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Rapture Ready
Rapture Ready | Perhaps you’ve seen these billboards in your neighborhood. Word has it Judgment Day begins on Saturday; or about 12 hours if you live in New Zealand. Because the New Testament follows the International Date Line, of course. (Image via) Welcome to Games Reviewing, Carolyn Petit. You’re Doing Just Fine. Carolyn Petit, one…
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Welcome to Games Reviewing, Carolyn Petit. You’re Doing Just Fine.
“I have no problem with the reviewer personally, but I dont want to see what is obviously a man, trying to look like a woman, its just too weird and I find it offensive, I dont want to be bombarded with gay/lesbian/transgender stuff on a gaming website, just have a regular guy or woman reviewing…
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Atlus Travels Back in Time to Tease Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Atlus Faithful fan club members received a bizarre mailing today in the form of a newsletter dated June 23, 1999. What’s significant about that date? Why that’s when the only Persona game not to hit North America was released in Japan. How odd. For all intents and purposes it looks as if Atlus simply made…
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There Are Many Different Kinds of Mages in Rift
With eight different souls to choose from, a mage in Trion Worlds’ MMO Rift never turns out quite like a mage anywhere else. We’ve seen the different types of rogues you can create in Rift, and now we get to see what sort of magic-users you can make when you take three specialized souls and…
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The New Fullmetal Alchemist Game Won’t Cost You an Arm and a Leg
There’s good news and bad news, Fullmetal Alchemist fans. The good news? There’s a new game coming based on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The bad news? It looks to be some sort of turn-based card battling game for iOS, Android, and Facebook. Developed by Good Game Productions, Fullmetal Battle allows fans of the anime and manga…
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Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting Hits iPhones Everywhere Next Month
Yesterday we reported that the first iPhone installment of Monster Hunter was hitting in Japan in June. Today Capcom reveals that Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting is releasing worldwide next month. Finger-swiping monster hunting for everybody!
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Look Out Naughty Bear, Here Comes Chucky
A2M’s Naughty Bear, a video game about a deranged child’s toy with murder in its heart, wasn’t the blockbuster success I hoped it would be. Perhaps the concept just needed to be powered by a familiar face. After that it’s all Child’s Play As far as children’s toys go, they don’t come much more frighteningly…
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If You Took Drugs and Played Minecraft It Would Look Like This
The unpoetically named “GLSL Shader Mod” doesn’t sound like the sort of thing that would create such lysergic effects, but watching the Minecraft world bend and warp back so that the horizon touches its own toes is enough to make my spine crawl with sympathetic memory. [via Rock Blotter Shotgun]
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There you are, LEGO Portal Turret!
Here’s a lovely little Instructable that shows how to make a Portal turret out of our favorite plastic building bricks suitable for desk or headboard. Now you’re thinking with elements. LEGO Portal Turret Instructions [Instructables.com (Thanks, Kyle!)]
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Enlarge Your Johnson with Shadows of the Damned
In Grasshopper Manufacture’s Shadows of the Damned, hero Garcia Hotspur has a demonic pal named Johnson that can transform into various weapons, tools, and even vehicles. Why? So they could release an ‘Enlarge your Johnson’ video. Part of me wants to believe this entire game was developed and funded specifically to make this video. It…
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Stay In School, Buy a Windows PC, and Get a Free Xbox 360
Microsoft wants U.S. high school, college, and university students to be productive, but not too productive. That’s why they’re giving away a free 4GB Xbox 360 to students purchasing a Windows 7 PC priced at $699 or higher. Play is just as important as work when it comes to your education. Some might even say…
By Mike Fahey