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NBA Live 10 and NBA 2K10: It’s Fargin’ War
Because of exclusive arrangements and wide disparities in quality, pro basketball is really the only sports title where there’s genuine head-to-head competition. And it’s getting nasty between 2K Sports and EA Sports. Earlier this week, Pasta Padre found a forum post – since taken down – in which a 2K Sports representative questioned whether NBA…
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Patch Means Lilith’s Power Now ‘Works as Intended’ in Borderlands
I’ve logged about a zillion hours in Borderlands, none of it as Lilith. But apparently her phase strike “now works as intended” thanks to patches for the PS3 and 360 versions that rolled out today. Here are the PS3 fixes, from the Gearbox official forums (fora?) • Load times have been improved • Lilith’s Phase…
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UncategorizedCole Hamels Reminds You That Grenades are “for Pussies”
Well. This is edgy as all get-out. Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels comes to Modern Warfare 2 to tell us that mindlessly hucking grenades is a dickbag cop-out. And then there’s “Fight Against Grenade Spam,” which makes a cheerful acronym. It looks like this video (NSFW language), posted by Infinity Ward, just went up. I’m not…
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Lego Indy Trailer Discreetly Avoids Dr. Jones’ Creepy Past
Here’s the Nepal bar shootout scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Lego Indiana Jones 2. I guess the Lego-talk gibberish can’t get across the sequence’s subtle implication that Dr. Jones was boinking Marion when she 16. Then again, it’s rated E10+, so maybe we should just let Marion’s fist do all the talking.…
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Pumpkin Overload
Oh wow, there are SO many pumpkins to post today. In fact, too many — I broke the website when I tried to upload them all. So the blow-out post will be done in piece work and you’re only going to get a spoonful of awesome today to make up for all of the brokenness…
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PlayStation Home Manager: Exec was Misquoted
And finishing off the PlayStation Home priorities controversy, the service/virtual world’s community manager has told users on the official Home forum that the Sony executive was misquoted in reports that he’d said Home is “not a priority.” From CydoniaX: Allow me to put your minds at ease about this recent press. The coverage of what…
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Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising Preview: The Darker Side Of Dawn
The Chaos Rising expansion adds a lot of what you expect from expansions (new race, class, gear) – but it also introduces a corruption/purity element to change up both the plot and gameplay. Now the only way the good/evil thing is any fun for me is if there’s a character around to whine at me…
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