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Battlefield 4 Reinvents Jousting With Jet Skis And Bazookas
Having a good time in Battlefield 4 in an unconventional way doesn’t always mean stacking 64 players into an elevator or changing pilot seats mid-air. There’s jet ski jousting! Jackfrags and his crew show us how to play this grand sporting spectacle. Two teams battle for supremacy on water, while jet skis and rocket launchers…
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How Much Did You Spend On Gaming In November?
We’ve made it through November, a month packed with two next-gen console releases and a bunch of new releases from some of gaming’s biggest franchises. Now we’ve got time to pause and reflect on the damage we did to our wallets over the past 30 days. How much did you pay for games in November?…
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Holiday Heads Discovered in Borderlands‘ Thanksgiving DLC
The second Headhunter pack of DLC for Borderlands 2 arrived at a suspiciously large download size this week—large enough that fans went poking and probing and, lo and behold, they found something they shouldn’t have. Up above, in that video, are the holiday-themed heads and skins to be unlocked (or otherwise distributed) by some future…
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Culture
The Week in Games: Gran Finale
We’re settling in for a long winter’s nap after Friday’s release of the PlayStation’s signature driving sim Gran Turismo 6. After that, well, there’ll be news this weekend from the Video Game Awards, but it’ll concern stuff well down the road. Not much cooking until February, so here is your week—or month—in games. Friday, Dec.…
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Robbers Settle for PS4 When GameStop is All Out of the Xbox One
In the new console generation, the PlayStation 4 appears to be the second best choice—for robbers in Indianapolis that is. Tuesday evening, two suspsects stormed a GameStop on the south side of the city and demanded—by name—all of the Xbox Ones in stock. The GameStop employees replied, more or less, “Uh, we don’t got any.”…
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He Thought He Was Buying a PS4; He Got a Box of Towels Instead
A man in Colorado Springs got (sunglasses) fleeced when he met a dude to buy a PlayStation 4 and ended up with a box of towels. That said, they do dry you off a lot better than the Xbox One. Cops in the Springs say the man answered a Craigslist ad, hoping to buy the…
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The Sun‘s Page 3 Girl was The Playstation 4
Friday saw the launch of the PlayStation 4 in the U.K., and The Sun’s notorious Page 3 treated blokes there to a new model—one much less curvy than usual. Sony took over Page Three (and two) for a day, apologizing (sigh, apologising) to “Rosie, 22, from Middlesex,” for displacing her. That couldn’t have been a…
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EsportsLeague of Legends, Turned Into Final Fantasy VII… Has Potential
Would it be possible to transform League of Legends into a JRPG, specifically, Final Fantasy VII? The answer is yes! Thanks to Brazilian YouTuber Pato Papao, we now have a highly detailed LoL / Final Fantasy crossover fan-video, with the appropriate dances, moves and skills. There’s also plenty of extra little tidbits for those who…
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Tearaway Makes Half-Life…Cute?
Rise and shine Mr. Freeman! Your Tearaway remake probably wouldn’t survive City 17, but at least it’s cute! Tearaway‘s character editing tool comes in handy if you want to remake yourself or any video game character, which is of course always irresistible. Besides a pretty neat Link and Gordon Freeman above, Tearaway players already recreated…
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Vita 2013 Holiday Buyer’s Guide
Sony’s handheld device might not be brimming with support and popularity, but it’s definitely a solid piece of hardware. Here are some buyer’s tips when it comes to the Vita. DO buy them a Vita. If you want to win the holiday and feel like you’re sticking it to Apple, you’ll give a Vita AND…
By Tina Amini
