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GameStop Begins Buying and Selling Used Skylanders Toys
GameStop might not accept your band game instruments as trade anymore, but the company does have its eye on another sort of colorful plastic toys. Gaming website Pixelitis recently received information about a Skylanders trade-in program being tested at several U.S. GameStop locations. Having spent the months following Christmas 2011 fielding calls from desperate children…
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USC’s Song Girls Finally Immortalized in a Video Game
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: Do little jugs get your attention? No? Well, how about the Song Girls of USC, or the Texas Pom Squad. Or a guy from Michigan staring up the crotch of Paul Bunyan. Trophies and university-specific cheerleaders are part of the coat of polish the…
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Kingdoms of Amalur‘s “Teeth of Naros” DLC Will Add Bite to the Game
EA and 38 Studios just keep making the already-sizeable Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning bigger. On the heels of last month’s massive pirate-themed DLC, EA has announced the next bout of content for the game, a forbidding area called the “Teeth of Naros.” The “Teeth of Naros” is named for a troll god, we are told,…
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The Ancient Mayans Foresaw the Coming of this Devastating Case Mod
Dan McGrath’s stunning Thermaltake Level 10 GT mod might be called the AzTtec, but the inspiration is all Mayan. Looking every bit as if it were carved out of ancient stone from some scenic Central American temple, the material covering Thermaltake’s Level 10 GT case is actually a material called Balsa Foam, which when carved…
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I Didn’t Know What to Expect from the Wonderfully Random Really Big Sky
Why would I feature a game that came out last year in our relatively new weekly PC Indie Spotlight feature? I simply couldn’t resist the sweet allure of a procedurally generated twin-stick shooter that never played the same way twice. And I missed Luke’s post last year and didn’t notice Really Big Sky until it…
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They’re Never Too Young To Start PC Gaming
Not only is this nine-month-old infant attempting to play Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on his father’s computer, he also gets incredibly annoyed when his session is interrupted. This is how it starts. Yes, I found another excuse to post a video of one of my children, but it does speak of the allure of the…
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Six Years Ago, I Decided to Hate World of Warcraft. Can Mists of Pandaria Change My Mind?
World of Warcraft and I never did really get along. Since its launch in 2004, I’ve lost track of the number of friends of mine who loved it. They’d tell me breathlessly about their druids, priests, and hunters while extolling the benefits of the Alliance or the Horde. After ages of politely declining to join…
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A Little Something Special for the Shadowrun Fans in the Audience
Culled from the video from this morning’s Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter post, it’s time to put the sins of Shadowrun games past behind us. Watching the executive producer of 2007’s horrid first-person shooter get pelted with random objects a few thousand times should do the trick. The 2007 game was a cross-platform affair, uniting Xbox 360…
By Mike Fahey
