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UncategorizedThis Dog’s Halloween Costume Gets Funnier The More Excited He Gets
Oh, you adorable puppy, you. (I call all dogs puppies, shush.) Spotted in Tompkins Square Park, NYC at the Halloween Dog Parade, this cutie wagged his tail (or nose?) with increasing ferventness. He looks a little violated, though, when he turns around and notices these random people, including nycpackrat, staring at his butt. It’s cause…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
ESRB Opens No-Cost Ratings Service for Digitally Distributed Games
Downloadable games sold through the three console makers’ online services will be rated by what the Entertainment Software Ratings Board is calling a “streamlined, no-cost service,” in a statement released today by the ESRB. The new “Digital Rating Service” gives developers and publishers access to a “brief but detailed online questionnaire” to define a product’s…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Join the Jalopnik-Kotaku Club in Forza Horizon and Get These Six Cars For Free, Sort Of [Updated]
Forza Horizon, which released yesterday, introduces a “car club” concept to the game, and it isn’t just a leaderboard of your friends. You may share your best rides with anyone else who joins up, and they may take those cars out on the open road of Forza Horizon‘s Colorado. Update Car clubs are capped at…
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UncategorizedSomeone Put Portal‘s Wheatley In Halo And Now I Can’t Stop Laughing
Cortana bickering with Wheatley: think about it. The two are strong personalities in their own rights, but put together they make for some hilarious banter. I would never have imagined Wheatley’s deadpan humor to work so well under the seriousness of Halo‘s plotline, but apparently Toadking07 did and I’m all the happier for it. Wheatley…
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UncategorizedQuantum Conundrum Creators Bravely Venture Into Mobile Gaming with PIXLD
Quantum Conundrum‘s Kim Swift (because I am tired of typing Portal creator) and her team at Airtight Games have undergone a startling epiphany—mobile phones can play games. They’ve launched Airtight Mobile to take advantage of this discovery, with the first of these “mobile phone games” dropping next week. It’s called PIXLD. From the official announcement…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
New PlayStation 3 Hack May Be One That Sony Can’t Stop
The PlayStation 3 has been around since 2006, and since roughly 2006 hackers have been trying to have their way with it. The system has proven a relatively tough nut to crack, though not an impossible one. The last major rooting incident was back in 2011 Sony released a major firmware update for the PS3…
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UncategorizedThe NFL’s Greatest Players Revere Tecmo Bowl Too
Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward retired after this past season. He’s 36. Atlanta’s Tony Gonzalez, also the same age, is coming to the end of a hall-of-fame career as a tight end. Emmitt Smith, an extraordinarily tough running back for Dallas, was enshrined at Canton in 2010. “Runnin’ the football was awesome,” he said, “in…
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UncategorizedExplore the Hauntingly Beautiful Pathways of the Shardlands
Available today from Breach Entertainment, Shardlands is a strikingly pretty adventure puzzler set on a desolate alien world filled with bizarre creatures and strange contraptions. And that’s why I wasn’t paying attention to the first 10 minutes of Zynga’s 3rd quarter financial call. I suppose “more interesting than a Zynga financial call” isn’t a particularly…
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This Browser-Based Text Adventure Is the Best James Bond Game of the Fall
The most recent James Bond game to grace consoles, last week’s 007 Legends is, sadly, just not good. Fans of the British super-spy need not despair, however: there is a genuinely good James Bond tie-in game out this fall. And it’s a text adventure. The British Intelligence Officers Exam puts players in the shoes of…
By Kate Cox - Uncategorized
It’s Time to Celebrate The Spooky Season In MMORPGs
Halloween is still a week from today, so you’ll have to wait until next Wednesday if you want to go trick-or-treating in the real world. (Or at least, if you want to do it without getting the cops called.) But if you’d like to dash around a virtual world in costume, gathering treats and performing…
By Kate Cox
