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Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles Dons the Infinity Gauntlet Next Week
After teasing us like an after credits scene at a Marvel movie for ages, Zen Studios prepares to unleash four Avengers-themed pinball tables in Marvel Pinball and Pinball FX 2 next week. Let’s celebrate with Thanos, the most glove-obsessed superpower in the universe. Come June 19 for North American PlayStation 3 and June 20 for…
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The Amazing Spider-Man Made Me Nauseous. This Pleases Me.
As the Beenox representative controlling The Amazing Spider-Man during the game’s E3 2012 presentation launched Peter Parker off the top of a tall building in virtual New York City, my stomach heaved sympathetically. The piece of pizza I had consumed during a previous meeting (thanks, Sony Online Entertainment!) threatened to make an encore appearance all…
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It’s In the Game—Take It Or Leave It
He’s a a fight promoter and a guy with an outsize personality, but however serious Dana White was when he said these things, he still said them. The president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship called EA Sports a joke. He threatened to blacklist fighters who appeared in its old mixed martial arts video game. He…
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Security Tightens as Diablo III Prepares for Auction House Launch
When Diablo III‘s real-money auction house goes live, anyone wishing to add to their monetary balance in it will have to use an authenticator, Blizzard told its community on Friday. An authenticator, heretofore an optional security measure, is meant to address the claims and instances of hacking in which players’ accounts have been taken over…
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Security Breach Turns DayZ‘s Servers into a Giant Botnet
In a month’s time, DayZ—the zombie-survival variant of Arma II— has quickly established itself as one of the most appealing mods of a PC game in recent history, if ever. That also makes it an appealing target to malefactors. One such person managed to get aboard the DayZ server admin team and, apparently, turn its…
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Medal of Honor‘s Executive Producer Tangles with Critic Over Realism and Militainment
Give Tom McShea credit. At E3, the GameSpot writer penned an 800-word editorial ripping the tone of Medal of Honor: Warfighter‘s multiplayer, saying features like regenerating health and respawning teammates trivialize the sacrifice that the game professes to honor. In the tradition of a columnist showing up in the locker room after a particularly tough…
By Owen Good
