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UncategorizedRing Blade Welcomes You to Shuriken Hell
After a seven-level warmup with Ring Blade, a bullet-hell shooter with a twist, I found my right index finger getting that weird burning-inside/cold-to-the-touch feeling. It’s a good thing, I think. Ring Blade, from MindTrip Studios, is a mobile game right in the sweet spot of any shooter fan with an iPhone. It sticks to a…
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Guess What, Horse Armor Still Sells
Buying The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’s Horse Armor. It’s like listening to Barry Manilow, eating at the Olive Garden or ordering Spectravision. No one will admit to doing it, but still enough do so keep it in business. Bethesda Softworks’ Pete Hines said, scouts’ honor, that this still happens. “I don’t have the report in…
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Just 5 Percent of Games Were Rated M Last Year, Says ESRB
Just five percent of all games rated by the ESRB and published in 2010 were classified as M, a marginal decline from 2009 when they accounted for 6 percent, the board said in a news release today. The smallest portion of the 1,638 ratings the ESRB doled out last year belongs to EC which, safe…
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UncategorizedOh, Awesome, Soon You May Perform “Bed Intruder” in Rock Band
Antoine Dodson went full meme in late July; his local-news anti-crime rant was autotuned into “Bed Intruder” in early August. The Blue and Gold Marching Machine of North Carolina A&T State University performed it at halftime about a month later, and then Rock Band 3 arrived two months after that. Why has it taken so…
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ReviewsThe Waiver-Wire Prospects of MLB 2K11
I’m thinking of a famous, very touching monologue by Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles, talking about cutting players during spring training. “You call ’em in and say, ‘It’s the consensus among us that we’re going to let you go back home.’ Some of them cry, some get mad, but…
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UncategorizedAnarchy Reigns‘ Mathilda Has Curves And Spikes In All The Right Places
She’s one part Bayonetta, one part purple people beater. She’s Mathilda, and she’s ready to enter the blood-soaked multiplayer ring of Platinum Games’ Anarchy Reigns. Platinum Games and Sega continue rolling out characters for the upcoming brawler also known as Max Anarchy, and each new character is more intriguing than the last. Mathilda here is…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Game Boy Puts The Bomb In School Bus Bomb Scare
Police responding to a bomb scare this morning on a school bus outside of the Northside Intermediate school in Milton, Wisconsin, discovered an 11-year-old boy in possession of a video game system dressed up with wires and batteries to look like an explosive device Milton Police Department Lieutenant John Conger confirmed with Kotaku that the…
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