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Cat Loaf
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Modern Mario Bear, my cat, has been behaving a little weird lately. I think the crap weather here in Oregon is getting to her, because it’s darker than California and the wet weather means she’s indoors more often. Bear usually would hang out in a kitty bed behind the TV,…
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PS3: It Only Catches a Predator
Federal agents typically used $1,100 computers to crack passwords to the seized hard drives of suspected child pornographers. Now they’re using $300 PlayStation 3s to pull off the same task. “Bad guys are encrypting their stuff now, so we need a methodology of hacking on that to try to break passwords,” Claude E. Davenport, an…
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UncategorizedA Look at the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
Borderlands’ first DLC add-on “The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned,” releases Nov. 24, promising to add another six to 10 hours of gameplay. Here are the foes you’ll face, in their natural habitat. These shambling, staggering, crawling bastards look like outstanding cannon fodder, and I’ve got just the toolset for dealing with them – level…
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Paparazzi Punch-Out: Dance Like a Has-Been, Bite Like a Felon
Mike Tyson got in trouble this week for, as he is wont to do, smacking someone upside the head. Jimmy Kimmel‘s writers jumped on the case and produced this new game. I’m not sure why I chortled at this. Maybe it’s because I know that lightning-flash punch is coming. Maybe it’s because anything is funnier…
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Activision Exec: ‘Expect’ Additional, Paid Online Modes
Whoops. Kinda sorta missed this, another pearl of wisdom from this week’s BMO Capital Markets forum. Activision’s CFO told conferees that extracting more dough out of players, via charging for certain online play or features, is something we should expect. Here’s what Tom Tippl told the gathering: It’s definitely an aspiration that we see potential…
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Voice Actor Says MW2’s Ghost Might Get a Game
At the game’s UK launch event, Craig Fairbrass, the voice actor for Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, said the character will get a spinoff comic and possibly a game of his own, although what exactly is not clear. Here’s the quote, which That VideoGame Blog attributes to audio of the event: I did in the…
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Leaked Survey Tips Off MLB 2K10 Cover Athlete – 2nd Update
A tipster taking a marketing survey was asked to judge four potential covers for next year’s MLB 2K10. The Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman Evan Longoria is on all of them. In that image you can see the four different designs survey takers were asked to consider. All have the 2K Sports 10th Anniversary branding…
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Week in Games: Out With a Blast
The final full week before Thanksgiving in the U.S. marks the final big week of releases in the fall sales window. This one sees Assassin’s Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Tony Hawk Ride and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. And the God of War Collection. And Lego Indiana Jones 2 on four platforms plus…
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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. •Top 7 Tasteful Game Heroines [GamesRadar] Faith (Mirror’s Edge) and Zoey (Left 4 Dead) are the newcomers; Alyx Vance (Half Life 2) and Cate Archer…
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Houser Interview Teases Grand Theft Auto V
Strauss Zelnick may be adamant about not announcing the next Grand Theft Auto, but Dan Houser, in a lengthy interview with The Times of London, so casually mentions work on the next GTA that it sounds rather inevitable. Writes The Times: There’s a Western game in the works for next spring, and the next GTA…
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So, Get New Super Mario Bros. Wii Yet?
Gotta say, I rather dig these Sunday launches for Nintendo titles. I’m sure preachers and the NFL don’t, but whatever. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is out today, and those who picked it up are probably itching to tell someone. So, tell us about it, and brag to your fellow commenters. Or feel free to…
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Resident Evil Director ‘Circling’ Castlevania, Metal Gear Movies
Castlevania? Thought that movie project was dead. Apparently not, and apparently Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Death Race, Mortal Kombat) is “waiting on a script.” Oh, and he’d like to adapt Metal Gear Solid for the silver screen, too. That is according to Jeremy Bolt, who is Anderson’s co-producer on Resident Evil: Afterlife. Visiting that…
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Job Listing Says Dead Space 2 Will Have Multiplayer
A job listing on LinkedIn hints at multiplayer support and levels within Electronic Arts‘ sequel to Dead Space. A tipster to Joystiq pointed out the advertisement for a “Senior Online Level Designer,” and it’s set off alarms all over that you’ll be doing some strategic dismemberin’ with and/or of your friends in Dead Space 2.…
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Laser Engraver Blasts Out Super Mario Theme
Well, not with its laser, with its motors. Hacklab, a Canadian mod collective, wrote some code to make it happen a while back, but it sounded a little too perfect. The guy who shot this confirms it is real. BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow writes that he stopped by Hacklab yesterday unannounced and asked to see the…
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Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Nov. 13 PvPonline published Nov. 13 ActionTrip published Nov. 9 Digital Unrest published Nov. 9 EXTRALIFE published Nov. 12 GU Comics published Nov. 13 Dotgif published Nov. 9 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published Nov. 13 Dueling Analogs published Nov. 12 Nerf NOW published Nov. 13 Rooster Teeth published Nov. 14 Monday Night Crew published Nov.…
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If You Don’t Have a Holiday Card List, Make One
Valve’s back, following its hilarious Team Fortress 2 Valentines from last year,with four sets of gift cards featuring characters from TF2, Left 4 Dead, and L4D2 that are simply a holiday must. They’re slam-packed with in-game memes – Pyro’s speechlessness, Demo-Man getting lit on egg nog, and Spy romancing Scout’s mom under the mistletoe. Each…
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Lego Indiana Jones 2: You Won’t Like How This Ends
The finale from Raiders of the Lost Ark, as interpreted by Lego Indiana Jones 2, has been posted and, unlike the witty rendering of the Nepal shootout, this one’s sanitized to the point of condescension. Disco-dancing replaces face-melting. Yes, really. I get that this is a family title, and blood or gore would be inappropriate,…
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