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UK Game Stores Saved From Complete Annihilation
British video game retailer Game is still an ongoing concern, thanks to the efforts (read: money) of private investment firm OpCapita, now the proud owner of the 333 remaining store locations throughout the United Kingdom. Having been in financial hot water for quite some time, Game’s troubles became abundantly clear to customers earlier this year…
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April Fools! All of These Announcements Are Fake—but Which Ones are Funny? [Updated AGAIN]
Alright, it may be a Sunday, but it’s still April Fools’ Day, a very special day in video gaming, and many of its companies, studios and merchants are pulling hoaxes and stunts, and making gag announcements. So let’s round up as many as we can here! MetaMeta Critic (Paradox Interactive) The developer of of PC…
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Here’s the First Look at a Super Meat Boy Completely Rebuilt for Mobile Devices So ‘It’s Not Shitty’
When Team Meat set out to create a Super Meat Boy version for touchscreen mobile devices, creators Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen vowed they wouldn’t just slap a virtual gamepad on the thing and do some half-assed port of their downloadable hit for PC and Xbox 360. They’ve fleshed out their vision more, and offered…
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The Silly, and Sentimental, Appeal of Playing Golf as Toddler Tiger Woods
I’ve played video games as 7-foot-centers and hulking first basemen, I’ve probably pitched to or hit against the virtual counterpart of every Hall of Fame ballplayer who has appeared in the last 20 or so years. The idea of playing a sport as someone famous has well lost its novelty in the modern era of…
By Owen Good
