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  Summon Some Scribblenauts Toys For Your Collection

  5th Cell’s inventive puzzle-platformer Scribblenauts will be coming to vinyl toy and plushie form later this year, thanks to bobblehead and action figure experts Funko. Maxwell in fabric and vinyl form is now available for pre-order at fine toy resellers. Funko also has plans to release superdeformed versions of characters from Halo: Reach and Mortal…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 28, 2011
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  Grab The Darkspore Beta Through Steam Now

  Steam makes it easy to get into the beta program for Maxis’ Spore spin-off Darkspore. Just head to the Steam web site and install. Darkspore was recently delayed until the end of April.

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 28, 2011
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  Final Fantasy III Is The Best And Most Expensive Final Fantasy On The iPhone

  Square Enix has finally made the third game in the Final Fantasy series available on the iPhone, and it’s pretty damn good. Is it $15.99 worth of good? Final Fantasy III was released in 1990 in Japan for the Famicom, not to be confused with North America’s Final Fantasy III, which was actually Final Fantasy…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2011
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  Multiplayer God of War In The Works?

  Sony wants to hire someone for their God of War team who could, according to a job listing at Gamasutra, handle “Designing and implementing systems and tools to support networking needs (such as in-game communication, client-server, match-making, leaderboards).” Hmmm. Whatever could they be planning for the popular but previously single-player God of War series? Or…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2011
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  The 105 Loading Screens Of 3D Dot Game Heroes

  I loved the cube-based art-style of 3D Dot Game Heroes, but I didn’t love the game. And who loves loading screens? Vimeo user David Kupfer solves almost all of my problems at once by compiling the 105 loading screens from 3D Dot Game Heroes. I like looking at them more than I liked playing this…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2011
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  Team Fortress 2 Now Ideal For Mid-Air Ninja Battles

  After the release of the Shogun Pack for Team Fortress 2—tied to the release of The Creative Assembly’s Total War: Shogun 2—it didn’t take long for the TF2 community to extract its true worth: recreating kung-fu movie and anime tropes like the high-flying mid-air sword fight. See Soldiers and Demos settle their differences with the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 28, 2011
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  Falling Out Of Love With The Xbox 360 Kinect

  “That’s it. I am never playing a Kinect game again.” I said this under my breath at a recent game expo, after surviving what I deemed my last controller-free gaming experience. Obviously this was an emotional overreaction, but the reasoning behind my Hulk-Smash attitude was sound. I’ve always excelled at making a complete ass of…

  Lisa Foiles Published March 28, 2011
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  Just One ‘Amore’ Katamari Damacy For The Pile?

  Namco Bandai, the people who brought you Katamari Damacy, We ♥ Katamari, Me & My Katamari, Beautiful Katamari and Katamari Forever, may be hard at work on another entry in the thing-rolling genre. Siliconera spied new trademarks for “Katamari amore” and “Katamari amore Rolling Whopper,” potentially a new… 3DS game? NGP game? Or just an…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 28, 2011
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  “Hey, Listen”: Navi, Link, and Zelda in a Bizarre Love Triforce

  Adorable expert of adorability Meekakitty’s latest jam is a morose take on what it must be like to be Navi. Which is to say: Sad, then slightly stalkery, then mostly dead.

  By Joel Johnson Published March 28, 2011
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  Only Magicka Could Support Official Bathrobes

  When you’re done bathing in the blood of your enemies in Arrowhead Game Studios’ PC RPG Magicka, towel off and slip on one of these lovely official bathrobes, now available for preorder at $85 a pop, as seen on GameGavel

  By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2011
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  3DS’s Friend List Messaging Is the Worst of Facebook, Twitter

  Gamers may be a bit confused about how exactly owners of Nintendo’s 3DS portable are supposed to communicate with one another on the system. After spending the weekend trying to figure it out on my own, I finally bugged Nintendo directly about it. Turns out that, according to the company, the little status message that…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 28, 2011
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  Assassin’s Creed Fans, What Happened Here?

  Near the conclusion of the new Da Vinci Disappearance missions available for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, a character discovers what seem like map coordinates. Where do they point? Google maps has the spoiler. The coordinates are 43 39 19 N, 75 27 42 W, which, according to Google Maps, points to a small bit of land…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2011
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  See Owen in a Virtual Rematch of the 2005 Masters Playoff

  Get a sneak preview of Augusta National’s first nine in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters as I, playing as Chris DiMarco, take on EA Sports’ Justin Patel, playing as Tiger Woods. It’s a recreation of the playoff of the 2005 Masters! Except for the fact we’ll still play the other eight holes if…

  By Owen Good Published March 28, 2011
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  A More Personal Look At The Killzone Conflict

  The escalating conflict between the ISA and the Helghast plays out on a much smaller scale in Killzone Universe, a live-action short that shows a friendship torn apart by impending war. For those unfamiliar with the back story of the Killzone series, the Helghast were once part of the Helghan Corporation, a commercial outfit that…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2011
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  Felicia Day Among Time’s Must-Follow Twitterati

  What do Neil Gaiman, Lady Gaga, Xeni Jardin and Felicia Day have in common? They all made Time’s list for best Twitter feeds. With 1.8 million followers and quite a few geek and gamer-friendly television shows under her belt, Day is currently at the 20 spot on the list. Day has appeared (or will soon)…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 28, 2011
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  Celebrate Retro Gaming Art, Music, And Culture At Blip Festival NYC 2011

  The fifth annual Blip Festival hits New York City’s Eyebeam Art + Technology center May 19-21, featuring the best in pixel art and performances by chiptune greats including Anamanaguchi, Bit Shifter, and Nullsleep. It should not be missed.

  By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2011
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  Taking Turns With The PSP Beats Attacking Your Twin Brother With A Chair Leg

  A 13-year-old boy in Solon, Ohio, took a trip to juvie hall earlier this month after reportedly assaulting his twin brother with a broken chair leg because he wouldn’t give him a turn at the PSP. Where’s the brotherly love? I guess it’s a state over in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Ohio the…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2011
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  The Mathematics Of Seduction And Other Devious Solutions To A Spy Party‘s Problems

  Chris Hecker, who strikes me as not the kind of man who enjoys going to parties, spends a lot of time thinking about parties and the tricky things spies might do at them. He does this for a video game he is creating. He ponders the number of inconvenient sips it takes to chug a…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 28, 2011
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  Do You Dream of Reaching the Kill Screen?

  And finally capturing top score glory over whoever DPD may be? Head over to the Dream Visualizer to watch your dream turn into a personalized animation that you can then share with all of your Facebook friends. It’s nearly impossible to explain a dream. The Dream Visualizer is here to help. Share your most vivid…

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  Why Does Portal 2‘s Co-Op Use Robots? Because Robots Can Be Trusted

  Valve, in partnership with Aperture Science, present the second video in the “investment opportunity” series, explaining why robots like P-body and Atlas are six seconds better than humans when it comes to cooperative multiplayer. Take it from Aperture Science CEO Cave Johnson. Humans cannot be trusted. How many times have you found yourself dead in…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2011