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Backbreaker Studio Hits the Ice With Icebreaker for the iPhone
First spied in development seven months ago, Icebreaker will arrive on the iTunes App Store next week as a hockey-style complement to Backbreaker, the football title whose “Tackle Alley” minigame saw tremendous success as an iPhone port. Icebreaker mimics “Tackle Alley” (which became Backbreaker: Tackle Alley and Backbreaker: Vengeance for the iPhone) by pitting you…
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New Features Aren’t All Free in NCAA Football 12
There may not be any optimal time to tell gamers about all the microtransactions and DLC for which they can expect to pay extra in an upcoming release. But the official reveal of a game’s main features – the stuff folks expect to come with the $59.99 retail price – would probably be the least…
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The Check Isn’t in the Mail
The Postal Service lost something I mailed a week ago to my Dad. This kind of an occurrence may not be any less rare today than it was before e-mail and other services, but it’s definitely losing credibility as an excuse. “It must have gotten lost in the mail,” is never believable when money is…
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NHL 2K12 Ain’t Happening
2K Sports yesterday confirmed that NHL 2K12 will not be published on any console, likely ending that simulation’s run. Unable to gain traction against EA Sports’ NHL series, 2K put NHL 2K on a one-year hiatus last year, ostensibly to return with a breakthrough game built on a two-year cycle. The series still published on…
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UncategorizedParkour Pioneer Cole Phelps Wants His Damn Hat Back
I forget at what point exactly but in L.A. Noire Cole Phelps remarks that his hat cost $12. How much is that worth in 2011 money? Dunno, but it’s worth falling off a house a dozen times in 1947. How the hell did his hat get up there in the first place?
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UncategorizedDiablo III‘s Skill-Transforming Runestone System in Action
When it was first explained to me way back in 2008, the power-enhancing rune system of Diablo III sounded like it would lead to countless permutations of every skill and spell in the game. Now it’s only five, but they’re still pretty spectacular. This slimmed-down runestone system made its debut at last year’s BlizzCon. Rather…
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UncategorizedDoes This Experiment Prove That Violent Games Increase Aggressive Behavior?
In a University of Missouri study sure to be cited by anti-gaming pundits for years to come, researchers provide what could be considered solid proof of the link between violent video games, aggression, and wearing funny hats. Associate professor of psychology at the University of Missouri Bruce Bartholow and his colleagues have seen studies claiming…
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