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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 Published October 24, 2012 - 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 Published October 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Weird, Bad Xbox Dating Game Is Brilliant To Play With Friends
I would never have enjoyed playing Don’t Die Dateless, Dummy! if I had played it alone. And yet on Saturday, I stopped by the Revision3 offices in San Francisco to help keep them going on their 24-hour Extra Life charity drive. We played the game. And I enjoyed myself quite a bit. The weirdly-written dating…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2012 - 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…
By Owen Good Published October 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2 is Celebrating Halloween (Again)
Like clockwork, the coming of Halloween also signals the coming of some special Team Fortress 2 stuff, heralded today by the release of a new comic and teases for a showdown between the mercs and Merasmus. Doommates [TF2]
By Luke Plunkett Published October 24, 2012 -
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…
By Tina Amini Published October 24, 2012 -
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 Published October 24, 2012 - 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…
By Kate Cox Published October 24, 2012 -
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…
By Owen Good Published October 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhy This Beautiful Game’s Bizarre Bosses Look the Way They Do
It was the art that got me. When the first e-mail about Might & Delight’s Pid showed up in my inbox months ago, I was ready to skim and delete it. But then I started up the video and saw what looked like children’s-book paintings coming to life. That’s when I decided I needed to…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2012 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Zynga Has Lost $160 Million This Year So Far
2012 has been rough for the company behind FarmVille. Zynga has lost a total of $160 million during the nine month period from January to September 30, 2012, the company said in an earnings report today This includes a loss of $52 million over the past three months. Yesterday, Zynga laid off 150 staff and…
By Jason Schreier Published October 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Clever Move, Activision…
Via the personal Twitter feed of Josh Olin, former community management guy for Call of Duty studio Treyarch. Now at Riot. Olin Tweeted: “So this is the packaging that @Amazon is shipping @MedalOfHonor in…. Brilliant!!! Cc: @stephentotilo pic.twitter.com/YMFWDswO” I’ve checked in with Activision PR to find out out if this was done just for Medal…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
How AMD’s Fancy New “Piledriver” Processors Compare To Intel’s Ivy Bridge
About this time last year, AMD’s new Bulldozer-based FX series launched to bright-eyed system builders who expected the new architecture to challenge Intel’s increasingly comfortable position in the upper-end processor market. Unfortunately, Bulldozer wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Its performance fell short of the then 9-month-old Sandy Bridge processors and in some…
by Steven Walton | TechSpot Published October 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
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 Published October 24, 2012 - 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 Published October 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
ChefVille ‘The Undead Chef’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know
The second portion of ChefVille‘s Halloween event has finally launched in our restaurants, as players are now encouraged to upgrade both the Halloween Cauldron and Haunted Broiler to unlock Intermediate Level dishes. This comes by way of two new quest series that are activated via a single quest that we’ll look at below. From there,…
by Brandy Shaul | Games.com Published October 24, 2012
