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NBA 2K vs. NBA Elite: It’s Still Fargin’ War
A video of NBA Elite shown at the NBA draft last week did plenty to rile fans of both sides in sports gaming’s last real competition. One sent a link to NBA 2K‘s community manager, who tweet-replied “That looks awful.” “And you were worried,” Ronnie Singh, the NBA 2K community manager, said to the fan…
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Meet Portal 2’s Wheatley, The Eye Who’s A Guy
Today Valve releases the first in a series of videos covering the E3 demo for Portal 2. In the first portion we meet Wheatley, the personality sphere that’s cuddlier than a companion cube, if that’s even possible. While Crecente briefly touched on Wheatley’s first appearance during his Portal 2 preview during E3, I had no…
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Followars Makes Turn-Based Battles Out Of Twitter
Japanese Harvest Moon publishers Marvelous Entertainment has unleashed Followars onto the iPad, a two-player game that turns your Twitter followers into combatants in turn-based role-playing battles to the death. In Followars, now available for $2.99 in the iTunes App Store, two players face off in the iPad arena, using their Twitter followers as lackeys in…
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The Bosses Of Lost Planet 2 All At Once, All For You
Capcom is delivering more downloadable content to Lost Planet 2 next month, with a special Rush Arena mode featuring you and three friends against every boss in the game. It’s really only a small chunk of downloadable content, but the price seems right. Coming at the end of July and running $2.99 or 240 Microsoft…
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Joule iPad Stand Review: At What Cost Stability?
In a world where iPads constantly topple over at the merest touch, ElementCASE releases a top-of-the-line solution that will have iPad owners standing at attention, but at what cost? Sure, the iPad is comfortable enough to sit in your hands for extended periods of time, but doesn’t it look lovely upright? And wouldn’t it be…
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Six Flags Facebook Game Is Fun Until Someone Loses An Arm
With countless folk horror tales of theme park rides decapitating or removing the limbs of riders, you’d think Six Flags would have shied away from promoting over-the-top, blood-spurting violence in their new Facebook game, Six Flags Mascot Park. As you can see from the picture of my mascot Cowtaku above, this is not the case.…
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UncategorizedOne Man Army Conquers The Pokémon Theme Song
Danny Fong applies his amazing vocal talents to the Pokémon television show theme song, performing not only all the voices, but vocalizing the music as well in a stunning display of a capella coordination and shirt variety. Single-person a capella songs are big on YouTube lately, and it’s easy to see why. The degree of…
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Retail-Exclusive Enslaved Goodies Include Ninja Monkey And Sexy Robot
Ninja Monkey and Sexy Robot? Those two word combinations alone are enough to get many onboard for Namco Bandai’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West when it ships this September, but which power-granting outfits you get depends on where you preorder. Not only are Enslaved’s three premium preorder costumes stunning to look at, they’ll also enhance…
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The Nintendo Download: Cream Of The Crap
Can the release of the Nintendo 64’s Mario Tennis on the Virtual Console save a Nintendo Download littered with beer pong and virtual dating titles? It might not all be crap this week, but there’s a strong crap aftertaste that lingers on anything posted around the same time as Pong Toss Pro – Frat Party…
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The Fastest Switch To Free-To-Play In The History Of MMOs
Dungeons & Dragons Online did it. Lord of the Rings Online is doing it. More and more massively multiplayer online games are switching to a free-to-play model, but none quite as fast as Hi-Rez Studios’ online shooter Global Agenda. Launched in February of this year, Global Agenda was to have two different pricing tiers. Players…
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