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Typographic Prints Make Art From Gamers Favorite Quips
Via NerdWire, we have today a set of typographic prints and t-shirts representing some of gaming’s most famous icons, old and new. These aren’t quite the “standard” typographic style where the words themselves form the entirety of the art, but I enjoyed how the minimalistic icons and colors worked together with the words to evoke…
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High Moon Just Can’t Handle a PC Version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
This fall when Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers are tearing through Cybertron in the shiny metal skin of Grimlock, PC gamers will remain earthbound, forced to witness the grand robot battles from afar. After a poor showing on the PC for Transformers: War for Cybertron, High Moon Studios isn’t even going to attempt to…
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This Godfather Case Mod is as Compelling as a Severed Horse Head
I would have found a different PC case mod to kick off PC Gaming Lives’ weekly celebration of the art of enclosure craft, but this Godfather-themed masterpiece made me an offer I probably could have refused but chose not to. Were I capable of crafting my own glorious PC-containing creation featuring the likeness of Marlon…
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Quiet Indie Mystery Dear Esther Profitable in Six Hours
This February is proving to be a fascinating month for non-traditional development and funding paths in game design. While Double Fine’s Kickstarter proposal has been in the news, indie title Dear Esther has been making small waves of its own. Dear Esther became available for purchase on Steam yesterday, and launched to mixed reviews. (The…
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Rob Riggle Tours the Dizzying Heights of Modern Warfare 3‘s Overwatch Map
Former Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle wriggles his way into Modern Warfare 3‘s upcoming Overwatch map, giving us a guided tour of the hoary heights of New York City skyscrapers. You’ve seen the screens, now catch live scenes from the upcoming downloadable map, coming February 21 to Call of Duty: Elite members on the Xbox…
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WTPT: Chiptunes and Cartoons Make for a Happy Wednesday
This morning’s Watch This, Play This features a little of everything. In fact, you could probably break multi-tasking records and watch the videos simultaneously even while playing our new Gaming App of the Day. But probably not. WATCH: One of our favorite web series, Awesome series, just posted an update with a new cartoon in…
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This Pixel-Perfect Chiptune Rendition of Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” Surpasses the Original in Every Way
Soulful songstress Lana Del Rey made a splash last year with her single “Video Games”, a song that repeated the term ‘video games’ several times, causing many gamers to fall instantly in love despite the games in question being used as an example of how routine her once passionate relationship had become. The video was…
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How Will You Buy Your Vita Games, Retail or Download?
With early start Vita bundle buyers picking up their systems this morning in the U.S., commenter bassguygt is curious to know how they’ll be picking up games, and frankly so are we. I’m wondering how many Vita early adopters are choosing to buy their games in retail vs. digital PSN download format. I know that…
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Fifth-Grade Game Designer Exhibits her Video Game at White House
New game designer Hannah Wyman won a trip to New York, got a grant for her school, educated kids, and met the President of the United States. And she managed it all around her dance lessons and her homework, because she’s eleven years old. We may keep seeing the same old arguments over whether games…
By Kate Cox
