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Northern Overexposure Winners
Last week’s ‘Shop Contest began with the news that Nolan North—yes, him again—would voice Penguin in Batman: Arkham City. Naturally, that was a call to carry things to a logical extreme. What else can this man do? Clearly he needs more work. We’ve got Gofunaki22’s homage to Ted Williams, and 19 others, inside! Bouzi (4),…
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Inside the Mind of a Demetry James, Who Put the Team on Greg Jennings’ Back
The score was out of reach. The fans had given up. The result would have no effect on the season. Nothing suggested Greg Jennings and the Green Bay Packers were about to execute the most famous come-from-ahead touchdown miracle in NFL history. “Every play, I don’t care if I’m up by 30 or down by…
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UncategorizedDid Lil Wayne Sample Sword & Sworcery?
Jim Guthrie, who provided the original soundtrack for the iOS hit Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, seems to think maybe so. Yesterday he noticed this post by Hip Hop is Read, which compares “The Cloud” from the game’s soundtrack with Lil Wayne and Drake’s “She Will,” due out Aug. 29. Judge for yourself, but the…
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PSA: WWE 12‘s Full Roster to be Revealed Live in Two Hours
Jerry “The King” Lawler and WWE superstar “The Miz” will in a couple of hours reveal the full roster of legends and superstars for WWE 12, live from Summerslam Fan Axxess at 4 p.m. EDT. You can follow it though this live streaming link. You can contact Owen Good, the author of this post, at…
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UncategorizedHear Three Tracks from Dead Island‘s Official Score
Pawel Blaszczak, a composer with credits on Call of Juarez and the first The Witcher, is handling the music for the upcoming Dead Island, whose soundtrack will be released separately in the game’s collector’s edition. Developer Techland let the Polish-language site Gameplay hear and share three of the cuts, embedded here and below. Blasczak told…
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Indie Games Summer Uprising Schedules Its Releases
Despite the title, the Indie Games Summer Uprising for the Xbox Live Indie Games Channel won’t be some spontaneous revolt. The eight games in its lineup got their marching orders yesterday, and will begin rolling out in a week, to be joined by two fan-voted titles at the end of the 10-day event. Monday, Aug.…
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‘Incidental Punishment’
You spend fourteen years in this tank, you begin to understand that you’ve only got two thing left they can’t sweat out of you or beat out of you. Your balls. And you better hang onto them, because they’re about the only thing you’re gonna have when you get out of here. Football returned with…
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You’re Gonna Have to Buy Rage New If You Want to Crawl Through a Sewer
Plenty of publishers are walling off certain game content behind an “online pass,” a one-use code that’s included free with a retail copy but likely burnt up in that used disc you just bought for a lot less. In most cases, it covers something like online multiplayer. Not Rage Speaking to Eurogamer, Tim Willits, the…
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Lookin’ for Love? Notch’s Wedding Means You Can Give a Free Minecraft to Your Soulmate
Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson is getting married tomorrow (which may be today come to think of it. Anyway …) and in celebration of such, he’s giving out a free copy of the game to all who buy it. The idea is to enjoy Minecraft and then give a code for the game to a…
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Oh Look, Another Multizillion-Spacedollar Scam Hit EVE Online
Only in an MMO is a gigantic financial crime a) subject to absolutely no punishment and b) a sign of the community’s health because hey, it’s all role-playing, right? Once again, we’re looking at EVE Online. An intergalactic space Ponzi scheme fleeced investors of 1 trillion spacebuxx or whatever that currency is called, which the…
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Nintendo Seeks to Patent the Massively Singleplayer Online Game
Back in 2010, Nintendo filed a patent application for something called a “massively single-playing online game,” something whose interactions don’t take place in real time and what sounds a little Animal Crossing-ish (above). According to GameSpot, which found the filing, the MSO(?) would be an environment where players’ actions and choices affect the world they…
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From Snot-Shooting to Eyeball Eating, The Best Gaming Apps of the Week
Shooting your own mucus at phlegm-hungry monsters? Destroying ice sculptures with multicolored bombs? Attacking a dolphin-headed mad scientist from the inside? It’s definitely time for this week’s Gaming App of the Day round-up. It was a week filled with the sort of touchy-feely games you’ll only find on today’s advanced mobile gaming devices, otherwise known…
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UncategorizedDoes This Sound Like the Year 2027 to You?
To capture the sound of the year 2027 for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Eidos Montreal recruited a man with hair so glorious the music composer had to be bald to balance it out. While the graphics folks are busy working on textures and such, the sound folks are busy trying to create the aural identity…
By Mike Fahey