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Yet Another Game Developer Claims Used Games Kill Innovation
Rumors continue to swirl about the next iterations of the PlayStation and Xbox consoles. With nearly nothing actively confirmed by either Sony or Microsoft, one of the most popular recurring threads is that the consoles will in some way block the owners’ ability to play secondhand, used copies of physical games. Players and consumers tend…
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Nearly 1 Million Perfect Games Were Attempted for a Shot at $1 Million
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Major League Baseball 2K12‘s preliminary round for its $1 Million Perfect Game Challenge is over, ending at midnight Pacific time on May 1. I’m told 2K Sports is still evaluating all of its data and verifying some late perfect games thrown, but it…
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UncategorizedDirt Showdown‘s Commentary is the Audio Equivalent of a Smirnoff Ice and a Popped Collar
As a fraternity man, and as a guy whose gamertag is, literally, “dudemanbestbro1,” it pains me to say this but, yes, Dirt Showdown goes a little overboard with its woah-killer-brah commentary. Who the hell did they hire for this, the SAE rush chairman? Seriously, though it’s not in this video, the announcer will call you…
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The True Story Behind Scott Ratchman, the Little Bastard of Tiger Woods PGA Tour
Every main character needs a good nemesis. Seinfeld has Newman. McBain has Mendoza. And Tiger Woods has Scott Ratchman. Ratchman? Not Phil Mickelson or Vijay Singh or some other golfer? Well, no. None of those guys played against Woods in his youth, which forms about half of the “Legacy Challenge” in Tiger Woods PGA Tour…
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UncategorizedThe Spectacular Live Debut of Nvidia’s $999 Dual-GPU Video Card
Nvidia president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took this stage this weekend at the GeForce LAN Shanghai to introduce the GeForce GTX 690, a dual-GPU monster designed from the ground up to be the most powerful video card in history. Are your nipples hard too? What, it’s a ridiculously powerful graphics card. When the news first…
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2D Fighter Skullgirls Coming to PC
The game, recently launched on PSN and Xbox Live, will be available for digital purchase later in 2012. The PC version includes several game updates, which will be added to the console versions in free downloads later this year. [Gamasutra]
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UncategorizedA Nuclear PC Mod for a Post-Apocalyptic World
This gorgeous monstrosity was once an Antec Lanboy Air, which is lovely but hardly capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust. Mod Brothers Podcast host Kyle Van Der Mewre and Mnpctech‘s Bill Owen saw fit to fix that, and fix it they did. Bristling with switches and hoses, swathed in neon green, and fitted with a…
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UncategorizedThis Massive Monster Boss Fight is One of Many Reasons I Adore Tera
Late Sunday night I joined a party of level 37 and higher Tera players to take on Cultists’ Refuge, one of the challenging dungeons in En Masse Entertainment’s newly launched massively-multiplayer online role-playing game. That’s where I met Bhaozurbas, my new best friend. A perilous trek through a gothic cathedral leads players to a teleportal…
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Razer Can’t Say It, But This is a Mouse for Diablo III
SteelSeries might have the official Diablo III license, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only clicking game in town. Take the new Naga Hex Wraith Red edition, for instance. The official release calls it “The best weapon to cut down hordes of monsters crawling out from the depths of evil”, so Razer’s intentions for this…
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A Gorgeous, Living World Sets Guild Wars 2 Apart
We all have our personal gaming quirks. I, for example, have a habit of leaping into any new game as a thief, rogue, or assassin type whenever possible. I prefer to move slowly and cautiously, in stealth and shadows, choosing my targets with utmost care. I operate alone or, when in teams, as a scout…
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