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Bankrolling Psychonauts 2 was Just a “Semi-Joke,” Says Notch
A Tweeted offer to back a sequel to Tim Schafer’s cult favorite Psychonauts was “a semi-joke,” said Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft and a guy who’s not hard up for cash in light of that game’s success. Notch rattled off a host of reasons why we shouldn’t get our hopes up, especially the…
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UncategorizedYou Can Vote on the Cover of the Next … Lacrosse Game?
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • EA Sports has gone cover-vote crazy of late, but Madden NFL 13‘s all-star 64-man scrum for cover honors isn’t the only contest taking place this spring. College Lacrosse 2012, the third edition of the Xbox Live Indie Game sports simulation, will hold a…
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UncategorizedSports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Cover Girl Shows MLB 2K12 How to Push Her Buttons
Kate Upton’s boobs made the front of yesterday’s annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, fairly bursting from that smedium-size top. She took time out of her supermodeling to show all-star pitchers David Price and Justin Verlander just what kind of twirling motion she wants them to do with their thumbs. Cincinnati’s Jay Bruce looks like he…
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The Video Game Version of Jeremy Lin Is Unrealistically Bad at Basketball
A re-rated update to the NBA 2K12 roster failed to appease America’s feverish Linsanity—the phenomenon surrounding the New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin—and so a second update, giving the point guard even more of a boost, is due by the end of the week. Lin, who went from the end of the bench to leading a…
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Typographic Prints Make Art From Gamers Favorite Quips
Via NerdWire, we have today a set of typographic prints and t-shirts representing some of gaming’s most famous icons, old and new. These aren’t quite the “standard” typographic style where the words themselves form the entirety of the art, but I enjoyed how the minimalistic icons and colors worked together with the words to evoke…
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High Moon Just Can’t Handle a PC Version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
This fall when Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers are tearing through Cybertron in the shiny metal skin of Grimlock, PC gamers will remain earthbound, forced to witness the grand robot battles from afar. After a poor showing on the PC for Transformers: War for Cybertron, High Moon Studios isn’t even going to attempt to…
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This Godfather Case Mod is as Compelling as a Severed Horse Head
I would have found a different PC case mod to kick off PC Gaming Lives’ weekly celebration of the art of enclosure craft, but this Godfather-themed masterpiece made me an offer I probably could have refused but chose not to. Were I capable of crafting my own glorious PC-containing creation featuring the likeness of Marlon…
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Razer Blade: The Kotaku Review
When I see the term ‘gaming laptop’, the first word that comes to mind is ‘performance’. And when I hear of a gaming laptop with a price tag of nearly $2,800, I imagine a system that can readily outperform any less expensive machine. That’s just the way I’ve traditionally evaluated a gaming system — I…
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