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Fold Paper Like a F***ing Badass With Duke Nukem Forever Papercraft
Hey, chumps, if you’re not dropping the hundy on Duke Nukem Forever‘s “Balls of Steel” special edition, you can still get your hands on its macho-iest component, that being the papercraft. That there, what looks like a Minecraft skin of Duke, is the special papercraft you get if you buy the special edition. But there’s…
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This Ridiculously Easy Game Show Question was Good for $100,000 Today
Ridiculously easy for us of course. I’m sure when some neckbeard gets to $100,000 on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and goes deer-in-the-headlights when asked “Which Pope commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling,” every snark on the art history blogs is all lolwut and SMFH and such. Yes, “I don’t think it’s…
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Here’s a Sneak-Peek of Hulu Plus on Xbox 360
Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox Live tomorrow, so we took a quick look to see if there were any mind-altering changes compared to similar apps like Netflix and the Zune store. Guess what? There aren’t. Anyone who’s used Netflix on Xbox 360 before will feel right at home with the Hulu interface since it’s…
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Little Things Get a Lot of Attention in the First Two Madden NFL 12 Videos
Two videos give the first look at Madden NFL 12‘s gameplay, calling attention to gameplay (above) and presentation details added for this year’s game. They don’t cover everything. There are three deeper discussions of the game’s defensive and collision upgrades and fully customizable playbooks. The presentation video shows progressive lighting, new broadcast overlays, jazzier pregame…
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Redbox Video Game Rentals Go Nationwide In June
After nearly two years of testing video game rentals in its ubiquitous crimson movie rental machines, Redbox is ready to take its game national, offering game rentals at more than 21,000 locations nationwide starting June 17. Redbox began testing video game rentals in its DVD rental kiosks back in August of 2009, slowly adding locations…
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Even If Yoshi Is Gay, Where are the Other Gay Video Game Heroes?
Can an egg-laying dinosaur without sex organs be gay? IGN’s Jack DeVries makes the case that Mario‘s green dinosaur steed with the prehensile tongue is “dating”-in the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that frames the series-Birdo, the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 Birdo, according to official Nintendo lore, is male. The…
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One of the iPhone’s Best Role-Playing Sagas Continues in Zenonia 3
In 2009 Zenonia changed my idea of what an iPhone role-playing game could be. 2010’s Zenonia 2: The Lost Memories further refined the series’ winning formula. Now Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story arrives, and it looks to big the biggest Zenonia yet. The third installment of Gamevil’s action-RPG sees players adventuring as one of four…
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Hide from Big Brother’s Roaming Eye with Pixelhead
You can’t take two steps in the world these days without having your image captured. Everywhere you turn there are people with cellphone cameras, traffic cameras, Google Streetview vehicles. How can we remain anonymous in this digital age? Why, with digital camouflage, of course. Enter Pixelhead. The brainchild of artist Martin Backes, Pixelhead is a…
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It’s Frightening How Persistent a Child Predator Can Be
In December of 2010, 18-year-old Alex Trowell of Idaho was on his way to visit his 12-year-old World of Warcraft girlfriend in New Mexico. Alerted by the girl’s mother, New Mexico police called Trowell and had him turn his car around. Last week, Police in Nampa, Idaho arrested Trowell after discovering the girl with him…
By Mike Fahey
