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Frustrated Battlefield Rep Unloads on Ungrateful Community
About a week before the Battlefield 3 beta began, the game’s community manager had decided he’d heard enough shrill complaining about the fact that “Operation Metro” and not some other map would the only one playable. And so he went off. Rewind: Operation Metro was revealed to be the beta map on Sept. 20. Apparently,…
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Laundry Time
Some people see things that are, like this washing machine arcade game, and say why. Others see things that are not, and ‘shop them in. You guys are the latter bunch. Lee-Wei Chen’s “Real Play” grabbed a lot of attention when it was exhibited last weekend at the London Design Festival at Trent. In a…
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Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves: Aunt Beru Shot First Edition
Well, we not only ran out of TAYpics, we don’t even have a new TAYpic for your to manipulate. That means I get to whip out one of my favorite TAY images, a warm scene of hearth and home. A very warm scene. Uncle Owen is moving a bit slow this morning. Some folks showed…
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“PSN Pass” Confirmed for Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Access
As it did with Resistance 3, Sony plans to impose its “PSN Pass” on Uncharted 3, meaning multiplayer access to that game will be subject to a one-use code included with all retail copies. That’s per Juan Jimenéz, Sony’s software manager for Spain. That means that used copies of Uncharted 3 aren’t assured of including…
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Donks, Hoopties and Shitmobiles Winners
A tricked-out tarted-up Sonic and Friends Crown Vic in an Illinois Walmart parking lot was the canvas upon which you were called to paint your latest masterpieces. We have 20 of them inside, plus SalamanderJuice’s! liniert99 (09) gets us started with the first and best Street Fighter car destruction concept. pan1da7 (12), a repeat offender…
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2K Sports: Unfortunately No Longer DLC Virgins
This week, NBA 2K12 revealed that certain of its features—like playing online as one of the NBA’s all-time greatest teams—would be available at an extra cost. And thus, 2K Sports became sports gaming’s last major publisher to lose its DLC virginity. Long a holdout against premium downloadable content and “online pass” strategies that horned in…
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Thankfully, Subway Does Not Appear in Uncharted 3‘s Trophies
After just a five minute ride on my bike, all of my toppings usually slide to one side of the sandwich. But Nathan Drake still has a pristine sweet onion chicken teriyaki or whatever the hell it is, with perfectly tessellated cheese, I’d bet. Looks like Sony’s figured out that multiplayer is where you stick…
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Next Resident Evil Flick Brings Leon Kennedy to the Big Screen
Milla Jovovich, in her role as wife of the director of lead publicist for the Resident Evil movie franchise, just confirmed that Leon Kennedy will make a live-action debut in the next RE film, where he will be played by something called Johann Urb. You might remember Urb from films such as (adjusts glasses, reads…
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Here’s the 3DS Hacked and Running a 3DS Game
Shortly after its release in Japan, hackers demonstrated that, yes, the 3DS could run an R4 cartridge, the notorious piracy medium that has given Nintendo fits throughout the lifespan of the DS. That was to be expected, as the R4 is a DS medium, and the 3DS is backward compatible. The 3DS cartridge is a…
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Swiss Officially Neutral on SHODAN vs. GLaDOS
Switzerland’s public broadcasting company this week released that advertisement below—”The Phony Wars”—to tout the service’s new iOS and Android apps. And, Swiss to the last, they declare their neutrality between those two platforms. They’re also, as evidenced by that framegrab at 0:24, agnostic in the gamer bar argument of which is the baddest-assed AI, SHODAN…
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When Console Exclusives Collide (at Walmart)
Reader billdcon spied Resistance 3 and Gears of War 3 hot-bunking a PS3 kiosk at his local Walmart. “Not pictured, people asking for Gears for PS3, and Walmart employees actually looking all around to try to find a copy,” says billdcon. We’ll believe him. You can contact Owen Good, the author of this post, at…
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Double Bacon Cheeseburger, It’s for a Cop
Want me to punch-a-size your face, for free? Gimme a liter o’ cola. I don’t want a large farva, I want a goddamn liter o’ cola! “Liter” is French for “Give me my fuckin’ cola before I break vous fuckin’ lip!” Hold the spit! I just told them that so they make it good. Here…
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Dead Island‘s Delayed Preorder DLC Should Get a New Release Date Next Week
Sept. 30 has come and gone, meaning “Bloodbath Arena,” the multiplayer DLC due to those who preordered Dead Island (and those willing to pay $10 after the fact) is officially delayed. It Originally, the game’s publisher said it would be out later in September. Subsequent comments to Kotaku suggested Techland was more focused on fixing…
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Pick Up the Third Volume of Portal 2‘s Soundtrack for Free
Hot on the heels of the game’s “Peer Review” DLC, Valve has made available the third and final volume of “Songs to Test By,” free of charge (as usual) through the game’s official publicity site. There are 24 tracks, including the closing credits theme “Want You Gone,” plus another six snippets for ringtones. The Volume…
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An Advanced Class in How to be a Giant Dickbag in Halo: Reach
I’m not above a good multiplayer betrayal every now and then. I use my color-blindness as an excuse the way a good forum troll uses Asperger’s or agoraphobia. But this guy, UnstoppableLuck, takes it to the next level. If you see that Gamertag in your party, I’d advise leaving. Otherwise the one guy with no…
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It’s All Fun and Games Until Batman Dives (into action)
Traveling about Arkham City need not be done on foot or primarily by grappling hook. The game’s developer, Rocksteady, laid out the city to take advantage of Batman’s ability to grapple to a ledge and then launch off that point into a long glide. Theoretically, you could go from one end of Arkham to the…
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