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Uncovered Vehicle List in Max Payne 3 Reads a Lot Like a Grand Theft Auto Fleet
Someone on GTAForums.com pried apart the files inside Max Payne 3 and found a vehicle list shot through with callbacks to past makes and models from the Grand Theft Auto series. There is an enormous thread going on both there and on NeoGAF, about the subject. Noting that this isn’t the first time Rockstar Games…
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Activision’s “Sphere”: The Most-Used Unusable Piece of Video Game Music Ever
In the middle 1980s, my brother and I both had Commodore 64s. Our next-door neighbor was the electronics buyer for a catalog showroom—a breed of variety store brought to its knees by Walmart before Best Buy and e-commerce finished the job. Our neighbor was in charge of buying computer hardware, and software. That meant we…
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I’ve Gone And Injected Wub Into All This Beautiful Video Game Music. Sorry.
Usually, around this time each week, I throw a video playlist together for the Kotaku Mix Tape, but this week I was a little distracted by The Wub Machine The Wub Machine is an online app that will automatically generate a Dubstep, Electro or Drum & Bass remix for any MP3 that you throw into…
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All-Star Pitcher Schilling’s Video Game Studio Can’t Pay Its Employees, Either
It is looking dire for 38 Studios, the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning studio set up with a huge hunk of public funding from a Rhode Island jobs creation program. So now, we’re talking about an operation that took taxpayer money with the intent of creating jobs and can’t pay the employees working in them. That’s…
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Wounded Galatian: Max Payne 3‘s Soccer Mission, and the Meaning Behind its Fictitious Team
This only marginally qualifies as a spoiler alert because, if you’ve played Max Payne 3 longer than 20 minutes, you’ve encountered this mission already. It revolves around a shootout in the locker room of the Galatians FC in Sao Paulo, Brazil which, as a quick Internet search plus common sense reveals, ain’t a real team.…
By Owen Good
