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Global Thermonuclear War and the Single Man: It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
Heeding Luke Plunkett’s warning from Monday, I’m going to talk about The Act, Centipede Origins, and WarGames: WOPR, purposefully avoiding any mention in this week’s roundup of the insanely addictive Pocket Planes Oops. I’m considering instituting a moratorium on writing about games from Tiny Tower developer NimbleBit until they stop creating games that sap the…
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Determine Who Wins Comment of the Week Internet Points
Internet points! Better than real-life points! Let’s start nomination threads, with a link to a comment you liked. What’s that? The comment you liked was already nominated? Vote it up! Wait, you don’t remember what you liked this week? Look through your comment history for those #cotw hashtags (hopefully you’re using them for your own…
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UncategorizedThe Amazing Bruce Campbell Gets Extreme in The Amazing Spider-Man
Since his role as the ring announcer in the first Spider-Man movie, B-movie and television star Bruce “Ash” Campbell has been a fixture in the webslinger’s video games. Next week’s The Amazing Spider-Man is no exception. Campbell plays an over-the-top journalist in the game, putting Spidey through his paces in a series of challenges that…
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Curt Schilling’s $50 Million is Gone, Along With the Rest of 38 Studios
The meltdown and collapse of 38 Studios not only halted the development of a potentially promising game in progress, but also hurt plenty of people In a recent interview with Boston-area sports radio network WEEI, studio founder Curt Schilling—formerly a major league baseball pitching star—explained how the studio collapse hit him, personally. In addition to…
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UncategorizedDependable Pest Control With Centipede: Origins
Centipede‘s premise didn’t make much sense to me when I was nine years old. What the hell is this spaceship doing shooting mushrooms? I thought. Then I saw the box art for the Atari 5200 adaptation—in the days when box art made everything look much more compelling—and got it. Centipede: Origins, for iOS and Android…
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