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A Children’s Treasury of Chiléan Mine-Rescue Memes
The last of the 33 Chiléan miners trapped underground for more than two months has emerged safe and sound. The Internet celebrated as it typically does, with video-game themed ‘Shops. [Thanks Alejandro C.]
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Week’s Madden Moments Also Are Free [Updated]
Last week’s sponsorship with Verizon Wireless carries over to this week, meaning the three latest “Madden Moments Live” for Week Four of the NFL are free. Ordinarily they’re redeemed with Madden Coins, earned in online play or purchasable outright. All three this week apply the rewrite-history mode to nailbiters from the NFL’s Week Five. They’re…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Here’s Your Call Of Duty Jeep
At last, the first picture of the Call of Duty: Black Ops-themed Jeep Rubicon. Black Ops decals replace the Wrangler and Rubicon decals and the “Trail Rated” badge. You can get it in any color, as long as it’s black.
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ousted Tampa Bay Rays Can Get Back To We Farm Now
Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Rays succumbed to the Texas Rangers in the playoffs. We’re not blaming iPad Farmville clone “We Farm,” but David Price, who made a costly fielding misjudgment in that game, is a big fan of the game. So are fellow starting pitchers James Shields and Matt Garza, who with Price were a…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedMr. Campbell, Mr. Inafune; Inafune-San, Campbell-San
At last, a meeting of masterminds at Comic-Con New York. That’s Keiji Inafune, creator of Capcom’s Dead Rising series, and none other than Bruce Campbell, the iconic actor of The Evil Dead and other pillars of the zombie-film genre.
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Video Game Tech Solves The Mystery Of The Sunken Chest
Pectus excavatum, better known as sunken chest, was once believed to a purely cosmetic abnormality. Why would patients suffering from a cosmetic problem complain of shortness of breath? A little applied video game technology solves the mystery. Sunken chest is the most common congenital deformity. occurring in one out of every 1,000 children. It is…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Redbox Takes Video Game Rentals Nationwide
Redbox, the kiosk rental service offering DVDs at grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores and store stores, will expand its pilot offering of video game rentals to locations nationwide. An email sent this week to customers says games are coming in “late October.” The rentals will be $2 a day; DVDs are a dollar-a-day. Redbox’s site…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
DOOOOOOOOTA
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Pheeeeeeewwwww! Interesting news today about Valve’s decision to pick up the mantel of Defense of the Ancients. I’m sorta stunned that it wasn’t Blizzard who decided to move this incredibly engrossing series forward. It is, afterall, a Warcraft III mod, or was at one point. Obviously, because Valve is involved,…
By Brian Crecente Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Career-Mode Jordan Available With This NBA 2K11 Code
The incentive for completing NBA 2K11’s “The Jordan Challenge” is “Creating a Legend,” which allows you to take Michael Jordan through the game’s career mode. If you can’t beat all 10 challenges, an unlock code out there will bypass it. The code is icanbe23. Enter it by going to Features from the main menu, then…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Signs Point To NBA Jam On Disc [Updated]
GameFly has listed NBA Jam’s PS3 and 360 version for release Nov. 18 and while that’s most likely a placeholder date, the fact a rental service lists the game indicates it will be a retail disc release, not a download. EA Sports has yet to confirm its intentions for NBA Jam on PS3 or 360;…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rock Band 3 DLC Opens With The Doors
Rock Band 3 launches October 26, bringing with it three free and nine paid tracks from classic rock band The Doors and a confusing new way to classify downloadable music. Three of The Doors biggest hits will be available the week of Rock Band 3’s launch: “Light my Fire,” “Riders on the Storm,” and “Touch…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Look Who Won This Laser-Etched Left 4 Dead 2 Zune
On Monday we kicked off a short contest to give away this slick lime green, laser-etched 32GB Zune HD. Today we randomly pulled one name from our newsletter subscribers list. The lucky winner of this fancy Zune is: PyreBorn Congrats man. Hit me up at my editor@ email address with your name, address and phone…
By Brian Crecente Published October 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedRob Corddry Teaches Us To Respect Our Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Enemies
Actor and comedian Rob Corddry teaches us how to rebuild our brotherhood on a new viral website for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood that aims to take the hurt out of murdering your friends. “It’s not me crouching up and down over your face after I kill you; it’s my character crouching up and down over your…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
The First Round Of Crysis 2 Multiplayer Testing Is Xbox Only
The first round of invitations to the Crysis 2 closed multiplayer beta test are going out, indicating that this first session is a strictly Xbox 360 affair. Back in June EA told customers the first round of multiplayer beta tokens would be offered to folks who signed up at the game’s community site. Now those…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Would You Like LOTS Of Pokemon Music?
Like, not some, a lot. More Pocket Monster: Black and White music than you would know what to do with. All Pokemon music, all the time. An upcoming four disc music set titled “Nintendo DS Pokemon Black White Super Music Collection” is going on sale this month. It features over 170 songs from the game.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Extraordinary PlayStation Ad Gallery, Starting With These Heads
For years, PlayStation ads have been beautiful. The proof is in a wonderful gallery, posted by a Spanish-speaking Flickr user, who hosts images of 83 spectacular ads for PlayStation games and systems. Can video game ads be considered art? [PlayStation Ad Gallery]
By Stephen Totilo Published October 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Full Dance Central Track List Will Move You
What will you be dancing to when MTV Games and Harmonix releases Dance Central for Microsoft’s Kinect? Check out the entire toe-tapping track list right here. I don’t dance, as far as any of you know, but if I were to try and hook up a Kinect to my Xbox 360 and try out Dance…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Def Jam Rapstar
Rap fans need their own Guitar Hero, their own Rock Band, their own great music game. Def Jam Rapstar steps up. Can it be that? Def Jam Rapstar is a microphone-only rap karaoke game. No turntables included. No bling. No bottle of Cristal. No Adidas included. Imagine a game that can let you (and a…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 13, 2010