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Everything Wrong With Deadpool in One Convenient Game Trailer
Deadpool is my second-favorite Marvel Comics character. Seeing him come to life (courtesy of IGN) at the hands of the studio that brought me two stellar Transformers games should be a dream come true, but the more I see of the Deadpool game the more I realize the character I fell in love with back…
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PETA’s Whale of a Complaint with Assassin’s Creed has Nothing to do With Animals
The m.o. of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals complaining about video games is by now completely transparent. They’ve had problems with everything from Pokémon to Mario’s Tanooki suit, and little of it has anything to do with the harmful depiction of animals in a video game, or the corrosive attitudes that may spread.…
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EA Sports May Add “A Couple of New Sports Franchises,” But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up for MVP Baseball [UPDATE]
A top Electronic Arts executive, speaking at an investor conference, hinted that EA Sports could add “a couple of new sports franchises,” in the coming year, and reaffirmed the label’s commitment to publishing NBA Live, which it canceled for a second time at the end of last year. In remarks reported by Polygon, Blake Jorgensen,…
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Minecraft Looking at PlayStation—When Its Exclusive Deal With the 360 Ends
Minecraft on the Xbox 360 is no joke. In October, it briefly dethroned Call of Duty as the Xbox 360’s most-played game, and is still a solid No. 2 five months later. So its viability as a console title isn’t in question. Mojang is considering a PlayStation version, said Jens Bergstein, the lead designer of…
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This Huge Final Fantasy Airship Case Mod Really Explores the Space
Building this replica of a Final Fantasy airship woudn’t be an easy task, even if it wasn’t meant to be a PC case mod. What do you do with all of that space? Well, Richard “8-Bit Builder” Clinton somehow found room for two GTX 660 graphics cards inside and even play around with the case…
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The Awesome Giant Monsters of Japanese Video Games
Godzilla and his atomic breath are one of the most recognizable metaphors for the atomic bombings of WWII—and they’re also icons of Japanese pop culture. With a steady supply of Kaiju movies, giant monsters nestled themselves comfortably in video games, creating a huge library of monster mayhem-based titles. We have selected some of them, both…
By Gergo Vas
