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Sony Considering Make-Good for PSN Subscribers, Too
Sony Online Entertainment has already said it plans a “make-good” for D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms subscribers on the PS3. What about the rest of the 77 million PSN account holders? Sony is “currently evaluating ways to show appreciation for your extraordinary patience as we work to get these services back online,” said Patrick…
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How an Imperfect Player Became the Perfect Madden Cover Pick
He’s the first Madden cover star from a losing team. The first with no Pro Bowl appearances at the time of his selection. He led NFL running backs in one statistical category last year – fumbles. Peyton Hillis hardly carries the credentials that rate a career honor many great football players will never see. But…
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Viacom Got a Smidge More Than $49.99 for Selling Rock Band Studio
When Viacom said vaya con dios to Rock Band and its studio, Harmonix, the price of sale was $49.99. Actual retail price of the tax writeoff they got to take? $115 million, with about half of that returned this year as a cash refund on past taxes. [Gamasutra]
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Fold Paper Like a F***ing Badass With Duke Nukem Forever Papercraft
Hey, chumps, if you’re not dropping the hundy on Duke Nukem Forever‘s “Balls of Steel” special edition, you can still get your hands on its macho-iest component, that being the papercraft. That there, what looks like a Minecraft skin of Duke, is the special papercraft you get if you buy the special edition. But there’s…
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UncategorizedThis Ridiculously Easy Game Show Question was Good for $100,000 Today
Ridiculously easy for us of course. I’m sure when some neckbeard gets to $100,000 on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and goes deer-in-the-headlights when asked “Which Pope commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling,” every snark on the art history blogs is all lolwut and SMFH and such. Yes, “I don’t think it’s…
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UncategorizedHere’s a Sneak-Peek of Hulu Plus on Xbox 360
Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox Live tomorrow, so we took a quick look to see if there were any mind-altering changes compared to similar apps like Netflix and the Zune store. Guess what? There aren’t. Anyone who’s used Netflix on Xbox 360 before will feel right at home with the Hulu interface since it’s…
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UncategorizedLittle Things Get a Lot of Attention in the First Two Madden NFL 12 Videos
Two videos give the first look at Madden NFL 12‘s gameplay, calling attention to gameplay (above) and presentation details added for this year’s game. They don’t cover everything. There are three deeper discussions of the game’s defensive and collision upgrades and fully customizable playbooks. The presentation video shows progressive lighting, new broadcast overlays, jazzier pregame…
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Redbox Video Game Rentals Go Nationwide In June
After nearly two years of testing video game rentals in its ubiquitous crimson movie rental machines, Redbox is ready to take its game national, offering game rentals at more than 21,000 locations nationwide starting June 17. Redbox began testing video game rentals in its DVD rental kiosks back in August of 2009, slowly adding locations…
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Even If Yoshi Is Gay, Where are the Other Gay Video Game Heroes?
Can an egg-laying dinosaur without sex organs be gay? IGN’s Jack DeVries makes the case that Mario‘s green dinosaur steed with the prehensile tongue is “dating”-in the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that frames the series-Birdo, the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 Birdo, according to official Nintendo lore, is male. The…
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