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Insanity, Urination and Other Things to Watch Out for in The Amazing Spider-Man
While we continue our review-aimed adventure with the new Peter Parker under, over and through the streets of New York, here are some of the fun features of The Amazing Spider-Man you can expect to experience in the game’s earliest moments. I’d make a joke here about crazy people urinating and the authentic New York…
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Liara, You’re Looking Awfully Blue Today. And Very Three-Dimensional.
Hello, Dr. T’soni. Why are you looking at me that way? One Reddit user Nobody_home’s cousin is apparently both a sculptor or prop artist and a Mass Effect fan. This recreation of Liara may not be pitch-perfect—she’s hovering somewhere between her earlier, innocent archaeologist self and her later, darker, Shadow Broker self—but it’s still remarkably…
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The Video Game Roger Ebert Loved
Ever since he typed the words “Games are not art”, Roger Ebert has been vilified by the video game community. But here’s something you might not know about him: He once reviewed a video game and loved it. In the video above, I break down The Cosmology of Kyoto, one of two games that gaming’s…
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Wonder What Your First Wii U Experience Might Be Like? This Was Mine.
The Wii U console and its distinctive GamePad control device have been floating around convention floors and meeting rooms since its unveiling at last year’s E3. But, for one reason or five others, I hadn’t gotten my hands on one myself. At least not until yesterday, when Stephen Totilo and I wandered around Nintendo’s somewhat-recreated…
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You Will Be Excited About PlanetSide 2, Even if it Takes an Entire Seven Minute Explainer Video
Why do I want more PC gamers to get excited upcoming massively-multiplayer first-person shooter PlanetSide 2? Am I a masochist? Am I in the pocket of Sony Online Entertainment, bribed by all of that cash they made on The Agency? No, the answer is much simpler than that: I want to kill you all. After…
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This Iron Man Case is Not Made by Tony Stark, But is Still Cooler Than You
You know who’s cool? Tony Stark is cool. He’s so cool he doesn’t have to give a damn about things like “civility” or “gravity” or “playing nicely with the big green monster scientist.” Iron Man is also cool. Mostly because he’s Tony Stark in a suit of badassery. This PC may not be able to…
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Opening Origin Always Makes Me Feel a Little Bit Sad, These Days
I didn’t always feel sad when I started up Origin. Vaguely annoyed, perhaps, with the way it always defaults to “Store” instead of “My Games.” Somewhat grumpy, when confronted with bugs. But lately, I feel a little pang of woe. And it’s not really from Origin at all. No, what makes me sad is seeing…
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The Complicated Alternate Reality of The Secret World and its Secret Seals
The Secret World officially launches next week, on July 3. It’s a somewhat unconventional approach to the MMORPG genre, set in the sinister, secret underbelly of the real world, the 21st century Earth we all inhabit. And while developers Funcom have been running the standard closed beta and public beta weekends, something more sinister has…
By Kate Cox
