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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2K Sports yesterday confirmed that NHL 2K12 will not be published on any console, likely ending that simulation’s run.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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The 2011 Into the Pixel Collection Celebrates the Finest in Video Game Art
Every year experts from the fine art world and the interactive entertainment industry bestow upon video game artists the highest honor they can receive — inclusion in the Into the Pixel art collection. Let’s take a look at the seventeen pieces that made the cut this year. The Into the Pixel collection is a joint…
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One Year Later, Did Sony Keep Their E3 2010 Promises?
E3 is a den of promises. Promises sell products. And according to the cynics of the world, promises are meant to be broken. Yesterday, we took a look at the promises that Microsoft made at last year’s E3. Today, we scrutinize Sony. Did their PS3 and PSP-related promises bear out, or were we left feeling…
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GLaDOS Begins Aural Testing with Free Portal 2 Soundtrack Downloads
While the brilliant and mostly dead scientific minds at Aperture Science aren’t busy coming up with new ways for robots to kill you, they like to kick back and relax with a little testing music. Now you can too, with the first of three “downloadable aural stimulus packages” featuring the music of Portal 2 Get…
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The Farmville IPO
Zynga, the Facebook games company and creator of Farmville, is reportedly about to file for an initial public offering of stock. There is no better investment for cynics looking to bet on the exploitation of America’s dumbest, most vulnerable consumers. Zynga rakes in $850 million per year in revenue and $400 million per year in…
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UncategorizedBehold the Shrunken Glory of MineCraft Running on an Android Phone
We’ve all seen the picture, now let’s drool over how well MineCraft Pocket Edition runs on the Xperia Play. Making its big debut at E3 2011 early next month, MineCraft Pocket Edition is the portable block building game you’ve all been waiting for. Shown here running on Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, this tiny version of…
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Show Her You Love Her With a Pus-Filled Zombie
Women love jewelry. Women love large, shambling, goo-filled undead creatures. Combine the two and you’ve got a one-way ticket to a night of messy romance, thanks to this charming Left 4 Dead Boomer necklace. Video game jewelry artist DeadlyPretty is a big fan of Valve’s Left 4 Dead series, and as it happens she creates…
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Aion Stays Alive with Update 2.5
Today NCsoft’s massively-multiplayer online game Aion upgrades to version 2.5, Empyrean Calling, delivering a host of new content, features, and tweaks aimed at pleasing players current and lapsed. Is it enough to lure fresh MMO fans to the game? NCsoft seems to think so, choosing today’s major update as the launching point for the game’s…
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