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These Are the Best Indie Games of 2011
Just as its sister site ModDB picks the top PC gaming mods of the year, IndieDB rounds out the year with a countdown of the top independently developed games of the year. Think of it as a shopping list to help establish your indie gaming cred. How many of the top ten have you played?…
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One Very Good Reason to Be a Nintendo-Exclusive Gamer
Tired of being picked on and looked down upon for being a Nintendo-exclusive console owner, commenter ClaudioIphigenia speaks up on Kotaku about the rather reasonable reasoning behind his brand loyalty. So after having just replied to three different comments on why I only own a Nintendo console, I figured it was time for a Speak…
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Wipeout 2048 Was This Close to a Beautiful Zombie Apocalypse
For some odd reason Wipeout 2048 lead designer Karl Jones and game director Stuart Tilley decided it was a good idea to explain in detail just how cool the futuristic PlayStation Vita racer was before they scrapped the terror-inducing Zombie secret game mode. How can a futuristic racing game possibly add zombies? I know it…
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A Beatdown in Which No One Threw the First Punch
The guy who supposedly started this rides a crotch-rocket motorcycle, and his Facebook gallery is full of shirtless, sunglassed, dudebro posturing, koozied beer in hand. He’s in marketing and he can’t spell for shit, even when he’s insulting you. He may even be a steroid user Halfway into the Internet’s No. 1 white-hot outrage of…
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Old Grandma Hardcore Returns At Last to Dragon-Shout a Few Cuss Words
We haven’t heard much out of Old Grandma Hardcore—her last video was her cussing up a storm playing Final Fantasy XIII in 2010. Don’t worry. She is quite alright and still her old, irascible, potty-mouthed self, as this session with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim demonstrates. Spoiler Alert: Per OGHC’s grandson, this video “contains massive…
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Nintendo Starts Offering NES Classics to All in the 3DS eShop
Nintendo not only gave its 3DS “Ambassadors”—early adopters of the device—10 Virtual Console classics for free, it also didn’t let anyone else buy them. That exclusive privilege appears to be headed to a close, as the Japanese eShop has already listed Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and will get Super Mario Bros. next week.…
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Myst Re-Release Headed for 3DS in March
The super-old collection of HyperCard stacks Myst will be published as Myst 3D on the 3DS, with a release date scheduled for March 27. The publisher handling the port says it will add 3D effects to the original game, so it isn’t a reboot or a new adaptation. It will, however, include the Rime Age,…
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I Was Working On My Own Anti-Arrow-to-the-Knee Vid Too, But Then I …
YouTube’s PsychicPebbles is extremely sick and tired of Skyrim‘s “arrow to the knee” meme, and composed this salute to all who dared to ever think it was funny. It’s extremely loud (especially when it breaks in with FUS RO DAH) and it’s extremely profane—in fact, I recommend turning your speakers down to one tick above…
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Watch Q*Bert‘s Greatest Masochist, Still Going After 24 Hours of Play
Say this for George Leutz: that man is determined. Undaunted by the 70 hours of nonstop gameplay it is estimated to take to beat the 28-year-old all-time world record in Q*Bert, Leutz is at this moment 25 hours into his third assault on the record. His first two attempts, in April and May, ended in…
By Owen Good
