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Destruction of One Tiny Ship in EVE Online Costs Player $6000 Worth of Cargo
It’s no secret that you can get your virtual self killed—or at least space-shipwrecked—pretty easily in EVE Online. It’s a game of shifting alliances, of diplomacy and economics and war. A player flying around solo, in a small ship, is likely to find himself easy prey. One player, stewie Zanjoahir, apparently wasn’t thinking about how…
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Let’s Remember A More Colorful Nintendo
Graphic artist Jillain Kristen has a good perspective on Nintendo, exchanging the gray-scaled consoles with her colorful nostalgia of playing with them as a kid. The result is this series of prints, all delightfully colorful. She explains the inspiration to me in an email: I wanted to design out the consoles in really child-like and…
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The MOGA Android Controller Will Make You Curse Like a Sailor in Public
Available today where ever an Android gamer cries out for an analog stick, Power A’s MOGA gaming controller invites you to offend complete strangers with your outrageous trash talk. I post this because a) I quite like the MOGA and b) any chance to see a mime lose his s*** is a glorious occasion, even…
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The Ugliest Images From BioShock Infinite Are the Ones That Make Me Want to Play the Game
I enjoyed the new trailer for BioShock Infinite. It’s the best look we’ve had in a while at a game that I’ve been looking forward to since 2010, when the first gameplay footage surfaced. It’s not Booker that particularly intrigues me, or Elizabeth, or even the enemy types they face. And while Columbia looks very…
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Webkinz Creators Tempt Women with Love, Romance, Intrigue and Adorable Mouse Figurines
Ganz, the company that married stuffed animals with social gaming with Webkinz (now on iPad) has recently introduced Tail Towns Friends, a game filled with juicy gossip, farming, drama, forbidden love and collectible figurines… you know, for the ladies. In Tail Towns Friends, players enter a soap opera world populated by tiny anthropomorphic cats and…
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The Dorkly Weekly: So That’s How Dr. Robotnik Became Dr. Eggman
There is nothing more sadly humorous than a someone trying to go by a self-conceived nickname. A nickname is something given to you by other people. With the dawning of the internet age a person can have a certain amount of control over what they are called, but someone can really do with an internet…
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Master Modder Makes Xbox 360 Into A Surprisingly Sleek and Slim Laptop
Benjamin J. Heckendorn, more easily known as Ben Heck, makes a lot of cool stuff. He’s made laptops out of the Atari 800 and Commodore 64. He’s used household objects to help make a controller that severely physically disabled gamers can use. He’s even made an Xbox 360 controller dispense Hot Pockets, because why not?…
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Battle Sudoku Against Friends Does Not Require a Clever Headline
You know Sudoku, the grid-based number game that everyone went crazy over a few years ago? This is Sudoku with power-ups, a three-move-per-turn limit, explosive mines and poker-style suites. When you’ve got all that, plus turn-based multiplayer, you do not require eye-catching wordplay. 6Waves’s latest free-to-play iOS game is now available for your number-revealing pleasure,…
By Mike Fahey
