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Our First Few Days with the Surprisingly Joyful Nintendo 3DS
The Nintendo 3DS is the next big thing in video games. The new portable gaming system from Nintendo lets you play games in 3D, without the need for special glasses, but there’s much more to it than that. We’ve had two of the first North American 3DS systems for several days and we’ve discovered a…
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UncategorizedKevin Butler, as You’ve Never Seen Him Before (NSFW)
Cat’s out of the bag, folks. Kevin Butler is not really PlayStation’s vice president of everything from First Person Shooter Relations to Rumor Confirmation. He is, in fact, the actor Jerry Lambert, who played quite the cringe-inducing straight man in the most recent episode of Showtime’s “Shameless” on Monday. KB, under the auspices of being…
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Stacking Piles on the DLC in April
If we had any quibbles with Stacking, Double Fine’s acclaimed downloadable game, it’s that it felt held back in a semi-conspicuous way – one that might have foretold a sequel or a DLC extension. Lo and behold, the latter is indeed coming. The Lost Hobo King, the next chapter of the ragtime nesting-dolls saga, will…
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Ducks, Limited
Duck Hunt’s erstwhile mallard joins two of its kin in flight for this mixed-media wall art, available via Etsy for $120. The pixels forming the duck are quarter-inch tiles made from salvaged book covers. The entire piece is 21″x26″, sold framed with glass. Asshole Dog sold separately.
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PlayStation’s Top U.S. Exec Cleans Up Pro Poker Tour Event
That, folks, is a 10-6 unsuited. In poker jargon, that hand is known as “garbage.” But for Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, they were the winning cards at a pro-am poker event earlier this week. Tretton was one of several executives entered in the World Poker Tour’s Silicon Valley Poker Challenge,…
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UncategorizedSpines Shatter When Mortal Kombat’s Thunder God Steps Into The Ring
There’s gonna be big trouble in Little China when Raiden tosses his wok-shaped hat into the Mortal Kombat tournament. We all know Raiden’s story. After failing to take down Jack Burton during the Little China incident, Raiden transformed from inept villain to slightly more ept do-gooder, talking the Elder Gods into letting humanity battle the…
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UncategorizedNintendo 3DS Size Comparo Video
The Nintendo 3DS comes from a long line of handheld game systems of a mostly refined pedigree. We thought it would be fun to line them all up for a little size comparison. (And we threw in an iPhone 4 for reference.) I’m not a terribly big fan of the paint scheme on our office…
By Joel Johnson
