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The Never-Ending Battle of PlanetSide 2 Becomes Three Minutes of Stunning CGI
Premiering live today at the 2012 China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference, PlanetSide 2‘s ‘Death is No Excuse’ CGI trailer takes the spirit of Sony Online Entertainment’s upcoming massively multiplayer online first-person shooter and dresses it up in a fancy coat of blood-splattered CGI. If only the game were so pretty. That’s not saying PlanetSide…
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People Resort To Some Terrible Things For Survival In DayZ
From the YouTube creators that brought you the live-action video of the miserable experience that is finding each other in Arma II mod, DayZ, comes this latest live-action episode. This time, the two survivors are pushed to steal precious beans from an innocent bystander. Oh, the things we’ll do to win games. Shame on you.
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The Newest Skylander is a Giant Bee, and They Didn’t Name Him Bee-Hemoth
Dear Toys for Bob, I know you folks are really good at making toys. I’m sure this Bob guy is completely overjoyed. Your Skylanders game wasn’t too shabby, and I’m really looking forward to the follow-up, Skylanders Giants. I love your work, but you really need to leave the character naming to the people most…
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Now That’s Some High Quality Battlefield 3 Machinima
Awesomely produced machinima like this reminds me why machinima is so great to begin with. It’s often easy to forget, amidst the muck and confusion of what the hell machinima even is that seems commonplace on YouTube and elsewhere on the Internet, but Patwwa reminds us of the skill that’s meant to go in to…
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This Aston Martin PC Case is Gorgeous, and Derek Smith is the Best Friend Ever
Custom PC builder Derek Smith had a friend that needed a PC, but couldn’t afford to purchase a brand-new system, so Smith told this friend he’d put something together. That something turned out to be a Cooler Master “Cosmos S” case transformed into the sort of PC James Bond would roll down an embankment in.…
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The Secret World Log, Supplemental: I Am All the Character Classes
With Kate on holiday this week’s MMO log for The Secret World isn’t happening. This is sad. Luckily for everyone involved, I’ve been playing as well, and I am tired of people asking me what character class I rolled. That’s not how it works. Here’s how it does. For many players it’s quite liberating, being…
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Terrible Tech Support Rep Threatens to Leak Customer’s Home Address to Criminals, Customer Says
A DayZ player/Reddit user says they recently got some really bad customer support. Not the wait-20-minutes on hold kind of bad customer support. More like the threaten-to-send-your-home-address-to-criminals kind. The saga, which popped up in Reddit and message boards for the popular DayZ zombie mod, involves some escalating exchanges between the gamer, known as SinisterPrime, and…
By Tina Amini
