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Huh-Huh … You Said … ‘Bust’
Huh-Huh … You Said … ‘Bust’ | Lifelike busts of 1990s entertainment icons Beavis and Butt-Head. Seen via Geeokologie. Jailed Megaupload King is Still the World No. 1 in Modern Warfare 3 Kim Dotcom is the Internet playboy who made his zillions by founding the now-defunct (and Anonymous cause celebre du jour) Megaupload, and also…
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Mass Effect Figures Will Set a Record for Most Expensive DLC
The four series of Mass Effect 3 figurines being offered by Big Fish games Toys (announced back in December) are certainly nice enough collector’s items. They will also come with a card (one per figure) promising “access to downloadable in-game content.” One figurine is $17.99; a set of four is $67.99. All four series, then,…
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Coming Full Circle, Former Candidate Herman Cain Now Sings the Pokémon Song
Herman Cain, whose campaign for the Republican presidential nomination included bizarre references to both SimCity and Pokémon, is officially out of the race. He was still on the ballot for Saturday’s primary in South Carolina, though, and made a joint appearance with TV satirist Stephen Colbert in an effort to gin up votes for Colbert’s…
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Anonymous Deletes CBS, Universal Sites; is Xbox Live Next?
Anonymous continues to lash out following the seizure of Megaupload and the jailing of its founder, having momentarily deleted both CBS.com and UniversalMusic.com. Xbox Live has been threatened, but is that credible? Put it this way, if hackers can obliterate corporate presences of that size (even if they are now back up), as well as…
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Jailed Megaupload King is Still the World No. 1 in Modern Warfare 3
Kim Dotcom is the Internet playboy who made his zillions by founding the now-defunct (and Anonymous cause celebre du jour) Megaupload, and also from the blatant hosting of pirated content there. But he also led a secret life, did you know? He is the deadliest shooter in all of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.…
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Resident Evil 6 to Feature Six-Player Co-Op?
With Resident Evil 6 confirmed, Xbox.com has tossed up a product listing. Among the details we haven’t yet heard: the game will feature six-player online co-operative play. Co-operative play of that size would be a first for Resident Evil, and might be a play on the game’s series number. Who knows. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon…
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Male Models
Earlier this week, Sony published a bunch of promotional shots that guarantee you will become a 100 percent more attractive person if you buy a PS Vita. That, or this is a marketing campaign targeted toward those who were once extras on Friends. Whatever, I smell a ‘Shop Contest, and it smells like Drakkar. You…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Ah, baccarat. Truly a game for the rich—because you pay money to the dealer to play both hands for you. DanimalCart supply’s today’s TAYpic, a tribute to the third season of Archer which debuted on Thursday. Thanks, DanimalCart! You, too, can be featured atop TAY’s daily call to communicate with yourself and others, and it…
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Half-Knife: The Winners
Yes, yes, yes, Jesus Christ, I know last week’s ‘Shop challenge subject was itself a Photoshop. Thank you for all the sniffy #corrections, like I think Gabe Newell was actually tipping off Half-Life 3. The point of this wasn’t to present an actual rumor. It was to make an actual rumor funnier, which winner Ryan…
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Disabled Gamers Laud The Old Republic as 2011’s Most Accessible Title
The advocacy publication for disabled video game enthusiasts has named Star Wars: The Old Republic its Mainstream Game of the Year, meaning it is the most widely released title that also is most accommodating of gamers who have different needs to enjoy full-featured gameplay. AbleGamers praised SWTOR for “many accessibility options such as full subtitles,…
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EA Lawsuit Doesn’t Mean Madden‘s Exclusive is a License to be Killed
Of all ironies, it’s Electronic Arts now asking a judge to rule that some video game depictions of real-life names and symbols and products don’t need a license. The video games publisher is suing the maker of a military helicopter, plainly hoping to establish a precedent that expands creative freedom for all video game developers.…
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Onion Ring Confirms Half Life 3
Discovered in today’s lunch by Reddit user ScubaBuddha. No comment yet from Valve. (Full-size version at the link) This Onion Ring I Found Tells Me We Should Be Expecting a New Half-Life Pretty Soon [Reddit] Click here to visit our Half-Life 2: Episode Three timeline!
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X-COM Creator Rips Reboot Efforts
As intrigued as I am by what 2K’s doing with X-COM—and I freely admit I’m in the minority there—the publisher’s recent move to delay that game another year, and release a more traditional turn-based strategy reboot meantime, reek of please-everyone panic. Fans of the original can read between the lines and see an expression of…
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Play Counter-Strike on Your Android Device
The gang at XDA-Developers are hard at work on a full port of Counter-Strike to Android devices, but they’ve already released two playable versions Android owners can run go get free right now. The video above shows Counter-Strike being played on a smartphone (using the game’s Matrix mod) and a tablet and it appears to…
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Here’s the Voice of Mass Effect 3‘s Newest Character
Mass Effect 3 will introduce James Vega, a new character whose journey through the story is included to help newcomers understand the trilogy. The voice actor for Vega is this man, Fred from Scooby Doo. Zoinks! OK, OK, he also has sci-fi/video game acting chops, as Lt. Blair in 1999’s Wing Commander (a flop that…
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Alan Wake Arrives for PC in February, and Won’t Use Games For Windows Live
The makers of Alan Wake said yesterday that the PC versionof the Xbox 360 exclusive will arrive in February. As it is self-published by Remedy, you don’t have to worry about it using the execrable Games For Windows Live: “Games for Windows Live will not be used; we will be fully supporting the Steam platform,”…
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