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When I Imagine Cyberpunk-Style Hack Battles, This is What I See
Since the early days of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper role-playing setting, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of highly-skilled computer hackers roaming the plains of cyberspace looking for a fight; digital cowboys with their fingers twitching inches away from their plastic 101-shooters. The realization that real hackers are just normal people tapping away at standard keyboards…
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Final Fantasy‘s Lightning Doesn’t Like Sand. It’s Coarse and Rough and Irritating.
Also there are sand dragon things, which are not soft and smooth. The latest batch of screenshots for Final Fantasy XIII Sequel Two: I Guess You Guys Wanted to Play as Lightning shows off the Dead Dunes, a land of dunes and deadness in the world of Nova Chrysalia. Sand is pretty great. It’s easy…
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I Would Cry Real Tears Of Joy If I Could Ride This Minecraft Beetlejuice Roller Coaster
Wow. This thing is elaborate! (Word of warning, if you don’t like dubstep or anything like it, you should just mute the video now. I personally like the song just fine.) According to YouTuber nuropsych1, it took their team roughly two months on the Xbox 360’s creative mode to create this beast. It would probably…
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This Real-Life World of Warcraft Quest Changed Two People’s Lives Forever
World of Warcraft player Alex found a really creative way to present an engagement ring to his girlfriend Clara, who also plays the game: A quest chain, which includes some romantic real-life activities. All he needed was a papercraft template for a chest, a site where he could make custom WoW tooltips, and of course…
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The People Behind XCOM and Civilization are Bringing Something Spooky to iOS
The folks at Firaxis are responsible for some of the best strategy games ever made, so when they promise a deep, competitive, free-to-play strategy game for iOS in this spring’s Haunted Hollow, it’s a good time to be an iDevice owner. In Haunted Hollow, players construct elaborate mansions that spawn all sorts of nasty horror…
By Mike Fahey
