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UncategorizedMaintain The Link With Your Fellow Nerds
Rapper YTCracker on Tuesday put out his latest nerdcore salute – “The Link” – featuring chiptunes in the mix and a 8-bit-style music video directed and animated by Dr. Octoroc. It’s showy and little into YTCracker’s own cult of personality, but that’s the style of the music. There’s no NSFW lyrics, but the music’s loud…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Bungie Has Flair For Original Halo PC Gamers
PC gamers who’ve kicked it old-school with Halo: Combat Evolved will get a nice piece of flair for their armor in Halo: Reach, according to plans Bungie’s made to reward loyal gamers. How it’ll be awarded, more or less, is that those who have authenticated a key for Halo: Combat Evolved on a Bungie server…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
False Alarm Evacuates Otakon 2010
Otakon 2010, the gigantic anime and Asian pop-culture convention going on in Baltimore, was completely cleared out around 2 p.m. local time by a fire alarm. Authorities report no incidents but the Baltimore Convention Center was evacuated. The attendees had to leave the building for about an hour while the fire marshal certified the premises…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
An MVP Hangs In There, With Los Muchachos Del Verano
It seems like a familiar story: a baseball veteran gets to the end of his contract, can’t sign another one, and finds new life, and love, in another country. In this case, it’s EA Sports’ long lost MVP Baseball 2005. Discontinued when 2K Sports won the exclusive third-party license from Major League Baseball, the game…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Halo: Reach Reveals Its Achievements
Bungie’s latest Weekly Update delivered the achievement art, and conditions, for Halo: Reach, rolling it out in a way that lets you look at the pretty badges without spoilering any campaign details. That poster is all of the game’s 49 achievements. Below, you’ll find the conditions for winning them, according to their number on the…
By Owen Good - Reviews
StarCraft II Heaven’s Devils Book Review: Humble Beginnings
Before Jim Raynor was the leader of his own paramilitary organization, blazing across the galaxy righting wrongs and fighting the good fight, he was the son of dirt farmers on a Confederate fringe world. This is where William C. Dietz’s StarCraft II: Heaven’s Devils begins. 18-year-old Raynor is plucked from his world by a recruiter…
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UncategorizedBox Scores: Putcha Name On It
Let’s open our sports thread and Game of the Week with this, DJ Steve Porter’s sequel to Press Hop, which I just can’t stop playing. I don’t know any psychiatrist that come off the bench, but I’m gonna need one. Our Game of the Week this time comes from TeamBuilder in NCAA Football 11. AcidCrownie‘s…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
No Refunds For Canceled Game Rile Zynga Users
Casual game players still have hardcore priorities, as social game behemoth Zynga is discovering after its plans to drop Street Racer on Monday without refunding players’ balances incited a user riot. Not helping matters was the fact Zynga, valued at some $5 billion, didn’t do what most large companies do and offer some veneer of…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Moneysaver: There Will Be Coupons
If there’s as much savings here as I think there is, it’ll be harder to reach but once we find it, we can take it right out. You have to act quickly, because very soon these deals will be dry. Hardware • Newegg has “recertified” Nintendo DS Lite consoles for $83.99. Choose from nine colors.…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
The Week in Review: A Real Time For RTS
This was a good week for a games launch. Straight in the middle of summer, when most have gone for vacation or are heading that way, and no other controversies brewing, StarCraft II arrived. Kotaku supplied a heaping helping of coverage for the PC RTS’s release – perhaps demonstrating how few genres there are left…
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