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Yes, I am an Anti-Aquaman Bigot
It is axiomatic that any statement prefaced with “I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body,” is said by someone with a completely prejudiced skeleton, plus teeth. So I won’t hide from it. I’m prejudiced as fuck against Aquaman. I can’t even say some of my best friends are Atlantean. Because I don’t have…
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Morning Star Alpha is No Ordinary Comic Book Game Tie-In
This spring, developer Industrial Toys plans to redefine the mobile first-person shooter with the sci-fi epic Morning Star, but first it’s going to redefine the interactive digital comic book tie-in with Morning Star Alpha When Industrial Toys founder and president Tim Harris contacted me about the upcoming announcement of a supplemental stand-alone app based on…
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2K Sports Duct-Tapes MLB 2K13 to NBA 2K13 and Sells It For $80
Last year, 2K Sports did a shrewd thing, bootstrapping its flagging MLB 2K series to its best-in-class NBA 2K in a combo package announced a month before the baseball game was due for release. The publisher is doing the same thing again this year, but listing the bundle for $10 more. The combo pack is…
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Halo 4‘s Next Map Pack Arrives on Tuesday
A poorly kept secret since November is official now: the Majestic Map Pack, the latest series of multiplayer maps in Halo 4, will indeed be available on Feb. 25 for 800 Microsoft Points ($10). The maps, consistent with a leak earlier this weekend, are Landfall, Monolith and Skyline (above). Longer descriptions may be seen here,…
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Star Wars Pinball Launches Next Week on Five Different Platforms
Star Wars Pinball‘s first three tables—The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett and The Clone Wars—will release next week on a slew of mobile and console platforms. Pricing and release dates are different for all of them, so pay close attention. First, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita gamers may also buy the set of three for…
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What’s Most Impressive About Nvidia’s New $1,000 Graphics Card? How It Sounds.
On Thursday Nvidia’s latest “most powerful graphics card in the world” hits the market—the Kepler-based GeForce GTX Titan. Packed with a ridiculous number of CUDA cores, all the Teraflops you can eat and innovative features like display overclocking, it’s sure to impress the hell out of people that watch performance monitors and keep their frame…
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Rayman Legends‘ Online Challenge Mode will be Released Free on Wii U in April
Acknowledging the profound disappointment at the delay of Rayman Legends release on the Wii U—a holdup that seems to have no other reason than to wait for the Xbox 360 and PS3 editions to launch this fall—Ubisoft Montréal has decided to release the game’s Online Challenges mode early, for free, to all Wii U users.…
By Owen Good
