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Check Out This NBA Star’s Massive Wingspan
This full-back tat by Andrei Kirilenko, a free agent most recently with the Utah Jazz, speaks to what kind of pro athlete plays World of Warcraft. Usually, it’s the iconoclast in the locker room, a guy like Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe. Once this hit Twitter, word spread of Kirilenko’s badass back tat but few…
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Test Drive Unlimited Studio Stages One-Day Strike
Atari’s plans to lay off more than 50 percent of Eden Games’ workforce, plus alleged “mismanagement,” were the catalysts for a one-day symbolic strike today by the developer of Test Drive Unlimited 2 “For several years we are witnessing multiple leader changes at its head, they did not hesitate to get rich despite financial difficulties,”…
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UncategorizedSamuel L. Jackson Plays Black Ops
Whether this Samuel L. Jackson soundboard is live (in which case, it must have taken at least two guys) or edited in after the fact, there’s little dispute over its comedic value. NSFW language throughout. Part of a series of YouTube Black Ops soundboard videos going back to the beginning of April, including Pee-Wee Herman,…
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Fallout-Themed Geiger Counter Monitors Japan’s Transpacific Radiation
A Seattle-area man who lived in Europe during the Chernobyl disaster, now wary of radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accidents traversing the Pacific, built that, the a Fallout-themed case for a Geiger counter that reports its findings automatically via Twitter. Redmond, Wash.-based RobCo_PIPBoy has been reporting hourly counts per minute of between 17 and 24…
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Five New Mass Effect 3 Details You Might Want to Hear
Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson spoke with UK magazine Xbox World, divulging some mid-production intel about Shepard and company. The info is scattershot; little pieces of unconnected details about many different aspects of the game. Still, they help to create a larger picture of BioWare’s vision for the game. For those of you…
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UncategorizedThe Best Place to Loiter in Guild Wars 2
Every massively multiplayer online role-playing game needs a place for players to hang out, shout their auctions, and bitch about the development team working on the game they’re currently spending every waking hour playing. For Guild Wars 2, that city is Lion’s Arch. The city of Lion’s Arch was a hub for adventurers in the…
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Would You Pay $90 to Attend a Minecraft Convention?
Six months before Minecraft‘s full release is due, creator Markus “Notch” Persson is pondering a gala event in Vegas on its release day – MinecraftCon, on 11/11/11, “with all of [development studio] Mojang going there, and us pushing out the final release live on stage or something.” Would you pay to see that? Notch wants…
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Brink Takes a Swipe at Console Gamers while Deleting PC Gamers’ Characters
Oh those silly console gamers. They couldn’t possibly handle the advanced PC gaming concepts like objective-based teamplay. Why, if there was a bug in the game that say, deleted their characters completely if they exited the game too early, console gamers would be beside themselves. Wait, there is? The screen above, pulled from my copy…
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The Universal Wrist Gadget Charger Arms Your Electronics with Extra Life
In the age of smartphones, MP3 players, tablet PCs, and high-quality handheld gaming devices, people need all the electricity they can get their hands on, even if they have to strap it onto their bodies to carry it around. Now there’s an idea… And where there are nifty gadget ideas, online retailer ThinkGeek is generally…
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