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If Football Awards Were Named for Tecmo Bowl Legends
Maybe the NHL names every award for someone, but the NFL gives blandly titled honors. Pigskin Doctors concocted awards named for players from Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl, giving them to current players who most resemble their performances. No, Bo Jackson is not on this list. (Most are from TSB). But I love it…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •10 Facts I’ve Learned About Modern Warfare 2 [Unreality Magazine] More or less, in all of them the writer comes to the realization his opponents…
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Namco Files Patent for Wiimote Drumming Game
A pair of attachments would turn two Wiimotes into a set of sticks, presumably for an air-drumming game, according to a patent filed recently by Namco Bandai. While the patent doesn’t specifically reference the Wiimote, the drawings do look awful familiar, and so far it’s the most notable example of a rectangular control with an…
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Week in Games: Total Finances Destruction
If the holidays weren’t enough of a wallet-wrecker, Army of Two: The 40th Day, is here to deal another $60 critical hit to your bank account. The Olympics are just around the corner, which means the biennial failfest of Olympic-branded games occurs on Xbox 360 and PS3. Serious Sam comes to Xbox Live Arcade on…
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Writing ‘Sweets’ Summons Scribblenauts Truffles
While not cake, these confections define the idiomatic dilemma of choosing to have one or eat it. Ana Fuji’s amazing truffles tackle many themes, games among them. On the jump, Pokémon, LEGO and, yes, Super Mario truffles. Mario and Pokémon Truffles [Sprite Stitch, thanks Jane]
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UncategorizedSpeed-Skating Plagues Modern Warfare 2 [Update]
So, we’ve had the Javelin glitch – a bad enough exploit to get people banned for using it. Now Modern Warfare 2 players report they’re seeing sped-up players and iced-over surface physics. Update: The problem should be fixed by now. [Update, 3 p.m.] Via Twitter, Robert Bowling has explained that this was not a glitch…
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Bad Company 2’s PC Beta Gets a Snow Date
DICE mentioned this Thursday; PC gamers will begin their Bad Company 2 beta on Jan. 28. It had been delayed because of the popularity of the PS3 beta. The beta will test vehicle combat on a snow map The beta runs from Jan. 28 to Feb. 25 and will feature the Port Valdez map in…
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Ding Dong, It’s Another BioShock 2-o-Gram
A month before its release, special deliveries from the BioShock 2 viral website are still showing up at people’s doors. This time, the packages contain a chess piece and a coded telegram from the “International Order of the Pawns.” Reader J.P. says way back in September he wrote to the address one finds on the…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Jan. 6 PvPonline published Jan. 7 ActionTrip published Jan. 4 Digital Unrest published Jan. 4 EXTRALIFE published Jan. 5 Dotgif published Jan. 3 GU Comics published Jan. 7 Ctrl-Alt-Del published Jan. 6 Dueling Analogs published Dec. 29 Nerf NOW published Jan. 4 Rooster Teeth published Jan. 7 Monday Night Crew published Jan.…
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A Look Inside the LEGO Universe
A massive profile of NetDevil by the Denver alternative weekly WestWord turns up some interesting tidbits about the LEGO MMO the studio is building. The piece, by Joel Warner, is a serious deep dive into not just NetDevil, but also the LEGO culture it seeks to tap with LEGO Universe, a project that has been…
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EA to Release Three More Game Soundtracks for Download
Over the next month EA Recordings will roll out soundtracks for three of the publisher’s big upcoming releases, releasing music for Mass Effect 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Dante’s Inferno via digital download. Mass Effect 2’s soundtrack will release Jan. 18, (the game is out Jan. 26), likely via iTunes, reports Gametunes.Net. It will…
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