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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Your Mom Hates ‘Shops Winners
A maternal reproach of Dead Space 2 served as the inspiration for last week’s ‘Shop Contest challenge. We received more than 800 submissions, so, inevitably, someone’s getting left out of this roundup. Multi-panel entries were by far the most common; Bouzi (3) Damian Jose Hernandez (6) and ilikejelly (10) supplied the best. Obligatory themes included…
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UncategorizedFight Night Barely Breaks A Sweat In Multiplayer Demo
Fight Night: Champion’s demo arrives Tuesday, but apparently some in the UK have gotten their hands on it. Notably, the demo will include online multiplayer. This series of four videos gives you a look at what to expect from it. My early impressions are that the graphics are strong and the punches come in quicker,…
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UncategorizedAn FPS-Style Ammo Counter, In Real Life
Playing shooters, I’ve often wondered if the persistent knowledge of exactly how many rounds you have left delivers a tactical advantage you can’t have in real life. This invention delivers a video-game advantage to the battlefield. This device – fixed to an automatic weapon, no less – counts the rounds remaining in the magazine. It’s…
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How A Video Game Made Him Into A Major Leaguer
He’d given up six runs in three innings of work when MLB 10 The Show sent the manager out to remove him from the game. Even in a video game, the bad losses stick with you. They stick with Hans Smith a little more. Smith, 25, bitterly watched the remainder of the game, every play…
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UncategorizedYou’re Getting 45 More Angry Birds Levels Come March
Angry Birds Rio isn’t the movie we’d been hearing about – it’s a crossover with a movie, delivering another 45 levels to Angry Birders in two months, says the game’s maker. The pigs don’t figure to appear. The premise of Rio, as nearly every animated feature’s premise goes these days, is a stranger-in-a-strange-land tale involving…
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Box Scores: Your Chance to be a Star
We came up dry in our quest for a game of the week, so let me just remind you folks: Submissions, not just winners, of the epic contests you’ve played in sports games, get your comment handle starred. Details inside. It’s really simple: In our official sports open thread on the weekend, we want to…
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Classic PC Games Site Will Return — With Activision’s Authorization
Though the front of Sarien.net still says the site hosting classic Sierra PC games has gone dark, its owner, Martin Kool, says that it’s secured permission from Activision and will “become an authorized game portal with a bright future.” Sarien.net had operated without attracting attention since 2009, hosting Space Quest, Police Quest, King’s Quest and…
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The Moneysaver: The Day After Friday
I grab a deal. I choke him and I kick the shit out of him. All day long got my foot up a deal’s ass. Just bang, bang, bang up his ass. That’s my pleasure. I love good story-of-a-day movies. Fifteen years ago this month I was fired from my job, like Craig Jones/Ice Cube.…
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Old Sierra Games Host Gets C&D From Activision
Sarien.net is formerly the site where you could play, for free, classic Sierra games, such as Police Quest, in your browser. We say “formerly” because Activision owns that stuff now, and its lawyer-mans sent them a letter. “Well folks, that’s that. It was a blast,” reads the site’s front page. “So long and thanks for…
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Drunkémon — Gotta Regret ‘Em All
Apparently in the throes of a bad breakup, one artist did what we all do in times of disappointment and distress: Seek medication in the form of that good, good likker. Then he made up some Pokémons. Kevin Nguyen, an editor of The Bygone Bureau, drew this, saying it was inspired by a breakup. We’re…
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This Guy Wants His Video Game Back
But first he has to put on some makeup. With a Sharpie. And then find his sword. Folks, meet Ricky Lee Kalichun, of Evansville, Ind. Cops say that last Wednesday he confronted a former roommate at his apartment building and requested the return of a television, a games console, and games. Sounds reasonable, except for…
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Woe Betide He Whose Gamertag Appears In A Black Ops Trailer
An ordinary gamer is cleaning his Xbox Live inbox of dozens of friend requests each day, most of them containing a mercy plea from some Call of Duty cheater. What happened? His gamertag was shown in a Black Ops trailer. The trailer for Black Ops’ First Strike downloadable content pack hit on Monday, and at…
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