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  The Best Game Trailers Are Set To 80’s Power Ballads

  After Saints Row 4, Stan Bush’s “The Touch” makes yet another appearance in a video game context—this time, the Shadow Warrior reboot’s launch trailer. And it is glorious. Indeed, Shadow Warrior is out and available, ready to be enjoyed by the blood- and old school FPS-hungry masses. It can be found on GOG, Steam and…

  By András Neltz Published September 27, 2013
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  Malaysian Politician Makes Crap Up, Says GTAV Is Banned in the U.S.

  In Malaysia, a member of Parliament named Reezal Merican Bin Naina Merican is asking his government to ban Grand Theft Auto V due to violence. His rationale is that the United States and the United Kingdom have already banned the game. They have? Oh really? Um, no. They have not. Courtesy of tipster Mohamad, below…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2013
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  You’ve Never Seen Tattoos Like Banana Tattoos

  Think human beings are the only ones who can enjoy tattoos? Ha! Bananas can get them, too. Japanese artist End Cape specializes in giving the yellow fruit tats. His process is time consuming and taxing. End Cape punctures small holes in the banana’s skin using a pin, and this causes the peel to “bruise” and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2013
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  Silver Spoon is an Anime with Real Heart

  Six weeks ago, I listed Silver Spoon as one of the five anime of the summer you should be watching—and with good reason. From start to finish, Silver Spoon is an anime that walks the fine line between realistic drama and comedy to create a series brimming with real heart. Good – You May Learn…

  By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 27, 2013
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  Second Life Turns 10, Gets Creepy Facelift

  Yes, Second Life still exists. Yes, there’s enough money left in it to upgrade the engine. No, I don’t know anyone who has touched this thing since 2006 either, so if you find one, tell them they’re a very special little unicorn.

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013
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  I Had No Idea Schwarzenegger Was In Skyrim

  Come for the admirable attempt to recreate Predator using Skyrim. Stay for maybe the best Schwarzenegger impersonation I have ever heard. Especially since it’s not like there’s practice reference for the man saying “THROTHGARD!”. Skyrim At The Movies: PREDATOR – TYRANNICON [YouTube]

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013
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  First-Person Shooters? I’ll Take A First-Person Scorer, Thanks.

  I’m right in the middle of playing both FIFA 14 and PES 2014 (I’ll be comparing them here next week). But as I play them – and in particular the former, which is looking old – my mind drifts to what the football games of the next (or next) generation could/should look like. And I’m…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013
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  Don’t Laugh. Klingon And Elvish Are Real Languages.

  You might think Lord of the Rings’ Elvish, Star Trek’s Klingon and Game of Thrones’ Dothraki are all just collections of silly words, but nope. They’re actual, real languages, no different from English, Spanish or Japanese. This TED Talk by John McWhorter explains why this is. It’s not just a collection of words that makes…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013
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  The Pirates Of The Future Don’t Buckle Swashes

  Sergi Brosa is a Spanish concept artist and illustrator who works mostly as a freelancer and on comission pieces. Why a comic publisher or video game studio doesn’t have him on their books escapes me, because Sergi’s stuff is insane Be sure to scroll to the last image. Then…keep scrolling. If you can. You can…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013
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  The Xbox One Can Trim Your Fat, That’s Why It Comes With Kinect

  Until December 2014, everybody who gets an Xbox One will have free access to something called Xbox Fitness. Which is basically a collection of videos that use the Kinect’s sci-fi powers to help you lose the weight you accumulate playing all your other games. The vids appear to simply be pre-existing fitness productions, but tie…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013
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  The Best Game This Year Is Jumping Into Swimming Pools (And Failing)

  You know the best thing about GTA V? It’s not the scale, the cars, the missions or the guns. It’s the fact there are swimming pools. And a brutal physics engine. This is the good Jackass game we never got. I had a lot of fun with the GTA physics… [thanks Will138!]

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013
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  Thief Has An Old-School Homage Mission. Which Is DLC. Sigh.

  Hey, here’s where there should be some good news! The upcoming Thief game, which already has people a little worried, thought it was doing the right thing by including a mission that was a straight homage to Thief II’s bank heist. Which it immediately spoils by making it pre-order DLC. I’ve said before how awful…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013
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  We Already Know He’ll Have Mother Issues

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  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013
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  We Don’t Need A Metal Gear Movie. We’ve Already Got A Real Snake.

  When the Metal Gear movie is done – if it’s ever done – it’ll be 17 hours long, 16 of which will be people talking about something you don’t quite understand. What a drag. So let’s watch this much shorter Metal Gear movie, made by one of the world’s best cosplayers, instead. The man in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013
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  Star Citizen, You Just Keep Looking Better

  You know, I think Chris Roberts’ pitch for Star Citizen probably went something like this: “Hey, I made Wing Commander, so I’m going to do that again. Oh, and also, Battlestar Galactica was awesome”. The game’s not out until the end of next year, at the earliest. Which is about the only bad news in…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013
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  Imagine If Skyrim Had Better Combat…

  Once was a time, when you play games like Hexen and Heretic, that first-person shooters weren’t always about shooting. Sometimes they could be about throwin’ fireballs and castin’ spells. Lichdom is a return to those times, and a good-looking one at that. Though billed as an “action adventure”, and with RPG elements up to its…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013
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  One Last Crackpot Breaking Bad Theory… That Just May Be Right

  The guns are loaded, the chips are on the table: Just three nights remain until we find out, once and for all, how Breaking Bad will end. Surely there’s room for just one… more… theory. You guys have already listed some great theories about how you think the show will end. This new one, from…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published September 26, 2013
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  Two Important Things GTA V Is Still Getting Wrong

  There are plenty of good things to say about Grant Theft Auto V. As a digital creation, it’s remarkable to behold. But it also has its share of problems: For all the things Rockstar has gotten down to a science, GTA retains some fundamental flaws that its developers just can’t quite seem to fix. I…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published September 26, 2013
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  Robin Williams Likes Games Other Than The Legend of Zelda, Y’know

  Maybe you picked up on the fact that Robin Williams likes The Legend of Zelda—just, you know, based on subtle stuff like being in Zelda commercials and having a daughter named Zelda. But that’s not all he likes, you know! Yesterday, Williams did a fantastic Ask Me Anything on Reddit, where folks asked all about…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published September 26, 2013
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  Watch Six People Shout About Violent Video Games For About Six Minutes

  Last night on our favorite CNN-wannabe HLN, Dr. Drew had a bunch of people on his show to talk about the Navy Yard Shooter. This, of course, eventually devolved into a shouting match about violent video games. I consider myself a sommelier of clips of people screaming about video games on television, but dear lord…

  By Chris Person Published September 26, 2013