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PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards Voting Opens Tomorrow
Last year, Sony piloted their PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards, and they apparently liked the results enough to repeat the endeavor this year. This year’s awards include nominees in ten total categories, up from 2010’s four. The featured games received high user ratings after their release on PSN. Voting runs through next Tuesday, March 6, and…
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Wii Fit Doesn’t Actually Make Kids Fit
It’s been close to thirty years since video games began their great leap from arcades to living rooms, and for all of those years parents and pediatricians have been counseling that kids spend too much time sitting on the sofa, controllers glued to their hands. For a time, it seemed that fitness games and motion…
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WTPT: Seems Like F.E.A.R‘s Alma Is Haunting the Soldiers of Battlefield 3
These days it seems like the meaning of machinima has become convoluted. Is it those funny animated videos about Link? Is it a gaming site? Is it the video of your grandmother freaking out while watching Amnesia? No, it’s none of those things. It’s the original Red vs. Blue. It’s actually what you see above:…
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He Screams at Gaming’s Most Terrifying Moments So You Can Laugh
YouTube entertainer PewDiePie likes to record himself doing scary things, like playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent or the Cry of Fear Half-Life 2. His reactions are glorious moments of pure panic. It’s like having a surrogate pants-pisser. What a lovely service this man is providing, taking the girlish screams upon himself, transforming them into laughter…
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Growth of Gaming on Facebook Stalled Out in 2011
For a while now, Facebook has appeared to be an unstoppable juggernaut on the gaming scene. Every year, the number of Facebook users keeps climbing, and the percentage of those users who play games on the social site has increased along with. Until last year, that is. A new report from a major business analyst…
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Ten Ways to Make the Next Pokémon Games the Very Best, Like No One Ever Was
With Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 on the way, commenter Daemon_Gildas has submitted a timely list of suggestions for freshening up a franchise that hasn’t changed all that much in the past 16 years. Dear Nintendo and/or Game Freak, I’m going to give you a list that would make the Pokémon series kick SO…
By Mike Fahey
