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The World’s Most Infamous Piracy Website Wants You to Buy This Video Game
It’s not unusual to see the latest, hottest PC games available for download at The Pirate Bay, the Swedish file-sharing website that’s one of the planet’s primary sources for pirated entertainment — just not normally on the very front page. Mikolaj ‘Sos’ Kaminski’s indie adventure game McPixel is available this weekend as a free torrent…
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The Vita Hasn’t Been Completely Cracked Yet, But One Guy Is Getting Awfully Close
Sony wanted to make sure the Vita was difficult to crack. Earlier this year, some folks at wololo found exploitable in the Vita and were able to run custom (homebrew) software. Sony pulled some games in order to remove the code, and not too much about hacking the Vita has been heard since. Recently, however,…
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The Hulk Goes Toe-to-Toe With Farting Cat and Annoying Orange in This Week in Gaming Apps
I take four days off and what do I return to? We’ve got Marvel’s mightiest mashing things up, a creepy citrus fruit, a flatulent cat (had that anyway), a PC puzzler gone iOS and one hell of a hexagon. That’s one pretty damn strange Week in Gaming Apps. I’ve spent the majority of the week…
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Assembling the Most Insane Gaming Keyboard I’ve Ever Typed On
I’ve gone through dozens of gaming keyboards during my decades of PC gaming, from generic off-white Wal-Mart specials to elaborate, fully-programmable, back-lit monstrosities. The Cyborg S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 from Mad Catz is the first gaming keyboard I’ve had to screw together before using. For the $300 asking price, one would think things like using a tiny…
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Yes, You Can Explode A Watermelon With The Power Of Your Mind
Okay, it’s not a full range of mage powers. It’s not the Force. It’s not telekinesis. In fact, it’s a fairly limited setup with only one purpose, at the moment. But it is a chance to make something explode. With your brain. A group in Kentucky hacked the setup together. It’s a Star Wars Force…
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PAX Cosplayers Need To Know: How Many Commanders Shepard Does It Take To Bring Down Kai Leng?
The answer, apparently, is seven, with the help of Legion, Joker, EDI, Kasumi, and three Tali’Zorahs. I’m suddenly jealous that I could never bring more than two companions with my Shepard in a party. BioWare had a photobooth set up at PAX, capturing many of the best Mass Effect and Dragon Age cosplayers the convention…
By Kate Cox
