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NBA Live‘s E3 Demo Doesn’t Sound Much Better than NBA Elite‘s
In 2010, EA Sports brought NBA Elite 11 to E3 as a shootaround demo only. I remember this vividly. You played as one player in a practice setting, learning the timing of the new stick-shooting controls. If you still have the ill-fated NBA Elite 11 demo, go to its practice mode, that’s what we saw…
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UncategorizedForty-Five Mods Were Needed to Bring Man of Steel to Skyrim
Melding story elements of the first four Superman films—except the one where Richard Pryor recreates Kryptonite out of cigarettes—here is Skyrim at the Movies: Man of Steel, featuring Supes, Throthgar Luthor, Terence Stamp Zod, and Nuclear Man. It’s got Eve Teschmacher, too, just not as hot as Valerie Perrine. “Oh shit, it’s Zod.” Why it…
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What Will It Take to Get EA on the Wii U Again? ‘Sell More Boxes.’
The most glaring indictment of the Wii U’s poor performance to date is the fact that FIFA—one of the biggest-selling franchises worldwide, in any genre—is publishing for everything but Wii U. FIFA 14 will come out on the PSP. It will publish on the original Wii. There’ll be a version on the PS Vita, for…
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UncategorizedIf The Chocobo Song Had Lyrics, They’d Be Sung In A Fake Irish Accent?
Prolific as he’s been over the past few years, video game lyricist Brentalfloss has never topped his rendition of “Crazy Duck In Space.” Now he’s finally given the Chocobo song from Final Fantasy the lyrics treatment, and he still hasn’t topped his DuckTales jam. I think it might be, quite possibly, the really odd Irish…
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UncategorizedThis LSD-Inspired Oculus Game is The Most Intense Thing I Saw at E3
I’ve seen things inside the Oculus Rift you people wouldn’t believe. And, for the most part, it involved the strange LSD-inspired indie game SoundSelf In the video above, SoundSelf’s designer Robin Arnott shows you the ins-and-outs of his LSD-trip inspired VR game, which he was showing off at the IndieCade booth at E3. SoundSelf is…
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The PS3 Had 12 Games At Launch. Here’s What They Looked Like.
We finally saw the actual PlayStation 4 during Sony’s E3 press conference on Monday, and we got sneak peaks at the console’s upcoming games, some of which will be launch titles. But how do those games compare with the PS3’s launch titles? Let’s take a look. Time to do a flashback and see what the…
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Xbox One’s Reputation System Sounds Crazy But It Just Might Work
Placing the responsibility for policing a community into the hands of the members of said community is a lovely idea that rarely works as expected. The new Xbox Live reputation system launching with the Xbox One gives players the power to promote the polite over the pestiferous, with (hopefully) enough safeguards in place to prevent…
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UncategorizedThe (Fake) Official Trailer For a Movie About Addiction To Candy Crush
Everyone’s got that one mobile game they’re addicted to, at least for a time. For me, it was Jumping Finn. For a lot of people, it’s Candy Crush Saga. This trailer for a totally fake movie about addiction to Candy Crush and games like it is a hilarious reminder of how crazy we can get…
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