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UncategorizedFantastic Pets Grants You The Flying Unicorn You So Richly Deserve
Forget Homefront, Fantastic Pets for the Xbox 360 and Kinect is where THQ is going to make the big bucks. What other game projects a flying unicorn or robot cat into your living room? Before we begin, no, that’s not a pegasus. A pegasus only has wings. This mother here has wings and a horn,…
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UncategorizedRecord Holder Says “I’m Playing Donkey Kong So I Can Get Laid”
Hank Chien, the plastic surgeon who is the two-time (and current) world high score champion in Donkey Kong, is the subject of a documentary getting its second screening tomorrow. In “Doctor Kong,” Chien, who took the high score in Donkey Kong about a year ago, then won it back from “The King of Kong” villain…
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UncategorizedBehold The Zelda-Riffic Joy Of Spiral Knights
Earlier this week I told you about Spiral Knights, the upcoming free-to-play online space dungeon crawler from the creators of Puzzle Pirates. Now watch me play through the game’s Training Grounds and, if you’re lucky, try it out yourself. When I posted the news that Spiral Knights was coming out on April 4 courtesy of…
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UncategorizedThis Is Why We Don’t Play Board Games Anymore
Lacking anything more sensible to do, the team at GlazeBros crafted a crude board game with painful consequences, and then tested it out on themselves. Ladies and gentlemen, The Waxing Game, family fun that will leave you hairless. If the GlazBros think this terrifying tale of hair removal is painful, just wait until they actually…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
A Look at the Earlier Works of Minecraft‘s Creator
Markus “Notch” Persson didn’t succeed with his original attempt at games development, bringing us Minecraft on the first try. The 31-year-old Swedish developer has been programming since age eight. Yesterday, he shared a gallery of his earlier work, showing that success doesn’t come from one effort, but from many attempts, in fits and starts. The…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Even “Real” Mobile Games Costing Scant Millions to Develop
Firemint, developers of Flight Control and Real Racing 2, say in this interview the full-blown 3D racer for iOS/Android was “…developed over 18 months on a budget of US$2 million.” Now the real question: How much did they make? [PocketfulOfMB.com]
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NCsoft Makes A Massively Multi-Million Dollar Donation To Japan Disaster Relief
Amidst the flurry of game developers stepping up to offer aid to Japan in its time of crisis, Korean MMO developer NCsoft has pledged an amount equaling one month of the revenue of its Japanese arm – roughly 6.3 million dollars. While NCsoft is a pretty big deal in the United States, in South Korea…
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Rare Game Pulling Five-Figure Bids, with Some Proceeds Going to Japan Relief
It’s well settled that Stadium Events is, if not the rarest video game on the collectible market, is certainly the rarest of any retail release. A year after a sealed copy of the NES game set a record for the most ever paid for a single game, another verified, factory-sealed copy is seeking to dethrone…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Stolen PS3 Leads Cops to Double Murder Suspect
A man suspected of a double homicide eluded police for two months, until a PlayStation 3 stolen from the victims’ home turned up and led authorities to an arrest. In Gaffney, S.C., Giles Lee Palmer, 22, faces two counts of murder in connection with the Jan. 19 shooting deaths of Dominique Cintrell Morgan, 19, and…
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Even the All-Stars are Role Players in MLB 11 The Show
Sitting there with my DualShock in my lap, I struggled to recall the last time a video game blindsided me this hard, much less at a point this early in playing it. I’d ranked up at a respectable rate, gained a fast understanding of my abilities and the situations in which they were useful. I…
By Owen Good