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UncategorizedThis Color-Swapping Runner is Not a Tron Game, But it Should Be
Considering the overall lack of quality Tron games since the time of the first film, I’m willing to give Hope This Works Games‘ upcoming neon red and blue Android and iOS free-runner Polara a couple of identity discs and call it a day. It’s a little bit color-shifting shooter Ikaruga, with a hint of color-shifting…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Guy Redesigns Rare NES Model For His Steampunk-Loving Nephew
Though collectors everywhere feel a pang in their sides from seeing the rare sight of a Top Loader edition NES (NES-101) so brutally redone, everyone else can lean back and enjoy this beautiful reconstruction. Reddit user Andrew5785 took his old NES, and turned it into something a little more steampunky for his nephew. Head over…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
EA Sports Cancels NBA Live 13
EA Sports today canceled its troubled NBA Live 13 project. It is the second time in three years that sports video gaming’s dominant publisher has pulled the plug on its NBA simulation at the last minute. Andrew Wilson, the executive vice president in charge of the label, announced the decision in a statement posted to…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Zynga Games Lose a Couple Hundred Thousand Fans in the Facebook Fake Account Purge
Facebook has implemented countermeasures to purge fake, forged, hacked or otherwise unsavory ‘Likes’ from its pages, resulting in the sudden departure of several hundred thousand of Zynga’s several hundred million fans. The ‘Like’ is a powerful unit of measurement in today’s Facebook-connected world. For the average consumer of social media content the number of ‘Likes’…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
A Determined Group Sets Out To Recreate The Legend of Zelda In Real Life
The Zelda Project is twofold: on the one hand it’s a group of cosplayers, recreating scenes from Ocarina of Time. On the other hand, the project also has a bigger goal of producing a short film to represent the game, as well. From their site: The Zelda Project is a Los Angeles, CA based group…
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UncategorizedConan O’Brien Reviews Just Dance 4. Side Note: He’s Also A Terrible Dancer.
I never realized how dangerous some of these dance moves look to be until Conan took it upon himself to review Just Dance 4 with Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan. I laughed at Conan’s outside-the-box dance moves and interpretations of the dance cards, caught a glimpse of some Conan midriff, and learned about a revolutionary…
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UncategorizedPoop Glitches Are The Best Glitches
Borderlands 2 has a lot of outhouses—or porta potties, if you will—around every bandit camp. More than a couple of players seem to have stumbled upon overflowing ones, which you can see an example of in the video above. For all I know, knowing Gearbox, this could very well be a feature and not a…
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Developer Behind Creepy Alternate-Reality Adventure Games Now Making a Creepy Alternate-Reality Transmedia Game
Many years ago, the creepy alternate-reality adventure game Missing: Since January (called In Memoriam outside of the US) tried to blur the lines between its fiction and our world. In pursuing the trail of the fictional Jack Lorski and Karen Volker, players wind through real-world history and geography, as well as planted websites and stories.…
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UncategorizedGamevil Unsheathes Cartoon Wars: Blade
Where does a warrior go when the Cartoon Wars end? He grabs his sword and sails across the sea to find new stick figures to kill in Cartoon Wars: Blade Available today on iTunes, Blade is another side story in Blue GNC’s epic sketchy war franchise. While Cartoon Wars 1 & 2 were defense games,…
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Playing Violent Video Games Actually Makes You Feel Less Pain, Researchers Find
It seems that violent games may indeed desensitize players—but in a way that can actually be helpful. Researchers at Keele University in the UK have found that playing a violent video game can give players a higher real-world tolerance for pain. The study had 40 participants playing both a violent first-person shooter and also a…
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UncategorizedVector is the Beginning of One Intense Facebook Game
Free-running across rooftops while being chased relentlessly by a shadowy unknown enemy is not an experience I expected to find in a Facebook game. I also never expected to shout motherf****** at the top of my lungs at a Facebook game, so there’s that. Created by Nekki, the developer behind Shadow Fight, Vector is a…
By Mike Fahey
