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New Miss America Not Off To Hot Start With Gamers
Caressa Cameron (pictured, left), as the newly minted Miss America, wants you to play imaginary games in the street. That’s one of the “standards” that should be “set” for our “children,” she said in her winner’s interview. Cameron’s take-away-the-tv-and-games quote in her winner’s interview was straight boilerplate: Video games destroy kids’ motivation, creativity, make them…
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UncategorizedShout It Out Loud With This Indie Game
This is GNILLEY, and by God, this game is a scream. Literally. Built by Glen Forrester of Australia, you play by screaming your foes into oblivion or shouting down obstacles in your path. The video is of Forrester showing GNILLEY this weekend at Global Game Jam Sydney 2010. Looks like he screams “GO!” to get…
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Walmart, Best Buy Close Down Trade-In Kiosks
E-Play, the company providing kiosks for used game trade-in pilot programs has suspended operations, ending Best Buy and Walmart’s short-lived experiment in the used games business. Industry Gamers, which first reported E-Play’s closure, quoted an analyst describing the business generated by the machines as “underwhelming.” They will be deactivated and cleared out of stores over…
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Life Imitates Art, And Vice Versa, For Monday Night Combat
Aung Zaw Oo – better known as the parkour-lovin’ game animator AZO – shows how he incorporates moves he does in real life into the animations of the upcoming class-based shooter Monday Night Combat by Uber Entertainment. The good stuff begins about the 0:56 mark – especially the move where the sniper tees up his…
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Madden 11 Cover To Be Put Up To A Vote
Doritos and the Super Bowl. Chances are you’ll be picking up a bag of the former before watching the latter this weekend. On the back of said bag is a promotion inviting you to vote on the game’s cover athlete this year. In a statement, EA Sports only confirmed that it had partnered with Doritos…
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The Lich King Would Like A Word With You
I wasn’t sure how I felt about a rap song about World of Warcraft‘s Lich King at first. Then he beat the crap out of Edward Cullen, and I decided I could live with it. Convoke has released a music video for “Get Lich or Die Tryin,” a song that celebrates the cooler side of…
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UncategorizedBuilding The Perfect Star Trek Frankengame
Has the perfect Star Trek video game been created? Perhaps not, but by taking key elements from the Star Trek games we’ve played over the past three decades, I believe we can come up with the perfect Star Trek Frankengame. Over the years, many Star Trek video game titles have come close to perfection in…
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Try A Little Miles Edgeworth On For Size
Capcom takes advantage of the Nintendo DS’s download capability today, putting up a demo for Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth two weeks ahead of the game’s release date. Sometimes I forget that I can download things to my regular old DS. Hell, sometimes I forget I can do it with my DSi, and I write…
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