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  Another Mario Movie For The Call Of Duty Generation

  The Mario Warfare series continues after a few months rest/preparation. It continues to be the best place to see Mushroom Kingdom characters fighting with barrels and assault rifles. If you haven’t caught an episode before, you can start catching up here Mario Warfare 3 [Beatdown]

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2013
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  Nintendo’s First Proper Console Was So 80s It Had A Cassette Deck

  So, the Famicom turned 30 today. In honour of that, let’s look at one of the coolest accessories ever made for the console, one that sadly never made it out of Japan. In 1984, Nintendo released the Famicom Data Recorder, a tape deck peripheral for the console. Yes, cassette tape. The Data Recorder was a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2013
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  Crazy Skyrim Mod Is Basically A Free Expansion

  You can keep your wacky texture changes, the best kind of Skyrim mods are the ones where people go all out, adding entire new areas to the map and giving you as much stuff to do as you’d expect from something official, that you have to pay for. This is Falskaar, an ambitious mod which…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2013
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  Persona Is A Game About Time

  I just finished a marathon few months where, having been previously unfamiliar with the series, I burned through Personas 3 & 4, back-to-back. There are so many things I want to write about these fantastic games, so many feelings, but the one thing that’s struck me the most about them is how well they handle…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2013
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  Zelda Fans, Drop What You’re Doing And Check Out This Art Collection

  This. Is. Incredible Fan site History of Hyrule have done an amazing job tracking down all old art from The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past from all kinds of old magazines, manuals, products and publications, and have scanned and uploaded the images online. To say it’s a treasure trove of old Nintendo…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2013
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  How To Survive A Bear Attack, If You’re A Total Spaz

  You’re alone in the woods, and you find yourself face-to-face with a bear. He looks pissed! What do you do? According to one reporter, you spaz right the hell on out out. Here’s Rhode Island reporter Julie Trammel demonstrating some excellent tips for surviving a bear encounter. Apparently the answer is, “Put your hands in…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 15, 2013
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  Move Over Fort Max, There’s A New World’s Tallest Transformer In Town

  A selection of Hasbro’s San Diego Comic-Con 2013 exclusives arrived on my doorstep today, officially making Fortress Maximus the world’s second tallest Transformer. You don’t have to be a dick about it, Metroplex. Much better. Now kiss. The San Diego Comic-Con Metroplex is just like the one hitting retail next month, except for the chrome…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 15, 2013
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  This Animal Crossing: New Leaf Glitch Lets You Duplicate Items

  Tiny Cartridge has found a glitch that I’ve heard lots about recently, as it allows you to duplicate items in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The method is not exactly what I’d call “safe,” but that’s how it usually is with exploitations like this. To quote Animal Crossing Community’s Heatran: What you do is, drop the…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published July 15, 2013
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  Far Cry 4 Is Coming. What Do You Want Them To Change?

  Surprising absolutely no one, on Friday Ubisoft’s Tony Key told Gamespotthat the successful, critically acclaimed open-world shooter Far Cry 3 is definitely getting a full-fledged follow-up. Which, naturally, raises all sorts of questions. Ubi’s not sharing details—we don’t even know for sure that it’ll be called Far Cry 4—they just say a new game is…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 15, 2013
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  Don’t Call Your Local Library Asking For The Elder Scrolls

  If this video by ICEnJAM is any indication, either the library won’t have it, or they won’t bother looking. Then again, it might help if you’re not just a soundboard of Septimus Signus, a character from Skyrim, trying to get a quick laugh by pranking your local librarian. It might also help if the Elder…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published July 15, 2013
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  Happy Birthday, KotOR! Thanks For Having Such Great Star Wars.

  Today is the 10th anniversary of BioWare’s classic Star Wars role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic. Happy birthday, KotOR! Thanks for having such great Star Wars. Let me back up and explain what I mean by that. Last winter I was in New York talking with my boss Stephen about the animated Star Wars…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 15, 2013
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  One Day, The Oculus Rift Headset Might Be Free

  It’s difficult to watch the endless Oculus Rift videos without a tinge of envy—it’s not an experience most of us can have yet. Once it releases, the developers are aiming for a $300 pricepoint—which also makes the headset inaccessible to many people. That may not always be the case according to Edge Speaking to the…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published July 15, 2013
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  A Dance Tune Starring Grand Theft Auto‘s Most Annoying Cousin

  Hey Niko, want to go bowling? Hey Niko, want to go to a show? Hey Niko, let’s go to a strip club! GO AWAY, ROMAN. This new musical tribute from Miracle of Sound (better known as the outfit behind “Commander Shepard,” aka easily one of the best musical tributes to Mass Effect) is outstanding. It’s…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 15, 2013
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  20 Gruesome Ways To Die In The Last of Us

  I hate dying in The Last of Us. But I also like dying in The Last of Us. It’s complicated. I like it because I like the brisk, matter-of-factness of the death screen. A clicker grabs Joel, things get ugly, and the game immediately cuts to black. But I hate it because I love the…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 15, 2013
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  Street Fighter Player Wins Great Match at EVO With Unpopular Character

  In a sea of Akumas and fireballs during this year’s EVO, any change-up in character selection was welcome. Even so, you don’t expect one of the “worst” characters on the Street Fighter roster to suddenly make an appearance in a top 8 match. Thank god it did, because Infiltration pulling out Hakan to go up…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published July 15, 2013
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  Pacific Rim’s Most Emotional Line Was Left Untranslated

  One of my favorite scenes in Pacific Rim didn’t involve robots or monsters. It involved a brief exchange in Japanese. Spoilers follow for Pacific Rim I saw Pacific Rim for a second time last weekend. I’d worked my way into an advance press screening a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to come back…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published July 15, 2013
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  The Moneysaver: Major League Gaming Monitor, Fuse, Sharknado, Pokedex

  The definition of insanity is pulling full price over and over again and expecting things to get cheaper. There’s a whole world of deals outside the Steam Summer Sale, and you can explore it in this very post. The console gaming sections are not exactly stacked today, but we’ve got a great selection of apps…

  By Shane Roberts Published July 15, 2013
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  The Basic Psychology Behind the Steam Summer Sale, Explained

  It seems you can’t discuss the Steam Summer Sale without doing one of the following: Personifying your wallet and mourning some injury done to it; bemoaning all the unplayed games you have before piling another on it; commanding friends to buy a game, more for the price than the game and, of course, buying games.…

  By Owen Good Published July 15, 2013
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  Shin Megami Tensei IV: The Kotaku Review

  My favorite character in Shin Megami Tensei IV didn’t make the front cover of the North American release. She’s not one of the samurai warriors tasked with keeping the world’s demons in check. She’s not technically even a real person, much less a she. Her name is Burroughs, and she’s the keeper of the menus.…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 15, 2013
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  EVO Wasn’t The Only Impressive Tournament This Weekend

  It was a massive weekend for eSports. Gfinity—a Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Tournament that granted the winner $55,000—dominated the UK and EVO broke new ground for the fighting game community in Las Vegas. Not only were the events themselves a big deal but there were shake-ups with some of the top Call of…

  By Alex Mendez Published July 15, 2013