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The Lady Who Saw a Wii at Grandpa’s Hospital and Now Thinks She Wants One
As much as you’re able to instantly recommend the best products to your fellow gamer, you might grope for advice when that older person, maybe a family member, suddenly expresses an interest in video games for the first time. What you’re being asked to do is help someone develop or understand their actual taste in…
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Kinect Helps High School Duo Win $100,000 National Science Prize
Who says gaming can’t lead to a higher education? Ziyuan Liu and Cassee Cain of Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge are splitting a $100,000 college scholarship awarded in the Siemens Foundation’s annual high school science competition after creating a Kinect-powered application that uses Microsoft’s magical camera to analyze the way a person walks.…
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A Halo: Reach Recreation of Resident Evil‘s Most Infamous Location
It might not seem familiar at first, but once you start wandering the corridors you’ll realize that this is a faithful scale recreation of Resident Evil‘s Spencer Mansion crafted using the creation tools from Halo: Reach Marrying his love of two decidedly different game franchises, ForgeHub member Cryptic Sin spent nearly a year crafting and…
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Explore the Dusty Pages of the Ultimate Tome of Diablo Lore
Hello my friends! Stay awhile and listen…err, watch as I explore Diablo III: Book of Cain, 147 pages of illustrations, excerpts, and firsthand accounts of the history of the world of Sanctuary, coming soon to a bookseller near you. As the last of the Horadrim mages, an ancient brotherhood formed by the Archangel Tyrael to…
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An Adorable Musical Argument for Legend of Zelda Fan Procreation
Three children (with a baby cameo) take on the roles of Link, Zelda, and Ganon in what could be the most favorable outcome of Legend of Zelda fans in love, even if they got the musical credit wrong. I can only hope that my children will one day allow me to submit them to this…
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HeroClix Online Gets a Double Dose of DC Comics and Digital Content Codes
HeroClix Online isn’t just for Marvel fans anymore, at least it won’t be come December 7 when WizKids introduces the first two DC Comics-themed sets to the online game and releases the first physical product with codes for in-game heroes included. Fulfilling the promise of the popular tabletop game’s move to digital form, HeroClix Online…
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Whosoever Holds This Pinball Table Shall Possess the Power of Thor
Should you be worthy or willing to spend 800 Microsoft points / $9.99 next week, this Thor table and more shall be yours when Zen Studio releases the Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue pack on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Thor joins the X-Men on the side of virtue in this downloadable pinball…
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Devs Explain How Animal Crossing 3DS Will Be the Best Animal Crossing Yet
Producer Katsuya Eguchi and a trio of developers from the Animal Crossing 3DS team spend ten minutes discussing how the latest iteration of the animal life sim will set itself apart from the rest. They had me at skirts and pants. While I love me some Animal Crossing, the game hasn’t changed very much since…
By Mike Fahey
