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If There’s One Reason to Play Final Fantasy: All the Bravest, It’s The Hilarious Flavor Text
While I’m not too keen on Final Fantasy: All the Bravest‘s copious amounts of in-app purchases and incredibly basic gameplay, a quick flip through the game’s character, enemy and weapons collection pages is good for a fair amount of giggles, possibly even a guffaw or two. Take the basilisk, for instance. If my mother had…
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I Might Not Have What it Takes to Be a Disney City Girl
Maybe moving to the big city to be a Disney City Girl wasn’t such a good idea. My apartment is a hovel compared to the palace Jenna has, and even that’s stretching my budget to the limit. My boss will give me extra money for washing dishes if I dress in active wear, but he…
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There’s a Domo Game Coming to the iOS. Rejoice!
As a mildly enthusiastic fan of the ever-present mascot for Japan’s NHK television station, new that Domo: The Journey is coming to iOS next month from Playlithium has me squealing like a large man imitating a little girl. What’s the game about? Why, it’s about Domo. I don’t see why you’d need to know anything…
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Manti Te’o Gets the Tecmo Bowl Treatment
As expected, Dave Murray of the always topical Tecmo Bowl gang just chimed in on the Manti Te’o fiasco There’s usually a fast turnaround from breaking football news to some kind of Tecmo Bowl riff on the situation. And fake college football players are nothing new to a sports video game, of course. Fake girlfriends?…
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25 Video Game Violence Studies, Summarized
With video games so consistently a topic in the mass media’s examinations of the recent Sandy Hook shooting, we decided to take a look at the studies that try to determine what effect—if any—video games have on violent or aggressive behavior. President Obama made a call for more studies, providing the CDC with $10 million…
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Valve Considers Resubmitting Left 4 Dead 2 for Australian Classification
You may remember that, nearly four years ago, Australia’s classification board refused to classify Left 4 Dead 2, effectively banning it from sale in the country. At the time, Australia’s ratings system for video games topped out at MA15+, which basically means suitable for teenagers. Valve released a highly sanitized version of the game just…
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Halo 2‘s PC Multiplayer Shuts Off Feb. 15
With the population peaking “consistently at approximately 20 players or less,” Halo 2‘s PC multiplayer has been given one month to live. 343 Industries yesterday said the servers will be turned off on Feb. 15. If you remember the last time something like this happened, in 2010, as Microsoft was retiring support for the original…
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This Easter Egg From The Latest Borderlands 2 DLC Might Give You An STD
Beware: spoilers for hidden secrets in Borderlands 2‘s latest DLC—Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt—follow. Also STDs might follow, so, you know, beware that, too. Now that we got that out of the way, prepare yourself for The Clap, as presented to you by GameFront, the finders of all things hidden. I need one of these…
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This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: In With the Old, Out With the New
It’s not that the Windows Phone platform isn’t getting new games—it’s just that the older ones are just that good. We’ll run with that as the weekly Windows Phone charts return sleeker, sexier and more 5-hittier than ever before. Getting rid of the extraneous images and wonky formatting that previously made the weekly charts such…
By Mike Fahey
