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Existence of Black Ops Controllers Confirmed [Updated]
Shots of MadCatz’ new line of Call of Duty: Black Ops peripherals have surfaced and well, yes, the controllers are in fact black. The lineup was announced way back at E3; earlier today Josh Olin, the Treyarch community manager, tweeted a link to the controller bling. The images actually come from Games Radar, a week…
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Mad Catz Call of Duty: Black Ops Peripherals
The Xbox 360 controller is $49.99 and offers a “precision aim” mode that slows down the analog controller’s input to allow players to line up tighter shots. Some features also are re-mappable, and it comes in two designs. The wireless PS3 controller is essentially the same except for the ability to charge it via USB…
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Mom Cleans Up Beatdown, Gets Back to Frontierville
An hour after hosing blood off the street and ordering a bystander away from the guy her twins had beaten into a seizure, according to cops, a Staten Island mom was back in Frontierville in search of tools and hardware. Deborah Berardi, 55, faces felony gang assault charges along with her two sons, Thomas and…
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ESRB Apologizes for Email Leak
Calling it a “truly disappointing” mistake, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board has apologized directly to those whose email addresses it exposed in a reply concerning Blizzard’s now-abandoned plans to require forum members to use their real names. The reply, sent to all who were on a list of about 1,000 who complained about Blizzard to…
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Are Your Online Gaming Friends Really Your Friends?
You spend your days playing with them. Maybe they’re your backup in a first-person shooter. Perhaps they heal your World of Warcraft guild raids. You count on them, and they count on you, but do you count them as friends? As I was wondering through the morning news, I stumbled over a Charm City Moms…
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Mars Looks Like A Great Place For Some Destructible Buildings
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to deliver an amazingly detailed view of Mars to Microsoft Research’s free Worldwide Telescope application, with images so detailed you can almost see the Google Maps camera cars roaming about the surface. The Worldwide Telescope is a nifty little Microsoft program, available for free download or as a Silverlight…
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American McGee’s Alice Vorpal Blade Goes Snicker-Snack For Real
In American McGee’s Alice, an older, abuse-ravaged, mentally unstable Alice cuts a bloody path through an equally twisted Wonderland using her trust Vorpal Sword. Now Epic Weapons brings the Vorpal Sword to life. Epic Weapons is creating the replica Vorpal Sword to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the release of American McGee’s Alice. When the…
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The Worlds Within Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
Take a trip through Disney Town, the Dwarf Woodlands, the Castle of Dreams, the Enchanted Dominion, and Deep Space, in this Worlds trailer for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for the PSP. As I was viewing this video for the first time, my nephew, busy playing my Xbox 360 in the other room, shouted out,…
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Medal Of Honor Limited Edition Won’t Cost You Extra
EA’s modern take on the Medal of Honor series is getting a special Limited Edition version that costs exactly the same as the regular version. Of course you get what you pay for. It’s hard to figure out what the angle here is. The Limited Edition version of Medal of Honor, now available for pre-order…
By Mike Fahey
