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NCAA Football‘s Cover School Says It Had Nothing to do With Fight Song’s Disappearance
Baylor University says it demanded no extra money from EA Sports for the use of its fight song in NCAA Football 13 and no one in the university’s administration had anything to do with the song’s exclusion in this year’s version of the game, which released last week with its Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback starring on…
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I Was Looking For a Game That Starred Empathy. I Found it Behind All the Zombies.
Last spring, I read a novel called The Passage, and I’m re-reading it again now. The book posits a scenario that in its broad strokes should be familiar by now to any gamer: a secret military science program goes horribly wrong and creates a race of man-eating, once-human monsters that more or less doom humanity.…
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Sometimes You Just Get Tired of Playing Video Games
In today’s half-hearted edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Robobrah shares an experience that many of us face during our gaming careers — the game completion slump. After reading this recent article it made me think of something that’s been bothering me for a while, and I’m interested if anyone else has ever experienced…
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The Dorkly Weekly: This Pokémon Journey Begins with an Incredibly Bad Decision
Today marks the debut of a new Dorkly original series, Pokémon Rusty, in which a brave would-be professional pet owner sets off to catch ’em all with his trusty Kakuna at his side. True Pokémon fans are falling over laughing at this point. For those of you not in the know, Kakuna is a transitional…
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Fake Gamer of the Week: If She’s Going to Play With You Clowns She Might as Well Look the Part
She’s a female gamer. She’s an attractive Asian woman. She’s not exactly the core demographic for a competitive online shooter, but she’s got an ace up her sleeve, and possibly a bouquet of fake flowers. Feel like acting like a clown around her? Fine. Two can play at that game. “Hey baby, have you got…
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Either the New Devil May Cry is Very Good, or the Whiskey Was Really Strong
This past weekend I got my first chance to try out DMC, the upcoming refresh of Capcom’s popular slash-and-shoot series, and I am pretty sure I enjoyed myself immensely. I’m just not certain how much of that enjoyment stemmed from an extremely unfortunate mixed drink snafu. Evan and I stopped by the Microsoft event on…
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Disney is Rewriting Your Childhood With Nostalgia For a Game That Didn’t Exist
Sega recently announced that their upcoming game Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed will feature the titular hero of Disney’s November film Wreck-it Ralph as a playable character. The movie’s director, Rich Moore, calls it a “dream come true” that we can see “Wreck-It Ralph in a real video game alongside Sonic and other iconic Sega…
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The Best Street Races on the iPhone Only Last 10 Seconds
Making a good-looking racing game for the iPhone isn’t that difficult, but winding tracks and multiple laps don’t sit well with players looking for a quick fix. You know what does work well? Drag racing. In a console game, drag racing is generally pretty boring. When you’ve got stunning 3D environments and all of that…
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Thomas Jane’s Punisher Returns with One Mighty Bottle of Jack
You have to admire a man who enjoys a role he played so much he stars in what is essentially a big-budget fan film based on the character. Thomas Jane wouldn’t mind being Marvel Comics’ Punisher again, and he’s got Ron Pearlman and an unbreakable bottle of Jack backing him up. Thomas Jane was a…
By Mike Fahey
