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Be True to Your School and Make a Video Game Better
NCAA Football 12 isn’t out for another 10 days, but there’s something you can do in the meantime—with the new version of the game, even—that will add to your experience, and others’ too, when it arrives. You can create your high school’s uniforms, using TeamBuilder, the web application for NCAA Football now in its third…
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Cup-Art Bandit Strikes Again With Metroid
Last month’s Mega Man mosaic of painted cups in a chain-link fence has a sequel, and an artist claiming responsibility for the acts of awesomeness. Here is Samus and a metroid by Pixeled Fence, “a gamer’s urban art project.” It and the Mega Man mosaic appeared on the Carterville Road overpass of University Avenue in…
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Here’s Ice-T’s Chainsaw Kill in Gears of War 3
As we all know by now, Ice-T voices a character in Gears of War 3. This minute-long montage of gameplay, courtesy of Gamespot, features him as “Aaron Griffin,” and Ice-T’s catch phrases over Griffin’s attacks. Now we know why the actor/rapper was so fired up that he wrote this tribute to the game and performed…
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Talkin’ Bubbles … Sixto and the Hoot
When you get deep into the weeds of a player-management mode, you test the limits of the game’s ability to randomize reasonable names as it seeds the roster with fresh talent. Reader Justin is a decade into MLB 2K11‘s franchise mode as the general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, and shares this gallery of gems.…
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E3: Go for the Games, Remember it for the People
How long ago was E3? Until yesterday, it was the day after I last did a laundry. And that’s a hell of a long time. I sat there in the laundromat with my 3DS, looking at the 134 people I met at E3. I’ve not had a StreetPass notice since. Ultimately, that’s what E3 is…
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Savings are Your’n on the Fourth of July
You probably think it’s just a hamburger. A patty’s just a piece of meat, but it can have character. See that doughnut hole? Gets 18 patties to the pound instead of 16. Saves me about $40,000 a year. That’s serious money, Ron. I plug the hole with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, spices. I cover it with…
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The Week in Gaming Apps
In a surprise twist marking my return to the site and consequent reclaiming of The Week in Gaming Apps round up, only two of this week’s apps are physics puzzlers, and hey, one is not an iOS game! Not that there’s anything wrong with physics puzzlers, especially when one of them features paper-eating monsters and…
By Mike Fahey
