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The Week in Games: Unknown and Dishonored
We use the phrase “highly anticipated” a lot, but it plainly defines both Dishonored, from Arkane Studios, and Firaxis’ treatment of beloved strategy title XCOM: Enemy Unknown, both of which arrive on Tuesday. Today • Pokemon White Version 2 (DS) • Pokemon Black Version 2 (DS) • Pokemon Dream Radar (3DS) Monday • Naughty Bear:…
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UncategorizedHacker Sows Death Throughout World of Warcraft with Just a Level 1 Character
From the sound of it, this level 1 character is one of a few hackers who discovered a bug or an exploit that allowed them to fly about World of Warcraft, insta-killing everyone. The plague broke out this weekend on multiple servers, and was seen in Stormwind, the Alliance capitol. It may not be immediately…
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You Can’t Say That in a Video Game—Why, Someone Might Think You’ve Been Drinking
Even for an NBA 2K13 soundtrack curated by Jay-Z himself, the butchery of Puff Daddy’s “Victory,” was to be expected. That track contains four N-words, eight F-words and nine S-words, and this is a game played by 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds. But U2’s “Elevation” is about as safe a piece of stadium rock as has…
By Owen Good - Esports
Cheating Allegations Surface in League of Legends Playoffs
When it was shut down and moved to a “secure location,” the $2 million League of Legends world playoffs was thought to be plagued only by technical issues, possibly a denial-of-service attack to cripple the event. Now, however, come accusations of cheating, in this thread on the game’s official forums. As Massively explains it, at…
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ChrisWarcraft’s Weekly NFL Quest, Level Five: Fell the Giant of the City of Music
Football is a role-playing game. That’s how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, is approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterizes his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We’re going to chart his progress and see how fast he levels up. ChrisWarcraft is…
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All of Azeroth has been Created Inside of Minecraft
The conversion of nearly every video game landscape into Minecraft continues steadily. This week already saw the birth of a project to create Mass Effect‘s gargantuan Citadel within the game. Now comes word that, after eight months, a full representation of World of Warcraft‘s lands in Minecraft has released a beta. “Crafting Azeroth” checks in…
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Smash an AT-AT Full of Pigs in the Angry Birds/Star Wars Toy Line
Teased on Friday, we knew that some kind of a crossover between Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise and Star Wars was coming. It’s a natural pairing, given the enormous mainstream reach of those names and their owners’ willingness to license it in the toy space. Well that’s exactly what’s coming. It’s a toy line set to…
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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Vice President of Legal Affairs
For timeliness sake and humor value, nothing beats Sony suing its own fake vice president of smarm, Kevin Butler. Details are somewhat sparse and it sounds like the two did try to resolve their differences, but now this sucker appears to be headed for a courtroom. Let’s provide a sneak preview. There are tons of…
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Sonya Blade is Running for the County Board
In addition to being a cheerleader in the attract mode for the original NBA Jam, former Playboy model Kerri Hoskins Branson also portrayed Sonya Blade in several Mortal Kombat games, beginning with Mortal Kombat 3 in 1995. Not surprisingly, her Playboy and video game gigs are not mentioned in this biography and Q&A for candidates…
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