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Walmart Holding Midnight Mass For The Church Of Madden
We’re now one week (and 30 minutes, to be exact) from the traditional midnight launch of Madden NFL, and Walmart’s promising nationwide events for those who want to take it home as soon as the clock strikes 12. Word from Walmart corporate says that line-waiters will get $5 gift cards for buying the game at…
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UncategorizedThe Oregon Trail uh, Trailer — There Will Be Dysentery
This trailer, allegedly for a movie based on everyone’s favorite edutainment game Oregon Trail, is so well done I honestly triple-checked to make sure the movie wasn’t really being filmed. Revisit all the well known gags – overloading on ammo, the banker’s uselessness and, of course, dysentery’s sweet, brown embrace – in this short shot…
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Remembering What Never Happened
What if your most treasured memories from childhood were false? A shocking new study finds that one in five people fondly recall events that never actually happened. When I was seven -years-old my family and I had a black and gray cat named George Washington. I thought George was a boy, but then one day…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Backbreaker Gets A Makeover With Enormous Patch Due Soon
New plays, better AI, a suite of replay cameras and new “focus modes” are among features coming to the football title Backbreaker, possibly as soon as Wednesday, through one of the largest patches I’ve ever seen for a sports game. That’s the good news; the bad news is sort of that they were needed in…
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Castlevania Puzzle: Encore Of The Night Review: Alucard’s Puzzle Quest
Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night takes the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and transforms it into a puzzle role-playing game. Can they do that? I consider Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to be one of the greatest 2D action role-playing games ever created. It has everything: Responsive controls, an engaging storyline, Metroid-style item-based…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Xfire Sold Off, Development Team Leaving [Update]
Two communications today from Xfire, the social networking tool for PC gamers, indicate that the service has been sold off and most of its development team will be leaving as a result. Update: Titan Gaming has acquired Xfire. At about 3:15 p.m. Pacific Time, Xfire members received the following message: Xfire was bought by new…
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Kevin Butler Gets a Gift Basket of Sorry from New Zealand
The New Zealand TV network that ripped off a PS3 ad and was called on it by fake executive Kevin Butler sent the PlayStation “vice president of everything,” a large gift basket as a gesture of goodwill. Butler, noticing that New Zealand’s TV3 straight-up copied the PS3’s “Montage” ad from earlier this year, didn’t send…
By Owen Good
