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Monday Night Combat Was Almost “Combat, Inc.”
Monday Night Combat. Evokes a sense of battle-as-primetime sport, right? Sure, thanks to a certain football broadcast. Uber Entertainment filed and owns the Monday Night Combat trademark, but it had backup plans in case the lawyer-mans raised a fuss. “We got it trademarked and no one complained, but it was definitely a concern,” Chandana Ekanayake,…
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Madden NFL Superstars Launches on Facebook
Madden NFL Superstars, a Facebook card-and-management game anticipated for several months, went live to the public earlier today. The free-to-play game resembles June’s FIFA Superstars in structure while borrowing elements from the popular Madden Ultimate Team of the console game. In the game (accessible here), players assemble a team through acquiring packs of cards, which…
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Consoles From Cashews?
It may sound nuts, but a new bioplastic being developed by Japan’s NEC Corp. using cashews could change the way electronics are manufactured in the future. Of course normal plastic changed the way electronics and just about everything else is manufactured, but the convenience comes with a price. Synthetic plastics often contain toxic materials. The…
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Bangai-O Brings The Missile Fury To Xbox Live Arcade
Treasure’s classic puzzle-shooter for the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast gets the big-screen sequel it deserves this fall with Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury for Xbox Live Arcade. Giant robots and fruit for everyone! Bangai-O Spirits for the DS was okay, but nothing less than a full HD sequel could truly satisfy fans of the original game,…
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Frankenreview: Metroid Other M
After all these years of spelling Metroid a certain way, Nintendo and Team Ninja go and pull an Other M on us. How will the assembled video game critics handle this new consonant? Of course there’s more to the new Metroid than another M. The team behind Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden are on…
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UncategorizedGetting Shot: A 103-Second Retrospective
What’s it look like to get shot in a video game? The portrait of pain has been changing over the years. We took a bullet in 18 years’ worth of games to bring you this montage. Isn’t it amazing how getting shot has evolved over the years in video games? We’ve gone from a grunting…
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Half Life Remake Black Mesa Tantalizingly Previewed
“Is Black Mesa the ultimate Half Life mod?” That’s the question Atomic MPC asked after going hands-on with a near-final build of the eagerly anticipated Half Life Black Mesa mod. I’m so jealous. The front page of the dev team’s website has us calling the mod “hot shit,” yet still they tease. It’s been years…
By Mike Fahey
