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Fox News Debate of Federal Funding for Games Goes About Like You’d Expect
Here’s a video that is uncomfortable to watch on two levels. The first is that I feel terrible for Brian Ambrozy, the editor-in-chief of Icrontic, who is appearing on Fox News to try to explain why and what kind of video games are now eligible for federal arts funding. The second is the nonstop assault…
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Leaked Video Gives In-Depth Look at FIFA 12 and its ‘Impact Engine’
A leaked webcast of the improvements to and new features in FIFA 12 graced YouTube earlier this week, was removed, and has returned. It’s about 10 minutes of new stuff, some of it highly technical, but for FIFAphiles, it sheds plenty of light on the “Impact Engine” anchoring this year’s batch of upgrades. Operation Sports…
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Voting on TF2‘s “Saxxy” Awards Opens Today
This a nominee for “Best Replay” in Team Fortress 2‘s “Saxxy” Awards, designed to celebrate the game’s new replay camera feature. With the entry period closing yesterday, voting has begun on a field of entries numbering “in the tens of thousands,” according to Valve. The panel of jurists is anyone with a copy of the…
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Indie Studio ‘Hates’ Its Name, Tries on a Size Five
“I’ve always hated the name Zombie Cow Studios,” says Zombie Cow Studios’ Dan Marshall. “It was a mistake from Day One.” So the maker of Privates and Time Gentlemen, Please! is putting in for some new letterhead and business cards with the name Size Five Games on them. “To me, it felt like the sort…
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Give the B’s an A for Effort
The Boston Bruins are a tough bunch, having come back from a two-game deficit to open the first round of the NHL playoffs, and currently leading Tampa Bay 2-1 after losing the conference finals opener at home. Feeling confident, one bigtime B’s fan decided to test their mettle online against a live opponent taking the…
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Fatigue Ends Q*Bert World Record Bid
It was estimated that George Leutz would have to play Q*Bert for more than 70 hours -nearly three days straight- to break a 28-year-old all-time world record. If you, like me, wondered if there was some way to stick Q*Bert in the corner of the board and grab a nap during the record attempt, evidently…
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Judgment Day
May 21st, 2011, it’s gonna feel pretty fucking real to you too. Anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day. Get it? It figures PlayStation Network isn’t even back a week and the Earth is scheduled for destruction. Shit, I don’t even get to pick up my free copy of…
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Dirt 3 Multiplayer Gets the Online Pass Treatment
Dirt 3 due out Tuesday, will also include a single-use code to enable online access – a growing trend, if not the new norm, in console games with heavy online components. The “VIP Pass” also comes with a set of five vehicles, and it’s free in retail copies. If you get a used copy of…
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The Ending of Conduit 2 is Worth At Least Twenty-Six Cents
Developer High Voltage Software is currently embroiled in some controversy over their reaction to Joystiq’s Conduit 2 review. How could a game that ends this brilliantly get such a low score? In case the title didn’t tip you off, spoilers.
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What Else Can We Talk About?
Folks, I am exhausted. Out-Raptured and out-wrestlered. But in our discussion group, the Earth’s prophesied demise and Randy Savage’s actual one blot out many other topics today. Let’s see what else we can yack about. • Writer Clive Thompson engages an IM chatbot trying to hustle him to a sex site, and realizes it has,…
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Maker of PSN Game Being Offered for Free Worries About PlayStation Store’s Viability
When PlayStation Store returns (reports suggest that will be May 24), PS3 account holders may choose two free games from a list being offered by Sony. One of those is Dead Nation (pictured), and the studio behind it told Edge magazine it’s worried what the glut of free games might do to efforts to sell…
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The Week in Gaming Apps
Jet fighters, castle crushers, role-playing heroes, and a musical game for both functional and decorative eyes converge in this week’s hand-picked selection of mobile gaming apps. This week saw me doubling up on gaming apps, thanks to the triumphant return of my iPhone 4 after it was stolen from my home several weeks back. No…
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Sony Online Entertainment Fully Online; Account Holders May Claim 45 Days of Free Time
Sony Online Entertainment this afternoon sent password reset emails to its account holders, notifying them that all SOE services are back online and that they may claim 45 days of free playing time for any game they had activated on their Station Account before the massive cyber attack of late April took SOE’s servers offline.…
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Why Does NBA All-Star Blake Griffin Want to be in Rage?
The tie-in between reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Blake Griffin and Rage, the forthcoming post-apocalyptic first person shooter from id Software and Bethesda Softworks, eludes me. Griffin’s last (and only) video game gig came on the cover of NCAA Basketball 10, canceled four months after release. Maybe he’s seeking redemption? Maybe he hung onto…
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Forever a Champion
Forever a Champion | Randy “Macho Man” Savage, one of the greatest performers in the history of all professional wrestling, died today in a car accident in Florida. He was 58. (Photo: Frank Micelotta | Getty) It’s Our Last Day on Earth. What are you going to play? Tomorrow is the Rapture, according to a…
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