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Backhanded Box Quotes: Cursing Madden
Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic, Amazon and elsewhere. This week’s Backhanded Box Quotes concern a game that needs no introduction: Madden NFL 13, which has somehow managed to sell a zillion copies the past eight years despite not having anything good said…
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Customer Service Sucks For Those Inside the Gaming Industry, Too
Console failures don’t just happen to the little people. No, they happen to gaming industry professionals, too, and we’re happy to report they don’t get a customer service batphone and valet replacement service just because they happen to work for a major publisher, as “Frank” does here. He gets to suffer through the same tale…
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The “World’s First True Gaming Laptop” is Now More Powerful, Less Pricey
First revealed a year ago, the Razer Blade was a fascinating machine. Dubbed “The World’s First True Gaming Laptop” by its makers, the $2,800 17-inch machine, weighing less than seven pounds, was a bold experiment that traded power for portability, and portability for price. The experiment was an overwhelming success. Earlier this year the Blade…
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The Thousands of New Animations in NBA 2K13 Include This Insane Dunk
NBA 2K13 will include, for the first time, NBA All-Star Week competitions such as the Three-Point Shootout and the dunk contest. Bet your ass you’ll see this crazy dunk (at 1:15 in the video) in the latter. The 2K Sports motion capture team brought in a duo called the Team Flight Brothers to put on…
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Five Gaming Apps to Help You Survive the Long Labor Day Weekend
It’s Labor Day weekend in the U.S., a time for sitting around reflecting on all things labor-related and the contributions workers have made to our country. Contributions like sitting on the can at work playing some gaming apps instead of working. Games like this week’s five Gaming Apps of the Day! I realize it’s hard…
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Don’t Ruin Bastion by Letting it Play Through the iPad’s Crappy Speaker
Supergiant Games’ award winning action role-playing game Bastion is now available on the iPad, and it’s one of the best experiences you can have with the Apple tablet. Just don’t ruin it by playing without headphones. The gorgeous hand-painted graphics and the shooting and smashing gameplay make the trip to the iPad intact, but those…
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Plants vs. Zombies Comes to Zen’s Pinball Suites Next Week
At PAX today, Zen Studios said the next table in its acclaimed pinball lineup will be Plants vs. Zombies, licensed from PopCap, makers of the tower-defense hit. Plants vs. Zombies releases with Zen Pinball 2 on PlayStation 3 and Vita (it’s a cross buy title) on Tuesday in North America, and on Wednesday in Europe.…
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Building One of World of Warcraft‘s Finest Rides, One Plastic Piece at a Time
The Mega Bloks World of Warcraft line has been unleashed, bringing tiny plastic versions of Azeroth’s iconic people, places and Deathwings to toy stores across the country. I have one such Azerothian playset in my possession, and you get to watch me put it together, piece by piece. To the zeppelin! My LEGO-loving brethren are…
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MMO Developer Paragon Studios Closing; City of Heroes To Shut Down By End of Year
Paragon Studios has announced that effective immediately, all work on superhero-themed MMORPG City of Heroes will be ceasing, and the game will be shut down by the end of the year. In a post on the official City of Heroes site, community manager Andy Belford wrote: In a realignment of company focus and publishing support,…
By Kate Cox
