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GameStop Pulls PC Deus Ex: Human Revolution From Shelves Following OnLive Debacle
After getting into hot water earlier today for opening new PC copies of Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution and removing codes for a free OnLive version of the game prior to sale, video game retailer GameStop has pulled the games from its shelves pending recall. According to an email forwarded to Kotaku from an…
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How To Turn a PlayStation 3 Theft Into a Drug Bust
17-year-old Bobby Lee Huffman of Hickory, North Carolina, called the police to his home on Monday after he discovered his PlayStation 3, controllers, and games had apparently been stolen. Then Bobby Lee did something incredibly stupid. Officers responded to the Huffman residence on Monday, where Bobby Lee showed them where the alleged criminals had torn…
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UncategorizedI Was Only One Bloody Ground Slam Away From Loving Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Proof positive that pre-release demos can make or break a game, my interest level in Relic Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine went from zero to must-buy within 30 minutes of try-before-you-buy gameplay. As far as Games Workshop’s most popular franchises go, I’ve always been more on the Warhammer Fantasy Battles side of things. One would…
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Check Your Fantasy Football League’s Scores When You Play Madden NFL 12
The NFL’s official fantasy football service, offered through NFL.com, will be integrated into Madden NFL 12, updating gamers with scores and results from their leagues, standings, schedules and more. The move, a first for Madden, helps drive interest to the NFL’s fantasy offerings, one of the few realms in which it is competing head-to-head for…
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UncategorizedCheck Out The Real Driver San Francisco Car In This Rap Video
Yelawolf, an Alabama rapper signed to Eminem’s Shady Records, loves muscle cars. So he must be pretty excited to drive around a real life model of Driver San Francisco‘s yellow and black Dodge Challenger. Yelawolf’s new video, “No Hands,” features the rapper in iconic locations around San Francisco, from Chinatown to the Bay Bridge. The…
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Rune Factory Images To ‘Tide’ Fans Over Until September Release
Natsume has big news connected to the screenshots of Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny which they released on their facebook today. The game hits Sept. 27 for both the Wii and the PS3. Screenshots for both versions of the game are now available. Tides of Destiny marks the debut of the series on the PS3.…
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GameStop Policy: Open Your Games, Steal Your Codes, Sell Game Like New
GameStop tells Gamespy.com that they have been removing the codes for free copies of the OnLive PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from the new PC copies of the game they sell at their stores and selling the game, without the free bonus, as new. The free Onlive copies were part of a deal…
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Summer Break Means More Games For More Kids Nowadays
My 13-year-old sister visited recently and the first thing she did was ask for the wireless password. So what? She’s a forward thinking kid keeping up with the times. According to a new study, however, she’s part of a larger trend. A recent study by Harris Interactive polled a total of 2,950 adults in America…
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These Video Game Idols Put The Old In Old School
We’re all getting older, but hopefully most of us will age more gracefully than these beloved video game characters. The drawings come courtesy of Adam Ellis and his website “Books of Adam.” These pictures of Link, Zelda, Peach, Daisy and Samus in their twilight days are classy, if not a little disturbing. Didn’t we just…
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Dishonored is a Somethingpunk Shooter for Everyone. That Could Be the Problem.
I’ve been afraid to write about Dishonored. For weeks after I saw a guided demo in a room with other game journalists, I’ve looked at my notes and thought, Everything I have to say is negative. I don’t want to be negative. It’s too soon to be negative. So this is me staying positive. Dishonored…
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UncategorizedGo to Gravity School With Inversion 101
All right class, what is the first rule of shooters? Stay behind those low walls? Namco Bandai explains why that strategy may not work anymore. Inversion is an upcoming third person shooter where the player wields the power of gravity. If an enemy is hiding behind a wall, just shoot some low gravity their way…
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Kinect Star Wars Won’t Be Home for Christmas
What might have been the perfect Christmas gift for the Star Wars gamer will have to find another special occasion to be gifted on, as Microsoft confirms that Star Wars Kinect and the Star Wars themed Xbox 360 have been pushed back indefinitely. It started off bad and got a little better, but Star Wars…
By Mike Fahey