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Heroes of Ruin and The Legend of Zelda Clash in This Week’s Nintendo Download
Old school action role-playing meets newfangled dungeon crawler in this week’s Nintendo download, as a free demo for Square Enix’s Heroes of Ruin goes head-to-head with one of Nintendo’s most legendary games. If you were one of the folks that picked up the Nintendo 3DS before they dropped the price from $250 to sensible, then…
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Even Hitman: Absolution‘s Characters Think Killer Fetish Nuns are Inappropriate and Exploitative
Hitman: Absolution‘s E3 2012 trailer depicting Agent 47 brutally dispatching a group of killers dressed as sexy nuns caused quite a stir. People called it exploitatitive. People called it misogynistic. In the latest in a series of ICA Profile videos for the game, an unseen bureaucrat agrees with these assessments. Hitman: Absolution‘s developers apologized for…
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I’ve Been Collecting the Wrong G.I.Joe Figures
It’s the Fourth of July, the day we here in the United States celebrate our freedom, and who fights for freedom whenever there’s trouble? Sideshow Collectibles’ Sixth Scale San Diego Comic-Con exclusive Lt. Falcon figure is ready to punch Zartan right in his big stupid faces. For the past few years I’ve been collecting Hasbro’s…
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I’m Over Elves and Orcs. Let’s Have Some More Low Fantasy.
When I was writing about The Secret World yesterday, I mentioned that for many years, I’ve wanted to play an MMO based on Neil Gaiman’s novel Neverwhere. So far, The Secret World does some, but not all, of what I’ve always wished I could see a massively multiplayer world do. But as I’ve been thinking…
By Kate Cox
