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The Week In Review: Opposing Forces
In sports, they say it’s not how you lose but when you lose. In that case, NBA Elite picked a great time, because its indefinite delay was blotted out by two doozies at week’s end. The revamp of EA Sports’ basketball title was postponed on Monday, a week before it was due on shelves. On…
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UncategorizedR.I.P. Stephen J. Cannell, 1941-2010
Jan. 30, 1983 is one of the most important dates of my childhood. That day, the only man from my hometown to make the NFL won the Super Bowl with the Washington Redskins. Following the game, The A-Team came on. Though The A-Team actually premiered a week earlier (with a different guy playing Face), few…
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Someone Claims To Have A Retail Disc Of NBA Elite 11
NBA Elite 11 was indefinitely postponed on Monday, a week before its commercial release. I didn’t receive any disc pre-release (for review), but conceivably they might exist somewhere in the wild. One allegedly just sold on eBay for $255. eBayer tgarreth is not a fly-by-nighter. He’s a top-rated seller on the online auction service (an…
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Get In The (R/C) Warthog!
Reader Dan S. noticed that the MacFarlane Toys’ Halo: Reach Warthog perfectly matched the chassis of one of his R/C vehicles. “The wheels started turning in my head,” Dan says, “pardon the pun.” “So I acquired said Warthog toy and promptly Frankensteined the two items together,” he told Kotaku, “added some hi-intensity LEDs and came…
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UncategorizedThe Sound Of The Fury Of NBA 2K11
This four-minute compilation of audio highlights withink NBA 2K11 doesn’t skimp on the video, either. You can catch Michael Jordan in action versus Dominique Wilkins – with signature dunk styles for both. Don’t overlook the contextualized commentary either – both for the Association mode and in NBA Today, where Kevin Harlan, Clark Kellogg and Doris…
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Red Dead Redemption Multiplayer Brings In The Law
A new class of gunfighter – the Marshals – has been unlocked in Red Dead Redemption’s multiplayer and is now available for everyone to use. To get ’em, go to the Outfitter in Online Multiplayer, browse down to the Marshals class (pictured) and fire away. The new characters were set to go live about four…
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Fallout: New Vegas Is Done, And It’s Time For Cake
Fallout: New Vegas is 100% complete, the PC specs are out, and the New Vegas designer Robert Lee gets a splendid cake. All is right with the world. As seen on the Bethesda Blog Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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In-Game Popup Ads Return To Madden
The latest patch for Madden NFL 11 returns the scorebar pop-up ads last seen Madden NFL 10, but they don’t display at the every-down frequency that annoyed so many when they rolled out midway through last year. Pasta Padre (the source of the screengrab) reports that their frequency seems to be greatly reduced. The last…
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UncategorizedXbox Live Indie Clips: The Tribes Of Ursea
Centaurs and not-so-centaurs spill blood on the fields of battle in this week’s Xbox Live Indie Clip, the Tribes of Ursea. People often ask me how I chose which games to feature in the weekly Xbox Live Indie Clips article. Sometimes they are suggested to me through friends and co-workers. On occasion the developer themselves…
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Metropolis And Gotham Are Nice, But You Wouldn’t Want To Live There
It’s like you can’t go five feet in DC Universe Online’s Gotham City or Metropolis without seeing superheroes and super villains duking it out. I bet property values are way down. This batch of screens for Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online show some over-the-top combat going on in the streets of Gotham and Metropolis.…
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Man Wins (Ig)Nobel Prize For Swearing
Anyone who’s played a particularly frustrating video game can attest to the therapeutic effect of dropping the F-bomb. The phenomenon has now been scientifically proven, and the man behind the research awarded for his efforts, sort of. Annals of Improbable Research magazine held the 20th annual Ig Nobel awards last night at Harvard University, and…
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