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EA Sports Brings Women’s Hockey Stars Into the Game—Without a League of Their Own
Last year, when NHL 12 allowed you to create a female hockey player in its superstar-fantasy “Be A Pro” mode, the only real difference was the face on the player in the video game. Underneath a helmet and the hulking pads, moving fast on ice skates, it’s hard to instantly tell if someone’s a man…
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Check Out This Insanely Cool GTA IV Mod That Lets You Time Travel With Back to the Future‘s DeLorean
Mods are insanely cool. They can grant PC games everything from a spiffy outfit to entirely new game modes and areas. YouTube user seedyrom34 took GTA IV mods to the next level with this full-functional, fully-detailed DeLorean time machine straight out of Back to the Future. It even comes complete with a full Marty McFly…
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Hulk Smash Puny Gaming PC, Make Gaming PC Look Badass
I’ve never wondered what a computer would look like after the Incredible Hulk had smashed it. If I’d ever thought about it, I would probably have imagined a sad little pancake of sparking, flattened circuitry and aluminum. One master modder, however, has a different interpretation. This beautiful brute of a PC made an appearance at…
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Guild Wars 2, Log One: I Cannot Rest Until I Have Explored All The Things.
In just five days of play, Guild Wars 2 has managed to wreak havoc on my usually-sharp ability to make up my damn mind. Those five days, beginning with Saturday’s head start access, have seen me create one character after another. It’s not because I’m dissatisfied with any of them. Quite the contrary, in fact.…
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The Adventure Time Game’s Weird Boss Fights Might Surprise You
What makes Adventure Time so special? What needs to be in the video game based on Pen Ward’s quirky and adventurous Cartoon Network series in order for it to maintain the charm and essence of the show? For an enormously obsessive fan like myself, a lot of it has to do with the characters and…
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There Are New Mounts Coming to Mists of Pandaria. Like Dragons.
Want a pony? How very old-fashioned of you. This isn’t 2006, you know. It’s time to upgrade to demanding a dragon, and World of Warcraft has you covered. Blizzard has just shown off all the new mounts coming with Mists of Pandaria‘s launch next month, and there’s not a pony to be seen among the…
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Women’s Hockey Stars Will be Playable in NHL 13
In what appears to be a first, two women’s hockey stars will appear as playable athletes in a sports video game simulating a professional men’s league. NHL 13 will feature Hayley Wickenheiser (above, left), of the Canadian women’s national team, and Angela Ruggiero (above, right) of the United States national team, alongside Wayne Gretzky, Mario…
By Owen Good
