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Get Some Beer and Some Cleaning Products
Hi, how are you. My name’s Elliot, and I’m with the Cub Scouts of America. We’re selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree. Hardware • Best value ever on the Kinect Sensor w/ Kinect Adventures bundle: $139.10 w/ a $25 bonus credit at Amazon. Previous best deal was $150 w/ $30 bonus, and the…
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Enormous Tetris Stop-Motion Animation Created in Minecraft
The merry band behind the Bomberman mod for Minecraft have struck again, creating a colossal in-game stop-motion animation of Tetris—complete with a Game Boy surround (and startup screen!). “I had to play bad or it would have take even more screenshots,” says the creator. Probably also why he ramped up the difficulty to level 9,…
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Dashboard Beta Testers Get Free Digital Halo: Reach to Replace Borked Disc
The recent title update to Halo: Reach has rendered unplayable the free disc version of the game given to Xbox Live dashboard beta participants earlier this year. Rather than say tough luck, Microsoft is giving all of them a free digital copy of the game. An email to dashboard beta participants today advised them of…
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At Last, a Twin Peaks Game for the Atari 2600
I’ll confess to knowing jack shit about Twin Peaks, David Lynch’s cult hilt surreal television mystery that lasted for a year but you’d think had a run twice as long as All in the Family the way people still talk about it. Anyway, someone has created an Atari 2600-style game based on the show, you…
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Wrongly Banned Xbox Live Users Welcomed Back with Gifts
A recent crackdown on modded consoles snared “a very small percentage” of Xbox Live users who had done nothing wrong, yet received comprehensive bans from Microsoft nonetheless. Xbox Live’s top cop today apologized for the mistake and said these gamers would be reinstated immediately. Stephen Toulouse, better known as Stepto to some, said the bans…
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Check Out the Greatest Misses of Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012
This reminds me of the old Foster’s spots where Paul Hogan would mention the fact American beer ads can’t show anyone drinking beer. Similarly, Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 can’t show any big game getting shot. Marketing staff don’t care, marketing staff will show you shooting and missing. It gives just as good a look…
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Hard Reset Gets a Little Softer With Patch 1.01
Was Flying Wild Hog’s cyberpunk shooter Hard Reset too hard for you? Patch 1.01 eases your pain, removing weapon cooldowns, improving gun swapping speed, tweaking the sprint system, and allowing players the mercy of mid-game difficulty changing. Pansies. [Steam Forums]
By Mike Fahey
