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Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘Duck Hunt 2012 with Swearing.’
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Released: June 19. Critic: JabbaTheSlush (Metacritic) • “[T]his is a solid one out of ten.” Score: 1 (out of 10) Critic: Kadeemluvmusic (Metacritic) • “… [a] bad flavor…
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No Way to Trim the Pubic Hair of Console Gaming
In about a week I’ll move into a new home. My mother’s giving me an antique pine cabinet which she says is perfect to support my TV and house all my video game equipment. When I get home my best friend and I will carry over this antique. Then I’ll drill a huge hole right…
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Alabama is No. 1 in the First Top 25 Poll of the Season
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • The Associated Press and the USA Today Coaches’ Poll won’t send in their preseason ballots for another few weeks, but that hasn’t stopped EA Sports from releasing its first poll—the preseason Top 25 of the 2012-2013 season in NCAA Football 13. This is…
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SmartGlass Could Make Wii U a Better Sports Console, Too
There was so little mention of the Wii U by Electronic Arts, or any sports publisher at E3, I felt compelled to double-check with Madden‘s boss that they still were building a version for it. “Well, Peter [Moore] announced it on stage last year,” said Cam Weber, the label’s general manager of American football, breaking…
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Global Thermonuclear War and the Single Man: It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
Heeding Luke Plunkett’s warning from Monday, I’m going to talk about The Act, Centipede Origins, and WarGames: WOPR, purposefully avoiding any mention in this week’s roundup of the insanely addictive Pocket Planes Oops. I’m considering instituting a moratorium on writing about games from Tiny Tower developer NimbleBit until they stop creating games that sap the…
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Determine Who Wins Comment of the Week Internet Points
Internet points! Better than real-life points! Let’s start nomination threads, with a link to a comment you liked. What’s that? The comment you liked was already nominated? Vote it up! Wait, you don’t remember what you liked this week? Look through your comment history for those #cotw hashtags (hopefully you’re using them for your own…
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The Amazing Bruce Campbell Gets Extreme in The Amazing Spider-Man
Since his role as the ring announcer in the first Spider-Man movie, B-movie and television star Bruce “Ash” Campbell has been a fixture in the webslinger’s video games. Next week’s The Amazing Spider-Man is no exception. Campbell plays an over-the-top journalist in the game, putting Spidey through his paces in a series of challenges that…
By Mike Fahey
