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The Cosplay of PAX East: Day Two
No way, Hannibal, I ain’t gettin’ on no plane with a crazy fool who don’t look at this gallery of cosplayers at Penny Arcade Expo East. This is the second day roundup of cosplayers at the year’s first big fan-attended show. We will have more tomorrow, so check back then!
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Aliens: Colonial Marines Multiplayer is Adrenaline-Pumpingly Good
If there’s one thing you can say to me to make a first-person shooter experience sound more exciting, it’s that it’s not a modern military shooter. In the case of Aliens: Colonial Marines—releasing this Fall for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC—that involves having different classes of aliens with acid-burning blood fighting against a…
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UncategorizedThe Agonizing Death of the Greatest Perfect Game Never Pitched
T.J. Brida usually shows up 15 minutes ahead of his shift. This day, he was thinking he’d be late. He pulled on his work shirt, ran out the front door, got in his car and lit a cigarette, cursing and smacking the steering wheel all the way. T.J. Brida had just thrown 13 1/3 innings…
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Far Cry 3‘s Multiplayer Mode Fails To Impress
Far Cry 3 is a game I’m very much looking forward to. But a few 10-minute multiplayer bursts from publisher Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world first-person shooter didn’t inspire the same feelings. I sat down at PAX East to play a round of Domination mode in Far Cry 3‘s multiplayer session with 15 other fellow journalists and…
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UncategorizedSave Your (Past) Self and Assemble a Super Time Force—Up to 500 Strong(?!)
This is Super Time Force by Capybara Games, and while retro-graphics platformers and rewind-time mechanics are not new concepts, what the studio is doing here with both looks new and cool as all hell to me. As the Capy representative explains to Stephen Totilo, when your character dies in the game, you’ll be given the…
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UncategorizedA Tour of “Rock City” with Rock Band Blitz
Rock Band Blitz is Harmonix’s next effort to revive rhythm games, a creation that uses a standard console controller rather than specialized music peripherals. At PAX East 2012, the team showed off video of the game in action and explained a little more of its genesis. Its first builds were too easy and, therefore, too…
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UncategorizedCrimson Dragon is Basically Panzer Dragoon Minus a Letter or So
Shown off at PAX East 2012, this is Crimson Dragon and if it reminds you of a Kinect-based Panzer Dragoon, there’s good reason. Not only is Land Ho, which handled the PS2 version of that game, working on this one, Panzer Dragoon‘s creator, Yukio Futatsugi also is involved. If it’s not clear in the video,…
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UncategorizedElaborate Transformers Cosplayer Stomps Around PAX East
Walking around the PAX East show floor, you’re bound to see some crazy cosplay inventions. From simple hats to elaborate costumes, these gamer and anime fans run the gamut. This Transformers cosplayer posed around the convention center as the lovable Bumble Bee. The real question, though, is whether he can actually transform himself into a…
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A Free Republic
There’s nothing cheaper than free, right? This weekend, there’s a free trial of Star Wars: The Old Republic. And we’re already seeing discounts on the upcoming Prototype 2 if you preorder online. Those deals, plus more than 50 others in both retail and digital sales, await in this week’s edition of The Moneysaver. Software •…
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