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  There Will Be Another Game About Making Video Games

  Game Dev Story is a neat little iPhone game that’s about running a studio that makes video games. It went down well with people. So well, in fact, that its developers will be releasing a sequel. Well, by “release”, we mean “port”, as Game Dev Story is actually a Japanese PC game from the 1990s,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  Turning A Nintendo Console Into A Skate Park

  Settle in for nearly five minutes of some guy using an old Famicom (Japan’s take on the NES) and its game cartridges as a skate park for his fingerboard antics. It’s great stuff. If you like skateboarding (or miniature representations of it!), you’ll love it. And if not? Well, hopefully you’ll just enjoy looking at…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  Wait, Dolph Lundgren is Working With Uwe Boll?

  Hot off his work in high-profile action feature The Expendables, Nordic thespian Dolph Lundgren will be working with, that’s right, Uwe Boll. Uwe Boll is noted for adapting video games like Far Cry and Alone in the Dark into flicks, and his Lundgren vehicle is no exception. The two will be teaming up for In…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2010
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  Let’s Play Starcraft On The iPad!

  Starcraft is on the PC. It’s also on the Mac. And Nintendo 64. And that’s it. So how is somebody playing the strategy hit on a touch-screen Apple iPad? It’s not through magic, nor is this a bootleg copy of the game. It’s actually a program made by a company called iSwifter, who normally stream…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  NSFW: PlayStation Move Used Incorrectly In Manga

  You know what I think the PlayStation Move looks like? An ice cream cone. Know what the folks at adults-only Comic Penguin Club think it looks like? Yeah. This isn’t just some online fan art, but an actual a page from the December issue of Comic Penguin Club, which features what is supposed to be…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2010
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  Russell, There Is No Badge For This

  All this time, we never knew Up was essentially a prequel to Joust. By Chad King, as seen on Super Punch

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  The Future Of Gran Turismo 5

  While Gran Turismo 5 finally hit stores after several delays and over five years in development, the game’s studio isn’t finished with the title by any means. Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has answered questions and concerns from players via Twitter. In an update this month, a “mechanical damage” option will be added to the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2010
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  Airport Security Ruins Video Games, Too

  The Transportation Security Administration isn’t making too many friends in American airports at the moment. It’ll make less friends if it starts holding up video games the way it holds up a departures line. If you’re thinking the people in this clip look familiar, that’s because it’s a collaborative effort between gaming comedy troupe Mega…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  New Sega Shooter Is Already Out Of Ammo

  The developers behind the Yakuza crime series are working on a sci-fi title called Binary Domain. It’s a pre-rendered trailer with robots, shooting and bad dialogue. But, hey, robots. Much of the trailer is filled either with stock third-person character design or characters nicked from movies or TV. While the game is supposed to appeal…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2010
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  Could Someone Actually Be Making A Decent Heist Game?

  Spooky. We were only lamenting the other day around the office water cooler about how there weren’t enough good heist games these days, and what do we get? A new heist game — and an interesting one to boot. This is Subversion, an upcoming PC game from Darwinia developers Introversion. We’ve actually seen it before,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  Watch Hundreds Of Japanese People Wait In Monster Lines

  Eagerly awaited PSP game Monster Hunter Portable 3rd went on sale in Japan earlier today. How was the launch? Madness. Long lines weren’t only at the game’s promotional countdown event, but loads of other locations across Tokyo — and the entire country. Gamers weren’t only buying Monster Hunter, but also buying the title’s PSP bundle.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2010
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  The Next Big Star Wars Game Is Still Far, Far Away

  The Old Republic, a new massively-multiplayer game set in the Star Wars universe, won’t be out this year, obviously. But what about early next year? Nope, it won’t be out then, either, with publisher Electronic Arts’ CFO Eric Brown, saying it won’t be out until at least EA’s 2012 fiscal year. Now, the 2012 fiscal…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  Giant Mechas Make The World A Better Place

  In late September, an incident involving a Chinese fishing vessel caused a strain in Sino-Japanese relations. Even as tensions still run high, one thing brings them together. That thing is Gundam. Recently, animator Yoshiyuki Tomino gave a speech at the elite Peking University, which was attended by over 500 Chinese students. It was just over…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2010
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  Review: Splatterhouse Is Just Bloody Offal

  Can Splatterhouse throw enough internal organs, flesh-ripping kills and liquid gore to keep players interested in a middling beat ’em up adventure that full of gristle and bloodshed, but little meat? Splatterhouse is a violent, excessively gory brawler, a mostly faithful retelling of Namco’s 1988 side-scrolling schlock horror game, that’s swimming in blood, guts and…

  By Michael McWhertor Published December 1, 2010
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  Xbox Live Rewards Gives You “Money” For Nothing

  Microsoft’s “Xbox Live Rewards” program, which began testing over a year ago, looks set to finally be about to open to the public, with a page turning up on Xbox.com devoted to the service. The program essentially rewards users for spending money on Xbox Live, giving out Microsoft Points and other freebies for doing things…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  Starcraft 2 Developers Initiate Ban Rush

  In September, thousands of cheaters were busted messing around with Starcraft II. This week, with many players obviously not having learnt from the last wave of action, developers Blizzard had to swing the hammer again “We recently issued a new round of account suspensions and bans to StarCraft II players who were in violation of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  This Stack Of PS3s Is The 33rd Biggest Computer In The World

  Remember how the US Air Force bought a ton of PlayStation 3 consoles then strung them together? Ever wonder just why the military would do a thing like that? Well, it’s not for playing Killzone on. Indeed, you couldn’t play it – or any other disc-based PS3 game – if you tried, as every PS3…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2010
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  Off Topic: The Next Generation

  What’s that, you say? Only Tuesday?! *grumble grumble* Let’s make this week pass by faster with a little off-topic conversation, the nightly post where we talk about music, news, movies, sci-fi and a potpourri of reader-generated subjects. We’ll leave you with a few items to stoke the fires of conversation, but I have a question…

  By Michael McWhertor Published November 30, 2010
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  Tour World Of Warcraft’s Post-Cataclysm Barrens

  Before the Cataclysm, The Barrens was one of the most important Horde zones in World of Warcraft. Now it’s two of them. Check out what’s new and different in the land of endless Chuck Norris references. Current World of Warcraft players and fans that participated in the Cataclysm beta test are already acquainted with the…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2010
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  The Most WTF Box Art Of 2010?

  It may belong to the Nintendo DS game based on Japanese science program “Tobidase! Kagaku-kun,” starring the skinless Mr. Science, famous geek spokesperson Shoko Nakagawa and comedian Naoki Tanaka, who hunt animals for scientific purposes and make amazing box art.

  By Michael McWhertor Published November 30, 2010