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Throw Grenades by Voice with Halo: Anniversary‘s Kinect Functionality
You can shout “grenade!” and see Master Chief sling one with the Kinect functionality 343 Industries has added to Halo: Anniversary, the high-definition remake coming Nov. 15. Other voice commands include “reload!” the studio revealed yesterday at Comic-Con. Kinect will also support the spoken command “analyze,” which allows players to capture specific items from the…
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Put a Ring On It
This gargantuan diamond ring PopCap gave to a Bejeweled fan for her wedding may be a fake. That doesn’t mean we can’t make it faker. ‘Shoppers, quick, to the GIMP poles! Sotheby’s appraises this at around a 7 for exploitability, meaning it falls short of the “Shops itself” standard but still supplies a high degree…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
No, no, I didn’t say talk about yourselves … sheesh … have some manners. Pretend you’re on a date with a very interesting person. What would you say? No, dammit, I said: Don’t talk about yourselves … Thanks to Konradov the Soviet Bear for the TAYpic. We had to get someone to break pan1da7’s combo—not…
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Miracle Nintendo Winners [Updated]
A woman claiming to find the image of Jesus in the used Nintendo Entertainment System she bought off eBay provided the divine inspiration for this week’s ‘Shop Contest. We’ve got 20 winners inside, including MrPerson’s. And JimThePea’s! [Update] Somehow, JimThePea (21) was left out of this update. That’s been corrected. Leading off, stand still and…
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When Mass Effect Meets Battlefield
Two of Electronic Arts’ biggest current franchises collide in this wallpaper, sent today to Christina Norman, former BioWare designer on the Mass Effect series who is currently working for Riot Games, makers of League of Legends You can contact Owen Good, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter,…
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Angry Birds Join the Fight Against Wall Street’s Pigs
The Occupy Wall Street movement has gone global, and Taiwan is as upset about the division of power and wealth as the demonstrators in New York. To underline their anger, well, what better universal symbol than the Angry Birds, seen in posters throughout this Taiwanese news broadcast. Just watch where you wave the blackbird sign.…
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Madden Veterans Trade Hard-Hitting Action for Facebook Strategy
As a 10-year veteran of the Madden NFL series, Ian Cummings has plenty of experience building video games with bears in them. It’s the raccoons and beavers that are a bit of a departure this time. “It’s awesome to work on a sports game, and it was great to work on Madden, and to meet…
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Holiday Ads Bootstrap Microsoft’s Unsexy Products to Xbox and Kinect
This Sunday, Microsoft will launch an ad campaign that tout its “family” of consumer products together, rather than individual campaigns for each. What that really means is the company is ramping up the sex appeal for products like Microsoft Office by including the Xbox 360 and Kinect in the picture. The company’s chief marketing strategist…
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Marvel Pinball Brings the X-Men and Magneto to Its Newest Table
Today Zen Studios revealed that X-Men will be the latest entry in its Vengeance & Virtue series of Marvel-themed tables for Pinball FX2, joining Ghost Rider Pinball wizards will be tasked with assembling the X-Men, teaching them their powers, and overcoming the threat posed by Magneto—who tears up the floor of the machine, destroys ramps…
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Death Cannot Stop This Outstanding Princess Bride Reunion
Entertainment Weekly brought back the cast of The Princess Bride, which turns 25 next year, for a gaze-worthy image that—just like the film— is equal parts charming, funny, and touching. That’s Wallace Shawn (Vizzini), Billy Crystal (Miracle Max), Carol Kane (Valerie), Chris Sarandon (Prince Humperdinck), Cary Elwes (Westley), Robin Wright (Buttercup), Mandy Patinkin (the immortal…
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You Didn’t Think Battlefield 3 Wouldn’t Require the Online Pass, Did You?
DICE confirmed, via designer Alan Kertz on Twitter, that Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360 and PS3 would require the one-use “Online Pass” code included free in retail copies, but costs $10 for those who have a copy of the game without a code—i.e. those who buy it used. Multiplayer for all EA Sports games have…
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