fantastic (and very depressing) last season that featured father-figure Lee. If you’re preparing for Season Two as it rolls out on its…
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UncategorizedThe Most Brilliant iPad Game I’ve Played All Year
This is Blek. It’s a simple name for a simple game, one in which all you have to do to win is draw a single line. Which single line? That’s the complicated bit. Whatever sort of line you draw in Blek takes on a life of its own, repeating until it either reaches the top…
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The Last Thing You’ll Ever Eat
Turducken? Turducken is nothing. Behold Cthulken. Or Craturktopus. Perhaps Turkrakon. Whatever you call this dark combination of turkey, crab legs, bacon and Elder God, it is the one true Last Supper. Reddit’s doc_birdman, along with numerous unnamed agents of chaos lurking in the shadows, shared this image with the internet over the weekend. It’s been…
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The Most Delightful Game Development Engine Ever.
Introduced in 2005 as a Mac game development tool, Unity has grown into a multi-platform monster, used to make games for everything from Facebook to consoles — but none of that really mattered, until it got an official anime mascot. Meet Unity-Chan. Just like the general public didn’t care about Internet Explorer until it got…
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UncategorizedJust Cause 2‘s PC Multiplayer Mod Launches All Kinds of Mayhem Today
If you thought those mass BASE jumps in Battlefield 4 were cool, hum a few bars of the Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod for PC, which just came out of beta and goes live on Steam today. Group parachuting joins boat races, jet combat and demolition derbies among the activities awaiting you in the tropical…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Steam Machine: Unboxed and Taken Apart
Valve recently sent 300 lucky gamers some prototype Steam Machines, and people are already getting to uploading pictures and video unboxings of the things online. And we’re not just talking taking it out of the wooden framing it came in. We’re talking unscrewing things and unplugging things inside the hybrid PC/console’s insides. If you missed…
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