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The Moneysaver: Does Barry Manilow Know You Raid His Wardrobe?
That’s the last time, Bender. That the last time you ever make me look bad in front of those kids, you hear me? I make $31,000 a year and I have a home and I’m not about to throw it all away on some punk like you. Here’s something I didn’t know. Molly Ringwald and…
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The T-Virus Makes for a Charming Specimen
Resident Evil T-Virus charm. “The vial is about 1 and a quarter inches long … filled with my special, homemade, crystal clear goo, which has a few tiny real bubbles suspended in them to give the charm a more futuristic look to it. It has a double helix design embedded inside that almost seems to…
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Bulletstorm’s PC Demo’s on the Way — After it Releases
Bulletstorm got a pre-release demo on the Xbox 360 and PS3. “In other news, PC gamers are grumpy about this,” Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski tweeted last month. Well, Bulletstorm will get a PC demo, but after its release. In other news, PC gamers are probably grumpy about this. Epic’s Mark Rein tweeted that the Bulletstorm…
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Gamer Budgets Increase, but Tilt More Toward Mobile
Did you spend less on games last year? More on mobile purchases? Ratings research firm Nielsen said gamers shifted their budgets into mobile app purchases and “other leisure activities,” mirroring the widely-bemoaned sales decline seen last year. Curiously, the whole-dollar figure gamers put toward games purchases remained somewhat flat, even if its slice of the…
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Hollywood’s Already Bought the Rights to a Dead Island Movie
That didn’t take long. Days after Dead Island’s haunting trailer hit, making it the most talked-about game in development (well, this week), a report already has it that the producer behind “The Mummy” bought the rights to a Dead Island film adaptation. Sean Daniel, a producer behind “Tombstone” and “Dazed and Confused” and, in a…
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UncategorizedThe Day Guitar Hero Died
I’ll never forget where I was when I heard that a plane had crashed in an Iowa cornfield, with Izzy Sparks, Johnny Napalm, and Lars Ümlaüt aboard. Here’s “The Day Guitar Hero Died,” by The Warp Zone, a tribute to the one-time phenomenon killed last week by Activision. Not to damn it with faint praise,…
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UncategorizedPlay “Human Tetris” with This Kinect Mod
Here’s another Kinect mod from the “Why haven’t they thought of that already?” file. This is a take on “human tetris,” one of the premises of Fuji TV game show Tonneruzu, albeit without boat horns, chortling audience, and a Japanese Chuck Barris as the host. Simple concept: The screen sends a virtual wall at you,…
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A Vegas Club Offers a ‘Wine List’ of Vintage Games
The idea, says Christopher LaPorte, is you’ll come into his club, sit on a large, luxurious couch, and examine a list handed to you by an attractive cocktail waitress. You’ll then say something like, “I’ll have the Mega Man 3, 1990. Please bring two controllers.” “I really want it to be like a wine list,”…
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UncategorizedThe Bloodiest Football Game You’ll Play Today
While it’s not the most accurate representation of American football, Milkstone Studios’ Zombie Football Carnage still has all the right moves – just a little bloodier. Zombie Football Carnage hit the Xbox Live Indie Games store today, and its colorful Castle Crashers-style graphics caught my eye immediately. The you play a little football helmet wearing…
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