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The Applications of Assassin’s Creed‘s Hook Blade Seem Familiar
A means of aerial transport jutting from your right hand, capable of launching you on shoulder-dislocating rides above a city in turmoil? Why, where have we heard that one before? Unlike BioShock: Infinite‘s skyline wheels, though, the hook-blade itself has an offensive purpose which, more or less, means you can counter-kill with it. Yes, you…
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I Could Never Stay Mad at You, NBA 2K12
NBA 2K12 has had a rough couple of weeks. A lot of the goodwill built up in August for the game’s nostalgic “NBA’s Greatest” mode was washed out by news of lockout-frozen rosters and repackaged premium DLC. And then Kurtis Blow comes up over the speakers, and Dikembe wags his finger at you, and you…
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Full House Poker Isn’t Getting a New Fall Season, but Isn’t Going Away Either
The leaves have turned and still Full House Poker‘s online “Texas Heat” tournament is in day 119 (and counting) of its summer season on Xbox Live, stoking fears that the game will head the way of spiritual predecessor 1 vs. 100 Microsoft, according to XBLA Fans, seems content to just let the summer Texas Heat…
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Pinball FX2 Gets Another Table: ‘Sorcerer’s Lair’
Diehard pinballers looking for another couple thou or so on their Wizard Score in Pinball FX2 can pick up another table on Oct. 12, developer Zen Studios just announced. “Sorcerer’s Lair,” an all-original table, will release then, promising “a gothic world of mystery, ghosts and ginormous spiders!” The table offers six missions. Pricing was not…
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Oh, by the Way, Fez is Delayed. Again.
Earlier this week, Polytron released another “long screenshot” for Fez the perspective-rotating indie platformer stuck in development hell for more than three years now. Promised for release on Xbox Live Arcade this year, Phil Fish just tweeted that his game has been delayed, yet again, until 2012. “(and fez is delayed until early 2012),” Fish…
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NBA 2K12 Debuts on iPhone Next Week
2K Sports’ award-winning NBA 2K series will debut on iOS mobile devices next week with NBA 2K12 the same day the title releases on consoles and PC. The game will include the popular “Jordan Challenge” that made last year’s NBA 2K11 such a hit. CNET reported the story first, with gameplay impressions (and a gameplay…
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The Lap Dance Is Always Better When the Stripper Is Decaying
The strippers in Bayou City’s famous Pink Pussycat club are so good at their jobs that they don’t stop at taking off their clothes. And House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut successfully obliterates any desire I might have had to visit a strip club ever again. Thanks, Sega! You can contact Michael Fahey, the…
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Assassin’s Creed Revelations Delayed to December for PC
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations was supposed to be the first time in the series that a game released for all platforms on the same day. Well, it won’t. Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations has been delayed until December. No specific December date was given, nor a reason, but we’re…
By Owen Good
