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The Comic-Con D’Awww of the Day: Let’s Go Voltron Force
Before I came to the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con I had two one-year-old boys. Now I have ideas. So many ideas. Thank you, young Voltron, for making my sons’ future lives a nightmare of cardboard, parental incompetence and shame.
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You Didn’t Think Fall of Cybertron Would Come Out Without a Grimlock Toy, Did You?
Revealed today during the Transformers product panel at Comic-Con 2012, the terrible lizard of Transformers fame jumps from High Moon video game onto my computer desk, eventually. You know I love Grimlock. High Moon knows I love Grimlock. Hasbro knows i love Grimlock and, as it turns out, they know you love Grimlock too. So…
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Epic’s New PC Game Is Their Most Exciting In Years
Epic Games’ latest title, Fortnite, is a shooter in which players wait until nightfall for their fortress to be attacked, or venture outside of the safety of its walls to take the battle to hordes of colorfully creepy creatures. Fortnite is a defense game, in which players carefully bolster their home base against the oncoming…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Custom Halo 4 Xbox 360 Bundle Leaks Ahead of Microsoft’s Official Announcement
A Microsoft store listing, since removed, said a limited edition Halo 4 console bundle will be released, delivering the game and a specially designed case on a 320 GB Xbox 360 configuration for $400. IGN spotted the listing earlier this evening. The Halo 4 360 will play custom Halo sounds whenever the device’s capacitive eject…
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UncategorizedLatin and Vincent Gallo: The Panzer Dragoon/Phantom Dust Mixtape
We all have cynical days: days when every single game looks bland and you resist the urge to push yourself away from your desk in disgust and shout “If I don’t see something something cool in the next ten minutes, I’m done with gaming!”. And just as you’re about to call the whole hobby off,…
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Players New to Violent Games Feel The Need to Go Wash Away the Moral Distress After
Many years ago, researchers confirmed the existence of the “Lady Macbeth Effect.” The gist of it is that we humans really do associate metaphorical uncleanliness with the more literal sort: if we’ve done or witnessed something immoral or unethical, we are often likely literally to want to go wash or bathe in response. Like Lady…
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Did MLB 2K12 Bring Together an All-Star Pitcher and This Swimsuit Model?
Rumors are flying that Kate Upton, the cover model for this year’s Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated, is now dating Justin Verlander, the cover model for, well, Major League Baseball 2K12. And a series of promotional shoots for that video game, according to unnamed sources, is what brought the couple together for the first time…
By Owen Good
