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Get Item!
Get Item! | Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of The Legend of Zelda, accepts the Video Game Awards’ inaugural hall of fame award on behalf of the game and Nintendo. Surprise! That PS Vita Wasn’t Lost at the VGAs After All Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one’s surprise, the DJ revealed this…
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UncategorizedA Night-and-Day Comparison Best Describes Fortnight
Fortnite, revealed last nite (rimshot) at the Spike Video Game Awards, is one of those games whose elements seem to be either derivative or easily recognizable, yet an easy description remains tip-of-the-tongue elusive. It’s a got resource gathering, but it’s not really Minecraft; cartoony characters, but you can’t say it’s Team Fortress; zombies and headshots,…
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Surprise! That PS Vita Wasn’t Lost at the VGAs After All
Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one’s surprise, the DJ revealed this afternoon he did not, in fact, lose an unreleased PlayStation Vita in a Los Angeles cab after his performance at last night’s Spike Video Game Awards. “I just wanted to see how much management would freak out over it,…
By Owen Good - Culture
DLC Provides the TLC
Downloadable content for Battlefield, Assassin’s Creed, and Gears of War highlights an otherwise slow week for new releases. Don’t forget the Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue series coming to the PS3 and in Pinball FX2 on the 360. Tuesday • Assassin’s Creed: Revelations—Ancestors Character Pack (PS3, 360) • Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand (PC, 360)…
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Kneecapped by Skyrim
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Very Best of the Skyrim ‘Arrow in the Knee’ Meme [Ranker] Out on the vanguard of 2011’s hottest new video game memes, Ranker charts…
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Angry Birds Second Birthday Invites a New Bird to the Party
Angry Birds has published another special-occasion update, this one celebrating the runway mobile hit’s second birthday. With it, you get 15 new levels and a new projectile, the Orange Bird, which “propels any object it touches.” The update is to the main game, which is still 99 cents for the iPhone, $4.99 for the iPad.…
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The Baron and the Exec
The Spike Video Game Awards can always be counted on to supply awkward moments, but they’re usually a celebrity bombing a joke with a hamfisted, if not intoxicated delivery. Last night we got something different, and no, we’re not talking about the teabagging spree. That’s “The Black Baron,” a YouTube hypeman who had earlier ripped…
By Owen Good