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Dead Space 2 Asks Fans to Plan the Perfect Kill
The makers of Dead Space 2 have put out a call for gruesome dismemberment ideas to be included in the game. The top submission not only will be rendered in the full release, its creator will be, too. You don’t have to be a whiz with cinematography or visual design; Electronic Arts says word-based descriptions…
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Olympic Hockey Hero is NHL 2K11’s Cover Man
Presumed dead until a week ago, not only is NHL 2K11 publishing this year for the Wii, it’ll have one of the stars of the United States’ silver medal-winning Olympic hockey team starring on its cover. Ryan Kesler (right), who memorably fired home an empty-net goal to cap the Americans’ victory over Canada to begin…
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Shameless Subliminal World Of Warcraft Advertising Discovered In Gnomeregan
The Matrix Punchograph in World of Warcraft’s Gnomeregan has been spitting out pro-WoW propaganda for years, right under our noses! Master of Warcraft translates the binary cards, revealing the advertisements, secret love affairs, and a strange fascination with Natalie Portman. Blizzard loves sneaking pop culture references into World of Warcraft, so it comes as no…
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The Disturbing Ways Our Video Games Addict Us
Have you ever spent so much time playing a video game that you felt like a caged rat? That means it’s working. Cracked’s David Wong takes a serious look at how and why our video games won’t let us go. Cracked.com isn’t a place I normally turn to for serious business, but Wong’s “5 Creepy…
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Command & Conquer 4 Now In Convenient Motion Comic Format
In the first of a four part Command & Conquer 4 motion comic book series, a young farmer sets off for a GDI Blue Zone looking for work, only to find his destiny. I hate it when that happens. Today EA releases episode one of the four-part Command & Conquer 4 motion-comic series, “An Unexpected…
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Three-Year-Old Kills Herself With Game Controller-Shaped Gun
A three-year-old in Wilson County, Tennessee died Sunday evening after accidentally shooting herself in the abdomen with a weapon she may have mistaken for a plastic Wii facsimile. At least that’s how the news is being reported today in The Tennessean. Three-year-old Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan had been playing a Nintendo Wii game in her living…
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Denial of Service Attack Kills Ubisoft DRM, Your Assassin’s Creed II Playtime
The downtime that plagued PC gamers trying to play Assassin’s Creed II yesterday was the result of a denial-of-service attack, causing one of Ubisoft’s new DRM-servers to become unreachable. But hey, at least no one has hacked the game yet. Ubisoft’s controversial new digital rights management solution went gone live for both Assassin’s Creed II…
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