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Would You Pay $90 to Attend a Minecraft Convention?
Six months before Minecraft‘s full release is due, creator Markus “Notch” Persson is pondering a gala event in Vegas on its release day – MinecraftCon, on 11/11/11, “with all of [development studio] Mojang going there, and us pushing out the final release live on stage or something.” Would you pay to see that? Notch wants…
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Brink Takes a Swipe at Console Gamers while Deleting PC Gamers’ Characters
Oh those silly console gamers. They couldn’t possibly handle the advanced PC gaming concepts like objective-based teamplay. Why, if there was a bug in the game that say, deleted their characters completely if they exited the game too early, console gamers would be beside themselves. Wait, there is? The screen above, pulled from my copy…
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The Universal Wrist Gadget Charger Arms Your Electronics with Extra Life
In the age of smartphones, MP3 players, tablet PCs, and high-quality handheld gaming devices, people need all the electricity they can get their hands on, even if they have to strap it onto their bodies to carry it around. Now there’s an idea… And where there are nifty gadget ideas, online retailer ThinkGeek is generally…
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Play Angry Birds Online, Right Now, for Free
Google isn’t above killing a little productivity to prove the power of its web browser. The search engine king has released a special free browser-based version of Rovio’s avian-flinging sensation Angry Birds on the Chrome Web Store, just to prove it can be done. Announced earlier today at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco,…
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Thoughts Born of Ten Hours with Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Quintin Smith recently got a chance to play ten hours’ worth of Eidos Montreal’s latest cyberpunk thriller, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Rather than exhaustively regurgitating every minute, instead he shares the thoughts playing the game put into his head. Thoughts like, “I am SUCH a badass. Watch this!” Oh admit it, you’ve…
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There’s a Man with a Laser-Sighted Sniper Rifle Hunting Rats in Moscow
Look, everyone needs a hobby. I like to read, and stare solemnly out my window. It’s good to stay active! But this Russian fellow has a particularly engaging pastime: hunting down Moscow’s rat population and blowing them to rodent hell. Gennady, whose last name is a mystery because he is a covert rat sniper, used…
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UncategorizedFallout: New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts Laid Bare in New Trailer and Screens
The unspoiled wilderness of Utah’s Zion National Park shines in the first trailer and screens for Fallout: New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts downloadable content, coming May 17 to the Xbox 360 and Steam, with the PlayStation 3 version coming whenever the PlayStation Network decides to start cooperating. The first of three new installments of downloadable content…
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UncategorizedWhat We Know So Far About Soulcalibur V
Since last night’s sneak peek at Soulcalibur V during Namco Bandai’s Dubai press event, game director Daishi Odashima has been Tweeting like mad, revealing fresh information about the sixth installment of the beloved fighting game franchise. Mind the 17-year gap! In his mad post-event Twitter rampage, Odashima ironed out some of the details of the…
By Mike Fahey
