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World at War is Half Off Through Thursday
Steam’s midweek bonanza is a neat bisection of Call of Duty: World at War‘s retail price. Ordinarly $50, you can grab it for $24.99 until Thursday. The franchise just dropped its third map pack – for the PS3 and Xbox 360 – but the first is still lurking out there for the PC version –…
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EGM/Maxim Subscription Swap Not a Hit with Moms
When news passed that Electronic Games Monthly subscribers would have their subscriptions to the folded, venerable mag replaced with Maxim, you just knew something like this was gonna happen. Twelve-year-old Jake O’Donnell of Boston got an eyeful of side- and underbooby when Maxim showed up this past month, and mom Kathleen is – I gotta…
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Stride Gum Is Out To Save An Arcade (Or Two)
Stride Gum, makers of those commercials that seem to follow me everywhere, is offering $25,000 to an arcade on the verge of closing after already shelling out $10,000 to save the Philadelphia-based Challenge Arcade last week. The company has selected four independent arcades eligible for the prize money and left the result up to a…
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Guitar Hero 5 Music Studio Impressions: Jamming With Bach and Rimsky-Korsakov
Of all the differences between Guitar Hero 5 and its predecessor, World Tour, the changes to Music Studio seem to be the most dramatic. Before, the music-making mode was limited in what it could do, what kind of music it could produce and the interface was less than intuitive. Now, the UI has been overhauled…
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Bushnell’s Battleswarm Enters Betaswarm
Battleswarm, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell‘s online PC game that pits real-time strategy players against first-person shooter fans, is now allowing players to sign up for beta in advance of next month’s release. Battleswarm seems to be coming along well for a game we only heard about just last month. That’s probably because the title, being…
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