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What Battlefield Might Look Like With Google Glasses
Google Glasses is somewhat of a creepy concept, but it can also mean a drastic change for gamers. Imagine playing the next Battlefield title like something of an ARG, where the playing field is the literal space you stand in. Can’t imagine it? That’s fine, because YouTube user ThereIsaCanal has uploaded a video of what…
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EA Wants Need for Speed to Race into Movie Theaters
For all that movies and games so often feel like they should be a natural partnership, they usually aren’t. A huge number of films based on game franchises have been developed in the last thirty years or so, and most of them were awful. This doesn’t seem to be deterring EA, who are shopping around…
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Geralt Makes “Rated M for Mature” Sound So Sexy
The Witcher 2: Assassin’s of Kings‘ hero doesn’t get laid all the time for nothing. In this launch trailer for the Xbox 360 edition of the game, Geralt of Rivia warns of mature content in a way that’ll have your parents purchasing the game for themselves. I vote we have Geralt’s voice actor Doug Cockle…
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Indie Man Valiantly Brings Down The Big Bad Game Companies
All of the qualms you’ve been having over your favorite AAA games—like bad endings and online passes—have Indie Man to blame. Indie Man bursts into high profile game company meetings and inserts his crazy ideas to bring down the man. All of his valiant efforts are to help indie games’ popularity. So, does it work?
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Dabble With Word Puzzles and Just Enough Strategy
Dabble is an incredibly simple but satisfying game that combines two of my favorite things: words and puzzles. Like any other word game, Dabble gives the player a bunch of tiles and asks them to form words; this is fairly straightforward. Then the puzzle catch comes in: each round has exactly 20 tiles, from which…
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You’re Trapped Inside a Gigantic Claw Machine. What Do You Do?!
It’s all fun and games until the giant claw descends from the sky and threatens to make you the unwilling plaything of a surly teenager. This brilliant (very) short film from SoKrispyMedia captures the sheer panic experienced by brave men that have, perhaps foolishly, made the inside of a claw machine their preferred hang-out spot.…
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Someone Please Build This Magical Kingdom of Disney Minecraft
I don’t think anyone can say they don’t like Disney World. But if it’s missing something, it’s certainly a Minecraft themed park. After all, the last time the resort received a major addition was in 1998. How cool would it be to walk through a pixelated universe with hired actors walking around as creepers? Whichever…
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Two-Thirds of Parents Admit They Don’t Bother Checking Video Game Age Ratings
The ESRB has a fairly detailed and complex system that determines what games are marked kid-safe and which are considered appropriate for adults’ eyes only. All major publishers participate in the voluntary rating system, and it is instrumental in physical, retail game sales in stores like GameStop and Walmart. But does any of it actually…
By Kate Cox