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Celebrate Earth Day By Playing These Games
April is a busy month – April Fools, tax day, Hitler’s Birthday and of course that day where we all try and pretend our planet isn’t going to drift into the sun tomorrow: Earth Day. Earth Day got going back in 1970 with U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson declaring a teach-in to educate Americans about the…
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How To Gift New Neighbors In My Neighborhood
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey RE: Nice To Meet You, Here Is Some Detergent, Be Nice To Me What a quaint little custom, and your assumption that we have a similar custom is entirely correct, at least here in my Atlanta suburb. It’s almost exactly the same thing, only we call it “Be quiet moving in…
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Banjo-Tooie Trailer Brings Back Memories
In case you’ve completely forgotten everything you remember about Rare’s bear and bird sequel Banjo-Tooie, the new trailer and screens for the Xbox Live Arcade version should jog your memory nicely. Isn’t it amazing how your mind flavors your recollection of older games? Thinking back to my time playing Banjo-Tooie on the Nintendo 64, the…
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Punch-Out!! Multiplayer Has You Seeing Double
It’s Little Mac versus differently-colored Little Mac in these multiplayer screenshots from Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Wii. It boggles the mind that in a game with such a great cast of characters, multiplayer is limited to a split-screen battle with Little Mac versus another Little Mac. Nintendo tries to mix things up by making one…
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Demigod Review: Aspiring To Godhood
Supreme Commander developer Gas Powered Games seeks to take online PC strategy games to a higher plane with the release of Demigod. Demigod is an action real-time strategy game with role-playing game elements that obviously takes a great deal of inspiration from the popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. Instead of commanding armies…
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Nintenducation – A New Take On Edutainment
It’s a great time to be in grade school, if you live in Japan or Great Britain. Several dozen schools in both countries are putting Nintendo DSs in K-12 classes. Games are no stranger to schools, of course. Think back to the 80s when at least 30 minutes of every school day was given over…
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Supreme Court On Jack Thompson Appeal: No Thanks
Jack Thompson‘s appeal of his enhanced disbarment from the Florida Bar hit a bit of a snag on Monday, as the Supreme Court refused to hear his case. The court’s decision not to grant Thompson a writ of Certiorari was pretty much a given, considering such a grant is reserved for only the most important…
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Atlus Online Now Open For Business
Atlus has completed phase one in the deployment of their internet community and online gaming portal Atlus Online, with mascot Jack Frost running rampant all over the page. Announced to the world back in February, Atlus Online is an online community for fans of Atlus games, role-playing, and anime, three passions that generally coincide quite…
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UncategorizedHow Not To Play Rock Band
Never, ever be this guy. Grant Lokey sent us a link to this video, which supposedly shows him secretly filming his brother behaving like a complete and utter dickhead while playing Rock Band. It’s hilarious, embarrassing, and completely over the top. Considering it was posted to YouTube under the name ChickenFriedComedy, it’s also most likely…
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Half A Billion EA Sports Games Played Online In A Year
EA Sports marches the big numbers out onto the field, announcing that as of this week, more than 500 million online sports games have been played since the ’09 line launched last June. EA Sports titles have gone crazy online this year, with the 500 million plus games being played representing a jump of 175%…
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