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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to listener-supported public radio WTAY, bringing you the best in smooth jazz each Sunday. We’re counting on you to come through this pledge drive, so won’t you please pick up that phone, give me a call, and order me a pizza? I’ll send you a Metal Gear Revengeance Tote Bag and The New…
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This is How the End Begins in Diablo III
The opening cinematic for Diablo III debuted tonight at the Spike VGA awards, featuring the falling of more than one star and the passing of a torch from uncle to niece. If you’ve been fortunate enough to play through the Diablo III beta, then you already know about the falling star. You’ve already met Deckard…
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Can NFL Blitz Have a Cover Curse if the Game Actually Has No Cover?
Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was voted the “cover star” for January’s reboot of NFL Blitz at the Video Game Awards tonight. Of course, Blitz is a downloadable title, so this game actually has no physical cover. So that means Rice won’t actually tear his ACL in the playoffs after the game releases on…
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The Amazing Spider-Man Battles Berzerk Robots, Because Non-Beserk Robots Would Be Boring
After two games that weren’t exactly dripping with hot web-slinging action, developer Beenox takes things open world in the Amazing Spider-Man. How focused are they on swinging this time around? So focused that they haven’t noticed they’ve stolen the plot from a Robocop move. Come on folks, haven’t we learned by now that when you…
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Rainbow Six: Patriots Straps a Bomb to the One Percent in 2013
Told from the terrorists’ perspective, this is the debut trailer for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Patriots, shown moments ago at the Spike Video Game Awards. Even given its fuck-the-man tone, it was little weird hearing the crowd cheer that suicide bombing with such verve. The game’s coming in 2013, says Ubisoft.
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Holy Shit! It’s a New Mass Effect 3 Trailer
The VGA Awards Mass Effect 3 trailer has hit, demonstrating one way to handle a gigantic intelligent robot creature hell-bent on the extinction of everything: Giant bug sex. I’m not sure what sort of twisted ancient intelligence built a temple for the sole purpose of unleashing an enormous amorous insect on any Reapers that might…
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BioWare’s Next Game is Command & Conquer: Generals 2
Just announced at the Spike Video Game Awards, BioWare’s next project is a Command & Conquer sequel entitled Command & Conquer: Generals 2 The original Command & Conquer: Generals was released in 2003 for the PC and MacOS. That game depicted the U.S. and China as allies in the near future, fighting against the terrorist…
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Uncharted‘s Studio is in Charge of The Last of Us
The PS3 exclusive title The Last of Us is being developed by Naughty Dog, the studio that brought us the Uncharted Trilogy. The game’s introductory trailer showed a young girl and an older man, presumably her father or some relative, fending off an invasion of deranged mutants infected by whatever pandemic that forms the game’s…
By Owen Good
