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Kids Still Play Outside After All
Two kids enjoy playing their stickered-up DSes outside on a sunny day in Japan. (Image by Miki Yoshihito; seen via Tiny Cartridge) Resistance Site, Forums are Down; Hacking Alleged Visitors to MyResistance.net, the official site for the Resistance franchise of PS3 games, say the site was serving up malware yesterday. One of them alerted Insomniac…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
EA Smashes Battlefield‘s Banhammer With Relish
Possibly in response to the XP exploit discovered last week, Electronic Arts has touted the hundreds of summary bannings it has handed out in Battlefield 3 and said it has nooooo problem handing out more. You want to boost for XP repairing an EOD robot, you little shits? I’ve got your ass for the rest…
By Owen Good - Culture
Living by a New Creed
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations headlines the final big blowout week of releases for video games in the pre-holiday runup. Other notable titles this week: Super Mario 3D Land, out today; the Halo: Anniversary HD re-release; new entries in the Need for Speed and Rayman franchises; Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom and the romping good-time Saints Row: The…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
After Wrapping Arkham City Rocksteady Went to Stately Wayne Manor and Played With the Bat-Signal
Wrapping up work on their epic Batman: Arkham City, the developers at U.K.-based Rocksteady Studios set out to party hardy. First up was a 250-lap go-kart race. Then they went to Wayne Manor’s real-life stand-in and turned on the Bat-Signal. That estate is Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, which is where the Wayne Manor scenes were…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Stages of Griefing
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 13 Greatest Moments in Video Game Griefing History [Ranker] More or less covers all the ways you sap, sabotage and undermine your teammates…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Pimp Out Team Fortress 2 with some Saints Row Preorder Bling
If you’d like a free insane costume for the Heavy in Team Fortress 2, you have about two days to pick it up. It also helps if you want Saints Row: The Third on PC, as that’s what you have to preorder to grab it. The game, which is $49.99 comes with three pieces of…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Q*Bert Record Still Standing After Third Marathon Attempt to Topple It
The all-time high score of 33 million set 28 years ago on Q*Bert has this year proved to be one of the most unassailable marks in video game history. Last night, Rob Gerhardt’s record, set in 1983, survived a third assault this year when iron-man gamer Rick Carter—who in August racked up a billion-point world…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Shoppin’ Macy’s
Sonic is back in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. Let’s hope he has a better time of it than in 1993, when he was blown into a lamppost and popped. Not that I’m insinuating you should pull anything mischievous in our latest ‘Shop Contest. You may recall that 1993 was not only the…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Good morning, TAYshine. The open thread says hello. Please use this place and time to speak your mind about any topic in the world of video games that you may wish to discuss right now. Big thanks to pan1da7, once again, for this Sunday’s TAYpic. Want to be featured here just like Pan1da7? Go get…
By Owen Good
