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A Link For All Seasons
The Design Inspiration has a collection of Legend of Zelda artwork up in the style of their amazing Super Mario Bros. artwork we some some time ago. Sadly, I don’t see any Links that could pass for Daniel Day-Lewis — but there’s one that kind of looks like Jeff Bridges before he went to seed.…
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The Free Madden Winner is — Probably Not You
Not unless your name is Taylor H. He was chosen at random from more than 500 correctly answering entrants, the Charger fan living in Eagles country – Lancaster, Pa., to be exact – took home my copy of Madden NFL 10. More than 800 answered yesterday’s trivia question, 300 of them incorrectly. The player on…
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Cyberpunk and video games
Chances are you’ve heard me mention cyberpunk before, maybe as a tangent to a rant about steampunk — but this article over on GamesRadar explores the concept way better. Joe McNeilly’s “Neuromancer: 25 Years Later” looks at the connection between cyberpunk granddaddy William Gibson‘s work and the video game scene today. It’s a lengthy read…
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Getting Around In Champions Online
The Champions Online open beta is now in full swing, and here’s a look at how you’ll be swinging, flying, and burrowing your way through the new superhero MMO. My favorite feature of Cryptic’s last superhero game, City of Heroes, was the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound, teleport about the city,…
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Guild Wars 2 Hype Machine Rumbles To Life
Amidst all of the sound and fury surround the impending release of Aion, NCsoft has been quietly gearing up for a big reveal of Guild Wars 2. The teasing has begun, the website is stirring, and the official Guild Wars 2 Twitter is now active, pointing the said web page, where the above image hovers,…
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Bethesda Clarifies No Elder Scrolls V Statement
Last week at QuakeCon 09, Bethesda’s Todd Howard was quoted as saying the company had “no current plans” for a fifth Elder Scrolls game. According to Bethesda, that’s not what Howard said at all. The developer’s Pete Hines posted a statement on the Bethesda Blog today, clarifying Howard’s comments regarding the future of the Elder…
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Champions Online Open Beta Leaps Into Action
Time to put Cryptic’s latest massively-multiplayer online superhero game to the test, as the FilePlanet open beta for Champions Online launches with only a few slight snags. Right now FilePlanet subscribers and those with preorder codes for Champions Online can download the game and start playing immediately, as long as they don’t run into any…
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A Sight-Slicing Tour Of Muramasa’s Locales
We know we’ll be killing tons of strange creatures when Ignition releases Muramasa: The Demon Blade for the Nintendo Wii, but where will we be killing them? This locations trailer has the answers. They will fight in the forests…the will fight on the beaches, and in the fields, and on the rooftops…the two main characters…
By Mike Fahey