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UncategorizedThe Ending of Conduit 2 is Worth At Least Twenty-Six Cents
Developer High Voltage Software is currently embroiled in some controversy over their reaction to Joystiq’s Conduit 2 review. How could a game that ends this brilliantly get such a low score? In case the title didn’t tip you off, spoilers.
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
What Else Can We Talk About?
Folks, I am exhausted. Out-Raptured and out-wrestlered. But in our discussion group, the Earth’s prophesied demise and Randy Savage’s actual one blot out many other topics today. Let’s see what else we can yack about. • Writer Clive Thompson engages an IM chatbot trying to hustle him to a sex site, and realizes it has,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Maker of PSN Game Being Offered for Free Worries About PlayStation Store’s Viability
When PlayStation Store returns (reports suggest that will be May 24), PS3 account holders may choose two free games from a list being offered by Sony. One of those is Dead Nation (pictured), and the studio behind it told Edge magazine it’s worried what the glut of free games might do to efforts to sell…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Week in Gaming Apps
Jet fighters, castle crushers, role-playing heroes, and a musical game for both functional and decorative eyes converge in this week’s hand-picked selection of mobile gaming apps. This week saw me doubling up on gaming apps, thanks to the triumphant return of my iPhone 4 after it was stolen from my home several weeks back. No…
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Sony Online Entertainment Fully Online; Account Holders May Claim 45 Days of Free Time
Sony Online Entertainment this afternoon sent password reset emails to its account holders, notifying them that all SOE services are back online and that they may claim 45 days of free playing time for any game they had activated on their Station Account before the massive cyber attack of late April took SOE’s servers offline.…
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UncategorizedWhy Does NBA All-Star Blake Griffin Want to be in Rage?
The tie-in between reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Blake Griffin and Rage, the forthcoming post-apocalyptic first person shooter from id Software and Bethesda Softworks, eludes me. Griffin’s last (and only) video game gig came on the cover of NCAA Basketball 10, canceled four months after release. Maybe he’s seeking redemption? Maybe he hung onto…
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Forever a Champion
Forever a Champion | Randy “Macho Man” Savage, one of the greatest performers in the history of all professional wrestling, died today in a car accident in Florida. He was 58. (Photo: Frank Micelotta | Getty) It’s Our Last Day on Earth. What are you going to play? Tomorrow is the Rapture, according to a…
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Mortal Kombat‘s Multiplayer is Free to All While PlayStation Store Remains Offline
Until PlayStation Store returns, Warner Bros. has suspended the “Kombat Pass,” the one-use code (included free in retail copies) that enables online play for Mortal Kombat. That means anyone with a copy of the game, used or new, can play online for free. However, when PlayStation Store comes online, “users will be able to enter…
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Author of Negative Conduit 2 Review Becomes Target of Studio’s Ire, His Novel Attacked on Amazon
Video game development company High Voltage Software was so chagrined by a negative review of their game, The Conduit 2, its creative director may have encouraged studio staff to retaliate against the author—by inundating the Amazon page for his novel with negative reviews. T. Michael Murdock made no secret of his dislike—and outright distaste—for the…
By Drew Cohen - Uncategorized
Now Playing in CityVille: Kung Fu Panda 2
If FarmVille gets GagaVille, what does CityVille get? Jack Black as a tubby martial artist bear. Close enough. Zynga has teamed up with DreamWorks for the first ever in-game integration for CityVille, the Facebook city building game played by more than 88 million people. Starting today, players can destroy some low rent housing in order…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Put an Assault Rifle in Your PC with This Assassin Motherboard
You can go the route of modesty with a gaming rig—sure, but there’s something to be said for the glowing, flowing, completely outrageous rig of conspicuous PC carnage. How about a motherboard that looks like a disassembled gun? The Gigabyte G1.Assassin straps enormo-heatsinks in the shape of barrels and a full magazine. And it looks…
By Sam Biddle - Uncategorized
If Dadaists Opened An Arcade, It Would Look Like This
While debate persists over the merit of video games an art form, the medium has reached an undeniable milestone: the emergence of an active counter-culture. Enter Babycastles—an independent video game collective, housed within a lively exhibition space on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. When the collective hosted an exhibition in Manhattan last October, we…
By Drew Cohen
