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You Know What The Morning After E3 Needs? Mighty Switch Force 2 Music
After being assaulted by a mix of horrific dubstep and “epic” video game trailer music for four days straight, it’s time for something a little more traditional — something like Jake Kaufman’s fantastic soundtrack for Mighty Switch Force 2. Mighty Switch Force 2 just hit the3DS eShop yesterday, and a good 50 percent of why…
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If You Can’t See Man of Steel Tonight, Here’s the Budget Version
For comic-book movies, the bigger the budget, the bigger the expectations, the bigger the letdown. Table 8 Productions, makers of “Iron Man 3 on a Budget,” and “The Avengers on a Budget,” know the key to exceeding expectations is to kill all hope of them in the womb. Thus this trailer for “Man of Steel”…
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The Witcher‘s Anti-DRM Studio Finds Itself in a Bind with Xbox One
Few major developers could be as publicly anti-DRM as CD Projekt Red, makers of the Witcher series. Yet there they were with The Witcher 3, getting a good five minutes of stage time with the Xbox One, the face of console DRM going forward. The studio is committed to releasing on Xbox One but none…
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This Is The Most Confusing Game I Saw At E3
It’s called Hohokum and it’ll be out on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Vita (though what you see here is on the PS4). You control a snake-like character while you explore worlds and discover new ones. You help in-game characters and creatures locate items and other characters and creatures. Sometimes, you turn lights on…
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The New Smash Bros. Characters Blew Up The Internet
Smash Bros. got introduced for the Wii U and for the 3DS on Tuesday, during Nintendo’s E3 direct and we had the chance to see the Villager from Animal Crossing, the Wii Fit Trainer and Mega Man among others. People liked them a lot and they can’t get away without some Internet attention. Especially the…
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Jonathan Blow Thinks Adventure Games Are Bad. So He’s Making One.
Behind The Witness—Jonathan Blow’s next puzzle-esque game after Braid—is a mission. To solve all those awful adventure game tropes. Adventure games can be tricky. Most either love or hate them. Personally? Flaws and all, I love them. But Blow, an independent designer whose games are published on Sony’s platforms, thinks he can solve some of…
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The Mad March Of The PlayStation Mascots
When we think video game mascots, PlayStation isn’t the first console that comes to mind, but Sony has quite a few iconic heroes and villains in its ranks, as proven by both PlayStation All-Stars and this series of Vine vids our fearless leader capturing during his E3 travels. Can you name them all? No, you…
By Mike Fahey
