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Watch This, Play This and Then Have a Happy Valentine’s Day
Continuing in our long-standing tradition (aka yesterday) of Watch This, Play This are three pieces of entertainment to stave off that bitter Valentine’s Day loneliness, or that romantic dinner you totally forgot to plan but that you promised your significant other you would. Oops. WATCH: Kicking off this Valentine’s Day is a video of Jimmy…
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Beat Hazard Ultra is the Game Photosensitive Seizure Blurbs Were Warning You About
Until now your iTunes music library has remained passive, patiently waiting for you to allow it to waft delicately to your eardrums. With the release of the iOS version of Beat Hazard Ultra your music is now a deadly predator, lurking in your playlist, awaiting the call to be transformed into explosive levels of eye-melting…
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See Curt Schilling Shilling Kingdoms of Amalur on Jimmy Fallon
38 Studios founder Curt Schilling uses tales of baseball triumphs past to hook Late Night host Jimmy Fallon and then brings Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning in for the kill. While Schilling comes across as completely excited about the release of his company’s first major game, Fallon himself looks like he’d much rather talk baseball for…
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Survey: There’s a 1 in 10 Chance Words With Friends Will Get You Some Action
We all know that the “social” space has changed the dating scene. Facebook has thrown all sorts of new tools and little wrinkles our way. Now that the virtual hangouts have caught up with crowded bars as a place to meet a mate, social games are finding a new way to shine. Zynga ran a…
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Stop Copying World of Warcraft, Start Making a Better MMO
Commenter Kinecticdamage tries to shock massively multiplayer online game developers out of their World of Warcraft-fueled haze and on track to create something truly unique and beautiful in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. “In case of Doubt, copy WoW“, a message to MMO devs. I don’t know if there are any MMO analysts, business angels,…
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Mostly Dead is Slightly Alive: Where Adventure Games Are Hiding
Double Fine’s record-breaking Kickstarter adventure has, over the past few days, rekindled the perennial discussion about the entire genre of adventure games. The classic adventure has had its death announced dozens, if not hundreds, of times over the past decade or so, with at least an equal number of rebuttals. When adventure game god Tim…
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Child Left in GameStop Leads to Neglect Arrest
Attention parents of the world: GameStop is not a babysitting service. That fact was made abundantly clear to 21-year-old Kethia Dagrin-Francois of Florida when police arrested her for child neglect after her five-year-old son was found wandering the parking lot of Boyton Mall. According to authorities shoppers discovered the young boy wandering the parking lot…
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Masters of Their Domains
Binary | TOKYO, JAPAN: Via tipster Jinah comes these photos. (Photo: Game Watch) Active Duty Marine is Making a Video Game About Zombies Zombies, man. Everyone loves killing zombies. 22 year-old Marine Sergeant Jacob Way is betting that video game players love killing zombies enough to make room in their libraries for one more zombie-slaying…
By Mike Fahey
