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For Your Consideration: The Second Annual Saxxy Awards
Valve has opened the voting for the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2, and a winner shall be crowned on Nov. 30. Why so soon? Well, because the best overall winner is going to be announced at the Spike Video Game Awards on Dec. 7, and the video is going to…
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Now Facebook Games Can Create User Groups to Fill With ‘Add Me’ Posts
The second Zynga posts a message on the app page for a game like FarmVille 2 it fills with posts from people seeking friends to help them in-game. Now there’s a new feature in beta for Facebook developers that will allow for apps and games to create their own groups, giving players another place to…
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From Pong to Mass Effect 3: Time Names 100 Best Games of All Time
In what is ultimately sure to be a fool’s errand, Time magazine has compiled a list of the 100 best video games of all time. Coming up with lists of the bests is harder than it looks, and any set of criteria used will have flaws in it. Curation is hard, and lists change all…
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The Odd Gentlemen Return With a Distinctively Different Music Puzzle Game
Way back in the golden days of 2010, small developer The Odd Gentlemen released a pie-collecting platform puzzler on Xbox Live Arcade and Steam called The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. It was genius. Then The Odd Gentlemen disappeared into the mists, never to be seen again. Well, they did do a thing for PlayStation Home…
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Tiger Woods Will Serve You Arnold Palmer Next Year
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 revealed its cover today, pairing Woods with a younger Arnold Palmer, as he appeared during his heyday of the early 1960s. Palmer returns to the game as a playable character, too, having last appeared in the game in 2006. While EA Sports is giving out no additional details yet, Palmer’s…
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There’s an Official Pokemon Pokedex in the Japanese iTunes App Store
The North American iTunes store is chock full of amateur Pocket Monster catalogs, assembling data from the popular Nintendo creature collecting series. They might soon be obsolete, should the official Pokedex for iOS released today in Japan make its way stateside. From what I can gather from the app’s official page, the iOS Pokedex is…
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The Next Borderlands 2 DLC Is Called Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage [UPDATE: Now with a picture!]
Gearbox, or rather Borderlands 2‘s DLC character Gaige, today announced the next chunk of campaign DLC. Gaige’s Twitter account teased the news this afternoon, under the guise of a hacker named Torgue taking over her account. Here’s a picture of Torgue. This is the second campaign DLC to release, following Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s…
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This Striking Motion-Controlled iOS Boxing Game is Completely Unreal
Powered by Unreal Engine 3, Vivid Games’ Real Boxing is not just another pretty face waiting to be beaten into submission. It also uses your iPad, iPhone or iPad Touch’s camera to deliver surprisingly responsive motion-controlled boxing. If you don’t want to look completely silly throwing punches at your iDevice, Real Boxing is still an…
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The Walking Dead‘s Episode Four Stats Lead Up To Final Episode, Coming Next Week for All Platforms
If you, like me, are an episode or two behind in Telltale’s remarkable Walking Dead series, don’t watch this video. If you, unlike me, have caught up on episodes three and four of the five-part series, then by all means, go to town. In addition to releasing the player stats video for episode four, Telltale…
By Kate Cox
