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It’s Hot Out. Perhaps You Should Stay Inside for the Summer of Arcade, Instead.
The Xbox Live Summer of Arcade promotion has become a bona fide hot weather event in gaming. For the fifth summer running, Microsoft will be releasing and promoting promising download-only titles via Xbox Live Arcade. This year, the Summer of Arcade starts on July 18 and runs until mid-August. What’s on deck, when’s it coming…
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How a 375-Pound Lazy Gamer Lost 80 Pounds in Six Months
In December of 2011 I was not a healthy person. I was eating crap, drinking crap, and the life of video game journalist not located in a major city isn’t exactly rife with opportunities to do healthy things like running, walking… getting up out of your office chair. At my heaviest I weighed 375 pounds.…
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Gamers May Need a Real-World Bill of Rights for Better Living in Digital Worlds
Diablo III has inspired quite a bit of conversation among gamers this year. The game sold millions of copies right out of the gate, but its constant connectivity, server woes, connection issues, claims of hacking, and real-money auction house have, collectively, inspired quite a bit of controversy. Over at The Atlantic, writer Yannick LeJacq uses…
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This Game Could Start a Global Thermonuclear War. I’m Okay with That.
If the “game” Mathew Broderick played with the War Operation Plan Response computer in the 1983 movie WarGames were half as engaging and addictive as WarGames: WOPR for Android and iOS, we’d all be dead right now. “Shall we play a game?” The line that nearly launched a thousand nuclear missiles in the classic film…
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The Most Amazing Collection of Marvel Vs. Capcom Art the World Has Ever Seen
Just in time for next month’s San Diego Comic-Con, UDON presents Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works, 192 pages of art from every collaboration between the comics company and the Street Fighter people, from the Punisher arcade game to Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 This comprehensive tome, due out in November in softcover format, is a…
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Celebrate 25 Years of Final Fantasy With One Insane Free Remix Album
I’ve heard plenty of Final Fantasy music remixes in my time, but OCRemix’s 35th free album release, Final Fantasy Random Encounter, is the first one I’ve heard that combines metal guitars with vocals in the style of “Airplanes” as made famous by Haley Williams of Paramore. Project director Brandon Strader sent us a link to…
By Mike Fahey
