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UncategorizedSamus’ Silver Anniversary
Metroid Turns 25 | Yesterday, Aug. 6, marked the 25th anniversary of Metroid’s debut. Although Nintendo has yet to formally observe the anniversary, that hasn’t stopped lifelong fans of the series, who pay tribute in this 10-minute video by Shinesparkers Hooray! Now We Know Why Bobby Kotick is in that Brad Pitt Movie Bobby Kotick’s…
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South African Cops Make First-Ever Raid of PS3 Jailbreak Operation
In what is believed to be the world’s first-ever arrest in connection with circumventing a video game console’s security, South African authorities raided a jailbreaking operation in Johannesburg, sending one man to jail and confiscating all kinds of hardware and software the outfit used. The Commercial Crime Unit of the South African Police Service carried…
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One and Done
Fruit Ninja Kinect? Fruit Ninja Kinect. And folks, that is it for the week. Well, EDGE, another well received (and controversial) iPhone game, hits for PC and Mac. But the dog days of August have nothing for retail shelves this week. Wednesday • Fruit Ninja Kinect (XBLA) — An entry in Xbox Live’s Summer of…
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Pregnant Mom Fends Off Labor Long Enough to See Skyrim Demo [Updated]
About six months ago, Bethesda Softworks’ Pete Hines figured Feb. 18 was the perfect day to conceive a child, as the baby would be due on Nov. 11, the ship date for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. One couple conceived well early of that, but their baby’s birth will still forever be associated with the…
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Deadly Games
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. •Eight People Who Died Playing Video Games [Ranker] I’ll assume Polybius isn’t on the list because if the game’s true existence can’t be confirmed, then…
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UncategorizedHow Did We Miss the Best Cosplay of Comic-Con?
Mike and I saw a ton of cosplay, much of it game-themed, two weeks ago at Comic-Con 2011. In all of our time at the San Diego Convention Center, however, we never, ahem, stumbled across this guy, cosplaying as the QWOP runner. You can’t stop QWOP. [via Rooster Teeth] You can contact Owen Good, the…
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Hans Brix Might Want to Send Inspectors to Kim Jong-il’s Gold Farm
An awesome tale from Friday’s New York Times alleges that Mister Fun himself, Kim Jong-il, finances his nookular ambitions with the proceeds of an MMO-gold farming operation. Cops in Seoul on Thursday arrested five persons who engaged a team of North Korean hackers to breach the servers for South Korean MMOs Lineage and Dungeon and…
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Northern Overexposure
Nolan North appearing in a video game is not exactly news. It’s more newsworthy when he doesn’t. But voicing The Penguin, with a canon-defying cockney accent even, is treading the limits of overexposure even for him. One reason North can get away with this is because, in addition to having great vocal range, we never…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Good morning. It’s Sunday. I’m here to ask you, how is your relationship with your fellow commenter. If you were to die right now, would you feel secure that the everlasting soul of your comments will find their eternal reward? Maybe it’s time you had a talk, amongst yourselves. Once againKyosen is your big winner…
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Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Aug 1. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Aug 3. – Read more of Nerf…
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Master Floppy Winners
Last week I threw an open-ended challenge at the community and you guys responded more than admirably, turning a reimagining of modern games on ancient media from a silly what-if into one of our better contests in a while. We’ve got GiantBoyDetective’s overall No. 1 (pictured) plus the 20 finalists inside! So the point was…
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UncategorizedThis Virtuoso Live-Action Team Fortress 2 Video is the Best Fan Film You’ll See All Month
Corridor Digital’s video “Sentry Sabotage” explores very well known themes of treachery within Team Fortress 2 but it does so with unbelievable execution. I knew how this would end before I finished it the first time and I’ve already watched it a dozen times more. I realize that headline’s a bold claim, because we’re not…
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Better AI, Awesomer Guns in Borderlands 2, or so I’m Told
My copy of Game Informer did not arrive today. Time and the Columbia alumni rag, which I actively do not want, did. So I will not be reading about Borderlands 2 this weekend, as some are. The game’s GI tract says the characters from the original will return as NPCs; enemies will have better AI…
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The President Ends a Four-Year Term
In 2007, the NFL staged a regular-season game in London for the first time ever. The night before, the American ambassador invited several VIPs to the U.S. embassy there. Even diplomatic cocktail parties do not proceed without some formality. Guests, who had already been screened, were to introduce themselves to the embassy guards, two lantern-jawed…
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Street Fighter‘s Producer Kiboshes Mortal Kombat Crossover Thoughts. Again.
Yoshinori Ono, the Street Fighter series producer, has shot down ideas for a Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat crossover before. He says he gets them the time “on my Twitter feed and elsewhere.” He got a question about it from the PlayStation blog earlier this week. Here’s why it ain’t gonna be a thing any…
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UncategorizedMega64 Reminds You—Painfully—That Catherine is not a Dating Sim
The premise to Mega64’s latest knee-slapper is rather obvious: Neckbeard beats Catherine-wait, that doesn’t sound right. Neckbeard finishes Catherine? Whatever. And he figures that his prowess in that game has some real world application. The comedy comes in the cringe-inducing series of candid-camera encounters with women who are not in on the joke and sure…
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Hooray! Now We Know Why Bobby Kotick is in that Brad Pitt Movie
Bobby Kotick’s cameo in Moneyball, even after it was confirmed by Activision, remained quite the WTF mystery of June. Why was he appearing as the Oakland A’s owner in a sports flick? Did he know Brad Pitt? Did he know the director? Was this some hint at a Call of Duty movie? Actually, yes, he…
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UncategorizedNot Only Does This Nerf Lancer Fire Darts, It’s Fully Automatic
Sure, Nerf Lancers have been done before, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be done better. This one, from reader Nick G., is also for sale on eBay. Perfect as a cosplay accessory, this build isn’t just a showpiece; it’s a fully automatic Nerf dart gun, carrying a 20-dart drum magazine. The foam chainsaw blades…
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Unlock Left 4 Dead‘s Next Map Early By Play-Testing “Dead Air”
The importation of original Left 4 Dead maps into Left 4 Dead 2 rolls on, with the latest update to “Dead Air” delivering a new version of the Terminal map. Valve says the update brings matters “pretty close to being complete” but “at this stage what we really need is more testing.” It’s found a…
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