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It Takes Two to Make NBA Jam Go Right
The inability to switch off between players was one of the few drawbacks of an otherwise rollicking NBA Jam revival last year. It required some clunky manipulation of your starting lineup and defense, for those who actually played it, often left a man open as you instinctively swarmed to the guy your CPU partner was…
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Team Fortress De-Booted
Team Fortress, De-booted | Low-resolution Team Fortress 2 classes, made cuter for older systems. By PixelBlock, an artist who’s done these and numerous other demakes in the past month. Takedown Notice Sends Battlestar Galactica Modders Fleeing from the NBC Universal Tyranny A swell Battlestar Galactica mod for Nexus drew the attention of NBC Universal, who…
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Takedown Notice Sends Battlestar Galactica Modders Fleeing from the NBC Universal Tyranny
A swell Battlestar Galactica mod for Nexus drew the attention of NBC Universal, who sent a cease-and-desist over to ModDB, which had been hosting the work on it. And 19 other BSG mods. All have been wiped out. “I was shocked and saddened when i got the message from ModDB admins that our mod, the…
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Stunted Thinking
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Five More Bizarre Publicity Stunts in Gaming [Delta Gamer] Includes the WTFery THQ concocted for its marketing of Red Faction: Guerrilla (pictured above). By no…
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ModernWarfare3.com Finally Redirects to, Y’know, Modern Warfare 3‘s Website
At last, the long, sordid saga of ModernWarfare3.com has come to an end, one month before the game’s release, with lessons learned for all sides. For Activision, it’s “register the goddamn domain before you announce the game.” (They appear to have taken this to heart.) For cybersquatters, it’s “Don’t be a dickclown and you can…
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Frozen Account Further Sours PayPal’s Terrible Reputation with Indie Devs
For the third time in about a year, PayPal has frozen the account of an independent developer for six months, presumably because preorder activity triggered red flags. PayPal rarely says why in this case, even to the account holder, leaving its actions to appear arbitrary and bureaucratic, if not portrayed as mean-spirited. Minecraft had $750,000…
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Miracle Nintendo
Lo, the image of Jesus did appear on a Nintendo Entertainment System, to tell the world that whosoever presseth up up down down left right left right B A start shall not die, but have 30 lives. I missed the boat on offering the Jesus Nintendo last week, when it was timelier, but this challenge…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s morning in America. It’s also early afternoon in the U.K. And it is 9 p.m. in Kazakhstan. Time for everyone to talk amongst themselves. About video games. Thanks to Shadoroch for the TAYpic. Want to have your TAYpic featured here? Send your images to #TAYpics. Make sure your image is 640 pixels wide by…
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Laundry Time Winners
A designer’s concept blending a functioning coin-operated washing machine with a coin-operated video game was only slightly less absurd than the 20 laureates of this week’s ‘Shop Contest, led by Daniel Bain. See them all inside! Getting things started, electrikALIEN (6) just thought of the latest craze but, of course, it means one more peripheral…
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WWE 12 Gets a Lucha Libre Cover Star in Mexico
Regional covers for sports video games are not uncommon, especially for titles like FIFA. (Madden, once upon a time, also had a Spanish edition). I don’t know that it’s ever been done for THQ’s WWE series before now, though. [Update: It has. Several times.] There is a huge, rich, pro wrestling scene down in Mexico,…
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Sinestro Batman is Yours for Arkham City if You Pick Up a Crappy Blu-Ray
Green Lantern was not critically acclaimed. Nearly everyone hated it, but that won’t stop it from getting a Blu-Ray release. And with its Extended Cut Blu-Ray Combo pack is a skin dressing Batman in a Sinestro Corps getup for Batman: Arkham City, should you have the PS3 version. The skin was overlooked when it was…
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