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A Delightful Baker’s Two Dozen
Can You Name All 26? | Here are 26 games represented in minimalist design, in alphabetical order. Can you identify all 26 right off the bat? (Video Games ABC, by YouTube’s thijlkema) Is This a Photo of Valve’s Rumored Console, Or At Least a Prototype? Less than 24 hours since the website The Verge reported…
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Signs Getting Stronger that SimCity 5 is Coming—in 2013
There are so many “leaked” trailers that have survived multiple days on YouTube, it’s hard to believe this isn’t deliberate. Whatever the case, this silent slideshow of SimCity 5 concept art is alleged to be source material for a GDC announcement, and the game will release in 2013. Earlier this week, seven images published in…
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Here Is Modern Warfare 3‘s Definitive “Chuck Norris” Kill
When some terrorist asshole’s got everyone pinned down, there’s only one way to solve the problem—up close and personal. Put another way, you can’t kill Chuck Norris at close distance; close distance to Chuck Norris always kills you.
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PlayStation Network is Down for Maintenance for the Next 14 Hours
Regularly scheduled maintenance on the PlayStation Network was postponed on Thursday and will begin right now. The service will be completely offline until about 5 a.m. EST. The maintenance extends to the PlayStation Blog itself, so if you’re looking for updates on the network and when it may return, follow the official PlayStation Twitter feed,…
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Whatever a “Steam Box” Means to Video Games, Only Valve Knows for Sure
Steam Box. Gabecube. Steam Engine. And, of course, Orange Box. If Valve Corporation is planning to offer a so-called PC gaming “console,” the gaming community has already focus-grouped the brand names for it. “Companion Cube” would also seem to be perfect. Nothing is confirmed. Valve’s intentions in hardware are as opaque as its timetable for…
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Kart-ography
Yes, I know we sort of addressed this topic three months ago (Road Reggie, winner Cygnus_Mal), but this ridiculous life-size Mario Kart kart, not to mention Mario tossing up the rokken devil horns, is just too exploitable to pass up this week. Not only do we have Nathaniel Stehley at the wheel of the Kart,…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
A trio of hunters makes for an appropriate scene set within Trine, by commenter Snufkin. Good morning and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. Feel free to discuss anything on the subject of video games in our comments below. If you’ve got a good idea and the skills, take a shot at whipping up a…
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Yah Mo Be Shopped: The Winners
The strange Michael McDonald Fight Stick that sold on eBay (for $137.50!) provided the grist for our latest ‘Shop Contest, which had more than 400 entries! Somehow I had to narrow this down to 20 finalists, but I did. They’re inside, including No. 1 winner pnkero, who might be the first ‘Shopper to go from…
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Like It or Not, the Wheaties-Box Era of Video Game Covers Is Over
Looking over the field of candidates for the Madden NFL 13 cover, I’m thinking of what William Munny said before he shot Little Bill in Unforgiven: Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it. That’s not to say all of the 40 candidates announced so far are meritless underperformers or lack star power. But when you’ve…
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Mari0—the Portal/Super Mario Bros. Mash-Up—has Launched!
Announced back in August, Mari0—a full game of Super Mario Bros. played with a Portal gun—has released, and it offers way more than what its premise suggests. The game just became available minutes ago by its makers, StabYourself.net The video above shows you all that you get, but my advice is to simply download it…
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