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Come on! Heroes Is Nintendo’s Sauciest Game Name Yet
Today’s Nintendo DSi Ware features this innocuous little RPG-influenced shooter with a name that might ring a little less innocuously to American ears. Come on! Heroes is a game of tiny men lobbing projectiles at an onslaught of knights and priests, who explode in a puff of milky smoke. It’s a bold political statement from…
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Your Friend Who Is Playing Facebook Games All the Time at Work
For the hopelessly devoted Facebook gamer on your list, sure, you could just load up a gift card and give them $100 to burn through in MafiaCitySimSocialCastleFarmWars. You could also stage an intervention. Neither option is going to make both giver and recipient happy. Instead, here are some ideas that, like the best holiday gifts…
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Modern Warfare 3 Looks Even Better In LEGO
This is as close to an official LEGO interpretation of Activision’s tentpole franchise as we’re gonna get, I reckon. Honestly, it looked pretty believable until they blew up the LEGO Eiffel Tower. There’s no way that would happen in real LEGO life. (I love how well these guys mix minifig-scale work with microscale forced perspective,…
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Now This is a Turkey Worthy of a Third-Party Accessories Manafacturer
The employees of peripheral maker PDP Gaming celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday with a turkey made of pastry and cream. What’s in your stomach? You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
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The Boy You’ve Got a Crush On
OMG have you seen Justin? He’s the hottest guy in class, but he’s too busy talking about video games to notice me. Now it’s Christmas, and I have to get his attention with the perfect gift, before that slut Amber gets to him. God I hate Amber. With her hair and that stupid eyeliner. It’s…
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I Am Alive Creator Insists He’s Not Opposed to a PC Port and Didn’t Mean to Piss Off PC Gamers
Yesterday, Stanislas Mettra was quoted by IncGamers as saying some, well, very inflammatory things about why I Am Alive, the upcoming downloadable title for Xbox 360 and PS3, didn’t have a PC port. Mettra’s now written us—not to give the usual “I was misquoted,” or “taken out-of-context” dodge—but to say that if his words sound…
By Owen Good
